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Did you know there's an American serial killer known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Butcher of Plainfield\u003c/a>, who crafted a belt made out of his victims’ nipples?! Or that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied feet keep washing ashore\u003c/a> in one area of the Pacific Northwest?? I sure didn't, and now I have to live with that knowledge for years to come. But there's one story that will stick with me forevermore, and it goes a little something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there was a German dude named Carl von Cosel. In his early childhood, he said he would regularly be visited by one of his dead ancestors, who kept showing him the face of his one true love, an exotic dark-haired woman. 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It’s the 1930s, and Carl is working as a doctor in Key West, Florida. One day at the hospital, a Cuban-American woman named Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos walks in. He immediately recognizes her as the girl from his dead ancestor visions! But, before you get too excited about this meet-cute, this story is less of a Julia Roberts rom-com and more Mandy Moore’s \u003cem>A Walk to Remember\u003c/em>. Instead of saying \"I have leukemia!\" like Mandy Moore does in that movie, Elena says, \"I have tuberculosis!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl isn't sweating it though. He believes that he can cure her by bringing weird x-ray machines to her house and basically winging it from there. In addition to his medical(-ish) help, he also gives Elena jewelry and the latest fashions, and professes his love to her. 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And he insists on an airtight casket with an incubator tank full of formaldehyde to prevent decay (hello, red flag #2!). Carl visits the mausoleum every night, where he says her spirit routinely pops up to say what's up and sing to him. Weird, right? Well, buckle up 'cause things are about to get even weirder!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous mausoleum.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One night in 1933, two years after Elena’s death, Carl sneaks into the cemetery with a toy wagon, removes her corpse from the mausoleum and wheels it on home. (Commuting sucks and long-distance relationships are hard, you guys! It makes total sense to rob the grave of a woman you barely know!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this point, our girl Elena’s body isn’t holding up too well, so Carl uses piano wire to keep her together, fits her face with glass eyes, replaces her decomposing skin with silk cloth soaked in wax, gets rid of all the maggots and uses perfumes and preserving agents to mask the smell and stop the rotting. He keeps her body in his bed. I won’t go into the ugly details, but yes, he does more than just sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881990']\u003cstrong>SEVEN LONG ASS YEARS LATER\u003c/strong>, in 1940, rumors are swirling around his odd behavior. Those who remember his frequent visits to the mausoleum wonder why he suddenly stopped coming. His neighbors find it curious that he routinely buys women's clothes and lots of perfume. And a boy claims to have seen Carl in the window dancing with what looked like a super-sized doll. Elena’s sister eventually becomes suspicious too. She marches over to his house and Carl willingly shows off Elena’s body—or what's left of it—in his bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl is quickly arrested for “wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization.” (That’s it?!) Psychiatrists examine him and declare him sane. (For real?!) 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Cool decomposing, violated corpse, huh?\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this craziness makes the headlines in Florida and—again because nothing makes any damn sense—the public is generally sympathetic to Carl and considers him a hopeless romantic who's just a wee bit eccentric. For some weird reason, a public viewing of Elena's body is held. 8,500 people line up to get a look. Local schools even let out early so kids can be scarred for life. Oh, Florida, you never disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by the public support (and maybe a loose screw or two), Carl asks if he can have Elena's body back. Thankfully, common sense prevails and his request is denied. Elena is re-buried in a secret, unmarked grave so as to avoid another toy wagon field trip. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We all have our favorite pastimes. Mine happens to be falling down internet k-holes. One minute, I'm investigating the whereabouts of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia#False_reports_of_survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia\u003c/a> and, two hours and many mouse clicks later, I'm somehow reading all about how Henry VIII had his butt wiped by people called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Groom-of-the-Stool/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grooms of Stool\u003c/a>.\" That's around the time I ask myself, \u003cem>Wait, how did I get here? What day is it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recently, my cyber explorations took a creepy turn. Did you know there's an American serial killer known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Butcher of Plainfield\u003c/a>, who crafted a belt made out of his victims’ nipples?! Or that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied feet keep washing ashore\u003c/a> in one area of the Pacific Northwest?? I sure didn't, and now I have to live with that knowledge for years to come. But there's one story that will stick with me forevermore, and it goes a little something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there was a German dude named Carl von Cosel. In his early childhood, he said he would regularly be visited by one of his dead ancestors, who kept showing him the face of his one true love, an exotic dark-haired woman. Somehow, that’s the most mundane detail of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106931\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-160x264.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-800x1320.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-768x1267.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-727x1200.jpg 727w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-240x396.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-375x619.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-520x858.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena in happier times.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to adulthood. It’s the 1930s, and Carl is working as a doctor in Key West, Florida. One day at the hospital, a Cuban-American woman named Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos walks in. He immediately recognizes her as the girl from his dead ancestor visions! But, before you get too excited about this meet-cute, this story is less of a Julia Roberts rom-com and more Mandy Moore’s \u003cem>A Walk to Remember\u003c/em>. Instead of saying \"I have leukemia!