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William Safire

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William Safire
White House photo by Shealah Craighead. / Public domain · resizedfile
Safire gave Agnew "nattering nabobs of negativism" and wrote the never-delivered 1969 statement "In Event of Moon Disaster" for Nixon. He went on to a long New York Times column and On Language, so his habits as a phrase-maker can be read in public for decades after.
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