are they crazy up there?

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music CD by band called

Ten Years After.

blog called That's Why,

(Lisa G.) - Feb. 9 post.

JOHN F. KENNEDY TAPES: A "F***-up" over Furniture

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Under that title on You Tube,

a conversation between President Kennedy and an Air Force General:

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the situation was -- Mrs. Kennedy was going to have a baby soon (this is summer, 1963) -- and a room was reserved at an Air Force hospital and some folks at the hospital got carried away with the excitement and ordered in special furniture from Jordan Marsh (the department store) & some Air Force guy had his photograph taken in the room -- the picture got into the press, and the you-know-what started hitting the fan from the Oval Office --

Kennedy didn't want extra expense and special furniture and the attendant negative publicity, and he seemed offended at both the invasion of privacy & even more at the -- silliness, the triviality of personal details of the First Lady's accommodations being fussed over, exaggerated, celebrated, and put in the press.

Plus, it would look like the military's wasting money on personal stuff, & the Pentagon's budget might as well be cut, according to some in Congress --

Can't blame him.

The conversation is hilarious.

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"see that fellas picture by the bed --

and that furniture they bought from Jordan Marsh?

what the hell have they --

are they crazy up there?...

You just sank the Air Force budget!

--that silly bastard with his picture next to the bed....

Furniture back to Jordan Marsh's --

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I mean, he's a silly bastard

I wouldn't have him running a -- cathouse - !

Is he crazy too?

Christ, they're not all incompetents...

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...and all in that funny (in a good way) Boston Irish / Harvard accent which sounds terse and yet lilting at the same time -- like a jolly song, even though he's so Ticked Off. ! It's

funny...

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