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Piece of the Past Even before Jr & Roger were out pissing around in the backyards! President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a Scottish Terrier Named Fala! One of the most famous presidential pets, Fala captured the attention of the public in the United States and was taken everywhere by Roosevelt, becoming part of his public image. Given to the Roosevelts by a cousin, Fala knew how to perform tricks; his White House antics were widely covered in the media and often referenced both by Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. Fala survived Roosevelt by seven years and was buried near him. Fala also made the Scottish Terriers a part of home decorating motifs. These are my grandma's Salt & pepper shakers from her kitchen stove. The how and when she got them I don't know but I have cleaned them up. I repainted the caps intending to refill them to use by my stove. |
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19/11/2017 4:43 pm |
Just one of my projects today.
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19/11/2017 4:45 pm |
As a puppy, Fala was given obedience training by Suckley, who taught him to sit, roll over, and jump.
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19/11/2017 4:51 pm |
On September 23, 1944, Roosevelt opened the 1944 presidential campaign in Washington, D.C., speaking at a dinner with the International Teamsters Union. The half-hour speech was also broadcast on all U.S. radio networks. In the speech, Roosevelt attacked Republican opponents in Congress and detailed their attacks on him. Late in the speech, Roosevelt addressed Republican charges that he had accidentally left Fala behind on the Aleutian Islands while on tour there and had sent a U.S. Navy destroyer to retrieve him at an exorbitant cost to the taxpayers: These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family don't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and 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. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself ... But I think I have a right to resent, to object, to libelous statements about my dog. The idea of turning the Republican charges into a joke was that of Orson Welles. Campaigning extensively for Roosevelt, Welles occasionally sent him ideas and phrases that were sometimes incorporated into what Welles characterized as "less important speeches." One of these was the "Fala speech". Welles ad-libbed the Fala joke for the president, who was so delighted that he had a final version written into the speech by his staff. After the broadcast Roosevelt asked Welles, "How did I do? Was my timing right?" "The audience went wild, laughing and cheering and calling for more," wrote historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. "And the laughter carried beyond the banquet hall; it reverberated in living rooms and kitchens throughout the country, where people were listening to the speech on their radios. The Fala bit was so funny, one reporter observed, that 'even the stoniest of Republican faces cracked a smile.'"
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19/11/2017 4:52 pm |
President Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945. In the minutes after his death, Fala behaved very strangely. FDR biographer Jim Bishop wrote about the death scene: "… a snapping, snarling series of barks was heard. No one had paid any attention to Fala. He had been dozing in a corner of the room. For a reason beyond understanding, he ran directly for the front screen door and bashed his black head against it. The screen broke and he crawled through and ran snapping and barking up into the hills. There, Secret Service men could see him, standing alone, unmoving, on an eminence. This led to the quiet question: 'Do dogs really know?'"
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19/11/2017 7:34 pm |
360 VIEWS and no one can be bothered to comment? What the fuck is the problem? Why the fuck should I spend my time putting blogs together? !!!!!!!!!
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Just read your blog; I don't log in everyday or even every other day. Loved the story. Maybe people are afraid of the picture with the yougsters
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19/11/2017 8:32 pm |
My friend Alex was here for Labor Day. He has infrared filters on his camera. Before They arrived our old Lab, Spade, was in such pain from cancer we had to have him put to sleep. Alex took a picture up the stairs and there looking down is Spade looking down the stairs at us.
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19/11/2017 8:36 pm |
Just read your blog; I don't log in everyday or even every other day. Loved the story. Maybe people are afraid of the picture with the yougsters
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This is a very insightful post, Bret. Thank you. Hearing about infrared Spade is spooky, but understandable by those who really know dogs. Now, just where in hell did you get that picture of me peeing in the woods?
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19/11/2017 9:22 pm |
This is a very insightful post, Bret. Thank you. Hearing about infrared Spade is spooky, but understandable by those who really know dogs. Now, just where in hell did you get that picture of me peeing in the woods?
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I don't recall anything like that unless it was haphazardly taken at a nearby golf course were many such similar type of woodlands and creek beds exists. I loved to wander often into those types of parks and golf places frequently as a lover of nature when I was young with my brother ,collecting rocks ,hunting butterflies or a funky mushroom to display and golf balls of course ,lol
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20/11/2017 12:37 am |
I don't recall anything like that unless it was haphazardly taken at a nearby golf course were many such similar type of woodlands and creek beds exists. I loved to wander often into those types of parks and golf places frequently as a lover of nature when I was young with my brother ,collecting rocks ,hunting butterflies or a funky mushroom to display and golf balls of course ,lol
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Guess the kgb thought I was cute ,lol
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20/11/2017 4:46 am |
Guess the kgb thought I was cute ,lol
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20/11/2017 12:50 pm |
done it many times... Never quite grasped the difference between doing it out at grandma's and in town at our place.
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20/11/2017 4:45 pm |
What was old is new again - good job.
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20/11/2017 6:15 pm |
What was old is new again - good job.
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