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Slip of the tongue politics shake careers across administrations
The piece catalogs gaffes by leaders from Lott to Bush and Clinton, noting how racial and ethnic slurs and off mic remarks cost officials or political standing. It cites Agnew Quayle Jackson Perot Gore and others, with expert comments on why public figures stumble and face fallout. It also mentions international examples and highlights Tom Baum of AP.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Trent Lott
Senate
Ford Administration
Earl Butz
Reagan
James Watt
Spiro Agnew
Dan Quayle
Jesse Jackson
Ross Perot
Bush
Clinton
al Gore
Treasury
Paul O’neill
Wall Street
Lott
Wayne Fields
Washington University
St. Louis
Hillary Clinton
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Gore
Tipper
Monica Lewinsky
House
University of Virginia
Larry Sabato
Naperville
Ill
New York Times
Dick Cheney
Cheney
New York
Hymietown
Agnew
Polacks
Quayle
NAACP
James Thurber
American University
Jean Chretien
Francoise Ducros
Germany
Herta Daeubler-Gmelin
Hitler