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From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre)
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Subject: Re: If this isn't true, it should be
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 19:11:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 19:11:22 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!"

That ain't the ending I heard.  After Mamie complains to the captain, the
captain goes to the sergeant and chews him out.  The sergeant then goes
back to Mamie and says "I'm sorry about what I said before, I ment to
say 'I don't eat that kind of shit, m'am'".