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Stonewall is the name of the New York Bar, where gays gathered. In June 1969, the police arranged a raid there, which ended in a fight. Protests and clashes with the police lasted several days. Over the next few weeks, several groups of activists appeared in Greenwich Willing, who managed to achieve that in several establishments in the district of homosexuals, they got the opportunity to openly demonstrate their preferences without fear of being arrested. Obama mentioned “Stonevoll” along with the town of Seneca-Falls, where in 1848 a congress of women demanded equality, and the city of Selma in Alabama, from where the three marches began in the capital of Montgomery, which became crucial events in the struggle for equal rights for the African American (1965). Three “C” this speech can be considered an intermediate happy end in the history of the American movement for civil rights.
Nevertheless, the listeners who were waiting for from Obama of purely verbal inventions remained completely disappointed. On the eve of the inauguration, the news blog of Time magazine presented something like the rating of American presidents in the number of words and expressions invented by them. It is clear that Obama could not compete with his immediate predecessor, George Bush Jr.: Bush is an indisputable record holder for the number of non-existent words used in public speeches. The collections of his pearls began to go out, even when Bush was in power, and lovers are still understanding them.
The best of the words he invented is the verb of Misundereestimate - “it is wrong to underestimate”. The former president with the prefixes, of course, went through, but over the years, the attitude to the linguistic tricks of Bush Jr. became more condescending. Now they already admit that in a sense you can’t refuse this verb: for example, if you planned to spend 30 dollars on repair, and it cost you 800, you can safely say that you are the Misunderetimated. Paul Dixon , the author of the book “Words from the White House: the words and expressions invented by the American presidents” even discovered one of Bush’s newly-Isaled, the verb Embetter (to do better)-in the Oxford dictionary with the Middle English marine, but doubted that the 43rd President of the United States took it from there. (It's funny that the structurally identical verb of Belittle (to do less) was first used by Thomas Jefferson - to the complete indignation of the British, who considered their right to linguistic innovation undeniable.)
In my personal rating, Dwight Eisenhower won: it turns out that it was he who invented the nightmare of my childhood, the expression of Mi Litary Industrial Complex (military-industrial complex), due to which, from the lessons of geography, I wanted to run closing my eyes.
Another surprise: the author of the good word “ Squaters ”, which has in my perception of undoubted perestroika coloring, was the fourth president of the United States, one of the founding fathers James Madison. In 1788, in a letter to George Washington, he complained about Squaters who occupied someone else's land in the state of Men.
The very expression “ Founding Fathers”, on the contrary, turned out to be unexpectedly fresh. It was first used by Warren Harding, whose presidency was in 1921-1923. Before that, the Framers said.
Lincoln came up with the verb to sugarcoat (embellish - dosl. "Cover with sugar"). In a message to Congress, he stated that Sugarcoated southerners of his uprising. The printing house initially refused to print this word, since it was absent in the dictionary, but Lincoln said that in the USA there would never be people who would not be clear.
And the most pretty adjective from the list is iffy (dubious quality - from the union if, “if”). It was first used by Theodor Roosevelt in a review of the art exhibition - to characterize cubist paintings. In 1913, they seemed doubtful not only to the Americans.
Obama is a very modest president. So far, he is attributed only to Snogeddon (which happened in Washington in 2010) and Sputnik Moment , that is, the moment when it should be consolidated in order not to miss technological superiority (this expression was made in the report of the Congress of the situation in the country in 2011). We can say that yesterday this same Sputnik Moment came for Obama - in a linguistic, of course, sense.