lol... leader of the free world, but he still has to eat his veggies...



> I thought this was a stitch:
> 
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> 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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