SLOWLY LOOSING
Lunch Poems again? O'Hara, like Truman,
coming back for more. President Harry S.,
that was - and the 'S' stood really for nothing
at all. Did you know that? His political publicist
told him it would look better, when running, if he
showed a middle initial. That was in Missouri, with
the Pendergast machine - the local political cronies
who set him up. From haberdasher to an accidental
presidency - and, to boot - the one who gets to
drop the bomb. How's that for fate setting you up?
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, one-two-three. And then there
was Dewey, the erstwhile opponent in 1948. Of whom
it was said (both short men), 'he looks like the guy
on top of a wedding cake that you see, that little
statuette of bride and groom.' How can anyone
ever live that down. How can anyone, indeed?
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