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Fighting Words!
During the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher traveled to England in order to solicit...
Political Stew?
In January 1950, Victor Biaka-Boda, a former witch doctor representing the Ivory...
Non-Slander
George A. Smathers, running against the incumbent Florida senator Claude Pepper ...
Ranching on the Beltway
Herbert Hoover once complained to former president Calvin Coolidge that his atte...
Red Handed?
When Congressman Gary Condit's intern Chandra Levy disappeared in 2001, many sus...
Bonjour?
In 1974, Richard Nixon, not noted for his social graces, visited Paris to attend...
Dan Quayle & the Potatoe In...
Some time after Dan Quayle's embarrassing spelling bee incident (in which he inc...
Ronald Reagan: Uncommon Cents
In Ronald Reagan's first televised budget speech as president, he used a handful...
Eternal Flame
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was once invited to attend a solemn ceremony...
Mrs. H?
Senator George Hoar was once enthusiastically greeted by a man whose face he bar...
Dewey Morning
On election eve, 1948, Thomas Dewey (who, according to polls, was poised to defe...
Long Story
During his gubernatorial campaign in southern Louisiana, Huey Long was advised t...
Desert Island Discs
Guests on the BBC program "Desert Island Discs" are asked which records they wou...
Riot Act
Such was his ineptitude as a public speaker that David Hartley (a member of Parl...
Karl Rove: Young Republican
Karl Rove, George Bush's chief political strategist, once told an audience that,...
Hairy Explanation
In December 1999, The Guardian announced its winner for "Greatest PR Disa...
Recession
The latter portion of Jimmy Carter's presidency was plagued by recession. The Am...
John Edwards: Power Hungry?
Though touted as a candidate for his party's nomination in the 2004 presidential...
Malcolm Muggeridge: Loopy R...
Malcolm Muggeridge once told former "Tonight Show" host Jack Paar that he had vo...
Puppet Master?
Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency after Republican spies were ca...
Capitol Insult
While serving as chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Edward Hale was once asked, "Dr. H...
National Pride
Winston Churchill entered a men's washroom in the House of Commons one day and, ...
Heckler
While delivering a campaign speech one day Theodore Roosevelt was interrupted by...
Roosevelt's Inauguration
One day in 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was amused to receive a curious invit...
Assinine Comment?
One day Clare Boothe Luce, a Republican, was asked by a journalist for her comme...
Watt a Moron!
One day in September 1983, James G. Watt (Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Inter...
William F. Buckley: New Yor...
In 1965, William F. Buckley ran for the office of mayor of New York City. Given ...
Devil’s Brew?
"Fuller Warren, Florida's governor in the '50s, was running for office in a year...
Perfectly Agreeable
One afternoon in 1911, Woodrow Wilson, then serving as New Jersey's governor, re...
Great Turnip?
Winston Churchill and fellow British prime minister Stanley Baldwin cultivated a...
Chamberpot?
Winston Churchill vehemently opposed prime minister Neville Chamberlain's policy...
Rather Trenchant?
Dan Rather's first political run-in occurred at a Houston news conference in 197...
Crappy Speech?
Following his conviction (on ten felony counts of bribery, tax evasion, and rack...
Sheen for President
Charlie Sheen was once asked whether he'd like to have his father's job playing ...
Morales Booster
Just four days before Bolivia's presidential election in June 2002, the U.S. amb...
Long-Winded
On June 12, 1935, Senator Huey Long began what would become his longest and most...
Major Problem
One day while campaigning against Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential...
Texas Eagle
In 1996, Al Gore received a letter from a Dallas couple complaining about the el...
Carpetbagger
When John McCain first ran for election in Arizona (after living in the state fo...
Reagan Wit
In March 1981, president Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by a would-be assas...
Finger Wag?
While visiting the Black Sea one day at the height of the Cold War, Stewart Udal...
Ask Not
Shortly after JFK's inaugural address, his Republican opponent Richard Nixon gen...
Richard Moron
"President Nixon [arguably the most awkward schmoozer in presidential history] w...
John Ashcroft & Hillary Cli...
Shortly after Missouri's own John Ashcroft was named United States Attorney Gene...
When in Rome?
In 1960, Norman Mailer ran for mayoral office in New York City, advocating that ...
Popular Representation
When an unscrupulous industrialist was nominated for a cabinet post one day, one...
Baldwin's History?
Winston Churchill once pilloried one of prime minister Stanley Baldwin's policie...
Journalistic Peril
In recognition of his dedication to the Journal, William Randolph Hearst ...
Smoot
While working as a cub reporter for the New York World, Heywood Broun was...
Lieberman-Cheney Debate
After his stint as George Bush's Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney entered the b...
Chris Rock: Watching C-Span
"I was watching C-Span, and this guy comes on speaking," Chris Rock once recalle...
Nixon-Kennedy Debate
In 1960, during one of the famous televised debates between presidential candida...
Parliament of Owls?
At a reception in honour of several former British prime ministers, Harold Macmi...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Body...
Arnold Schwarzenegger biographer George Butler once recalled a conversation he h...
Sheila Oopps
Canadian Liberal MP Sheila Copps first sought public office (in Hamilton, Ontari...
John McCain: Bushwhacked (l...
By all rights, Senator John McCain should have won the Republican presidential n...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Man ...
In October 2002, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned the Ferrari Spider which he had ...
George W. Bush: Mission Acc...
In April 2003, as the war in Iraq approached its inevitable conclusion, presiden...
Ariana Huffington: Holy Hyp...
While campaigning in the 2003 California gubernatorial election race one August ...
Election Fraud
Martin Van Buren's presidential election campaign in 1840 was bedeviled by probl...
Reverse Psychology?
Although he knew that his Roman Catholicism would present political problems, Hi...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cons...
In November 2000, Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled plans to seek the governorship ...
Honourable Member?
"In the House of Commons in 1967, the debate on David Steele's Abortion Bill was...
War Hawks Evasion Quiz
Match the following staunch proponents of the American war in Iraq (in 2003) wit...
Espionage Risk?
In February 2003, an Australian Labour politician (and former Olympic aerial ski...
Keating Five
Shortly after his Lincoln Savings and Loan declared bankruptcy (with over $2 bil...
Boneless Wonder
The young Churchill was one day taken to P. T. Barnum's celebrated circus, which...
Henry Clay: Clay in His Hands
While Henry Clay's oratorical prowess won him the adulation of much of the House...
Grover Cleveland: Pro and C...
President Grover Cleveland, though constantly at war with the Senate, got on wel...
George Gallup & the Telepho...
Like many polls conducted before the presidential election of 1948, George Gallu...
Husbands and Wives
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr: "I remember in 1960, when Ken Galbraith and I came out f...
Reform Alliance
In January 2000, Canada's Reform Party (led by Preston Manning) launched a new o...
Grand Pun
George Selwyn once heard Robert Walpole remark that the British political system...
Harry Truman: Politics
Harry Truman was once asked by a young student how he might get started in polit...
Purest Greek
Canadian prime minister John A. MacDonald and Hector Langevin (the former solici...
Ronald Reagan: Seasoned Pol...
Despite concern over Ronald Reagan's age (69) when he ran for the presidency in ...
Manure Spreader
During one of William Jennings Bryan's numerous presidential campaigns, he was i...
Reichel
In 2003, Chilean porn star "Reichel" ran for the country's parliament on a multi...
Wizard of Laws? (long)
No president used the cigar to better rhetorical effect than Calvin Coolidge. Wh...
Government at Work
Despite the corrupt nature of America's campaign finance system (whereby busines...
Denis Thatcher: Iron Lady?
Shortly after moving into the British prime minister's official residence (10 Do...
Subliminal Messagores
Like most of his crew, Mike Scully (executive producer of "The Simpsons") was pu...
Inclement Insult?
Winston Churchill and British Labor leader Clement Atlee cultivated a first-rate...
Robert F. Kennedy: Monkey B...
Robert F. Kennedy was an anti-communist crusader of herioc proportions. During t...
JFK: Crushing Victory?
At a banquet one evening, John F. Kennedy addressed criticism that his wealthy f...
Tents Decision
President Lyndon B. Johnson once sought a way to remove J. Edgar Hoover from his...
Tunnel of Love?
Barry Crimmins, once fell into a discussion concerning the 'struggle for the sou...
