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A reporter asked a politician: “Do you feel that you have greatly influenced public opinion sir?” “No,” he answered. “Public opinion is something like a mule I once owned. In order to keep up the appearance of being the driver, I had to watch the way the mule was going and follow closely.”
And:
The teacher dreamed he was teaching his class. He woke up and he was.
I finished high school in 1941 when the war in Europe was going on in all of its terrible aspects. Daddy loved FDR. He felt he saved the country in the Depression and in World War II. He’d listen to Roosevelt and news such as the Battle of Britain from announcers such as Gabriel Heater, Edward R. Morrow and Walter Cronkite. We’d also see Fox Movie Tone News while going to movies, spectacles such as the bombing of London.
It looked like the United States was going get involved so Dad and I agreed that I’d go to summer school at Alabama and get as much education as possible before the war
