Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this one is written by a Pr Department for the white house in jerry fords time. Those of you who might remember with inflation now or wind, poor jerry ford couldnt even get that part of his administration correct. That came and went with incredible speed. Keep cool with coolidge is not generally remembered or win with wilkie because they lost. There are many slogans which are still current in an Ethnic Community or in a smaller segment that were just not generally aware of because they never became generalized but those are slogans which tried to be i am not a crook, certainly was there. But i am not a crook is like a mission accomplished. Its like one of those slogans which characterize an era or a person and im sure that people in love would rather they didnt remember them. The subgroup of snarky slogans or catch phrases. The one which has lasted the longest and you and i have talked about this is once deliberately not in the boo
Of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out of the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school n the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it int so. O i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients, when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used hem. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing the history the way i wanted to, the indepth
Remember because i was a child of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out f tof the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school in the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it aint so. So i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniac maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used them. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing
Reporter in 1924 when it hosted its first Republican National convention, cleveland was a boomtown. Since then, not so much. Oh, the Cuyahoga River. Goes smoking through my genes but now things are looking up. Cleveland, its on fire, and, no, im not talking about the river, ahead on sunday morning. Pauley the summer screen is about to be graced by a superb actress in the role of a notsosuperb singer. The actress is meryl streep, and shes been talking to anthony mason. The story was helped by my singing really badly in this. Reporter in her new film, meryl streep plays the reallife Florence Foster jenkins and the earsplitting amateur opera singer who somehow sold out Carnegie Hall. So many of the great singers of her time are now remembered, but she is. Well, thats a tragedy actually. Reporter later on sunday morning, meryl streep and the story of the soprano who couldnt sing. Pauley for the record, the band known as chicago can sing very, very well, and theyve been at it for half a cen
Reporter in 1924 when it hosted its first Republican National convention, cleveland was a boomtown. Since then, not so much. Oh, the Cuyahoga River. Goes smoking through my genes but now things are looking up. Cleveland, its on fire, and, no, im not talking about the river, ahead on sunday morning. Pauley the summer screen is about to be graced by a superb actress in the role of a notsosuperb singer. The actress is meryl streep, and shes been talking to anthony mason. The story was helped by my singing really badly in this. Reporter in her new film, meryl streep plays the reallife Florence Foster jenkins and the earsplitting amateur opera singer who somehow sold out Carnegie Hall. So many of the great singers of her time are now remembered, but she is. Well, thats a tragedy actually. Reporter later on sunday morning, meryl streep and the story of the soprano who couldnt sing. Pauley for the record, the band known as chicago can sing very, very well, and theyve been at it for half a cen