Supreme Ignorance?
On January 19, 1970, president Richard Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell to th...
Woody Dukakis?
While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle fired a surprisingl...
Classic Kennedy
In October 1962, the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war when America ...
Class Distinction
Edward Marsh, Winston Churchill's private secretary, once accompanied the future...
Pat Remark?
Pat Buchanan, famed for his political extremism, naturally bore the brunt of man...
Balanced Ticket?
In the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, political satirist Al Franken j...
Bedfellows?
Toward the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Vice President George Bush, famed ...
Bush Blooper #4826
In January 2000, George W. Bush made a campaign stop at the Chamber of Commerce ...
Brain Drain?
While criticizing Liberal policies on the campaign trail one day, Canadian Allia...
El Surpriso?
One day in 1982, Ronald Reagan was asked whether a recent trip to Latin America ...
Unbalanced Ticket?
Senator Joe Lieberman (Al Gore's running-mate) once jokingly suggested running w...
Landingham
One day in 2002, Califonia state assembly Majority Leader Kevin Shelley asked th...
Golden Parachute?
In 2001, it came to light that Jesse Jackson had been having an extramarital aff...
Liberian Politics
In 1928, Charles King was elected President of Liberia by a majority of 600,000 ...
Oh Brother?
During a primary debate in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, George ...
Consolation
Following the 1912 presidential election, William Howard Taft was asked to comme...
Amateur Photographer?
Senator Barry Goldwater, a talented amateur photographer, once took a picture of...
Playground Bully
Shortly after winning the mayoral race (with a 91% mandate) in 2002, Baltimore m...
Ann Landers: Embassy Reception
While attending an embassy reception one evening, the syndicated columnist Ann L...
Harold Macmillan: Fathers a...
Among Harold Macmillan's fiercest critics was his own son, Maurice, who once sen...
War Games
In January 2003, Norwegian politicians debated the use of a Norwegian fighter pl...
Foreign Aid
In March 2003, George W. Bush announced that any invasion of Iraq would be follo...
Coulda Been
American vice presidents have historically held remarkably little political powe...
Webbed Wonder
One day in May 2003, Michael Jackson donned a Spiderman mask and burst into the ...
George W. Bush: Miserable F...
"If you go to the Internet search engine Google, type in 'miserable failure,' an...
Slick Willy
"Arizona is the first state to allow voting on the internet," Bill Maher reporte...
Joe Clark's Hole
One day near the turn of the millennium, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" cohost Rick ...
Davis & Schwarzenegger
One day during the 2003 California gubernatorial election, Governor Gray Davis, ...
Bush's Poodle
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was harshly criticized for his support of Geor...
Rush Limbaugh: Boiled Down
"We do not need General Clark or any of the rest of you liberals," rabid Republi...
Iron Lady
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was famed for her domineering manner. D...
Chubb Peabody
According to some of his detractors, Massachusetts Governor Chubb Peabody had ha...
John A. Macdonald
While serving as Attorney-General for Upper Canada in the early 1860s, John A. M...
The Rove Treatment
In 2002, Ron Suskind wrote an article about George W. Bush's chief political adv...
The Finger
In 2002, Republicans began redrawing (or "gerrymandering") districts across Amer...
The Finger
In 2002, Republicans began redrawing (or "gerrymandering") districts across Amer...
George W. Bush & Max Clelan...
In 2002, George W. Bush and the Republicans ruthlessly used 9/11 and its afterma...
Dick Cheney: What a Dick
"If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two years," Dick Chen...
George W. Bush & John Ashcr...
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed John Ashcroft to serve as U.S. Attor...
Pea Soup Sermon
The scholar and educator Frederick Denison Maurice was always careful to distanc...
Vexing Hex?
While Lord Melbourne took little interest in religious matters, he frequently ra...
Right Man for the Job
Although he boasted many distinguished supporters, Norman Thomas lacked popular ...
Fairweather Friends
"On Napoleon's escape from Elba [and return to France], Fouche, who had been mak...
Eating Crow?
In the middle of one of Henry Ward Beecher's most potent political speeches, a m...
The Ring of Hypocrisy?
In the wee hours of a certain morning in the year 2000, some 3,000 Arizona resid...
*elcome to the *hite House
On Bill Clinton's last day in the White House, his departing aides played a curi...
Public Service Announcement
When, in 1783, George Washington resigned, at the height of his power, as comman...
Jack E. Robinson: WUPZ-990?
In November 2000, Republican Massachusetts businessman Jack E. Robinson challeng...
Political Bitch?
In 2002, Republican stalwart Katherine Harris, famed for her dubious ruling to s...
Strom Thurmond: Bladder Bus...
South Carolina's legendary Republican Senator Strom Thurmond holds a dubious dis...
Maiden Speech
In 1689, the famed physicist Sir Isaac Newton served as Cambridge University's r...
Ralph Nader: Fishy Politician
Just how badly did Ralph Nader fare in the 2000 US presidential election? Read o...
Alfred Packer
During the heavy winter of 1874, the famous nineteenth-century Colorado pioneer ...
Johnny, Walker?
Andrew Johnson was an unlikely president: A runaway indentured servant who had n...
Pecker
In August 1999, "60 Minutes" did a story on lobbyists in Washington: "The power ...
President Ted Kennedy
In 1998, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, having forgotten that Senator Ted K...
Ed Koch: Terrible Mayor?
Former New York City mayor Ed Koch once told a large gathering about his return ...
Dim Bulb?
Sheridan's son Tom had no illusions about political corruption. "Many men who ar...
Sailor
When Lady Astor was canvassing for her first parliamentary seat in Plymouth, a s...
Hairy Election
In 2002, former Attorney General Janet Reno, not a woman noted for her ...
Yasir Arafat: Pointedly Foo...
In 1977, David Frost landed a interview with PLO leader Yasir Arafat. "There's a...
Dick Cheney: If the Shoe Fi...
On June 19, 2000, Dick Cheney held a $2,500-a-plate fundraising dinner to raise ...
Grudge Match
While campaigning for the governorship against George Pataki, Andrew Cuomo, a "h...
Jawaharlal Nehru
In November 1957, a curious article appeared in an Indian newspaper called ...
Red Tape
"On my first visit to the Members' Entrance of the House of Commons," Cyril Smit...
Italian Government
Like so many of his colleagues, Giovanni Giolitti's political career was notably...
Congress
In 1846, Lincoln ran for Congress as a Whig against an evangelical Methodist nam...
Lincoln's Hat
At his presidential inauguration, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the rostrum holding...
House of Commoners
Upon hearing the little-known author James Harris' maiden speech before Parliame...
Trouble at the White House
On April 12th, 1945, Harry Truman was summoned to the White House. Ushered into ...
Supposed Persuasion?
In 2001, Ohio Congressman Jim Traficant proposed a bill which would have banned ...
Aptly-Named Politician
In 2003, an aptly-named Republican politician ran for office in Ohio. ...
Revisionist History
In a hard-fought game against Carlisle Indian School, a soon-to-be-famous West P...
Independent Candidate
In 2000, an independent candidate from Cobb County ran for election to Georgia's...
Earl Ferrers: Earl Dodger &...
In February 2004, British Conservative MP Earl Ferrers, a former minister, raise...
Reagan & Asner
Ronald Reagan, who had been a well-known actor before embarking upon a political...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt &...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was once accused by Republicans of using taxpayer mone...
Alaskan Election
In 2002 Republican voters in Turnagin District 26 in Anchorage, Alaska, were ask...
Red-Hot Stove
In the early 1860s, Secretary of War Simon Cameron was implicated in a scandal i...
Orrin Hatch: Hipster Hatch
In September 2000, Senator Orrin Hatch enthusiastically agreed to back Jubilee 2...
Landslide Lyndon
In 1948, Texas Governor Coke Stevenson ran for a U.S. Senate seat against Texas ...
Bill Clinton: Shagging the ...
In 1998, days after it was revealed that President Bill Clinton had explored var...
Hard Work?
Shortly after the birth of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new baby was anno...
GGood Advice
One evening after a fiery debate in which Stephen A. Douglas had delivered a dia...
Horatio, Hornblower?
Hubert Humphrey was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in the 1964 presi...
Liver Than Live?
