Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
The term was also used in 1967, when a New York Times editorial and Times columnist Tom Wicker used it in commenting on different events. It was also in the 1976 election, when President Gerald Ford used the phrase against his opponent Jimmy Carter.