\" like Mandy Moore does in that movie, Elena says, \"I have tuberculosis!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl isn't sweating it though. He believes that he can cure her by bringing weird x-ray machines to her house and basically winging it from there. In addition to his medical(-ish) help, he also gives Elena jewelry and the latest fashions, and professes his love to her. Look up \"Doing the absolute most\" in the nearest dictionary and you'll find a handsome little photo of our friend, Carl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no record of what Elena thought of all this, but my guess is that it was something in the neighborhood of: \u003cem>Can you not? I’m trying to calmly die here.\u003c/em> Carl is essentially that guy who won't stop hitting on you at the bar, but instead of the bar, the venue is a deathbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Elena dies at the age of 22. (R.I.P. baby girl. Say hi to Aaliyah for me!) Carl, who's in his 50s by the way, is distraught. He immediately makes a death mask of her face (hello, red flag!). With permission from Elena's family, he pays for the funeral and constructs an above-ground mausoleum in the Key West Cemetery for his #1 crush (see previous \"Doing the absolute most\" dictionary entry). And he insists on an airtight casket with an incubator tank full of formaldehyde to prevent decay (hello, red flag #2!). Carl visits the mausoleum every night, where he says her spirit routinely pops up to say what's up and sing to him. Weird, right? Well, buckle up 'cause things are about to get even weirder!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous mausoleum.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One night in 1933, two years after Elena’s death, Carl sneaks into the cemetery with a toy wagon, removes her corpse from the mausoleum and wheels it on home. (Commuting sucks and long-distance relationships are hard, you guys! It makes total sense to rob the grave of a woman you barely know!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this point, our girl Elena’s body isn’t holding up too well, so Carl uses piano wire to keep her together, fits her face with glass eyes, replaces her decomposing skin with silk cloth soaked in wax, gets rid of all the maggots and uses perfumes and preserving agents to mask the smell and stop the rotting. He keeps her body in his bed. I won’t go into the ugly details, but yes, he does more than just sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SEVEN LONG ASS YEARS LATER\u003c/strong>, in 1940, rumors are swirling around his odd behavior. Those who remember his frequent visits to the mausoleum wonder why he suddenly stopped coming. His neighbors find it curious that he routinely buys women's clothes and lots of perfume. And a boy claims to have seen Carl in the window dancing with what looked like a super-sized doll. Elena’s sister eventually becomes suspicious too. She marches over to his house and Carl willingly shows off Elena’s body—or what's left of it—in his bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl is quickly arrested for “wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization.” (That’s it?!) Psychiatrists examine him and declare him sane. (For real?!) And all charges are eventually dropped because nothing makes sense in this world (*shakes fist at statutes of limitations*).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-1020x1258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-1020x1258.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-160x197.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-800x987.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-768x947.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-973x1200.jpg 973w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-1180x1456.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-960x1184.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-240x296.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-375x463.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral-520x641.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Enhanced_Cropped_Elena_Hoyos_Second_Funeral.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Hey, kids! Cool decomposing, violated corpse, huh?\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this craziness makes the headlines in Florida and—again because nothing makes any damn sense—the public is generally sympathetic to Carl and considers him a hopeless romantic who's just a wee bit eccentric. For some weird reason, a public viewing of Elena's body is held. 8,500 people line up to get a look. Local schools even let out early so kids can be scarred for life. Oh, Florida, you never disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by the public support (and maybe a loose screw or two), Carl asks if he can have Elena's body back. Thankfully, common sense prevails and his request is denied. Elena is re-buried in a secret, unmarked grave so as to avoid another toy wagon field trip. Unhappy about this, Carl sets off a bomb at the site of Elena's mausoleum as a way to show authorities what \"wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave\" really looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/download.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/download.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/download-160x109.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/download-240x163.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/download-375x255.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/download-520x353.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl holding Elena's death mask as if it's not a supremely weird thing to have.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carl goes on to live another 12 years before dying alone. In his final diary entry, he writes, \"Human jealousy has robbed me of the body of my Elena, yet divine happiness is flowing through me for she has survived death. Forever and ever, she is with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks after his death, his body is found in his apartment. A life-sized death-mask-wearing effigy of Elena is close by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to this post on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2018/06/Gyno.mp3\" title=\"The Profumo Affair\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/141/590x/Profumo-514838.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">55 years ago, it was one of the most explosive, far-reaching public scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started -- as most government sex scandals do -- with a middle-aged male politician being involved with a woman decades his junior. It ended with Russian collusion, perjury, jail, death, disgrace, and the ultimate downfall of an administration. And over half a century later, a number of elements might seem oddly… familiar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ‘Profumo Affair,’ as it would come to be known, was set in a '60s Britain that was definitely not yet “swinging.” When events began in 1961, the food rationing instigated during World War II had only finally ended seven years prior. The contraceptive pill wasn’t yet available to women around the country, and the Beatles were relative unknowns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Profumo in question was a 46-year-old married politician named John Profumo, the government’s Secretary of State for War. Despite frequent rumors about his infidelities, Profumo was an uncontroversial figure -- rich, successful -- at the very top of UK politics. Until he attended a high-class party in July 1961 at the country estate of his political pal Lord Astor -- and saw a young woman called Christine Keeler swimming naked in the pool.