[Ads-l] Quote: Politicians, like diapers, should be changed regularly (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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_Columbus [OH] Dispatch_ 23 Oct 1943 p 6 col 2

"[John] Wayne plays a cowboy whose theory is that women, like socks, should be changed often."

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> Historian Ron Chernow addressed the White House Correspondents Association dinner back on Saturday April 29, 2019, and he referred to
> the saying in the subject line.
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> Barry Popik and I have entries about this quip on our websites (and I started a mailing-list thread on the topic back in 2018). The words are
> often incorrectly ascribed to Mark Twain.
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> Now the website entries have been updated with newly discovered illuminating citations.
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> Politicians Are Like Diapers. They Should Be Changed Regularly https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/17/diaper/
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> “Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason”
> http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/politicians_and_diapers_should_both_be_changed_regularly_and_for_the_sa
> me_r
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> An interesting precursor in 1952 used "socks" instead of "diapers".
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> [ref]1952 September 10, Boston Traveler, (Letter to the editor from John Q. of Roslindale), Letter title: No Re-Elections, Quote Page 26,
> Column 5, Boston, Massachusetts. (GenealogyBank) [/ref]
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> [Begin excerpt]
> If a politician needs to hold office but six years to get a pension let's all go to the polls and see that he doesn’t hold office that long. Office
> holders, like socks, should be changed often and for very much the same reason.
> [End excerpt]
> 
> Garson
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:38 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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