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The modern motto of the United States of America, as established in a 1956 law signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is In God we trust. The phrase was used as a motto for currency (but not as a National motto) and first appeared on United States coins in 1864. The 1956 law was the first establishment of an official motto for the country, although E Pluribus Unum ("from many, one") had been adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782 as the motto for the Seal of the United States and had been used on coins and paper money since 1795. The change from E Pluribus Unum to In God We Trust was generally considered uncontroversial at the time, given the rising influence of organized religion and pressures of the Cold War era in the 1950s. The 1956 law was one of several legislative actions Congress took to differentiate the United States from atheistic Communism. Earlier, a 1954 act added the words under God to the Pledge of Allegiance.