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103997\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103997 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2033\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1020x829.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1200x976.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1920x1561.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-520x423.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former British War State Secretary John Profumo and his wife Valerie Hobson, taken at the time when he was at the centre of a Cold War sex and spying scandal that cost him his political career. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler, who was 19 at the time, was an aspiring model, then working as a topless showgirl in a London cabaret club. The working-class Keeler was mingling with the rich and famous at Astor’s party because of her connection to another much older man there: Stephen Ward. He was a trained osteopath whose charm -- and ceaseless social-climbing -- had resulted in an impressive list of connections and clients that ranged from socialites and aristocrats to members of the UK royal family. One of his friendships in particular -- with a Russian official \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and London-based spy named Yevgeny Ivanov -- had even attracted the attention of British intelligence agency MI5.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Ward wasn’t cracking the backs of the rich and famous, or playing Russian and British spies off each other, he was hanging out in London’s club scene, where he’d first met Christine Keeler. Sensing that having a gorgeous young showgirl close to him might come in handy in his multiple endeavors of varying legality, Ward took Keeler -- plus her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, who was even younger -- under his wing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Profumo soon began a sexual relationship after their poolside meet-cute, but here let’s pause -- lest you think this is just another story about a powerful man having an affair -- and remember Russia. In 1961, the Cold War was a suffocating presence in geopolitics. Then, as now, Russian influence in domestic affairs was a terrifying prospect. In a time when the USSR was testing huge nuclear weapons, the Berlin Wall had just gone up, and the Russians were looking like they could conquer space too, it’s almost impossible to overstate the UK’s fear and apprehension over Russia’s reach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliveden House, the scene of Lord Astor's 1961 party at which Profumo first met Keeler. (\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden,_June_2005.JPG\">Daderot/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>) \u003ccite>(Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against this backdrop, the very worst person for the mistress of UK Secretary for War John Profumo to simultaneously be sleeping with would be a Russian spy. But of course, that’s exactly who she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> sleeping with: Ward’s old pal Ivanov, with all the collusion-friendly “passing state secrets during pillow-talk” potential that brought. Even though the affair between Keeler and Profumo -- which she described as \"screw of convenience\" -- wound down fast, rumors soon began swirling in London.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet despite mounting conjecture, the press wouldn’t touch the story. The Conservative government of the time had been engaged in fierce hostility with the press, and amid a string of much-reported spy scandals in early ‘60s Britain, the USSR’s blackmail of civil servant John Vassall stood out. Many of us only learned the term \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kompromat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> following allegations about Donald Trump’s 2013 visit to a Moscow hotel room, but the tactic of gathering and deploying damaging information for political benefit has been in use for decades by Russian intelligence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1962, they had successful leveraged proof of Vassall’s sexuality -- being gay was illegal until 1967 in the UK -- to pressure him into spying for them. In the fallout from the subsequent inquiry, two British journalists were jailed for protecting their sources, in a move that hugely damaged relations between the administration and a defensive media. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So even by 1963, when Christine Keeler sensed rising interest and attempted to sell her account to the press, she wasn’t successful at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103998 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-160x205.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-768x984.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1020x1306.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1920x2459.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1180x1511.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-960x1230.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-240x307.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-375x480.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler, pictured in London in 1963 in London. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story became harder to ignore, however, when a former boyfriend of Keeler’s went on trial for shooting up the house in which she was staying -- of course, Stephen Ward’s house. As speculation mounted about Profumo’s involvement in this bizarre series of events, the politician’s strategy for handling media interest in his affair was to go on the offensive, threatening to sue -- and actually suing one outlet for libel -- and discrediting the stories as what we’d now refer to as “fake news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal statement to his government that \"there was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler.