"presidential"

[Sam Clements]

I found a cite by Joseph Kraft in 1973, using Newspaperarchive, which said
about Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson

>>He has not looked presidential--either as an aspirant for the White House
or as a senator standing up in opposion to the White House.<<
I only just started searching.

SC
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From: "Geoffrey Nunberg" <nunberg at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: "presidential"


> I'm trying to find out when "presidential" was first used in the
> sense "having a manner or demeanor befitting a president." The