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Category: U.S. Presidents
Spangled Mythconception #6: Congress Made Key's Banner the U.S. National Anthem
MYTH #6: A 1931 act of Congress made “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official anthem of the United States CORRECTION: This is absolutely correct in terms of the anthem’s legal status, but the bill approved by the House and Senate and signed by President Herbert Hoover simply recognized what had been true in American cultural practice…