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77. Another Adlai zinger

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 11:27 AM

Dec 2018

He had so many, but during the '56 election, he walks into a church, and there's silence. Adlai asks the man in charge what's up. "We've been instructed by Normal Vincent Peale to support Eisenhower" and Adlai quipped (so fast, amazing wit)

"I find the Apostle Paul appealing, and the Apostle Peale appaling" -- got shivers just typing it!

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