President Carter in his fight with a “killer rabbit.” When challenged over his comments, he repeated “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.” In the words of Professor Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High Risk TV: “That was a gaffe that took him some time to recover from-mostly because he did not back away from the statement.” Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford, who succeeded Richard Nixon in 1974, made numerous gaffes and faux-pas, many of which, while making people see him as human and less |imperial than his predecessor, made others vote against him for election in 1976.Īmong his more famous examples are: On October 6, 1976, during a televised Presidential debate in the 1976 Presidential election with rival Jimmy Carter, President Ford became confused and stated that Poland and Eastern Europe were not under the domination of the Soviet Union. Problems listening to the file? See media help.Listen to President Johnson ( file info) - play in browser ( beta).
In it Johnson belches, complains about the pants riding up and cutting him “down where ya nuts hang” when he gains a little weight, like “riding a wire fence,” and asks for more material “under my back of my bunghole” that he can let out if need be. While not a gaffe in office, an embarrassingly personal tape of LBJ ordering pants from Joe Haggar on August 9, 1964, was later released to the public. Johnson was well-known for his coarse language and occasionally unrefined behavior. The action backfired spectacularly when some of the doves died in the intense heat and others, made dizzy by the heat, desperately tried to escape and dive bombed the delegates. In an effort to boost his ratings, during the Democratic National Convention the party released dozens of doves into the convention hall. Few expected him to secure election as the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1948. Truman had unexpectedly become President owing to the sudden death of longterm President Franklin D. Cummings said “The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.” Harry S.
“I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.” įollowing Harding’s death, poet E. Warren Harding’s poor grasp of the English language, coupled with his insistence on writing his own speeches, produced notorious linguistic errors.
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