"It is a real honor," Barrett told member station WKAR in East Lansing. "It's something that I'm very proud of and thankful for, and thankful that my colleagues accommodated my request and they were very willing to acknowledge the significance of it."
Rabaut sponsored the legislation that added the words 'under God' to the Pledge of Allegiance. He introduced the bill in 1953 after getting a persuasive letter from a Brooklyn resident, and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law the following year.
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