\" This was, of course, the lie that would ultimately damn him, as the UK police authorities began to investigate the man whose connecting and fixing had powered this whole scandal forward: Stephen Ward. As official statements and evidence piled up, Profumo realized the game was up, confessed all, and resigned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the British press, which now included the increasingly popular medium of television, finally considered themselves unleashed, the characters of Profumo and Ward were mercilessly scrutinized, the former portrayed as duped sleaze ball, the latter as pimp and Russian colluder. Meanwhile, Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davie\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s found themselves subjected to more gendered criticism from both the press and politicians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were branded with terms like “whore,” “slut,” and “dirty little prostitute” by male politicians of the time who were incensed not just at the potential damage to national security, but by the way the scandal opened the floodgates for a glut of subsequent stories alleging misconduct and sexual impropriety among the ruling classes. Rumors of sex parties, affairs, even masked naked royals at orgies, trashed the myth of upper-class respectability, and lifted the lid on a sex-fueled world that relied on the services of men like Stephen Ward, and the bodies of working class women like Keeler and Rice-Davies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4174px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104000 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4174\" height=\"3304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg 4174w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-768x608.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1020x807.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1920x1520.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4174px) 100vw, 4174px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandy Rice-Davies, pictured in Holland in 1964. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives,)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To modern observers there might be echoes of how someone like Stormy Daniels -- another woman making her living from erotic entertainment, alleging sexual relations with a powerful man who’s denying it -- deals with her critics. In the same way, Daniels receives the words intended to silence women like her -- slut, whore -- on Twitter as her cue to speak more, not less.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stormydaniels/status/971923035153424384?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Rice-Davies simply refused to be quiet or go away. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the height of the Profumo scandal, Keeler sat for a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/christine-keeler-photograph-a-modern-icon/\"> now-iconic, much-imitated nude photo shoot,\u003c/a> in which she meets the viewer’s gaze directly, as if to say “How do you like me now?” For her part, the teenage Rice-Davies entered courtroom clap-back folklore, when asked about her alleged affair with Lord Astor (the politician, remember, who hosted that fateful 1961 party), and the fact that this powerful man almost 40 years her senior had denied everything. Her response: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” These five words have since \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRDA_(slang)\">become skeptical internet shorthand\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did this all end? With death, disgrace, and the fall of a government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Ward was put on trial on pimping charges, but on the eve of his sentencing, he was found dead of an apparently self-administered sleeping pill overdose. To this day, some suspect foul play on the part of those about whom he might have known too much. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His protégée Christine Keeler received six months of jail time for perjury during the trial of another ex-boyfriend, whom she’d claimed attacked her. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a government inquiry exonerated Profumo of inadvertently passing state secrets to the Russian authorities, but later in 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fell ill and, at least partly exhausted by this relentless scandal, resigned. The Conservative party didn’t regain power again until 1970.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1207px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104003 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1207\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM.png 1207w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-160x80.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-800x402.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-768x386.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1020x512.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1200x602.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1180x592.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-960x482.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-240x120.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-375x188.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-520x261.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1207px) 100vw, 1207px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler arriving at court in 1963. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amid all the startling parallels to modern politics and public life, there’s one final element of this story that surprises: what John Profumo did next, after being caught in one of the biggest sexual misconduct scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Months after the explosion of the #MeToo movement, we now find ourselves wondering what, if anything, we’re meant to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with an ever-growing list of disgraced men, many of whom are now actively planning their comebacks with varying degrees of humility. Total self-exile seems to be beyond most of those whose reputations now lie in tatters of their own making, yet over 50 years ago, that’s exactly what Profumo himself chose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After apologizing to the prime minister, his political party, and the general public, he became a volunteer at an East London anti-poverty charity, where he quite literally scrubbed toilets. After that first self-flagellating penance as a quasi-janitor, Profumo continued volunteering there in administrative and fundraising roles. Right up until his death at age 90 in 2006, Profumo gave not one single interview -- no mea culpa profile, no humble photo shoot. Others -- including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- spoke about him, and praised the re-dedication of his life to charity, but in a world of the swiftly-issued apology (or denial), Profumo’s own deafening silence is now almost unthinkable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re entitled to your skepticism about the low stakes inherent in a man with vast inherited wealth being able to volunteer for the rest of his life, but the fact remains: Profumo’s charity atonement took place without the “story-straightening” soul-baring interviews, or the big symbolic “welcome back” to public life, and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lasted decades, for the rest of his life. For a man who once wielded such agency, whose voice carried such weight, mute self-exile feels like the ultimate renunciation of male power. How telling that the powerful men accused of far less consensual sexual behavior, over five decades later, won’t even seem to consider the same route.