Herbert Hoover is associated with this phrase but there is no evidence that he ever said it.
This was campaign hyperbole used by the Republican Committee and it was printed in several newspapers. I talked to a gentleman at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in Iowa who sent me a copy of the article that appeared in the New York World in October of 1928.
His campaign slogan was "A Chicken in Every Pot, a Car in Every Garage."
"It beats, as it sweeps, as it cleans." campaign slogan-"a chicken in every pot, two cars in every garage."
"chicken in every pot, car in every garage" was the promace...
every eye is a eye
Every garage is different
I've learned my lesson every time I fall.
He ate lots of chicken strips and French Fries every day.
no not every chicken does.
I think there is a spelling error: The "very" should be "every", so that the answer is "We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.
every chicken in a pot every car in every garage was Herbert Hoover's 1928 campaign slogan. Reagan's 1980 slogan was "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
One of the promises of Franklin Roosevelt while he was campaigning had to do with wealth and prosperity. He said everyone would have a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot
This was in a 1928 Republican National Committee advertisement supporting Herbert Hoover. They were not saying Hoover would provide the chicken, but that he would continue the policies of the previous Republican administration which had lead the nation back to prosperity and "put a chicken in every pot, and a car in every backyard, to boot."