Texan maverick Ross Perot embodied the individualistic values that southern cult...
Plymouth Trek
During the 1997 British general election, Patrick Stewart (noted for his role as...
Harold Wilson: Coitus Inter...
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was once harangued in parliament by Willie ...
Counting on Quayle?
Vice President Dan Quayle was once asked to explain the difference between the U...
Drinkin' Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln's political nemesis, Stephen Douglas, attempting to discredit hi...
Laborious Decision?
Shortly after FDR had named Frances Perkins as his secretary of labor (the first...
Third Man
Al Gore was understandably not impressed with the outcome of the 2000 presidenti...
Casserole Night
During C-SPAN's 'Funniest Celebrity in Washington' contest in 1999, Senator Jose...
Hillary Clinton: Carpetbagger
While campaigning for a seat in the New York senate, Hillary Clinton, an Illinoi...
Crack Response
Famed crackhead Marion Barry was, not surprisingly, a questionable politician. D...
Unlimited Debate
Like most crackhead politicians, former Washington mayor Marion Barry was famed ...
Hanging Chads
Some time after the year 2000 presidential election fiasco in Florida - in which...
Party Animal?
In 2001, Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party, single-handedly shift...
Layaway Plan?
One day during the early investigations into Enron's balance-sheet shenanigans, ...
Enron Scandal
When the Enron scandal first broke, President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, bo...
Lap of Luxury
Many political consultants agree that "owning a dog" is a virtual prerequisite f...
Brotherly Love?
While attending the annual Gridiron dinner in Washington one year during Harry T...
Evasive Maneuver
President Cleveland was pestered one day by a reporter seeking a statement on a ...
Trump Card?
Late in 2002, George W. Bush's chief of staff Andrew Card sought to explain why ...
Devilish Insult
While out campaigning one day, John Wilkes was confronted by a nasty voter: "I'd...
The Just
Under the Athenian system of ostracism, each citizen could vote to have a man ba...
John Edwards: D-NC?
Before winning a Senate seat in 1998, John Edwards showed little interest in pol...
Hellion?
Sir Robert Menzies was once interrupted by a heckler while addressing a politica...
Time Management
Channing H. Cox once visited Washington to call on Calvin Coolidge, whom he had ...
Carolyn Parrish: Nice One
In the run-up to the War in Iraq in 2003, America struggled to build an internat...
Cold War
"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was," Steve Martin d...
California Governor
Ronald Reagan's early political career was often overshadowed by his cinematic c...
Trudeau's Victory
Pierre Elliott Trudeau's victory in Canada's 1968 election was not universally w...
Egyptian Insult
Little love was lost between British prime ministers Benjamin Disraeli and John ...
Convention Speech
"George W. Bush spoke for 58 minutes at the Republican Convention," Craig Kilbor...
Constitution of India
Indira Gandhi won such sweeping victories in the elections of 1971 and 1972 that...
Top Billing
When Warren Beatty, the alleged inspiration behind Carly Simon's "You're So Vain...
Front Page Story
Following his upset victory over Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential election,...
Gerrymander
A signer of the Declaration of Independence and America's fifth vice president, ...
House Heckler
Virginia congressman John Randolph was once heckled in the House by a colleague ...
Bush-Cheney Speech
"This is President Bush and Vice President Cheney giving a speech at his ranch i...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The 1936 presidential election pitted Franklin Delano Roosevelt against Alfred L...
Star President
In Leadership in the Reagan Presidency Donald T. Regan famously revealed ...
Supreme Injustice
Warren G. Harding rivals Richard M. Nixon as the most corrupt president in Ameri...
Jesse "The Jackass" Ventura
One day during his term as Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura declared that he wa...
Lyndon B. Jackass
During the 1964 presidential election race, Lyndon B. Johnson suggested that his...
Schwarzenegger Supporter
In the late stages of the 2003 California gubernatorial election, more than a do...
Jaime Nebot: Political Advisor
During a press conference in October 2003, Jaime Nebot, the mayor of Guayaquil (...
Governor's Mother
Barbara Bush was once asked whether she gave President George W. Bush advice. "I...
Hillary Clinton: Living His...
Shortly after the publication of Living History (her memoirs) in 2003, Hi...
Reagan Wit
"Mr. President," Ronald Reagan was asked during a press conference one day, "in ...
Algerian Politics
"The fear that a vote for Islamists would mean 'one man, one vote, one time' is ...
George W. Bush & Jean Poutine
One day during the 2000 presidential election race, George W. Bush was asked by ...
Governor Schwarzenegger
Shortly before his victory in the California recall election in 2003, Arnold Sch...
Historic Speeches
"Later this month in Arkansas," Conan O'Brien reported in March 2003, "former Pr...
Joseph Doria: Affirmative R...
In 1997, Joseph Doria, the Democratic leader in the New Jersey state assembly, w...
Charles Taylor & Liberian D...
In 1989, Charles Taylor started a civil war in Liberia with the stated aim of ov...
Al Franken: Savin' It
While working on his bestselling book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A...
Jack Huberman: Bush-Hater's...
Following George W. Bush's dodgy victory in the 2000 presidential election, Cana...
Pat Brown: Political Disaster
One day during Pat Brown's tenure as Governor of California, the state was hit w...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sex ...
"California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire this w...
Paul Gigot: Political Gigolo?
After George W. Bush's dodgy victory in the 2000 presidential election, many ang...
John Edwards: John Who?
Though touted as a candidate for the party's nomination in the 2004 presidential...
Tom DeLay:
Following the Texas state House elections in 2002 (when the Republicans put an e...
John Kerry: Fundraiser
"It was reported today that John Kerry is hoping to raise $80 million before the...
John Edwards: Two Americas
"The Super Tuesday Primaries were today," Conan O'Brien reported in early March ...
Didius Julianus: Roman Auction
"In 193 A.D., Rome dominated or controlled all of the so-called civilized world....
Tom Ridge: Hometown Security
"Washington's first response to the events of September 11th was to recognize th...
George Bush: Church and State
"The difference between the Bushes [George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bus...
Princess Diana: Abolishing ...
According to Andrew Morton's Diana: In Pursuit of Love, Princess Diana on...
Local Improvement Project
One year, each member of England's Staffordshire City Council was given £10,000 ...
Pete Coors: Coulda Been Worse
In April 2004, The New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete...
Howard Dean: Dodger Dean
During the primaries in 2004, GQ magazine's James O'Brien interviewed wit...
Alan Keyes: Carpetbagging
In 2000, Alan Keyes scolded Hillary Clinton on Fox News for running for the U.S....
John Kerry: Something Nice ...
"I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush," John Kerry decl...
Carol Moseley Braun: Patent...
In 2004, former presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun was asked whether she...
Stephen Pound: Direct Democ...
As an exercise in direct democracy, in late 2003 BBC's Today program asked its s...
George W. Bush: Medicare
"When George W. Bush signed the law expanding Medicare coverage to prescription ...
Harold Wilson: Wilson Chopper
In 1969, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson dramatically reshuffled his Labour...
John Kerry: Campaign Blooper
John Kerry made several gaffes in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, ...
Tom Daschle: Deeply Troubled
"[Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle] is gentle and soft-spoken," She...
Woodrow Wilson & Albert Fall
President Woodrow Wilson's valiant battle for the League of Nations ruined his h...
Woodrow Wilson: Esteem for ...
Senator William Borah was among President Woodrow Wilson's fiercest rivals durin...
Clint Eastwood: Never Say N...
In 1985, Rolling Stone magazine asked Clint Eastwood if he would ever run...
Earl Warren: Audience of One
While campaigning for a minor county office, young Earl Warren (a future Chief J...
Ben Disraeli and the Temple...
In 1835, the Irish Roman Catholic leader Daniel O'Connell attacked Benjamin Disr...
Angling for Peace
During Israel's negotiations with the Arabs in the late 1960s, Israeli Prime Min...
Horizon
During the course of a speech one day, Walther Ulbricht, extolling the glories o...
50-50
Despite having bet on Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, Ann Lande...
Just 'Cause?
In the 1820 presidential election, James Monroe received every single electoral ...
John Ashcroft & Mel Carnaha...
In November 2000, former Missouri governor John Ashcroft lost his bid for reelec...
Glorious Analogy
During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Lord Halifax was among the first to take...
