"slippery slope"

[Kathleen E. Miller]

At 11:27 AM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:


>I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to earlier examples of this
>use of the expression.
>
>Geoff Nunberg


Researched this for Safire 2002.

Found 1857, "Chamber's Journal," When the educated person of the middle
class is reduced to pennilessness ...what but gives him the desire to
struggle again up the slippery slope of fortune?"

You can find it on Cornell's Making of America.


Kathleen E. Miller
Research Assistant to William Safire
The New York Times