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Page 16 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1980 Tangled tongues expose politicians United Press International WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy, addressing one of the problems of rural America in Iowa last month, promised that if elected president he would be a staunch champion of the “fam farmily.” The Massachusetts Democrat stopped, and asked somewhat plain tively, “What is there in the air out here? I did that the last time I was in Iowa, too. ” Politicians, high and low, have been plagued by twisted tongues for about as long as there have been political speeches. For example, Hubert Humphrey, as glib a speaker as the nation has produced in this century, got hopelessly tangled trying to identify the Brooklyn neighborhood called Bedford Stuyvesant during his 1968 presidential campaign. Humphrey was talking about the plight of the nation s black ghettoes, and began ticking them off: “Har lem, Watts, Hough, Styford Bed- vesant. . . Byford Stedvesant. . . oh, you know where I mean.” Gerald Ford was another politi cian who had speaking lapses. In 1976, he tried to describe Jimmy Carter’s proposals to deal with foreign affairs as a policy of “speaking softly and carrying a a fly spotter.” Ford also had a famous goof in Iowa. Speaking in Ames, the home of Iowa State University, the former president declared he was delighted to be visiting Ohio State. When the students began roaring, Ford said, “Well, you know we Michigan people have got a thing about Ohio State.” One of the most famous gaffes was committed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gave a speech in Minneapolis and declared how happy he was to be in St. Paul. Another major category of political goof is the mixed metaphor. John F. Parker, in his 1978 book on political humor, quoted an unidentified con gressman as describing a proposal as “a golden cow that wants its cake and eats it as well,” and another law maker as declaiming, “We need this bill like a horse needs a fifth wheel.” A famous story told around the ‘Black Santa’ decides to move from Arkansas United Press International LITTLE ROCK — Restaurant owner Robert “Say” McIntosh, the so-called “Black Santa” who baffled Arkansans by serving dinner to the Ku Klux Klan, says he is taking his toys, his sweet potato pie and his love for his fellow human beings to another community. “I want to motivate people,” McIntosh said in announcing his de parture. “It’s been a good learning experience here. I just want to find out more of what I can do. My whole goal here was not to profit off these people, and I didn’t.” McIntosh, 36, also known as the Sweet Potato Pie King, distributed toys at Christmas, hosted a dinner for the Ku Klux Klan and took clean liness to the limits offanaticism while preaching brotherhood and peace. McIntosh said he would visit New York, California and Dallas before deciding where to settle down. His plans for the future are uncertain, he said, but they probably will not in clude a barbecue restaurant. “I’ve done all I can do here,” he said. “I’ve touched all those I’m going to touch. ” Each Christmas, McIntosh bought toys for children, then dressed as Santa to distribute them. In recent years, he persuaded others to join in collecting toys for him to distribute. In 1976, then-Gov. David Pryor proclaimed Christmas Eve as Robert McIntosh Day in Ark ansas. But McIntosh was also active the rest of the year. In June 1979, he offered a free barbecue dinner to everyone who attended a Ku Klux Klan rally at the University of Arkan sas at Little Rock — Klansmen, anti-Klansmen, reporters, police and bystanders. He also offered Christmas dinner to Iranian students in Arkansas last year, but no one showed up. McIntosh hated litter. He used to get up at 4:30 a.m. to sweep Main Street because .the city didn’t keep it clean enough to suit him. He was the only known member of the City Beautiful Commission actually to clean up something—piling trash he collected downtown onto the steps of City Hall to make his point. He drew attention to litter on the outdoor Metrocentre Mall last year by bringing a pig, a calf and a pony onto the mall. “If we re going to keep the downtown like pigs, we might as well let pigs roam around the mall,” he said. His last clean-up project was Tuesday at the Highland Courts pub lic housing project to recognize the late Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth day, he said. 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