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2018/06/Gyno.mp3\" title=\"The Profumo Affair\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/141/590x/Profumo-514838.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Ward wasn’t cracking the backs of the rich and famous, or playing Russian and British spies off each other, he was hanging out in London’s club scene, where he’d first met Christine Keeler. Sensing that having a gorgeous young showgirl close to him might come in handy in his multiple endeavors of varying legality, Ward took Keeler -- plus her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, who was even younger -- under his wing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Profumo soon began a sexual relationship after their poolside meet-cute, but here let’s pause -- lest you think this is just another story about a powerful man having an affair -- and remember Russia. In 1961, the Cold War was a suffocating presence in geopolitics. Then, as now, Russian influence in domestic affairs was a terrifying prospect. In a time when the USSR was testing huge nuclear weapons, the Berlin Wall had just gone up, and the Russians were looking like they could conquer space too, it’s almost impossible to overstate the UK’s fear and apprehension over Russia’s reach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliveden House, the scene of Lord Astor's 1961 party at which Profumo first met Keeler. (\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden,_June_2005.JPG\">Daderot/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>) \u003ccite>(Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against this backdrop, the very worst person for the mistress of UK Secretary for War John Profumo to simultaneously be sleeping with would be a Russian spy. But of course, that’s exactly who she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> sleeping with: Ward’s old pal Ivanov, with all the collusion-friendly “passing state secrets during pillow-talk” potential that brought. Even though the affair between Keeler and Profumo -- which she described as \"screw of convenience\" -- wound down fast, rumors soon began swirling in London.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet despite mounting conjecture, the press wouldn’t touch the story. The Conservative government of the time had been engaged in fierce hostility with the press, and amid a string of much-reported spy scandals in early ‘60s Britain, the USSR’s blackmail of civil servant John Vassall stood out. Many of us only learned the term \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kompromat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> following allegations about Donald Trump’s 2013 visit to a Moscow hotel room, but the tactic of gathering and deploying damaging information for political benefit has been in use for decades by Russian intelligence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1962, they had successful leveraged proof of Vassall’s sexuality -- being gay was illegal until 1967 in the UK -- to pressure him into spying for them. In the fallout from the subsequent inquiry, two British journalists were jailed for protecting their sources, in a move that hugely damaged relations between the administration and a defensive media. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So even by 1963, when Christine Keeler sensed rising interest and attempted to sell her account to the press, she wasn’t successful at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103998 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-160x205.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-768x984.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1020x1306.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1920x2459.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1180x1511.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-960x1230.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-240x307.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-375x480.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler, pictured in London in 1963 in London. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story became harder to ignore, however, when a former boyfriend of Keeler’s went on trial for shooting up the house in which she was staying -- of course, Stephen Ward’s house. As speculation mounted about Profumo’s involvement in this bizarre series of events, the politician’s strategy for handling media interest in his affair was to go on the offensive, threatening to sue -- and actually suing one outlet for libel -- and discrediting the stories as what we’d now refer to as “fake news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal statement to his government that \"there was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler.\" This was, of course, the lie that would ultimately damn him, as the UK police authorities began to investigate the man whose connecting and fixing had powered this whole scandal forward: Stephen Ward. As official statements and evidence piled up, Profumo realized the game was up, confessed all, and resigned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the British press, which now included the increasingly popular medium of television, finally considered themselves unleashed, the characters of Profumo and Ward were mercilessly scrutinized, the former portrayed as duped sleaze ball, the latter as pimp and Russian colluder. Meanwhile, Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davie\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s found themselves subjected to more gendered criticism from both the press and politicians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were branded with terms like “whore,” “slut,” and “dirty little prostitute” by male politicians of the time who were incensed not just at the potential damage to national security, but by the way the scandal opened the floodgates for a glut of subsequent stories alleging misconduct and sexual impropriety among the ruling classes. Rumors of sex parties, affairs, even masked naked royals at orgies, trashed the myth of upper-class respectability, and lifted the lid on a sex-fueled world that relied on the services of men like Stephen Ward, and the bodies of working class women like Keeler and Rice-Davies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4174px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104000 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4174\" height=\"3304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg 4174w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-768x608.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1020x807.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1920x1520.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4174px) 100vw, 4174px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandy Rice-Davies, pictured in Holland in 1964. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives,)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To modern observers there might be echoes of how someone like Stormy Daniels -- another woman making her living from erotic entertainment, alleging sexual relations with a powerful man who’s denying it -- deals with her critics. In the same way, Daniels receives the words intended to silence women like her -- slut, whore -- on Twitter as her cue to speak more, not less.