Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Brazell, Karen (September 23, 2010), Photo: FDR defends Fala, PBS, The Daily Need, Retrieved on 2011-01-11Source Material [www.pbs.org]
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11 JAN 2011
FDR Defends His Dog
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back ... 1 
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notesSomething to consider in the history of heated political rhetoric is this passage by FDR in 1944, which invokes some of the heated silliness we tend to think only applies to our modern political culture.