Airing Discontent
Arriving at a school in Victoria one day, Australian Prime Minister John Howard ...
1440 Minutes of Fame?
Ever heard of David Rice Atchinson? In 1849, he served as the 12th president of ...
Appointment with the President
Comedian Will Rogers was once invited by president Harding to visit the White Ho...
Al Gore: Away on Business
In August 2002, many Democratic eyebrows were raised when Al Gore (passing up th...
Zzzzzzz?
Among the speakers at the Democratic Leadership Council's meeting in August 2002...
Norman Thomas
While he boasted many distinguished supporters, Norman Thomas lacked popular app...
Apolitical (long)
Shortly after Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, its author, Richa...
Don't Drink the Water
Commenting on the British Tory conference in 1999, Guardian columnist Jer...
GumTargets
In 2002, plastic-covered posters called GumTargets began to appear in Bournemout...
Shagging the Dog?
Facing a scandal over shady financial dealings, treasury secretary Alexander Ham...
Future Past?
Al Gore was understandably unimpressed with the outcome of the 2000 presidential...
Victorian Democracy
In 1892, the Liberals under William Gladstone won the British general election b...
Lieberman in 2004?
As America's 2004 presidential election approached, many pundits speculated abou...
Protectors
"I [Henry David Thoreau] went to the store the other day to buy a bolt for our f...
Poison Pen?
The "Religious Right" Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer was not belov...
Candidate Adlai Stevenson
While campaigning against Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, Adlai Stevenson addressed a...
Missing U?
There has never been much doubt about which faith constituted the base of George...
Teddy Roosevelt: Making Hay
While campaigning for the 1904 presidential election one day, Theodore Roosevelt...
Paderewski
While attending the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as Poland's new leader, Paderews...
Come Together
One day in the mid-1960s, legendary LSD pioneer Timothy Leary decided to run for...
Disraeli's Maiden Speech
When Benjamin Disraeli delivered his maiden speech - a brilliant retort to his o...
Cordell Hull: Spin Doctor
Cordell Hull, Roosevelt's Secretary of State, mastered the fine art of saying no...
The Masses Are Asses?
Christopher Hitchens once expressed dismay that, whereas many university student...
Bennett & the Anti-Christ (...
One day in 1932, Saturday Night magazine editor Hector Charlesworth exami...
3/4 Constitutional Dilemma
"Four years ago - in the middle of the Labour Party's leadership election," Roy ...
Gary Coleman: What the HECK?
In May 2000, Gary Coleman announced an unlikely plan to run for the US Senate - ...
Ronald Reagan: Larry Speake...
Following the first summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mi...
Debs, Undaunted
In 1918, the noted pacifist Eugene Debs made a speech condemning World War I and...
Candide Remark
In 1960, the noted philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre publicly urged French troops in ...
No Worries?
While addressing the House of Representatives one day, Illinois Senator William ...
Anti-Mason Party
The first American political party to hold a Presidential nominating
conventio...
Hot Date?
Why were the Cambodian elections in 2003 delayed for a month? The nation's prime...
Enoch Powell
In 1974, Enoch Powell ran for election as an Ulster Unionist in Northern Ireland...
Tosser Election
With the Labor Party's Hugh Anthony Bryan leading by one vote in a local Annotto...
House of Lords
"Did you get any reactions in the House of Lords to your Buggers' [Homosexuals']...
Copacabana, Peru?
In 1986, the Bolivian Ministry of Information found that over 50% of young peopl...
Aunt Wilson
Shortly after the presidential election in 1912, Woodrow Wilson visited an elder...
Political Tumult?
President Woodrow Wilson once categorically refused to welcome a deputation of I...
Henry Hyde
Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde was not noted for his high regard for the opposi...
Henry Hypocrisy
Many observers were disturbed to find Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, as House ...
Marshall Pipes Up
Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall once found himself embroiled in a Senate de...
Dukakis
Democratic Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis named Senator Lloyd Bentsen as...
Diabolical Design?
In The Clinton Wars, Sidney Blumenthal, famous for his attribution of the...
Nancy Pelosi
Dennis Miller was no fan of California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. "Nancy Pelosi...
Political Broadcast
"Before television's first party political broadcast it was impressed on McDonal...
Governor's Advice
When Ronald Reagan succeeded Edmund G. Brown as Governor of California in 1967, ...
Ralph Perk: Perky Wife
In December 1972, Cleveland mayor Ralph J. Perk was invited to attend a White Ho...
Dark Horse Polk
James K. Polk was the first "dark horse" to be elected President
of the United ...
Baby Steps?
Little love was lost between Tom Dewey and FDR's New Deal Secretary of the Inter...
Tory Leadership
In July 2002, Canadian Tory leader Joe Clark was taking part in the annual Calga...
Dust Bowl?
American-Israeli friendship has a long and deeply rooted history. One day shortl...
Wily Dell
Like many wily businessmen, Michael Dell was adept at oiling the political machi...
Diplomatic Solution
"Sir Oswyn Murray, Secretary of the Admiralty for nearly twenty years from 1917,...
Janet Reno
In 2002, Former Attorney General Janet Reno announced tentative plans to run for...
Dwarf Battleships
"At an election meeting when I was Liberal candidate for Leicester," Eliot Crens...
Campaign Trial?
While campaigning one day, Charles Fox asked a tradesman for his vote and was bl...
Sarcastomatic
In the early 1960s, William Rouverol invented the original Votomatic punch-card ...
Harris Blooper
One day during the 2003 Ontario provincial elections, former Progressive Conserv...
Jewish MP
In 1847, Lionel Nathan Rothschild, of the prominent family of European bankers, ...
Sonny Bonehead
Sonny Bono was not a natural politician. During his stint as mayor of Palm Sprin...
Madeline Cain: Eminent Domain
"60 Minutes" co-host Mike Wallace once confronted Lakewood, Ohio Mayor Madeline ...
Congressional Deficit
Like many Republicans, Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot frequently complained...
Mirabeau & Talleyrand
During an early session of the constitutional convention following the French Re...
Hopeful?
In the presidential election of 1948, telephone polls (which proved to be too se...
James Stockdale: Presidenti...
Admiral James Stockdale was Ross Perot's running mate in the 1992 presidential e...
Fritz Hollings
South Carolina Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings never shied away from speaking ...
Crack Politician
Famed crackhead Marion Barry was, not surprisingly, a questionable politician. "...
Kaboodle
"The Ireland of [John B Keane's] early years was still locked in the sterile aft...
Radical Words
FDR once delivered a radio address in which he identified four distinct politica...
Dri Humor
As a Member of Parliament, Tom Driberg developed an infuriating method of dealin...
Steely Response
Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin unceremoniously eliminated his military a...
Holy Moment
At a Labor Day rally during the 1952 presidential election, a photographer snapp...
Iowa Politician
In 1998, Tom Vilsack became Iowa's first Democratic Governor-elect in 30 years. ...
Dick Armey?
Republican Congressman Dick Armey was noted neither for his tolerance of homosex...
Law's Delay
"Isaac Foot possesses an astounding repertory of quotations and a political oppo...
Carter Retraction
During the 1980 presidential election, Jimmy Carter was accused of reversing him...
Unacknowledged Legislators
Why, Hugh Cudlipp asked his old friend Sydney Jacobson, Editorial Director of IP...
Disraelist?
A political realist, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had little regard for John...
Winston Churchill: Order of...
Contrary to expectations, the Conservatives - having won World War II - lost the...
Bevin/Bevan
Notwithstanding their similar names, there was little love lost between British ...
Semonvillain?
Talleyrand and a friend once fell into a conversation concerning the distressing...
Zachary Taylor: Due Diligence
One day in 1848, Zachary Taylor was visited by a messenger with an important mes...
Jordan & Santorum
In March 2003, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum found himself in a difficult s...
Principled Politician
In 1937, Pat Harrison, Mississippi's senior senator, decided to run for the Sena...
James Madison: Lightning Bug
One of the most active speakers at the Constitutional Convention was the learned...
Gun Control
Democratic Congressman Avery Alexander once found himself embroiled in a debate ...
Mavor Blooper
The great political economist James Mavor once recalled a faux pas which he comm...
Gray Davis
Gray Davis will be remembered largely for his dull image and for the notorious e...
