“I have sometimes said that flattery is all right,
Mr. President, if you don't inhale it.” —Opening sentence of American
politician Adlai Stevenson Jr.'s first appearance as the American Ambassador to
the UN, February 1, 1961, in Looking Outward: Years of Crisis at The United Nations (1963)
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