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New York Gov. David Paterson shaved his beard for a cleaner look. From Adolf’s fascist ’stache to TR’s walrus, The Daily Beast recalls the greatest mustaches in political history.
It used to be that you couldn’t trust a man without a little hair on his lip. Early in his career, Winston Churchill was told by a woman that she did not like his politics or his mustache. The future prime minister replied, “Madam, you are not likely to come in contact with either.”
Today, we’ve entered less hairy times: A clean-shaven face is now the trustworthy one. That the only mustache in the United States Senate belongs to Roland Burris is proof enough.
Just this week, the troubled New York Governor David Paterson sought to save face by losing his scruffy beard. He’s keeping a mustache, for now at least, and by doing so, enters a proud furry fraternity.
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fenngibbon
Chet Arthur didn't start the era of facial hair in the White House; Lincoln did. From Lincoln to Taft, only two presidents were clean shaven: Andrew Johnson and William McKinley.
And I seem to recall seeing pictures of John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren both sporting some mighty muttonchops.
BigSwami
Thank you Daily Beast. I have always been an enthusiast of mustache-based journalism.
bumbershoot09
Mustache memorabilia.
She had everything a man could want:muscles,mustache and a
charge account at the Oak Bar.
YARROW
I don't think anyone looks better with a mustache or beard. Only if they are covering a deformity or birthmark. Wolf Blitzer would look a lot better, clean-shaven, in my opinion. Ellen Degenres drew a masterful pic of him.
johnstafford
new yorkers of a certain age will remember a character called "uncle weatherbee" that was used on a local TV news program to illustrate the forecast; ambassador
["i'd blow up the UN if i could"] bolton, with his walrus moustache, bears an amazing resemblance to that [other] cartoonish figure!
Ritarita
Bolton looks
Like a maniac.
No one should wear a moustache
If the carpet doesn't match
The drapes.
svrdnx
okay this is completely stupid. hairless is trustworthy? Bush, Cheney, McCain, Palin, Malkin, Yoo, Rumsfeld, Hannity, Ingraham, etc, etc.
Utaneus
Malkin, as in Michelle Malkin?
BullMoose
Finally the finest Republican ever is mentioned.
T.R. "Bullmoose" Roosevelt.
We need a true man like him now to lead us, and send these wimps home. TR did what was good for the country, even if the monied interest dropped their contributions, and any chance of winning the 1912 election.
DougRyan
I have never met a guy with a mustache that I can fully trust. (nor a woman with a mustache that I can trust either.)
BasPos
With one neutral, I counted it 8 to 3, monsters to good guys. And Bolton is in the majority. He defines the antithesis of of "diplomat."
Utaneus
I love a good mustache.
briansays
Bolton photo with his 2 political mentors
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