Curious Compound Adjective<\/b><\/p>\n
While pursuing a story about equivocation in high office, I was told, \u201cHe gave an if-by-whiskey speech.\u201d My source, asked about his curious compound adjective, said he thought it was a Florida political expression possibly borrowed from a Minnesota Congressman. That triggered a call to Richard B. Stone, now a Washington banker, but a former U.S. Senator from Florida familiar with that state\u2019s political patois. He immediately recognized the phrase, meaning \u201ccalculated ambivalence,\u201d and provided the following anecdote: Fuller Warren, Florida\u2019s governor in the \u201950s, was running for office in a year that counties were voting their local option on permitting the sale of liquor.<\/p>\n
Asked for his position on wet-versus-dry, he would say: \u201cIf by whiskey you mean the water of life that cheers men\u2019s souls, that smoothes out the tensions of the day, that gives gentle perspective to one\u2019s view of life, then put my name on the list of the fervent wets. But if by whiskey you mean the devil\u2019s brew that rends families, destroys careers and ruins one\u2019s ability to work, then count me in the ranks of the dries.<\/p>\n
William Safire in New York Times Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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