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Here's John Bachelor.

Nattering Nabobbs of negativity.

A famous, famous line in presidential politics and Bill Whelan of the

Hoover Institution.

He's the host of Politics and Policy, the podcast, and Goodfellas,

the podcast TV show and videocast of his colleagues at Hoover. Nattering Nabob's of negativity.

Who wrote it, Bill?

And what does it represent in the history

of the Vice Presidency as well as the country?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John it was written by William Safire, who would go on to become a New York Times columnist would write wonderful books of the English language and books on great speeches.

But in the late 60s early 70s Mr. Safbar and his side

Kepep Buchanan were writing speeches for Spiro T Agnew John who was going

around the country and attacking media elites, liberal elites,

and kind of doing the dirty work for the President of the United States.

The reason why I mentioned this John was because in 1972, Richard Nixon gave that to dumping

spear and you off the ticket, but he didn't. Why? because he did not want to offend conservatives who

had concerns Mr Nixon over his China policy creating the environmental

protection agency imposing wage and price freezes around the country.

So Nixon could not really afford to dump Sparrow T

Avenue.

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