[PW] ?Galbraith quote

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, John Henderson wrote:

> The Galbraith Score has recently appeared among the blogs in light of
> speculation whether or not Attorney General Gonzales will resign. It
> is based on a supposed quotation of John Kenneth Galbraith: “Anyone
> who says four times that he won’t resign, will” I can't find the
> quote in any of our favorite quotation books, and the earliest I can
> find it online is only as far back as December 2004 in

Here's earlier evidence.  But surely in a fanatical administration like 
the present one the number needs to be adjusted upwards.

Fred


The Times (London)

May 13, 2003, Tuesday

SECTION: Features; 19

LENGTH: 643 words

HEADLINE: Long and short

BODY:
John Kenneth Galbraith once coined a law that "anyone who says he won't 
resign four times, will".









































> crookedtimber.org where the blogger passes on "a fantastic old quote
> from JK Galbraith." It does not show up in jstor, lexis-nexis, or
> GoogleBooks. Can any of you authenticate it?
>
> John Henderson
> Ithaca College Library
> jhenderson at ithaca.edu
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