"Bring Us Together" was a political slogan popularized after the
election of Republican candidate Richard Nixon as President of the
United States in the 1968 election. The text was derived from a sign
that 13-year-old Vicki Lynne Cole stated that she had carried at Nixon's
rally in her home town of Deshler, Ohio, during the campaign. After
being told of the sign, Nixon's speechwriters, including William Safire,
began inserting the phrase into his speeches. Nixon mentioned the rally
sign in his victory speech, adopting the phrase as representing his
administration's initial goal—to reunify the bitterly divided country.
Nixon invited Cole and her family to the presidential inauguration, and
she appeared on a float in the inaugural parade (pictured). The phrase
"Bring Us Together" was used ironically by Democrats when Nixon proposed
policies with which they disagreed. In newspaper columns written in the
final years before his 2009 death, Safire expressed doubt that Cole's
sign had ever existed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_Us_Together>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed the land around
Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound>
1913:
Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United
Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by King George V's
horse at the Epsom Derby.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison>
1961:
U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita
Khrushchev held an unsuccessful summit in Vienna to discuss issues in
the countries' relationship during the Cold War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_summit>
1998:
Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in
the Oklahoma City bombing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ghrelin:
(biochemistry) A peptide hormone, secreted in the stomach when empty,
that increases appetite and secretion of growth hormone from the
pituitary gland.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghrelin>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising
the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind and heart. Taken together,
these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human
being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to
use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are
not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human
being.
--Robert Fulghum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum>