Word: bless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stilted Home on the Range, she withered him with "I came here to sing a song, not to ride a horse." Finally, Pearlie Mae and President Richard Nixon harmonized. With 41 Governors and guests at the White House dinner last week, they chorused My Wild Irish Rose and God Bless America...
Appearing with Alabama Governor George Wallace at an "Honor America Day" in Huntsville, Nixon was warmly received by a crowd of 25,000. "God bless you, Mr. President-you are among friends," Wallace said. Nixon could not resist a gross rhetorical alteration of reality in blaming the press and political partisans in Washington for spreading the notion "that America is sick, that there is something wrong with this country that cannot be corrected...
...cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber, adding, "Christ was so namby-pamby about things...
...Churchill, we tried Roosevelt, Lombardi, Eisenhower, of course. We even tried Kennedy. And the whole thing was ridiculous. But now we're wising up. Look who's been coming into power recently. Gerald Ford. Abe Beame in New York. And of course Malcolm Wilson up there in Albany, God bless him. Now we're stealing their plans. Exalt the ideas of midgets, if you know what I mean. You're bound to look good in comparison...
...then say God bless...