Babe Ruth: Contract
One day at the height of the Great Depression, Babe Ruth was asked to take a pay...
Damned Liars
Sir Charles Tupper was addressing Parliament one day when a Liberal member turne...
Deft Hand? (long)
Among the most enthusiastically received speeches at The Democratic Leadership C...
Home Rule
One day early in his political career, Lloyd George delivered an address at a ra...
Margaret Thatcher: Arousal ...
Scientists once conducted a curious experiment with an "arousal monitor" and sev...
Augean Stability?
The stock market crash in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression made for an e...
Election 2000
Téa Leoni: "David [Duchovny] and I got home from work about midnight, the night ...
Gatting By-Election
The Gatting by-election of 1816 is fondly remembered by British political histor...
Cuban Missile Crisis?
One day in 1961, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, JFK called his c...
Dan Quayle & Lloyd Bentsen
During a memorable Vice-Presidential debate in Omaha, Nebraska, during the 1988 ...
Ill Communication
While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle, famed for his verb...
No?
While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle, engaged in a rathe...
Popularity Counts
In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his famous "Great Society" speech calling f...
Not Even Close?
In 1996, Democrat Elliot Close ran for a South Carolina Senate seat against the ...
Fly in Amber
Sydney Smith once wryly likened George Canning's stint as Tory prime minister to...
Saddler
While canvassing one day in London's Haymarket, Charles Fox entered a saddler's ...
Richard Nixon: Tricky Dick
Shortly after the Watergate story broke, Richard Nixon was asked by British tele...
It Takes a Village
Shortly after the appearance of her book It Takes a Village advocating co...
Tapley
During Abraham Lincoln's presidential campaign, a rival Democrat named Valentine...
Washington Politics
Shortly after Adlai Stevenson's defeat by Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential el...
Urban Sombrero?
Tennyson, famed for his eccentric clothing, could often be seen sporting a swirl...
Matt Damon: Good Luck
Shortly after George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001, Matt Damon wished Laura Bus...
Political Splash?
In Januray 2002, Ted Kennedy flew around America with president George Bush to t...
Tom Daschle: Fiscal Lament
"On January 4th, 2000, Tom Daschle, Senate majority leader and Democrat-in-chief...
Parity?
Not surprisingly, Al Gore was widely criticised for hiring famed feminist author...
Public Office
While addressing a meeting of teachers in Washington one evening, Vice President...
Senecan Logic
Though his influence on the maniacal Nero grew weaker as time passed, Seneca end...
Gush vs Bore
The 2000 election ranked among the least gripping on record. "Many think of it a...
Frankly Frank Oliver
"[The Alberta journalist and politician Frank Oliver] who had carried his little...
Plane Silly
Conservative political pundit William F. Buckley, Jr. was once asked to appear o...
Political Program
"My Music" host (and Social Democrat) Steve Race once met the sleazy Conservativ...
Old Strom Thurmond
Following George W. Bush's inauguration in 2000, 98-year-old Senator Strom Thurm...
Power Switch
One day in May 2001, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party, sin...
There's Always Chelsea...
In 2001, Hillary Clinton announced that she had absolutely no intentions of ever...
Streets of Philadelphia
One day during his tenure as mayor of Philadelphia, with the city's murder rate ...
Taxing Comment
During a live pre-election debate on CBC-TV in the spring of 2001, future Canadi...
Party Atmosphere?
"The world of Ralph Nader was formed far from Washington, in Zahle, Lebanon, whe...
Sing Sing
New York Governor Al Smith once addressed a group of inmates at Sing Sing prison...
Dick Cheney & the Republica...
In 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney co-hosted the Republican Governor's Associat...
Conspiracy Theory
Hillary Clinton once famously blamed the many scandals which had beset her husba...
JFK & the Stock Market
Shortly after blocking a rise in steel prices in 1961, JFK was visited by a busi...
Donkey?
One day during his vice presidency, Al Gore was accused by a Republican colleagu...
Standing Firm?
White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry was once asked whether President Clinto...
True Hostage?
Early in his presidency, Ronald Reagan was embroiled in a scandal involving seve...
Promises, Promises
"The President has kept all of the promises," Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos...
Pres-umption?
During the Whitewater investigation, prompted by her suspiciously rosy investmen...
Magician Mayor?
In 2002, former Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson announced his plans to run...
Smith Kennedy?
In 2002, several years after his acquittal on sexual assault charges, William Ke...
Bush Ticket?
In 1988, speculation was rife regarding the selection of George Bush's running m...
Rubber Stamp
American vice presidents have historically held remarkably little political powe...
Eamonic Obsession?
After the Easter rebellion of 1916, Eamon De Valera was arrested while deliverin...
Eugene McCarthy
"Being in politics is like being a football coach," Minnesota Senator Eugene McC...
Royal Pain
George V once fell into a dinner-table conversation with the US ambassador to Br...
Ronald Reagan: Political Th...
When television cameras first moved into the Senate (in 1986) Ronald Reagan offe...
Boots
Harold Macmillan was once told that, as a child, his Labour rival Harold Wilson ...
Divine Exaggeration
One day during the Republican Convention in 1912, a curious announcement was dis...
Tirade
Australian prime minister William Hughes was once subjected to a vicious verbal ...
Political Pointer
Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to ...
Platform Shoes?
In 1979, the Dead Kennedys' rebellious (punk rock) frontman Jello Biafra ran for...
George W. Bush: Political J...
In May 2002, an American soldier called President George W. Bush "a joke" in a l...
Religious Rights?
During his stint as Minnesota's governor, Jesse Ventura aroused the ire of the r...
Ike
Following World War II, Dwight Eisenhower (who had been on MacArthur's staff bef...
Chuck Schumer & Jon Corzine...
"Frankly, sharing a media market with [New York Senator] Chuck Schumer," New Jer...
God Save the Quxxn
In 1997, Tony Banks was sworn in as Britain's newest Labour MP. Banks, a Republi...
Stockwell Day Referendum
"Noting that the Canadian Alliance platform favored referenda, Rick Mercer used ...
Stubborn Jackson
In 1828, opponents of Andrew Jackson's presidential ambitions called him a jacka...
Astronomer Royal
After becoming an Astronomer Royal in 1742, James Bradley was reportedly offered...
Captain Jack
In February 2000, First Lady Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the U.S...
Foreign Affairs
Barbra Streisand was often criticized for her misguided involvement in foreign a...
Rod of Chastisement
Lady Astor's maiden speech in the House of Commons was - naturally - about the t...
Three Monkeys
While attending a White House event one evening, Bob Dole happened to notice for...
Taxes
"Senator McGovern was making a speech," Bob Dole once recalled. "He said, 'Gentl...
Stormy Career
"When I was 11," Julian Amery later recalled, "I wanted to be a sailor. Then I m...
Presidential Advisor
In April, 1999, Guatemalan presidential advisor Esteban Gomez met with US presid...
Practiced Politician
Winston Churchill was once asked to name the chief qualifications of a politicia...
Brooks & Sumner
During a Senate debate on Kansas statehood in 1856, veteran Massachusetts Senato...
Yawn
The Duke of Devonshire once impressed Bejamin Disraeli with a well-placed yawn -...
Vice President Calhoun
In the course of a speech one day, Henry Clay (an unsuccessful candidate for the...
Calvin Coolidge: Retirement
One day shortly after the end of his term in office, Calvin Coolidge filled out ...
Almighty Groaner
While attending a luncheon in Beverly Hills in October 2002, Arnold Schwarzenegg...
George Clooney: Wild Man
In October 2002, George Clooney, who once dubbed his notorious bachelor pad the ...
Vote for the Devil
While campaigning one day in 1900, young Winston Churchill was interrupted by a ...
Spartan Constitution
The Spartan statesman Lycurgus, famed for his advocacy of strict military discip...
U2 Flights
In the 1952 presidential election, Adlai Stevenson ran against the Republican wa...
Thatcher Reunion
In May 2001, Margaret Thatcher appeared before a crowd of aging, adoring Conserv...
Que?
At a press conference during the 2003 California gubernatorial election, Arnold ...
Lousy Pun
During the government's campaign to economise on electricity in the severe winte...
Hillary Clinton
David Gergen once appeared on CNN to discuss Hillary Clinton's political prospec...
