The Knot Unveils Annual Real Weddings Survey Results

By NY) The Niagara Falls Reporter (Niagara Falls

The Knot Unveils Annual Real Weddings Survey Results - NY) The Niagara Falls Reporter (Niagara Falls
  • Release Date: 2008-04-15
  • Genre: Reference

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OLEAN -- The late senator Adlai Stevenson, who got thundered twice in the 1950s running for the White House against World War II hero Dwight Eisenhower, may not have been as adroit a presidential candidate as Ike, but he had a quick tongue and a way of summarizing national problems since unsurpassed. Of the American people's habit of ignoring crucial national but solvable problems until they become vexing and intertwined crises, Stevenson remarked that our complacent citizens usually "can't read the writing on the wall until their backs are up against it."