Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 26: Line in the Sand

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:18 PM -0500 12/26/06, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>The Texas-averse YBQ should have pointed out that this is a famous Texan
>saying that President Bush surely borrowed from the Alamo.
>...
And from the now late President Ford, do we have "Our long national
nightmare is over"?  Anything else from him, other than (indirectly)
"walk and chew gum at the same time" (which I assume is *not* to be
credited to Chevy Chase)?

LH

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