If it isn't broken. . .

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:29 pm

JPG40504 wrote:My recollection re Kruschev was "we will bury you" (or something very similar").

Yes and, as you’ve inferred, Nicky was banging the heel of his shoe on his Soviet soapbox at the time.

AIR … That scene was broadcast again and again and again for days afterward.

I also recall that as a wee American I felt the gesture made him look pretty silly and, besides, if there was any burying gonna be done it was gonna be us burying them!

I was a pretty gung ho 10 year old.

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:37 pm

davebodner wrote:No. Doesn't sound like Marx either. Well, Groucho maybe.

Khigh Dhiegh in The Manchurian Candidate maybe?

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:52 pm

Marx, Stalin, Kruschev???? Don't know the correct attribution for that quote but, it could have been uttered by any number of folks presently in DC.

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:53 pm

Gene Howe wrote:Marx, Stalin, Kruschev???? Don't know the correct attribution for that quote but, it could have been uttered by any number of folks presently in DC.

According to some reading I’ve done it could’ve been uttered by Abraham Lincoln.
He and Marx were pen pals for a spell.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:54 pm

I did not know the UN had Soviet soapboxes then!:D

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:55 pm

JPG40504 wrote:I did not know the UN had Soviet soapboxes then!:D

Then, just as now, they insisted!

rjent · Post by **rjent** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:59 pm

JPG40504 wrote:I did not know the UN had Soviet soapboxes then!:D

Sure they did ....

davebodner · Post by **davebodner** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:09 pm

idcook wrote:According to some reading I’ve done it could’ve been uttered by Abraham Lincoln.
He and Marx were pen pals for a spell.

Yeah, check it out here. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm More interesting than Karl's letter is our government's reply. My modern translation is, 'thanks a lot, but we don't want to be too closely associated with you.'

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:57 pm

I read it more as "We appreciate your point of view, and believe you mean well, but that's not how we do things here. Have a nice day!"