Are limericks part of Japanese Opera? Well, Sock it to Me, anyway !!{---Photo: Nixon and Elvis but nothing could out-suave the Kennedy curve
"Sock it to me?" was 1968, and I couldn't believe it! The presidential campaign between former Vice President Richard Nixon and current Vice President Hubert Humphrey was on. It would be a very close contest. And there is Nixon, the politician with the omnipresent unshaven look, the man one wouldn't "buy a used car from" on Laugh In,..."
"Perhaps when Nixon asked us to "sock it" to him, he had in mind another politician. A politician who clearly "had" it. A politician who,who along with Nixon, arrived as a member of the House of Representatives in Washington in 1946. A politician whose rise was not quite as swift as Nixon's ascent to the Senate and then the Vice Presidency. But, a politician who had it all — wealth, boyish good looks, a stunning wife, and an easy going affability which masked a powerful ambition — John F. Kennedy. JFK. Even his initials bespoke a certain dash. Kennedy was cool as upstanding Nixon knew he could never be.
Presidential press conferences are a kind of performance art. President Nixon's were formal and often contentious. Kennedy's meetings with the press were polished performances, yet natural and, it seemed, unpracticed. Twice a month or so I watched Kennedy's suave sophistication as he tossed out bon mots and facts galore. He wowed us. He was cool. But he was also hot, like a pop star."
Carlini's Comments: Business leaders can learn from historical insightsAugust 18, 2006
Match the quote with the right person
Who do you think uttered the following quotations? While some of them had a huge impact, the sources mostly are forgotten. Hopefully, your own set of biases and personal experiences won't cloud your judgment. These quotes came from BrainyQuote.com, and the answers are at the end of this column.
1 Quotation: "Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, [and] until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
Who said it? Jesse Jackson Sr.? Malcolm X? Chris Rock? Henry Ford? Martin Luther King, Jr.? Lyndon B. Johnson? Spike Lee? Jon Stewart?
2 Quotation: "I would have made a good pope."
Who said it? Jimmy Swaggart? George C. Scott? Richard M. Nixon? Mother Theresa? Martin Sheen? Charleston Heston? Oliver Stone? George Carlin?
3 Quotation: "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
Who said it? Teddy Roosevelt? Pat Buchanan? Dick Cheney? Harry S. Truman? Bill O'Reilly? Jay Leno? Al Sharpton? Clint Eastwood?
4 Quotation: “Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”
Who said it? Teddy Roosevelt? Joseph P. Kennedy? Pat Buchanan? Dick Cheney? Harry S. Truman? Bill O'Reilly? Jay Leno? Al Sharpton? Clint Eastwood?
5 Quotation: "For if we stumble and fail, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
Who said it? Albert Einstein? Andrew Jackson? Lyndon B. Johnson? George W. Bush? Henry Cabot Lodge? Rudy Giuliani? George S. Patton? Condoleezza Rice? Bill O'Reilly?
6 Quotation: "It is no use… saying, `We are doing out best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
Who said it? Rudy Giuliani? Winston Churchill? Ray Nagin? Al Sharpton? Jimmy Carter? Hillary Clinton? Patti Labelle? Douglas MacArthur? Donald Trump?
7 Quotation: "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
Who said it? Hillary Clinton? Alec Baldwin? Johnny Cochran? Johnny Cash? Frank Zappa? F. Lee Bailey? H. Ross Perot? Johnny Depp?
8 Quotation: "Better to fight for something than to live for nothing."
Who said it? Malcolm X? Lech Walesa? George S. Patton? Osama bin Laden? John Wayne? Robert E. Lee? Tony Blair? Martha Stewart?
9 Quotation: “I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.”
Who said it? Teddy Roosevelt? Joseph P. Kennedy? Pat Buchanan? Dick Cheney? Harry S. Truman? Bill O'Reilly? Jay Leno? Al Sharpton? Clint Eastwood?
10 Quotation: "…but there are advantages of being elected president. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified top secret."
Who said it? Bill Clinton? Harry Truman? George W. Bush? Jimmy Carter? Ronald Reagan? Dwight D. Eisenhower?
11 Quotation: "A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hardcore unemployed."
Who said it? Woodrow Wilson? Donald Rumsfeld? George S. Patton? Trent Lott? Donald Trump? John F. Kennedy? Richard M. Nixon? Dick Cheney? Bill O'Reilly?
12 Quotation: "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
Who said it? Ted Turner? Frank Zappa? Martha Stewart? Donald Trump? Henry Ford? Harry S. Truman? Joan Rivers? Ronald Reagan?
13 Quotation: "When they call roll in the U.S. Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer `present' or `not guilty.'"
Who said it? Newt Gingrich? Rush Limbaugh? Jon Stewart? Teddy Roosevelt? John Gotti? Dick Cheney? Jimmy Hoffa? J. Edgar Hoover?
14 Quotation: "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and white notes together."
Who said it? Steve Allen? Chuck Berry? Paul McCartney? Elton John? Richard M. Nixon? Dave Brubeck? Courtney Love? Alec Baldwin? Celine Dion?
15 Quotation: "The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."
Who said it? Ulysses S. Grant? Yasser Arafat? Grover Cleveland? George S. Patton? Nikita Khrushchev? Charles De Gaulle? Dan Rather?
16 Quotation: "A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for us all."
Who said it? John F. Kennedy? Ronald Reagan? Nikita Khrushchev? George W. Bush? Margaret Thatcher? Donald Rumsfeld? Colin Powell?
How well did you score? Here are the answers: 1Lyndon B. Johnson; 2Richard M. Nixon; 3Teddy Roosevelt; 4Joseph P. Kennedy: 5Henry Cabot Lodge; 6Winston Churchill; 7Frank Zappa; 8George S. Patton; 9Joseph P. Dennedy; 10Ronald Reagan; 11John F. Kennedy; 12Frank Zappa; 13Teddy Roosevelt; 14Richard M. Nixon ; 15Grover Cleveland; 16Margaret Thatcher.
Carlinism: As Churchill once said: "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
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Just look at those nicknames for the oldest pop culture politicians: almost like metal tags for players -- Teddy, Maggie, LBJ, Tricky Dick, Lion, FZ... huh?. mpw/pd
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