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- From: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:30:04 GMT
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- In article <MICHAEL.92Dec26122454@albert.bu.edu> michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:
- >Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Broughton) writes:
- > =Michael Chaplin writes:
- > =>
- > => Would that be "pusillanimous pussy-footing"?
- > => Was that Safire's or Buchanan's, though?
- > =>
- >
- > =I think it was George Wallace that said this one.
- >
- >Well, I'm not as sure who might have *said* it,
- >(being a Hershey Bar in my Father's back pocket at the time)
- >but, for the purposes of this thread, I thought it was
- >the *writer* of the phrase who counted. Hence the talk about
- >Safire and Buchanan and not Agnew, Nixon or Wallace.
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- Safire and Buchanan were not speechwriters for Wallce; who
- was at least nominally a Democrat. If Wallace said it,
- Safire and Buchanan didn't write it.
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