[PW] ?Galbraith quote

[S M Colowick]

New York Times, Nov. 7, 1973, "Galbraith sees resignation":

John K. Galbraith...told reporters...President Nixon would resign
because "Galbraith's Law states that anyone who says he won't resign
four times, will."

On 3/14/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, John Henderson wrote:
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> > 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
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> Here's earlier evidence.  But surely in a fanatical administration like
> the present one the number needs to be adjusted upwards.
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> The Times (London)
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> May 13, 2003, Tuesday
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> SECTION: Features; 19
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> HEADLINE: Long and short
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> John Kenneth Galbraith once coined a law that "anyone who says he won't
> resign four times, will".
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> > 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?
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> > John Henderson
> > Ithaca College Library
> > jhenderson at ithaca.edu
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