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Susan Bodiker's avatar

A very sweet and funny interview which, unlike the first commenter, I thought made a refreshing break from everything else going on these days. PLUS, I got all the questions right. So I'm feeling quite proud of myself.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

The more things change... During that FDR-Dewey campaign in 1944, the Republicans were credibly accused of attempting to suppress the votes of those on active duty and denying that the Great Depression was, if not directly caused by, facilitated by, their party's policies. Then there were those attacks on family and disinformation as FDR noted in an after-dinner speech.

"These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or my sons. No, not content with that they now include my little dog Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family don’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent attacks…Being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out, had concocted the story that I’d left him behind on an Aleutian Island, and had sent a destroyer to find him at a cost to the taxpayer of two, or three, or eight, or twenty million dollars, his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since."

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