Slurs, Slanders and Epithets in U.S. History

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1. In your heart, you knew he was right, and if not - in your guts, you knew he was nuts. Richard Nixon George McGovern Adlai Stevenson Barry Goldwater

2. Depending upon how you viewed him, this Whig statesman was either "The Expounder and Defender of the Constitution", "Black Dan", or even "Ichabod." Daniel Boone Henry Clay Daniel Shays Daniel Webster

3. Once observed that while not all Democrats were horse thieves, all horse thieves were Democrats; later made a fairly strong run for the presidency -- as a Democrat. Grover Cleveland Horace Greeley William Jennings Bryan Harold Stassen

4. John Randolph of Roanoke, never one to keep his feelings to himself, contemptuously noted that this Southerner was "like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Walter Case, Jr. Edmund Ruffin John C. Calhoun Henry Clay

5. "The Man on the Wedding Cake." Thomas E. Dewey John F. Kennedy Dean Acheson Ernest Hemingway

6. It was said that he pimped for the Czar while in Russia. John Quincy Adams John Jay Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Benjamin Franklin

7. "The bastard brat of a Scotch peddlar." Alexander Hamilton Andrew Johnson Andrew Jackson Robert Johnson

8. "An impudent and unqualified scoundrel" Gen. George McClellan Nicholas P. Trist Gen John Pope Abraham Lincoln

9. Theodore Roosevelt called him a "damned Presbyterian hypocrite" William Jennings Bryan Charles Evans Hughes Daniel Knox Woodrow Wilson

10. "His Fraudulency" John Quincy Adams Rutherford B. Hayes William Henry Harrison Grover Cleveland