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From: cbd@ihu1n.UUCP (Deitrick)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: If this isn't true, it should be
Message-ID: <319@ihu1n.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 09:13:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 09:13:12 1986
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Back in the early 1950's when Eisenhower was president, we were involved in
the Korean War, which was no more popular than Vietnam was some year later.
To raise the military's morale, which was very low, and to show the country's
appreciation for what they had done, the President invited a company of
combat Marines to the White House for a reception.

The Marines go to the White House in their dress uniforms, and the President's
wife, Mamie, circulates among the men engaging in small talk and offering
hors d'oevres. She walks up to one grizzled old sergeant, offers him something
from her tray of hors d'oevres, and the sergeant replies,

"No, thank you, m'am, I don't eat that kind of shit"

Well, Mamie is aghast. One simply *DOES NOT* talk to the President's wife like
that, but to avoid a scene, Mamie says nothing to the man. Instead, she finds
the company commander to tell him what happened. She takes the captain aside,
talks to him for a moment, and when he understands what his man said, the
captain gets very angry and says to Mamie,

"Well, fuck him if he doesn't like 'em! Don't give him any!"