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Beth Hahn, historical editor for the U.S. Senate Historical Office, once made a video describing how George Washington began the tradition of saying “So help me God” during a presidential swearing in.
It was common practice to use the phrase back then but, Hahn said, the first actual eye-witness account of a President using the statement came in 1881 at Chester Aurther’s swearing in.
