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Slurs, Slanders and Epithets in U.S. History

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Introduction:
"American History -- a bunch of boring bearded guys carrying on about tariffs, or an amusing panoply of egomaniacs and wingnuts who say scandalous things about each other?"


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


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.
    Horace Greeley
    William Jennings Bryan
    Grover Cleveland
    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."
    Henry Clay
    John C. Calhoun
    Walter Case, Jr.
    Edmund Ruffin


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


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."
    Andrew Jackson
    Alexander Hamilton
    Andrew Johnson
    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
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Daniel Knox
    Woodrow Wilson


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


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