[alnick]

Maybe I've just forgotten, but I cannot recall President Bush every completing a speech with "God bless America."

You could not be more wrong.

[Dante3]

Some would disagree with you. Usually he adds the words "continue to." That was my impression. Originally I was interrupted and pushed the post button before mentioning that I was referring to a SPECIFIC speech - another poster did give me a reference to a 2001 speech.