Rob Sherman, radio commentator, then a credentialed journalist was the source for the G.H.W. Bush atheist comment:
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Originally Posted by Sherman
At a news conference in Chicago on August 27, 1987 (not 1988 as has been reported elsewhere), which I covered as a fully credentialed journalist, I asked Vice President Bush several questions. In response to one question, Bush said, "I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God."
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He goes on,
here, to say the transcript can be obtained at the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, Archive Item # CF01193-002.