former president humor
Dec. 30th, 2024 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacI saw this on one of the tribute posts:
Carter said that his favorite cartoon from The New Yorker magazine was of a child saying “Daddy, I want to be a former President.”
That kind of reminds me:
Chief Justice William H. Taft was walking along the street one day when a little girl came up to him and said, "I know who you are!" Taft genially replied, "Who am I, then?" and the girl said, "You're the Chief Justice! But you used to be President Coolidge!"
Asked in his last years how he managed to deal with the obloquy against him, Herbert Hoover said, "I outlived the bastards."
Carter said that his favorite cartoon from The New Yorker magazine was of a child saying “Daddy, I want to be a former President.”
That kind of reminds me:
Chief Justice William H. Taft was walking along the street one day when a little girl came up to him and said, "I know who you are!" Taft genially replied, "Who am I, then?" and the girl said, "You're the Chief Justice! But you used to be President Coolidge!"
Asked in his last years how he managed to deal with the obloquy against him, Herbert Hoover said, "I outlived the bastards."
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Date: 2024-12-30 05:56 pm (UTC)Yes, I've seen multiple comments about how Carter outlived multiple of his obit writers AND Henry Kissinger. Props to that.