Sunday, October 23, 2011

good talk

30 years ago this country's roads weren't clogged as they are today, there's no more highways now than then but due to immigration both legal and illegal it's hard to get around this is your faults. I went to the Mohegan Sun I had been to Foxwoods. I went to Hyde Park to see the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and stayed in a motel a quarter mile away. Hyde Park borders Poughkeepsie a nice old well-preserved city which is Bart's hometown, he was unmoved that I had been there. FDR was elected President 4 times no one else was elected more than twice, he was President when we were brought out of the Depression and when WWII was won, Caesar Chavez has a Day in some places FDR has no Day anywhere. The Museum borders the main drag and from there you walk back a ways to Springwood the Roosevelts' Family House passing Franklin's and Eleanor's graves on the right. Franklin was much the product of his steely mother Sara Delano and shared her mug, she lived to see her son paralyzed from the waist down be Inaugurated as President 3 times. Of English, French and Dutch descent Franklin (1882-1945) married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) a distant cousin whose name was this before she was married who served much as his legs during his Presidency making appearances on her husband's behalf, a supporter of Civil Rights she helped arrange for Marian Anderson to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 during WWII Eleanor went to the Pacific to encourage the troops enduring many hardships. Springwood is kept as it was when the President and Eleanor lived there and I felt very honored to be in their house. Churchill and many other dignitaries stayed at Springwood. In 1960 there were many fatalities in Professional Boxing and Eleanor was asked if she thought it should be banned (her uncle was Teddy Roosevelt who was blind in one eye during his 2nd and elected term as President due to his love of boxing) and she replied I've always thought Prizefighting to be rather a good sport.

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