IVIV Golden Fang reverberations
Doug Millison
dougmillison at comcast.net
Sun Dec 6 19:57:57 CST 2009
"There were surprises galore on this imperial cruise. I’m out in China
and I stumble on the source of the wealth of FDR. I had no idea that
grandpa Delano was the opium king of China. The wealth that supported
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, came from drug dealing. I had no idea. To
continually -- as you see in the book -- come across page after after
page of things where you say, “I didn’t know that!”.... I got a degree
in history, how come we’re not taught some of these facts that are
laid on the cutting room floor?"
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