[Elle Bee]

The late William Safire, once the speech writer for disgraced former US Attorney General Spiro Agnew, wrote the perfect reply in the turbulent Sixties: "In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H club -- the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history."

I always thought that was written by Pat Buchanan?

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[RedRover]

Pretty sure it was Safire, as chief speechwriter in the Nixon White House. But I’d be happy to be corrected.