From: dgraham@bmers30.bnr.ca (Douglas Graham)
Subject: Re: Bush interview as quoted in Alt.Atheism FAQ
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: world,local
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 20:00:20 GMT

In article <24JUL199211250314@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:

>As I have pointed out once before, and as Jim Perry has also pointed out,
>the original version posted to the net did *NOT* have the words "Mr. President"
>in it.  I also cited a published version of the transcript (in the Fall 1988
>issue of _Free Inquiry_) which also lacks those words.  I previously asked
>if anyone has ever seen a published, printed transcript which *does*
>contain the words "Mr. President," and got no response.  I would be most
>interested in knowing how those words got into the alt.atheism FAQ in the
>first place--whose posting to alt.atheism contained those words, and where
>did they get the transcript?

Here's the first reference I saw to it.  It sounds like somebody was
guessing from memory:

} From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
} Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.usa,alt.atheism,talk.religion.misc,alt.individualism,alt.society.civil-liberty
} Subject: Re: Bush & atheists
} Message-ID: <1991Nov18.094352.29079@nntp.hut.fi>
} Date: 18 Nov 91 09:43:52 GMT
} References: <1991Nov18.014518.26579@cco.caltech.edu>
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} Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
} Followup-To: talk.politics.misc
} Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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} In-Reply-To: dicely@cco.caltech.edu
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} 
} In article <1991Nov18.014518.26579@cco.caltech.edu>, dicely@cco writes:
} >
} >Could someone provide a reference for the Bush quote regarding atheists in my  
} >..sig, I snagged the quote out of an article here and lost the source...
} 
} This is becoming a FAQ.  Here are the sources I've seen:
} 
} From: dougm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
} Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.legal
} Subject: Re: Bush quote
} Date: 16 Oct 91 13:21:52 GMT
} 
} The reference to that quote, seen again below, is Free Enquiry
} magazine, Fall 1988.
} 
} [ .. ]
} "I don't know that athiests should be considered citizens, nor
} should they be considered patriots.  This is one nation under God."
} 					Pres. George Bush
} 
} [ .. ]
} 
} From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
} Subject: Re: Bush quote
} Organization: The Witherspoon Excludables
} 
} [ .. ]
} I ran a Nexis search and found support.  UPI reported on May 8, 1989
} that various atheist organizations were still angry over the remarks
} above (quoted accurately, I note).  Bush made the comments during a
} campaign stop on August 27, 1988 at (ironically) O'Hare airport in an
} exchange with Robert Sherman, chief spokesman for American Atheists.
} 
} [ .. ]
} From: constant@helios.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
} Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,alt.drugs,talk.politics.misc
} Subject: Re: Drug war samaritans
} 
} [ .. ]
} >  Is this quote for real????????!!!!!!
} 
} [ .. ]
} 
} Unfortunately, yes. I have a transcript of the interview at home, but it went
} something like this: (It took place during Bush's 88 campaign, at a press
} conference at O'Hare Airport)
} 
} Reporter for the American Athiest magazine, Rob Sherman: "Mr. President,
}      what will you do to gain the votes of American citizens who are
}      Athiests?"
} George Bush: "Well, I don't really have a strong interest in Athiests. Faith
}      in god is pretty important to me."
} RS: "But you do believe that Athiests should have the same rights as other
}      citizens?"
} GB: "I don't know that Athiests should be considered citizens, nor should
}      they be considered patriots. This is one nation under god."
} 
} After this quote was made, many attempts by American Athiests (the 
} organization that lobbies for church-state separation) and other (non)citizens
} were made to allow the White House to retract this statement. Apparently this
} IS the Administration's policy on Athiests.
} 
} ....The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave...
} 
} Tino
} --
} "We don't see much of Charlie Brown anymore.
}  He went to jail for killing Lucy, that whore.    
}  Linus is drunk, Schroeder's a punk,               --Beefsteak,
}  And Sally gets paid swallowing spunk!"              "Charlie Brown Stain"
} 
} (followups to talk.politics.misc)
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Doug Graham         dgraham@bnr.ca         My opinions are my own.
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