Microphony
"We noticed that every time Richard Nixon [arguably the most awkward schmoozer i...
Old Harrovian
While riding a train one day, Stanley Baldwin was approached by an Old Harrovian...
Kim Campbell: Disappointment
On the campaign trail one day, future Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell found...
Primary Candidate?
"Gary Bauer got 2% of the primary vote in Iowa and only 1% in New Hampshire," Ja...
Young George W. Bush
"I dated George Bush, Jr., all summer long," Mavanee Bear wrote to a friend in t...
Basket Case
"In July 1954, Winston Churchill appointed me Minister of Transport and Civil Av...
Political Insult
Sir Austen Chamberlain once visited his former nurse and told her of his decisio...
Primroses
"During an unsuccessful attempt to win a Sheffield seat, Tim Renton, Minister of...
Classic Churchill
Oswald Mosley was thought by many of his colleagues in the House of Commons to r...
Henry George
While contemplating a run for the mayoralty of New York in 1886, Henry George wa...
Down to Earth
Before entering Parliament in 1892, James Hardie was a coal miner and trade unio...
Submarine Ruse
"When American public opinion expressed disappointment with President Theodore R...
Jefferson & Burr
Thomas Jefferson very nearly lost the presidential election in 1800 to Aaron Bur...
Weighing-in Ceremony
To this day, the town of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, carries on a ...
Ben Affleck: Affleck For Pr...
During an interview with GQ magazine in May 2001, Ben Affleck revealed hi...
Eight Percent Solution
In May 2001, Ian Thomas, a cartographer with the United States Geological Survey...
Daschle & Lott
One day in late May 2001, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party...
Gun Control
In 2003, the busty porn star Mary Carey threw her hat into the political ring an...
Campaign Stop
While standing beside a political opponent on a balcony at a rally one day, Thom...
Diefenbutcher
The political career of C. D. Howe, Liberal Canadian prime minister Mackenzie Ki...
Dukakis Tanks
"In 1988, [future Fox News CEO Roger Ailes] signed on for Vice President Bush's ...
Election Promise
Everybody in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on August 7th, 2003 (du...
Priorities, Priorities
"[In January 1993, Hillary Clinton] had already been named to head the President...
Grace
Lord Curzon (whose second wife, Grace, was "seriously rich") had no hope of succ...
Equal Footing
When he lost the federal election in 1878, Canadian prime minister Alexander Mac...
Where's Karl?
Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief political advisor, earned an enviable reputati...
Rubber Stamp Senator
"David Paterson, a Democrat from upper Manhattan, is the Minority leader of the ...
Lieberman & Howard Dean
"Former vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said today that if the Democra...
Circus Election
"Gary Coleman has announced that he is running for governor of California," Cona...
Plastic Presidency?
Shortly after George W. Bush's surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to troops in Bagh...
Bush-Bush Debate
During the war in Iraq, "The Daily Show" aired a mock debate between Texas Gover...
Gray Davis Ripoff
The state of California once awarded Larry Ellison's Oracle Corporation a $95 mi...
Dick Gephardt: Jobs, Jobs, ...
"Dick Gephardt is so white that even under fluorescent lights he looks stage lit...
TSOL & the Recall Election
In 2003, TSOL frontman Jack Grisham ran as an independent in the California gube...
The Candidate
Michael Ritchie's The Candidate (1972), starring Robert Redford, Peter Bo...
Claire McCaskill: Missou-rah
"Missou-rah."
-- Gubernatorial candidate Claire McCaskill pronouncing her s...
Rick Santorum: Republican B...
Even as a first-term House member, Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum raised ...
George W. Bush Press Confer...
"Every White House and every presidency attempts to control the message and mani...
George W. Bush: Spin Doctor
George W. Bush was never the political naif so often painted by the press. Doug ...
Benjamin Gilman: American D...
In a hearing on the post-2000 redistricting (or "gerrymandering") in New York st...
Dick Cheney: Executive Search
"In the spring of 2000, Dick Cheney's two worlds — commerce and politics — merge...
Dick Tuck: Hughes Loan
Dick Tuck (whose business card once featured a mock dictionary entry for "politi...
Pierre Rinfret: Taxing Honesty
During a New York gubernatorial election one year, Pierre Rinfret was accused of...
Charles Millard: Tip of the...
New York City councilman Charles Millard was famed for his ample use of cliches....
John Kerry: Massachusetts L...
After an early lead by Howard Dean, John Kerry quickly emerged as the front-runn...
Haim Saban: Political Donation
The Hollywood producer Haim Saban once estimated that he had donated some $20 mi...
Kerry & Bush
In January 2004, the New England Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers in one ...
Bill Frist: Grand Old Hypoc...
"Bill Frist approved (as chair of the GOP fundraising committee) an ad accusing ...
Young John Edwards: For Real
When John Edwards first ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, his former law partne...
Arthur Lee at the House of ...
One day in June 2002, '60s psychedelic rock legend Arthur Lee visited Britain's ...
Grover Norquist: Taxing Dec...
In October 2003, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and chie...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Poli...
Shortly after his election victory, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to...
Hunter S. Thompson: Outlaw ...
In 1969, self-described "foul-mouthed outlaw journalist" Hunter S. Thompson ran ...
Dear Abby: Troubled Reader
Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby") received many oddball questions from troubled re...
Westbrook Pegler: Hyperboli...
Westbrook Pegler's incendiary columns were the source of considerable amusement ...
Joe Garcia: Cuba Policy
By 2004, many Cuban-Americans, despite occasional White House and State Departme...
James Baker: Tax Cuts & Pol...
"In 1981, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, invited the financial...
Groucho Marx & Richard Nixon
During an interview one day, Groucho Marx was asked whether there was any hope f...
Ken Livingstone & the Londo...
In January 2001, London mayor Ken "Red Ken" Livingstone hired Bob Kiley - a form...
Ralph Nader: Campaign Joke
"Our old friend independent candidate Ralph Nader says he thinks the draft is co...
Steve Martin & Ronald Reagan
Steve Martin was no great fan of President Ronald Reagan. "I believe that Ronald...
Robert Glenn Ketchum: Museu...
"I did an exhibit on the [politically sensitive] Tongass rain forest through the...
Charles Schumer: Determination
New York Senator Charles Schumer was once sternly warned by John McCain to avoid...
George W. Bush: Saving Face?
"Mr Bush," The Economist reported in May 2004, "is sufficiently worried a...
Harold Macmillan: Tested
Harold Macmillan was once asked what most tested him as prime minister. His repl...
Karl Rove: Republican Strat...
While campaigning for the 2004 presidential election, Democratic nominee John Ke...
Karl Rove: No Shame
After the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in February 2004 that gay couples mu...
Libertarian Party Platform
In May 2004, Michael Badnarik, a computer-programmer from Texas, was named the L...
Vice President John McCain?
During an appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in May 2004, Senator Joh...
Dick Gephardt: Hothouse Rose
"I went to visit my aunt and uncle and cousins in Oklahoma," Dick Gephardt once ...
John Kerry & Hunter S. Thom...
While campaigning in Colorado in June 2004, Democratic presidential candidate Jo...
Mamie Eisenhower: First Lady
As First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower kept a low political profile. "Ike runs the coun...
Joe Trippi: Campaign Manager
During the early stages of the 2004 presidential election race, Lisa DePaulo met...
Stephen Trachtenberg: Right...
In June 2004, George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg delive...
Lewis Lapham: Poetic License
"In the new issue of Harper's," the New Yorker reported in late Au...
Ralph Nader: Dirty Linen
Following Howard Dean's endorsement of John Kerry during the 2004 presidential e...
Adrian Nastase: Nasty Rumors
In July 2003, Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase was asked by reporters abou...
Edward Hyde: Queen's Queen
"[Edward Hyde, Governor of New York and New Jersey (1702-1708)] was a clever man...
Tom Ridge: Politics & Homel...
In July 2004, Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge addressed charges that re...
Paul Weyrich & Arlen Specter
"In 1992, after Arlen Specter smoothed Clarence Thomas's path to the Court, [Rep...
Arlen Specter: Porker of th...
For his habit of signing appropriations bills packed with gratuitous federal han...
George W. Bush: Business of...
"You and I are in the same business," George W. Bush told Phil Derrow, CEO of th...
