On Wed, 28 May 2003 09:41:11 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> lol... leader of the free world, but he still has to eat his 
> veggies...

Wasn't it Bush Sr. who outraged Mothers across the nation by refusing to
eat his Broccoli?
"I'm President of the United States, I'm allowed not to eat Broccoli!"

((good, leaves more for those of us who appreciate it!)) tygress

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> 
> 
> > I thought this was a stitch:
> > 
> > 
> > ====
> > The newspapers took to saying I ruled the President [FDR] with a 
> rod
> > of iron.  Nonsense.  I had an awful time getting vegetables down 
> him.
> > I've come to the conclusion men just don't like vegetables.  
> They're
> > meat eaters by nature.  There was nothing Mrs. Roosevelt liked 
> better
> > than a nicely arranged salad, but the President always looked at
> > anything with lettuce in it with a sort of martyrish eye, as if 
> he
> > knew it was good for him, but that didn't make him like it.  
> Potatoes
> > seem to be the male notion of a vegetable, even if the man is a
> > president.  So one of the hardest jobs Mrs. Roosevelt and I shared 
> was
> > trying to coax vegetables down the president of the United 
> States.
> >  
> > Henrietta Nesbitt, housekeeper for the F.D. Roosevelts, quoted in
> > Barbara Haber's "From Hardtack to Home Fries"
> > 
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> 


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But what life is without danger, really? [Jill Fredston, arctic
adventure's] father, Arthur Fredston, a courtly Manhattan attorney, was
walking near the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Her mother, Elinor Fredston, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer almost
six years ago.... So, compared with terrorism and cancer, what's an
occasional polar bear? --Michael Ryan

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