"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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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