词汇 | just a heartbeat away from the presidency |
词源 | just a heartbeat away from the presidency. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson coined this phrase in a campaign speech on October 23, 1952. He was referring to Republican vice presidential nominee Richard Nixon, “the young man who asks you to set him one heartbeat from the presidency of the United States.” |
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