James Rhodes: Republican Ruse
"Former Ohio Governor James Rhodes, a Republican who served a state record 16 ye...
Howard Dean: Driven
While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Howard Dea...
Joe Trippi:
After managing the heart-breaking campaigns of Gary Hart (who lost the Democrati...
Kinky Friedman: Glory of Texas
In 2004, former singer-songwriter Kinky Friedman and self-proclaimed "Texas Jewb...
Ken Mehlman: Blue States
While speaking at a meeting of the Republican National Committee in 2004, Bush c...
Al Sharpton & Howard Dean
"During the final debate before the caucuses [in early 2004], Howard Dean faced ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sovi...
At the Republican National Convention in 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a...
Dick Cheney: Factcheck.org
During the vice-presidential debate in October 2004, John Edwards made several a...
Ari Fleischer: White House ...
White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer once declared that he was unaware of "any...
John Edwards: Debating Cheney
During the 2004 presidential election, even John Edwards' small children were po...
Keith Olbermann: Roasting N...
In October 2004, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was asked whether he thought Ralph Nade...
John Thune: Off-Budget
In 2004, future Republican South Dakota Senator John Thune was asked by George S...
Bill Clinton: Clinton On th...
In 2002, former president Bill Clinton continued to campaign for Democratic cand...
Mao Tse-Tung: Consolation
"Though ousted from [British] Prime Ministerial office in 1974, Edward Heath con...
Margaret Thatcher: V Sign
"When elected to the Conservative Party leadership in 1975, Margaret Thatcher de...
Enoch Powell: Speaking Urdu
"[British MP] Enoch Powell prides himself on his rapport with Asian immigrants t...
Robert Kilroy-Silk: Oddballs
While preparing an article about the eccentric UK Independence Party (UKIP) for ...
Susan Sarandon: Bush Bashing
Sienna Miller discovered a kindred spirit in Susan Sarandon during the productio...
Don Young: Bridge Made of Pork
In 2004, the U.S. Senate proposed its own $318 billion version of George W. Bush...
Ariana Huffington: More Hyp...
Ed Rollins, who managed Michael Huffington's campaign in the 2003 California gub...
Ted Kennedy: Whipped
While vying for the Democratic Party nomination before the 1976 presidential ele...
Spoken from the Heart
"'Twas Sir Everard Digby's ill fate to suffer in the Powder plott [the plot to b...
Oral Arguments
In 1998, it was revealed that President Bill Clinton had been conducting an illi...
Terrible Vice
Napoleon III was once admonished to forbid smoking as it was such a terrible vic...
Adams vs. Jefferson
The John Adams-Thomas Jefferson presidential campaigns of 1796 and 1800 heralded...
Dull Debate
James Stuart, the Secretary of State for Scotland, was a man of strong
characte...
Political Debate
"I sat on the front bench for the Prices and Incomes Board debate for most of th...
Sweet-Talking Roosevelt
Though a fervent advocate of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, Huey Long...
Ronald Reagan: Turkey for a...
In 1954, Ronald Reagan agreed to host a 30-minute television series sponsored by...
"Boss" Tweed
During the 1870s, Thomas Nast famously campaigned against corruption in New York...
Kemp
In 1970, Buffalo native Jack Kemp retired from professional football and ran for...
Margaret Thatcher
In 1975, Margaret Thatcher challenged Edward Heath for the Tory leadership simpl...
Primate Passion?
Gary Hart's 1988 presidential hopes were dashed when he was photographed aboard ...
Questionable Proposition
"There is in Britain a parliamentary tradition where the political forces in the...
Mace
In June 2002, Hasim Abdul Halim, the parliamentary speaker in India's West Benga...
Senatorial Saucer
Thomas Jefferson once expressed his doubts about the usefulness of the Senate. "...
Perot Bushed?
Despite the considerable overlap of their social circles, George Bush and Ross P...
Election Defeat
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln campaigned against Stephen Douglas for an Illinois Sena...
Fence-Sitter?
Talleyrand's precise role behind the scenes during the July Revolution which bro...
Donald Kennard
Louisiana state representative Donald Kennard was not noted for his brilliance. ...
Stubborn as a Mule
While visiting Disneyland in 1957, former president Harry Truman refused to ride...
Woman Senator
In 1922, eighty-seven-year-old Georgia Democrat Rebecca Latimer Selton became th...
Omnibus
West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd was once asked whether he knew what was in a 4...
Royal Insult?
An ardent republican once remarked that his distaste for monarchy did not preclu...
Biscuits
In March 2003, Pennsylvania State Senator Gerald LaValle was astonished to find ...
Postwar Politics
"When my brother Alec was Foreign Secretary," Henry Douglas-Home once recalled, ...
Rick Santorum, Compassionat...
In 2003, Republican Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum defended George W. Bush's...
Italian Politics
When Silvio Berlusconi became Prime Minister of Italy in 2001, he continued to r...
What Is Truth
Johnny Cash is said to have infuriated Richard Nixon on one occasion - by perfor...
Benjamin Butler & Abraham L...
Benjamin "Beast" Butler was not noted for his tact. He once told Abraham Lincoln...
Close Election
"Julian Amery, who contested Preston North as a Tory at the last election, knows...
David Blunkett: Political M...
In December 2003, David Blunkett appeared as a contestant on a special celebrity...
Sandra Day O'Connor: Suprem...
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case involving gerrymander...
Wesley Clark: Clark Bars
"Yesterday, former governor Wesley Clark announced he was running for president,...
James Brown: Secretary of Soul
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell once joking appointed James Brown (a man wi...
Earl Long: Political Insanity
"[Three-time Louisiana governor] Earl Long's behavior was not inconsistent with ...
Harold Wilson: Soccer & Pol...
"Have you noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour Government?" Haro...
Alastair Campbell: Load of ...
"Alastair Campbell reserved his special contempt for the Sunday newspapers. The ...
Dolly Buster: Busted
In June 2004, porn star and would-be politician Dolly Buster, then standing as a...
Alan Keyes: Opposite of Cool
"The Republicans' new champion is the opposite of cool," The Economist de...
John Kerry: Campaign 2004
“I will be a Commander-in-Chief who will never mislead us into war [like George ...
Howard Dean: Squeaky Clean?
"[On December 19, 2003] the Boston Globe reported that Dean had
signed l...
Bruce Herschensohn: Family ...
"In the 1992 Senate race in California, Bob Mulholland, a state Democratic Party...
Horace de Vere Cole: Prankster
Horace de Vere Cole was an inveterate British prankster. Cole, who bore a striki...
Lloyd George
"Lloyd George could never keep away from the House of Commons," Lord Boothby rec...
President Quayle?
While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle was asked what he w...
Understated and Overwhelmed
In 1960, shortly after he was recruited by Bobby Kennedy to join JFK's White Hou...
Ship of Fools?
In 1975, while serving as President Gerald Ford's campaign manager, Rogers Morto...
Political Stew
In December 2001, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tried to block the pl...
Johnny on the Spot
In 1868, impeachment proccedings were initiated against President Andrew Johnson...
Irish Treaty
In 1921, during the historic negotiations over the Irish question, F. E. Smith -...
Silly Dick
"Francis Hope's mother once had a dream about [British Labour politician] Richar...
Trumpington of Sandwich
During a debate on a proposed amendment to the Social Security Bill in July 1986...
Arkansas Justice
On April 10th, 2003, Orrin Hatch, the new chairman of the Judiciary Committee, c...
Backbencher
"Sir Waldron Smithers, who sat for Chislehurst, was an extreme Tory out of a van...
Truth in Advertising
In 1982, the Republicans ran an ad boasting that President Ronald Reagan had pro...
Falacious Allegation
Like Richard Nixon (whose legendary Checkers speech - in which he admitted that ...
Spanish Politics
José María Aznar and his conservative government were elected in 1996 after 13 y...
Young Nathan Phillips
As an adolescent in Cornwall, Ontario, future Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips ofte...
Bam!
While crime is, admittedly, always a key election issue, Dan Quayle drew an unus...
Wily Bloomberg
Despite a lifelong allegiance to the Democratic party, billionaire businessman M...
House Listener
"In his fundraising speeches nowadays, Hastert [Republican Speaker of the House ...
Damned Lies?
While preparing a speech one day, Franklin Roosevelt asked his economic advisers...
