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3.14.08 @ 12:01AM

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MAX SAID NO
Re: Diane Smith's letters (under "Emperor Concerto" and "Big Mama State") in Reader Mail's Decadence and Decay:

Might I mention a minor quibble with the note from Diane Smith regarding Eliot Spitzer and his "Stand by your man" wife. Diane opines that it started with a certain Senator, Gary Hartepence. Might I suggest that Wilber Mills had his wife by his side when he apologized for getting caught in the Capitol reflecting pool with a certain Miss Fannie Foxx. That predates Gary Hartpence by a considerable period.

Now it might be a bit more debatable whether the studied ignorance and/or indifference of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mamie Eisenhower qualify in this context. Course I have always said that, if I was married to Eleanor Roosevelt, I, too, would have had a mistress. The same might apply in the case of the Clintons, but I am not sure which to feel sorry for, him or her.
-- Ken Shreve

With regard to Diane Smith's use of Where the Wild Things Are to conclude her excellent letter, I wonder if she would accept the following:

State of California to homeschoolers: "Oh please don't go! We'll eat you up, we love you so! But (Max) said NO!"
-- James Noble

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