FDR Fireside Chat Reference In Scott's Tower Calendar

[Richard Chonak]

Speaking of Nixonian expressions, "Let me make this clear" has returned 
in the current president's bag of rhetorical tics, so the joke needs 
little to update it.   Thanks!

--rc


On 03/16/2013 12:05 PM, Bob Nelson wrote:
> I remember there was a feature in the Radio Shack circular where the
> president of the company did a "flyer-side chat".
> One episode of All In  The Family had Archie's political polar
> opposite, Maude Findlay,
> objecting to Archie's putdown of FDR's fireside chats. "Those fireside
> chats kept this
> country informed!," she yells. "And one 'my friends' from Roosevelt
> was worth a barrelful of 'Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear's!"
>
> Archie retorts, "Oh now you're attacking my President, huh? Well let
> me tell you one
> thing about Richard E. Nixon" (sic) :)
>