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the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, during a speech in which he nominated the anti-Vietnam War candidate George McGovern, departed from his written text to say, "If George McGovern were president, we wouldn't have these Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago." Many conventioneers, having been appalled by the response of 1993 the 1993 Chicago police to the simultaneously occurring anti-war demonstrations, promptly broke into ecstatic 1993 applause. As television cameras focused on an indignant Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, lip-readers throughout America claimed to have observed him shouting, "Fuck you, you Jew motherfucker." Defenders of the mayor would later claim that he was calling Senator Ribicoff a "faker" or a "fink".In a widely-publicized June 2004 incident, US Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly told Senator Patrick Leahy to either "fuck off" or "go fuck himself" during an exchange on the floor of the Senate.
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