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World Statesmen: Their Slurs and Innuendoes

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Introduction:
"There's a little Archie Bunker in most of us and world leaders, no matter how august, have proven this time and time again. Verbal effluence from some extremely unexpected sources."


1. Who told an aide that the United States was "a Protestant country, and the Catholics and Jews are here on sufferance"?
    George Wallace
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    John Stennis
    John Anderson


2. In the late 1960s, speaking in his native tongue, he made a peculiar and somewhat unsettling reference to the Jews, translated by some as "an elite people, sure of themselves and overbearing."
    Charles De Gaulle
    Jacques Pompidou
    Francisco Franco
    Josip Broz (Tito)


3. He once famously referred to the British (the sneer is audible), as "a nation of shopkeepers."
    Georges Clemenceau
    Otto von Bismarck
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    Konrad Adenauer


4. Who referred to the Germans as "Belgians with megalomania," and said that a Prussian was "a Slav who's forgotten who his grandfather was"?
    George S. Patton
    Winston Churchill
    Konrad Adenauer
    Charles DeGaulle


5. Who once referred to the Jews as an "irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards"?
    Dwight David Eisenhower
    John F. Kennedy
    Harry S. Truman
    Richard Milhous Nixon


6. Who said, "my fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
    No one did; it's an urban legend that won't die.
    Lyndon Johnson
    George Bush
    Ronald Reagan


7. During a political fight about loan guarantees to Israel, who complained that he was "up against some powerful forces" and referred to himself as "one lonely little guy" against "something like 1,000 lobbyists on the Hill working the other side of the question."
    George Herbert Walker Bush
    Jesse Helms
    Pat Buchanan
    David Duke


8. Who said that the black man "is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color -- perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments..."?
    Andrew Johnson
    Abraham Lincoln
    Andrew Jackson
    James G. Blaine


9. In the late 1980s and early 90s, which Balkan leader loudly agreed with Holocaust revisionists that "the figure of six million is exaggerated" and referred to "Judeo-Nazis" who "conducted a genocidal policy towards the Palestinians"?
    Enver Hoxha
    Slobodan Milosevic
    Josip Broz (Tito)
    Franjo Tudjman


10. Who were publicly referred to (with some frequency) as the "cow and calf"?
    Margaret Thatcher and her husband
    Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay
    Benazir Bhutto and her cabinet
    Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea


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