True story, though I don’t have the source handy:
Eleanor and Franklin are sitting down to lunch.
Eleanor says she just got back from the doctor.
“Did he tell you what you could do about that fat ass of yours.”
“No, my dear. Your name never came up.”
I completely agree with all criticism of Ken Burns. I was enthralled with his doc on the The Dust Bowl... granted it’s big fat old message at the end was that our dear gubmint saved us from ourselves and cured the problem and saved the farmer.
It was still an amazing show... but you have always get ready for his little agenda message at the end, which takes all he was told you in the doc, and gives you the lesson you are supposed to have learned, much as the show “60 minutes” does.
so it’s largely propaganda... I see it for what it is, and refuse to draw his conclusions.