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Her response: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” These five words have since \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRDA_(slang)\">become skeptical internet shorthand\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did this all end? With death, disgrace, and the fall of a government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Ward was put on trial on pimping charges, but on the eve of his sentencing, he was found dead of an apparently self-administered sleeping pill overdose. To this day, some suspect foul play on the part of those about whom he might have known too much. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His protégée Christine Keeler received six months of jail time for perjury during the trial of another ex-boyfriend, whom she’d claimed attacked her. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a government inquiry exonerated Profumo of inadvertently passing state secrets to the Russian authorities, but later in 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fell ill and, at least partly exhausted by this relentless scandal, resigned. 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(Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amid all the startling parallels to modern politics and public life, there’s one final element of this story that surprises: what John Profumo did next, after being caught in one of the biggest sexual misconduct scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Months after the explosion of the #MeToo movement, we now find ourselves wondering what, if anything, we’re meant to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with an ever-growing list of disgraced men, many of whom are now actively planning their comebacks with varying degrees of humility. Total self-exile seems to be beyond most of those whose reputations now lie in tatters of their own making, yet over 50 years ago, that’s exactly what Profumo himself chose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After apologizing to the prime minister, his political party, and the general public, he became a volunteer at an East London anti-poverty charity, where he quite literally scrubbed toilets. After that first self-flagellating penance as a quasi-janitor, Profumo continued volunteering there in administrative and fundraising roles. Right up until his death at age 90 in 2006, Profumo gave not one single interview -- no mea culpa profile, no humble photo shoot. Others -- including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- spoke about him, and praised the re-dedication of his life to charity, but in a world of the swiftly-issued apology (or denial), Profumo’s own deafening silence is now almost unthinkable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re entitled to your skepticism about the low stakes inherent in a man with vast inherited wealth being able to volunteer for the rest of his life, but the fact remains: Profumo’s charity atonement took place without the “story-straightening” soul-baring interviews, or the big symbolic “welcome back” to public life, and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lasted decades, for the rest of his life. For a man who once wielded such agency, whose voice carried such weight, mute self-exile feels like the ultimate renunciation of male power. How telling that the powerful men accused of far less consensual sexual behavior, over five decades later, won’t even seem to consider the same route.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Subjects in the piece included a funeral home that refused to dress a three-year-old who had died from AIDS, firemen suddenly wary of performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and a 13-year-old hemophiliac named Ryan White who was excluded from his Indiana middle school after contracting the virus from a blood transfusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’arts_13955066′]\u003cem>Time\u003c/em> reported: “The issue of whether or not AIDS can be transmitted through saliva remains medically unresolved and a focus of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth, a San Francisco resident, was acutely aware of these issues. After finding out that a friend of hers who was living with AIDs was also suffering from malnutrition, she took it upon herself to make sure he had regular meals to eat. At first, Ruth was a one-woman operation, making food in her home kitchen for seven neighbors in need, and delivering it in an old VW van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my very first experience with AIDS,” Ruth explained in short documentary, \u003cem>The Ruth Brinker Story\u003c/em>. “I was absolutely shattered to see how quickly [my friend] became unable to take care of himself. And I began worrying about all the other people in the city who I knew had AIDS and wondering how they were fending. And I just felt compelled to start a meal service for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth’s response made sense. She had long been a volunteer with Meals on Wheels and, in the mid-1980s was managing a chapter of the charity. But because recipients of Meals on Wheels were required to be over the age of 60, she knew it could not help the vast majority of AIDS patients in San Francisco. A dedicated new meal service was badly needed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.openhand.org/\">Project Open Hand\u003c/a> (POH) was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As word spread about Ruth’s good deeds, it became apparent that demand for the new service was too great for her to handle at home. After receiving a $2,000 donation from the Zen Center, Ruth found seven volunteers to assist her. A few months later, Ruth received another, much-needed, $2,000 from the Golden Gate Business Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’arts_13959726′]”I did the cooking and preparing with one hand, while doing Meals on Wheels with the other,” she told the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> in 1987. “All this takes determination and I get an enormous amount of pleasure out of it. When someone gets out of a hospital skeletal and in a few months has put his weight back on and tells you, ‘You’ve saved my life,’ it’s a good feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth continued, “We use all fresh vegetables, no processed foods. I think I’m serving some of the best food in town. It’s how we show the guys we care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Ruth’s organizational abilities and overriding sense of determination, one of the keys to the organization’s early survival was the support of LGBTQ venues and groups (including the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus) that pitched in with regular fundraisers. Often the approach to raising money was exceedingly scrappy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Nolan, POH’s executive director once told \u003cem>SF Gate\u003c/em>: “The epidemic was just raging out of control. 