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. Barry Goldwater Adlai Stevenson Richard Nixon George McGovern

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. Harold Stassen Grover Cleveland Horace Greeley William Jennings Bryan

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." Dean Acheson Ernest Hemingway John F. Kennedy Thomas E. Dewey

6. It was said that he pimped for the Czar while in Russia. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney John Quincy Adams John Jay 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 Abraham Lincoln Gen John Pope Nicholas P. Trist

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

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