George H.W. Bush, Language Guy

Reading and listening to coverage of the death of George Bush, my thoughts turned, naturally, to his use of language. Most notably, for a one-term president, he was responsible for (I would say) far more than the average number of memorable turns of phrase, starting with the one from his unsuccessful 1980 campaign that you can hear in the clip at the top of this post: calling Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down ideas “voodoo economic policy.” (It’s now more frequently rendered as “voodoo economics.”) ...