apocryphal quote?

[Beverly Flanigan]

James Crawford cites this story too, in his monumental history of the
controversy on English as an official language.  I'm at home and can't
recall the title, but it's easy to find.  He's a good historian of the
controversy, so I suspect he's right.

At 05:38 PM 10/23/2004 +0300, you wrote:
>"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us."
>
>I always thought that this quote was apocryphal. But in today's New York
>Times, Nicholas Kristof attributes it to Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, the first
>woman governor of Texas (see
>http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffe6.html).
>
>Kristof writes: "a Texas governor, Miriam 'Ma' Ferguson, barred the
>teaching of foreign languages about 80 years ago, saying, 'If English
>was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us.'"
>
>Is Kristof right?
>
>Paul
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