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Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane: these are the names that come to mind when thinking of 1967. But this is only a partial picture. What else were people jamming to during the Summer of Love? What are the songs that were popular, but didn’t become canonized in the historical counterculture narrative, and are now more or less forgotten?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to find the answer to these questions and get a fuller idea of what music in 1967 was \u003cem>really\u003c/em> like, I dove head first into the deepest, darkest parts of the Billboard chart archives. Here’s what I found:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You most likely remember the song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” which was written for Scott McKenzie by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. 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Prince. Cher. Keith? A random dude with the most generic name had a huge hit in 1967 called \"98.6\" about how much he loves the sun and his natural body temperature. It reached No. 6 on the charts. Two decades later, Keith, possibly annoyed that no one remembered his name, legally changed it to Bazza Keefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykN6Cz05bLM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know that feeling when you get out of work on a Friday afternoon and you think to the wide universe, \u003cem>Put all the liquor inside me\u003c/em>? 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The group released the song a few months after Scott McKenzie's monster smash, trying to capitalize on the let's-ditch-our-lives-and-live-it-up-in-SF movement. It was moderately popular in the UK, but had little to no crossover appeal in the States. The Flower Pot Children are considered a one-hit wonder across the pond.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/puuWsTitPa4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/puuWsTitPa4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a song is called \"I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman,\" you want answers. But you're not going to get any from this Whistling Jack Smith number, because there are no lyrics -- just passionate whistling. Despite there being no words to sing along with, the song was a big hit, reaching No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spending seven weeks on the chart. None of this makes sense, but this live performance of what can best be described as Spock's younger gay brother hopping around on a big stage emphatically whistling for several minutes makes it all worthwhile. Behold this thing of beauty:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zQQ5sEOhbjQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zQQ5sEOhbjQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A band called the Box Tops had a No. 1 hit during the summer of 1967 with a song about the power of snail mail called “The Letter.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/the-box-tops-the-letter-20110526\">According to \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “The Letter” is one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/toBl4rvTgs8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/toBl4rvTgs8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lesser-known song about correspondence that didn't make it onto \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>’s list, \"Western Union\" by the Five Americans reached No. 8 on the charts before fading away. And I’m not sure why, because it’s glorious. It’s about being broken up with via telegram, which was the '60s version of being broken up with \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8a/95/19/8a9519f71f2ddcf0413f589f0177ebbe.jpg\">via Post-it note\u003c/a> or text message. Plus, the chorus involves the band members mimicking the sound of a telegram. What else could you want?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fJMwxucTJyo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fJMwxucTJyo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone who knows me knows I love a good witch. Stevie Nicks, the girls from \u003cem>Charmed\u003c/em>, Nicole Kidman in \u003cem>Practical Magic\u003c/em>, Bette Midler in \u003cem>Hocus Pocus\u003c/em>, Lana del Rey, teenage Sabrina, the girls from \u003cem>The Craft\u003c/em>, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Professor McGonagall... I could go on. So it's no surprise that I’m in love with a song called “The Oogum Boogum Song” by Brenton Wood, which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard chart. It’s about a hot hipster witch putting a spell on him. Been there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LuWC0T3izDs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LuWC0T3izDs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking of witches, the Fifth Estate had a hit with “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” which borrows from \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> and features a cheery little whistle that makes me want to twerk for some reason (don't judge me). The song peaked at No. 11 and spent 10 weeks on the charts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gT3QhfiGxRI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gT3QhfiGxRI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>A random trend around 1967 was spoken word songs by Congressmen. Can you image Mitch McConnell talking in his native language of \u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/9q7OlUS.jpg\">Frowning Turtle\u003c/a> over a trap beat? 2017 has had so many atrocities already, that I wouldn’t even be surprised. Back in the '60s, 71-year-old Senator Everett Dirksen became the oldest person to reach the Top 40 with “Gallant Men.” The song was meant for the troops and climbed all the way up to No. 29, despite being boring as sin.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fAt1VJfEq2k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fAt1VJfEq2k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As a response to “Gallant Men,” a comedian named Bill Minkin released a cover version of “Wild Thing,” under the pseudonym Senator Bobby, in the voice of -- you guessed it -- Robert Kennedy. Despite no one asking for this, and its overall weirdness, the song reached No. 20 on the charts. Maybe the hot penny whistle lick turned people on?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bAD9QTNpbdY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bAD9QTNpbdY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we’re on the topic of songs by white dudes who can’t sing, “An Open Letter to My Teenage Son” by Victor Lundberg, a random newscaster from Grand Rapids, Michigan, became a very unlikely top 10 hit, despite the fact that the track is essentially a rambling rant about long hair, beards, glue-sniffing, whether god is dead, and George Washington. The song escalates quickly, ending with this threat:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And I will remind you that your mother will love you no matter what you do, because she is a woman\u003cbr>\nAnd I love you too, son\u003cbr>\nBut I also love our country and the principles for which we stand\u003cbr>\nAnd if you decide to burn your draft card\u003cbr>\nthen burn your birth certificate at the same time\u003cbr>\nFrom that moment on, I have no son\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ummm, okay then.