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To: Dilbert San Diego
It wasn't always so. Presidents were off limits. This comedy album was a big breakthrough. To be sure, they didn't make fun of Kennedy as much as admire all the little things about him in this album.

The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962, as a good-natured parody of President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of a large, well-known political family. (snip)

James Hagerty, a top executive for ABC-Paramount Records and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s former press secretary, said the proposed album would be “degrading to the presidency” and proclaimed that “every Communist country in the world would love this record.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Family_%28album%29


5 posted on 10/03/2015 10:04:09 AM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: donna
The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962,

Kennedy is having a working lunch meeting with world leaders, taking orders from each.

"Mr. Castro?"

"I'll have a cheeekon sandwich...with a LIVE cheeekon!" (at the time, Castro was known as a jungle fighter, living a very primitive existence)

"Mr. Chiang Kai-shek?"

"Turkey on rye." (IIRC)

"Would you like a little Mayo with that?"

"Please, not to mention that name! (Mao)

"Gen. de Gaulle?"

"I'll have pheasant under glass."

Gen. de Gaulle, this is a working lunch, we're having sandwiches."

"Then I'll have a Pheasant under glass SANDWICH!"

16 posted on 10/03/2015 11:51:10 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Buy stock in Bear Port-a-Potties!)
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