[Vigilanteman]

My grandfather has a little less jubilant reaction, but funny nevertheless. They were both rabid FDR fans for his first run in 1932. Grandma was even on the local campaign committee. After the WPA brought people to town who could do half the work of the local farm boys, things begin to turn south. By the time his third term campaign rolled around in 1940, they'd gone completely sour.

Shortly after FDR's death, a woman accosted him in the post office and declared "Wouldn't you say he died for his country every bit as much as out boys in uniform?"

Grandpa, who'd lost one son during the war and had two about to invade Okinawa (my Dad on a navy ship landing craft and my uncle as marine on a similar craft) tried to ignore her, but she persisted.

"Wouldn't you say he died for his country every bit as much as out boys in uniform?"

Grandpa finally had enough and turned to her and said "I suppose so, but he should've done it at least five years earlier!"

[dfwgator]

My grandfather has a little less jubilant reaction, but funny nevertheless. They were both rabid FDR fans for his first run in 1932. Grandma was even on the local campaign committee. After the WPA brought people to town who could do half the work of the local farm boys, things begin to turn south. By the time his third term campaign rolled around in 1940, they'd gone completely sour.

Reminds me of All In the Family, when Cousin Maude visited....

Archie Bunker: [Maude refuses to get out of Archie's chair] Well, I got the secret weapon that can lay this little lady right away. Here we go. This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Cousin Maude: You're fat.
Archie Bunker: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Edith Bunker: Archie, you promised never to say that name again in front of Maude.
Archie Bunker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Edith Bunker: [to Maude] He don't mean nothing. His whole family was for Roosevelt.
Archie Bunker: That was for two terms. But that was it. We didn't know the guy was going to hold on to the job like a Pope!