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From: phil@unisoft.UUCP
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Subject: Re: FDR
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 13:36:33 EDT
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>> Yeah, and he also gave half of Europe to Stalin.  The '30's were the
>> era of the dictator: Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany, Stalin in
>> Russia, and FDR in the U.S.  But then, it was probably inevitable.
>> Now, if FDR hadn't died in office, would he have gone for a 5th term?
>>     Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihu1g!fish

(Ah, well, net.flame is for things that make fellow humanoids gibber!)

I agree, although FDR was certainly a benevolent dictator (well, maybe,
who (organization .vs. lone individual), killed Huey Long?). A better
one, that generally makes 9 out of 10 people gibber and foam at the
mouth is the answer this question --

Who said (in different, more eloquent words) in effect:

    Don't ask the state what it will do for you.
    You'd (better) ask the what you can do for the state.

Most people that answer say Hitle, a few Stalin or even Lenin.
Actually, it was the all-time most personable fascist himself .....














A: John F. Kennedy. ``Ask not what your country can do for you ...''



Favorite joke in the same line was heard in 1966.

Girl says sadly ``They told me in in 1964 that if I voted
for Goldwater that in a year we'd have half-a-million ground
troops in Asia. Well, I did and they were right.''