[betty boop]

unspun, I don't understand the problem you've raised. Eisenhower. IMHO, was hardly an "innovator" in regard to the "change" of Pledge language. Unless you want to say that a person who makes explicit what is already implicit in our Founding documents is an "innovator."

Is this what you are saying?

[unspun]

You're right.

I see no problem there. Eisenhower was a pretty frank guy. I had to get my hair cut before that Rally for America that I attended and I found out that my barber came from "the Sudatenland" when he was 5, then helped to liberate it as a young man. Before Ike sent his buddies and him to Normandy, he told gathered them around and said something like, "Let's get this done and then get the Hell out of there." It's good to be forthright.

Let's see... what is the problem, then?