- March 28, 2024
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Many well wishes arrived on my 91st. I try not to seem old despite the astronomical number. From Tacoma, Wash., a surprise phone call from Lil Polakoff who’s a day older than I!
• Best wishes from Betty Wilson, Sloan’s widow. He, a brilliant friend and Harvard classmate (1942) who lived in Winter Park briefly, and whose “The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit” won him much acclaim.
• The first act I would cheer in a presidential candidate is simply that he replace Obama once and for all — that would be “the” prize!
• I agree heartily with Neal Boortz who says, “Barack Obama is a Marxist/Leninist cancer in the White House. If we don’t get him out of there, he will destroy our country.”
• My mind is the plain standard model, no extra features, no frills. I am not, however, so uncaring and ignorant that I do not worry greatly about this wonderful country of ours. We seem to be pretty much in the hands of slick scoundrels these days, and coming elections offer us mostly “rather nots.” I have read about Washington, Jefferson, Madison — and later even about Eisenhower — and believe that only good guys should be in the White House and even in Congress. But somewhere somebody screwed up the works, and we have guys at the top that I wouldn’t trust out of sight under my car to grease it. I can’t find an answer that makes sense as to how this guy Obama is president of anything, as no one can locate a private job he ever held before. You surely can’t depend on politics to teach you how to be practical, honest or reliable. Running a small grocery store might do the job, but not begging the public to set you up for life in the charade called “the Presidency.”
• Newt Gingrich has a plan to protect the judiciary system. The U.S. radical progressive courts, which “create law” rather than interpret the Constitution, would get a deserved heave-ho from Newt.
• As to the U.S. military drone that fell accidentally into enemy hands, why do we not have the ability, and the will, to destroy such items from afar rather than allow others to learn our valuable secrets?
• Why do people have more difficulty getting along amicably with their own family members, than with unrelated friends?
• Lynnie Peghiny, the beautiful talented pianist in my UCF studio for many memorable years, tells me that a former student of ours won the Met Auditions here. Start well, end well…
• While the president was delivering his “Big State of the Union Speech” I imagined I was sitting on the fantail of a ship with the sailors who used to be in my division — and I imagined their remarks every time that Obama uttered another of his prevarications. Their language would have been quite accurate, and strong enough to grab your attention. But I wouldn’t repeat it to you now, as the war is over and even sailors speak politely. Suffice it to say that I think Obama is more dishonest than any other president in my lifetime, and that anyone who believes his fairy tales is a classical exponent of gullibility.
Obama’s speech itself was a campaign speech, and I suppose therefore gave him license to lie in gigantic dimensions — a waste of time, but an example of our freedom of speech.
About Roney:
Harvard’42—Distinguished Prof, Em.—UCF
2004 Fla. Alliance for the Arts award
(Assisted by beautiful wife Joy Roney)