Sunday, April 12, 2015

Lest We Furr-get: 70 Years Ago Today, We Lost FDR


The word "icon" is tossed around so carelessly these days that we cats prefer to avoid it. But if any image is iconic, this one is. Taken for Life magazine on the day Franklin D. Roosevelt's body left Warm Springs, Georgia for Washington, DC, it pretty much sums up how 99 percent of the country felt at the time. Funny — after all these years, that despicable other 1 percent hasn't changed at all, has it? We cats HISS.

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