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Yes and no. The letter from some members of congress is real, so yes. But what is missing is the context. The Congressional Prayer Caucus is not "congress"-- it is a group of Christian conservatives, the majority of whom come from the Republican party (41 out of the 42 members), who seem determined to critique everything this president does. While that is certainly their right, as snopes.com points out (link enclosed), many presidents have used "e pluribus unum" as the National Motto, including President Reagan; but the Congressional Prayer Caucus somehow did not find it noteworthy when other presidents made the same assertion as Mr. Obama did.

In fact, the motto "in God we trust" is fairly recent-- it was installed in the mid 1950s during the McCarthy era, at the same time the Pledge of Allegiance was changed to include "under God". Again, this group has every right to correct the president, but one has to wonder why they did so; and technically, what he said was accurate: E Pluribus Unum (from many, one) has been regarded as the US motto by many politicians.

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