Bloviation is a style of empty, pompous, political speech that originated in Ohio and was most notably used in his successful 1920 US presidential campaign by Warren G. Harding. He subsequently described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing".[1] His opponent, William Gibbs McAdoo, compared it to "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea."[2]
- ^ Joseph R. Conlin (2009), The American Past: A Survey of American History, vol. 2, Cengage Learning, p. 629, ISBN 9780495572893
- ^ John Morello (1993), Halford Ross Ryan (ed.), The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-century American Presidents, ABC-CLIO, p. 53, ISBN 9780275940393