After-Orts #98

I am a friend to neology.
     -- Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president) in a letter to John Adams (2nd US president), 1820. Quoted in Patricia T. O'Conner, Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language (p.51)

On the same page, O'Conner claims that Jefferson coined the verb "neologize", and lists the following neologisms attributed to US presidents:

George Washington (1st US president): indoors, off-duty, paroled, bakery, ravine

Jefferson: belittle, public relations, electioneering, pedicure

Adams: lengthy, bobolink, quixotic

Abraham Lincoln (16th US president): relocate, point well taken

Theodore Roosevelt (26th US president): lunatic fringe, bully pulpit

Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd US president): cheerleader

[ed.note: I have not verified all these claims of presidential neologising: I’m just quoting O’Conner. E.g., Merriam Webster says the first known use of cheerleader is 1896, when FDR was a teenager.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheerleader
Caveat lector!]

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Kamala Harris, current US vice-president, enthuses about Venn diagrams:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1590423113409626112