1944 - Roosevelt Fala Speech, 23Sep44

1944 - Roosevelt Fala Speech, 23Sep44 MCU FDR behind NBC & CBS microphones, SOF: “These Republican leaders have not been content w/ attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. Now, not content w/ that, they now include my little dog, Fala. (laughter). Well ,of course, I don’t resent attacks, & my family don’t resent attacks - but Fala does resent attacks. (laughter) 01:11:59 “You know, Fala is Scotch; and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers, in Congress & out, had concocted a story that I’d left him behind on an Aleutian island & had sent a destroyer back to find him - at a cost to the taxpayers of two, or three, or eight, or twenty million dollars - his Scotch soul was furious! (laughter) 01:12:44 “He has not been the same dog since. (laughter) I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself - such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object, to libelous statements about my dog! (laughter) Humorous; Important Political Funny Speeches; Politics; Labor Unions; Sense of Humor; Money; Economics; NOTE: Campaign speech before International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America