[Ads-l] "tanned, rested, and ready"

[Jonathan Lighter]

John King on CNN suggests, with a note of humor, that should Hillary
Clinton's campaign faulter, Vice President Biden is "tanned, rested, and
ready" to run for the presidency.

The phrase is often associated, perhaps erroneously, with Richard Nixon's
1968 campaign.


1910 _Detroit Free Press_ (Sept. 10) B1: With September begins the return
of the summer tourists and expatriates from seashore and mountains, from
lakes and quiet country places, tanned, rested and ready for the round of
dinners, dances and activities of the winter's whirl of gayety.

1936 _Kappa Alpha Journal_ LII 282: The boys returned from last week's
between-quarters vacation tanned, rested, and ready for a little hard work
or something.

1960 _Galveston Daily News_ (Aug. 5) 3: Eisenhower Tanned, Rested and Ready
to Return to Work.

1961 _Wall Street Journal_ (Sept. 27) 16: Monday, you're tanned, rested and
ready - for _almost_ anything your world of commerce can confront you with.

1970 _Newsweek_  [GB]: Now, on the eve of his 57th birthday, Richard Nixon
was tanned, rested and ready to leave California's sun for the snow and
subfreezing temperature of Washington.

1988 Anna Quindlen in_Plain Dealer_ (Cleveland) (Jan. 17) 2G: "Nixon," I
screamed. "Like the T-shirt says, he's tanned, rested and ready."

BTW, I hadn't realized that suntans were considered fashionable by the
"whirl of gayety" classes so early as 1910.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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