"New York Rangers" naming mystery (1926)

[Grant Barrett]

Flattery! I don't require that kind of overt manipulation to help out.

The first cite is the same one as in HDAS:

1989 CBS This Morning CBS-TV (Jan. 17): Real Texans do not describe
trouble as “deep doodoo.”

If you can find the transcript of the speech where Bush said it, you
can beat that citation by at least a day.

Grant

On Dec 1, 2004, at 17:35, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> Can someone on this list, or Grant Barrett himself, please tell me
> what is
> the earliest citation in his excellent book, Hatchet jobs and hardball
> :
> the Oxford dictionary of American political slang, for the term "deep
> doo
> doo" as used by George H. W. Bush?  I own the ODAPS, but am at home now
> while my copy is in my office.