Maggie's Farm

Wife, I think you can appreciate this one on several levels:

I was at a conference for History professors a few years ago. The facilitator told us to go around the room and tell the group a little about ourselves. One of the questions was which historical figure you would most like to be and why.

I said Teddy Roosevelt because he so epitomized his country and era both then and now. I figured who could not like Teddy? The Panama Canal. National Parks. He invited Booker T. Washington to dine in the Whitehouse as a guest.

Well the majority of the attendees were women and a large share were minorities. They cared a lot more about the Brownsville affair than the good he did.

You can tell a lot about someone by his enemies.