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"Hoover sent the army, Roosevelt sent his wife." Always loved that qoute
KatieBluntly 5 months ago
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My personal hero is Mildred Elisabeth GILLARS (RIP darling!) aka "Axis Sally". My love was beautiful like Schneewittchen, intelligent, sophisticated, well educated, brave, spoke a crystal clear super perfect north american english with a sexy voice, was kindly and big-hearted. 100% american! Liked to marry her. Would have given even my life for her! This woman should have been President of the United States. GILLARS for president!!! A true Yankee Lady ... good night, girls!
SpaceCowboy641 1 year ago
My personal hero is Mildred Elisabeth GILLARS (RIP darling!) aka "Axis Sally". My love was beautiful like Schneewittchen, intelligent, sophisticated, well educated, brave, spoke a crystal clear super perfect north american english with a sexy voice, was kindly and big-hearted. 100% american! Liked to marry her. Would have given even my life for her! This woman should have been President of the United States. GILLARS for president!!! A true Yankee Lady ... good night, girls!
SpaceCowboy641 1 year ago
The punchline was not delivered. The last sentence was "and they all shouted, 'to hell with Roosevelt!' and I just couldn't shoot at a fellow Republican."
jdrub 1 year ago
I don't get this joke. (or maybe the punchline was hidden by people's laughter. But why would they laugh if the punchline was not delivered?) Can someone explain it?
a1024s 1 year ago
Eleanor's punch line was also used at the beginning of the 1963 "BIOGRAPHY" profile of her (narrated by Mike Wallace).
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
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A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns, to make this shameless callet know herself. Helen of Greece was fairer far than she, although her husband may be Menelaus; and never was Agamemnon's brother wronged by that false woman, as this president by her; she-wolf of America, but worse than wolves of America, whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth! How ill-beseeming is it in your sex to triumph, like an Amazonian trull, upon their woes whom fortune captivates! ...
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago
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But that your face is, vizard-like, unchanging, made impudent with use of evil deeds, I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush. To tell you whence you came, of whom derived, were shame enough to shame you, were you not shameless. It needs not, nor it boots you not, proud queen, unless the adage must be verified, that beggars mounted run their horse to death. It is beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God he knows, your share thereof is small:
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago
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It is virtue that doth make them most admired; the contrary doth make thee wondered at: It is government that makes them seem divine; the want thereof makes you abominable: You are as opposite to every good as the antipodes are unto us, or as the south to the septentrion. O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago
One of the greatest American women to ever live
robaralis 3 years ago 6
Just a comment, apples...Mrs. Roosevelt was very concerned about the internments. At the war's start she posed for pictures with Californians of Japanese descent to combat prejudice. However FDR was nervous about Japanese-Americans and even more concerned about political problems with prejudiced, fearful (and some downright greedy) Californians and Westerners so he ordered her not to make more of a public outcry for the national good. Later she toured internment camps.
regertz 3 years ago 2
Just read an alternative history book: 'Eleanor vs. Ike.' She becomes the Democratic nominee for President in 1952--and wins!
lincjan77 4 years ago
They don't make women like this anymore. God bless America!!!
bradmedicus 4 years ago 8
I agree. I wish she was here today to run for president instead of Clinton.
iloveram 4 years ago
unstoppable and courageous, the best first lady ever
in2themusic 4 years ago 3
great lady. Don't care what anyone says about her. She ROX!
shanno4239314 4 years ago 4
She's certainly a hero. No question about it. But her use of "jap" at the ssme time that the American Japanese were in concentration camps in California says a hell of a lot about her. She was far from perfect, and not the best first lady. The FDR admin was the classic democratic administration. Compassionate, but powerful. Overturning centuries old doctrines about the limitations of power by threatening to pack the supreme court, seek 4 terms, intern citizens... she gets some blame for it
applesforsnapples 3 years ago
History does have a way of glossing over much about it's "Heroes". So much so that many reject the notion that despite the great things they may have done, they were still human. Flaws and all.
Kipnepi 3 years ago
Except I don't think she was being derogatory by using this term, "Jap." That term dates back at least to the 1880s. It was just a shortened version of Japanese, just at "Brit" is a shortened version of British. Somehow in the years since, "Jap" has evolved into a derogatory term while "Brit" hasn't.
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago
I think you're trying to view her remarks through present-day political correctness lenses. I don't think she had any malice in the use of this term, "jap" as this term predated the attack on Pearl Harbor by decades, and continues to be used in some other English-speaking countries and is not considered derogatory. To this day, we continue to refer to British people as "Brits," but nobody takes any offense at that. Nor should they, because no offense is intended.
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago
True. But all Americans called them Japs in those days.
chrisman737 2 years ago
A fascinating lady. Thank you.
Wellworm 5 years ago 3