No Nonsense Mayor
Shortly after the attacks on New York's world trade center on September 11th, 20...
Where’s My Pa?
During the 1884 presidential election, supporters of the Republican candidate, J...
Political Wisdom
A nobleman once tried to persuade the famed stage actor David Garrick to announc...
USA
Alexander Hamilton, the leader of the Federalist party, would have given little ...
Damn
In 1886, the Scottish writer Robert Bontine Conninghame Graham won a seat in the...
Ford & Nixon
President Gerald Ford was no fan of Richard "I Am Not a Crook" Nixon. Among Ford...
Fine Actors
"It's not the government's job to make movies," legendary Canadian director Norm...
Prime Ministers
Shortly after becoming Prime Minister of Poland in 1919, the great pianist Ignac...
Common Platform
Stanley Baldwin once found himself standing beside Winston Churchill (with whom ...
Checkered History
"The first major attack on Nixon's integrity came in 1952 when there were some u...
Nixon's Promise
In 1954, Richard Nixon, then Vice President of the United States, wrote a note t...
Sacrificial Wolf
In 1946, California Republicans, seeking a sacrificial lamb to run in the state'...
Garfield's Election
Though James A. Garfield was nominated for President at the Republican conventio...
Patton Blooper
In 1945, shortly after the Allied victory in World War II, General George Patton...
Rather Unlikely
In April 2001, Dan Rather was forced to apologize after speaking at a Democratic...
Mary Carey!
One day during the 2003 California gubernatorial election, two of the candidates...
Pardon!?
"The biggest and most difficult decision in my life was the Nixon pardon," Geral...
Gerrymander
Between 1979 and 2003, Charlie Stenholm was the congressman for a sprawling dist...
Lazy Zizek
In Slovenia's first democratic elections (in 1990), Slovenian philosopher Slavoj...
Wolfgang Poeltl: Callcentre...
Among the candidates in Austria's 2004 presidential election were foreign minist...
Howard Dean, Technophile
After predicting that he would finish "dead last in fund-raising" during the 200...
Charles Kennedy: Draft Mani...
In the run-up to the election in 2004, Labour and Conservative members of the We...
Willie Nelson & Dennis Kuci...
Willie Nelson was among those who endorsed Dennis Kucinich for president in 2004...
José María Aznar: Malicious...
On the eve of the Spanish election in 2004, a group of terrorists bombed several...
Robert Glenn Ketchum: Primeval
"The Smithsonian gets about two-thirds of its budget from the federal government...
Pete Coors: Fratboy Senator?
“I don't need this job,” Pete Coors remarked of his bid to become Colorado's jun...
Al Gore: Biggest Mistake
"He is extremely reluctant to admit a mistake, even a small one," ...
Howard Stern: Hard Bargain
In July 2003, Howard Stern offered to support Arnold Schwarzenegger in his race ...
Waffler
Little love was lost between David Lloyd George and Sir John Simon. "The Right H...
Optimist
"Recently I heard two men at the National Theatre discussing a forthcoming play ...
Roman Senate
Julius Caesar's decision to increase the number of seats in the senate caused co...
Franken at the Kennedy School
Al Franken was no fan of Katherine Harris, the Republican Florida judge whose ru...
Tito
In 2002, a student-led Serbian political movement (Otpor, or Resistance) propose...
Political Convert
In September 2001, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Ray Warren, considering a...
New York Times
As the Democratic candidate in the 1960 presidential election, JFK was surprised...
Perfect Politician
"Politicians," billionaire merchant banker Sir James Goldsmith once declared, "a...
Catch-22
The coronation of William of Orange (after the flight of James II in 1689) was i...
Alexander Mackenzie & the Q...
Canadian prime minister Alexander Mackenzie (who once told Benjamin Disraeli tha...
W
In March 2001, Al Gore met with George W. Bush and a number of his aides to disc...
Schwarzenegger Marriage
Arnold Schwarzenegger once explained that it was its no-nonsense work ethic (peo...
Statutory Woman
"Ted Heath's first task after the 1966 election defeat was to form a shadow cabi...
Bay of Pigs?
After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the American people rallied around their president...
Temple Slogan
In the late 1960s, Shirley Temple ran for office in California. Her supporters d...
1953
During the first televised Academy Awards ceremony in 1953, Bob Hope, the progra...
Frankly Speaking
Bill Clinton once recalled delivering a State of the Union address without the c...
Stevenson Wit
Some time after his second loss to Dwight Eisenhower (in the 1956 presidential e...
Macapagal
One day toward the end of his life, Diosdado Macapagal (the former President of ...
Bonar Law
"The glamour went out of politics," John Buchan remarked when Bonar Law succeede...
Yahooligan
"At a political meeting at Wavertree, Randolph Churchill was haranguing his audi...
Carnations
"On the occasion of an important debate ambassadors packed the Distinguished Vis...
Classic Eisenhower
Before embarking on a political career, Dwight Eisenhower was courted by both ma...
Clinton & Thurmond
New York Senator Hillary Clinton was once asked about her antipathy to human clo...
Classic Pataki
"In 2002, a gubernatorial-election year, [Governor of New York George Pataki] cr...
Conrad Black & the National...
Canadian press baron Conrad Black was no great fan of the welfare state. At a pa...
Sharpton & Dean
While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2003, Al Sharpto...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and A...
In a debate one day during the 2003 California gubernatorial election race, Arno...
President Tatu?
In December 2003, Russian pop stars Yulia Volkova, 18, and Lena Katina, 19 (of T...
Howard Dean: Please...
Howard Dean took an early lead in the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination ra...
Charles Barkley & Dennis Ku...
While attending an NBA game in February 2004, Charles Barkley spotted a man wear...
Thom Yorke: American Sitcom
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke was once asked why British sitcoms are so lame. "W...
Classic Auden
"Auden, sitting at the head of the table, would preface a meal by saying, 'We've...
Bill Richardson: Meet & Greet
"New Mexican politics is still about jobs, contracts and personal loyalty, not i...
Studio Politics
Universal Studios president Ron Meyer was once asked about rumors that Stacey Sn...
Alice Cooper: Talking Politics
“When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my r...
Chris Who?
"Officials in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik... had decided to honour the former...
Zell Miller
In September 2004, Democratic Senator (and Bush supporter) Zell Miller delivered...
Welcome to Washington
Following Barack Obama's election to the U.S. Senate (for Illinois) in 2004, Ari...
Rahm Emanuel: Payback
Rahm Emanuel was once annoyed by a political consultant. Emanuel's response? He ...
Dick Cheney: Hair
During his speech accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination before t...
Constituty
In 2003, the futurist Jason Tester unveiled a curious prototype program designed...
Shaky Platform
"Tony Benn, a former minister whose views placed him somewhere over the edge of ...
Unruly Convention
The 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach was so unruly and disorga...
Sandwich Candidate
A delegation called upon Abraham Lincoln one day to ask that the commissionershi...
Megawati
In March 2001, Indonesian vice president Megawati Sukarnoputri, claimed that Pre...
The Great Sasuke
After winning a local election in 2003, Masanori Murakawa (better known as a wre...
Rats
While campaigning during the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush - appear...
Limbaugh
Roger Ailes once asked famed radio host Rush Limbaugh when he planned to run for...
Slim Dusty
In June 2002, the government of New South Wales, Australia announcement plans to...
Maiden Speech
In 1935, A. P. Herbert was elected to serve as one of the two members of Parliam...
President Greeley
In 1872, Horace Greeley (the founder of the New York Tribune) ran for Pre...
Campaign Manager
"A revealing scene took place in a Mainz cellar some years ago when Helmut Kohl ...
Ron Davies's Moment of Madness
On October 27, 1998, Welsh MP Ron Davies had a "moment of madness" on Clapham Co...
Tearaway Tongue
"Poor Steven Norris; once you've got a reputation for a tearaway tongue, it's ha...
Nicolson's Mother
In February 1948, Harold Nicolson stood (unsuccessfully) in the Croydon by-elect...
Political Cat Fight
During the 2003 Ontario provincial elections, Progressive Conservative premier E...
Eugene McCarthy: Spurned at...
"In 1964 [Eugene McCarthy] allowed himself to be the fall guy in a game of 'Bach...
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