Posted on 08/15/2023 11:04:37 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
Will Rogers died on August 15, 1935, in a light plane crash in Point Barrow, Alaska. He was he friend of all Presidents from Roosevelt Senior to Roosevelt Junior.
In 1926, English biographer John Carter wrote in the New York Times,: “Perhaps Will Rogers has done more to educate the American public in world affairs than all the professors who have been elucidating the continental chaos since the Treaty of Versailles.” FDR said about those views: “Will Rogers’ analysis of affairs abroad was not only more interesting but proved to be more accurate than any other I had heard.”
Damon Runyon said, “Will Rogers was America’s most complete human document. He reflected in many ways the heartbeat of America. In thought and manner of appearance and in his daily life he was probably our most typical native born, the closest living approach to what we like to call the true American.”
He was sublimely intelligent in his use of the English language. Here is some of the proof:
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
Will Rogers was a Democrat but said: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”
And: “If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.”
“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”
“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.”
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.”
God Bless Will Rogers.
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Will Rogers and Ann Shirley in Steamboat Around the Bend.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0027042/mediaviewer/rm2876795136
“Roosevelt Senior to Roosevelt Junior.”
I know what the author means, but it’s a very strange way to write it.
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