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...didn't consider himself that way. Know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman first. And then a farmer. And then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you. He sold it before they found oil on it [laughter]. And then he was a grocer. But he was a great man, because he did his job and every job counts up to the hilt regardless of what happens...
...little quote in the speech last night from T.R. [Theodore Roosevelt]. As you know, I like to read books. I'm not educated, but I do read books [laughter] . . . There's another [quote] I found as I was reading my last night in the White House . . . He'd married a beautiful girl and they had a lovely daughter. And then suddenly she [Roosevelt's wife] died. This is what he wrote...
Nixon took the precaution of taping the late-morning meeting. At one point he joked: "Matter of fact, the room is not tapped, [laughter] Forgot to do that [laughter]." The President said he was "very grateful" for the support the dairymen had given him?"and I don't have to spell it out." But nothing was said at this key meeting about the $2 million pledge or any deal. Nixon praised the virtues of the rural life, lauded the sleep-inducing properties of milk, gave each man presidential cufflinks and prudently refrained from even hinting at whether...
...grubstake. This initially involves doing business with a loan shark. The pork-belly deal is delayed, so the shark sells her contract to a madam, who sells it to a couple of Mafia killers, who sell it to some cattle rustlers. As each new situation becomes increasingly preposterous, laughter is supposed to rise in proportion...
...more secular position I am forced to disagree. It's not such a myth that well over half the seats in local churches, including the one funded by the University and led by Gomes, are regularly empty during worship; or that an instructor can't arouse peals of sympathetic laughter by using the phrase. In listening to hundreds of lectures in over 40 courses this year, I found that only the subject of death rivals religion as an object of student laughter--always in response to the lecturer's deliberate nuances, of course. Very few instructors, if any, take...