Grand Old Party
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Are any of you from the Grand Old Party still out there?
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2018
In Richard Nixon's 1964 presidential campaign, the GOP was used briefly as the basis for the slogan the "Go-Party", but by the late 1970s it had become firmly associated with the term Grand Old Party.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2016
In the aftermath, Reagan himself declared that the race had turned the Grand Old Party of “pale pastels” into a national party of “bold colors.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 2016
Yet former senator Bob Dole, the grand old man of the Grand Old Party, told the New York Times that Mr. Trump has “got the right personality” for the presidency.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2016
Other candidates were being scratched for reasons as flimsy, and our Grand Old Man was getting disgusted with the Grand Old Party, as represented at that meeting.
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
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