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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 03
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She.sald, oh, get, thanks sor reminding ma Ho.
many people in the United States?.
I said look it up in the book. She looked and she
said one nundred and scvrnty million. She said it
would never come out even.
I said what wouldn't? She said I read - writeup
where President Roosevelt and Mrs. Rooscvelt get 30
acres to bury them together but the most of us get
about eight feet by four and sometimes two or three
Iayers deep like in the bunk-house down at the Ranch.
She said what a heck of a nerve!.
I sa!d well they never lacked nerve but what do
you csre?
Dreamle said well, if they get 15 acres each, walt
till I get a pencll, because II ererybody tries to get
the same there is not going to be enough to go around
for sraves alone, never mind rising wheats and
radishes, never mind golf and Central Park.
How many people have we got?
The book sald 170,000,000..
How many square miles? The book said three
million, but that includes Lake Michigan, Okeecho-
bee, Winnepesautee and Minnetonka. You have to
subtract lakes.
She said, well it looks like we wlll have to fight
Russia for some more land if ererybody gets the same
as those two, 15 acres apiece. If we start clobbering
each other with that Big Apple there will not be much
left to bury or anybody to bury them.
Dreamle sald, quote, how do you lke that-for
Democracy?
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