WILL ROGERS NOT IMPRESSED WITH POLITICANS
Watauga County, North Carolina (JFK+50) In Will Rogers'* column, published in the Watauga Democrat on October 8, 1925, he writes...
"I just finished hearing a Politician talk on Abraham Lincoln. When a Politician ain't talking about himself he is talking about Lincoln. Lincoln has had more public men speak of his good qualities, and fewer copy any of them, than any man America ever produced."
Rogers' closes by saying that our sixteenth president had "said more" in his two hundred word Gettysburg Address than has been said in the Nation's Capital in the last decade.
*William Penn Adair Rogers (1879-1935) was born in Oologah, Oklahoma & became a vaudeville performer, actor & humorist. His most famous saying is "I never met a man I didn't like."
JFK+50 NOTE
Watauga County, founded 1849, is located in the extremely mountainous region of western North Carolina & was named after the Watauga River. Its county seat & largest community is Boone with a population (1924) of 54,997. It is the home of Appalachian State University.
SOURCE
"Improving on History," by Will Rogers, Watauga Democrat, Watauga County, North Carolina, October 8, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
