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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,510 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 02:47 PM Nov 2018

"The children of America are not rebelling for no reason.

They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don't have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons – and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson – we raise children and send them to war.”

Eartha Kitt to Lady Bird Johnson - January 1968

Her remarks caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Kitt's career.




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