Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 employed the slogan, “In your heart you know he’s right”.
Some Democratic opponents responded, “In your guts you know he’s nuts.”
Public fear that Goldwater was an extremist helped Lyndon Johnson defeat him that year.
Orville made the first flight in the airplane built by him and his brother Wilbur, on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The 12-horsepower biplane covered 120 feet in 12 seconds.
In 1959, Glen Raven Mills of North Carolina brought out PantiLegs, the first pantyhose. Allen Grant, president of Glen Raven, got the idea when his wife Ethel complained about the discomfort of nylon stockings and garter belts.
The city Dubuque in Iowa is named for French-Canadian Julien Dubuque, who first settled the region in 1785. The town received the name at its founding in 1833.
After escaping from slavery in 1838, the abolitionist and black leader Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-95) took the name “Douglass” from a character in Sir Walter Scott’s narrative poem The Lady of the Lake (1810).
No GM chairman ever said, “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country”. The line actually was, “What’s good for the country, is good for General Motors, and vice-versa,” and it was said by Charles Wilson, a former GM head who was at the time the secretary of defense under President Eisenhower.
In 1789, George Washington was wealthy in land but short of cash. He borrowed £600 to travel from Mount Vernon to New York City, the site of his first inauguration.