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gBU6GkseD1w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gBU6GkseD1w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking of war, a band called the Royal Guardsmen had a hit with a song all about Snoopy -- yes, that Snoopy -- fighting Germans, called “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.” I've listened to this song more than a few times in an attempt to deduce why this band decided to pair a cartoon dog with a German antagonist, and all I've come up with is: ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wtJ1Gnh9wPU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wtJ1Gnh9wPU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Our culture is full of single-named legends: Madonna. Prince. Cher. Keith? A random dude with the most generic name had a huge hit in 1967 called \"98.6\" about how much he loves the sun and his natural body temperature. It reached No. 6 on the charts. Two decades later, Keith, possibly annoyed that no one remembered his name, legally changed it to Bazza Keefer.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ykN6Cz05bLM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ykN6Cz05bLM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>You know that feeling when you get out of work on a Friday afternoon and you think to the wide universe, \u003cem>Put all the liquor inside me\u003c/em>? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/05/Diesel.mp3\" title=\"Rosie vs. Elisabeth, 10 Years Later\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Certain historical events leave a mark. Some even go on to define entire generations. Where were you when JFK was shot? When Obama won the 2008 election? When Kurt Cobain died? When O.J. tried to speed away from the law in a Bronco? It makes sense why we can’t shake these moments; they changed the landscape of politics, culture, and so much more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But iconic historical moments are not all created equal. There are macro events, like the ones mentioned above, that affect a grand swath of people, and then there are smaller, less significant cultural moments that only stick in the minds of a select few. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you remember where you were on May 23, 2007? I’m guessing that’s a no. But I do. That was the day Rosie O’Donnell and former \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survivor\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contestant / conservative pundit Elisabeth Hasselbeck yelled in each other’s faces on \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The View\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, leading to the show’s first use of a split-screen, and Rosie’s premature exit from the show. Daytime TV had never been so radical or so real.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But before we get into the impact of that moment, let’s get some backstory:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-83808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-800x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-800x875.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-768x840.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-240x263.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-375x410.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-520x569.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>Rosie O’Donnell made a name for herself in movies like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A League of Their Own\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Flintstones\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sleepless in Seattle\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harriet the Spy\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But with her talk show, \u003cem>The Rosie O'Donnell Show\u003c/em>, she really shot to fame, like \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0c/b4/01/0cb401d5fea759842810918bedb2ae6b.jpg\">a koosh ball arcing into a studio audience\u003c/a>. She came to be known as the \"Queen of Nice.\" She kept conversations with her celebrity guests fun and light. Still in the closet, she played up her love of Tom Cruise. She made strangers' lives better by giving away scholarships, donations, and gifts. She sang show tunes and geeked out over Barbara Streisand. She did everything Ellen now gets to do (thanks to Rosie paving the way).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83817\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 430px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts.jpg 680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-160x153.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-240x230.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-375x359.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-520x498.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rosie Show\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ended, six seasons later in 2002, Rosie left the limelight to focus on her family. It wasn’t long before people in the industry tried to coax her back onto daytime television. She turned down all offers -- until one of her childhood idols, Barbara Walters, asked her to be the main host of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The View\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She agreed, and returned to the space that put her on the map. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the Rosie that showed up on set in 2006 was not the Rosie America had grown accustomed to. This new Rosie was an out lesbian who was no longer afraid to speak her mind on politics and everything else. Rather than keeping it cute, Rosie had found her voice and wasn’t going to give it up without a fight. After years of saying what America was ready to hear, she switched gears to what America \u003cem>needed\u003c/em> to hear.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-83821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007.jpg 315w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007-240x178.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\">\u003c/a>Her stint on \u003ci>The View\u003c/i> lasted only a year, and was filled with drama at every turn. Fox News regularly attacked her for her views on the Iraq War and President George W. Bush. This, remember, was in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/dixie.chicks.reut/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dixie Chicks being blacklisted\u003c/a> for their political opinions, which created an environment that equated criticism of Bush and his administration's policies with being anti-American or unpatriotic. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/07/politics/donald-trump-rosie-odonnell-feud/\">Donald Trump also got into the action, attacking Rosie \u003c/a>for bringing up his bankruptcies and mocking his combover, calling her \"a woman out of control\" and threatening to sue her (\"Rosie will rue the words she said. I'll most likely sue her for making those false statements -- and it'll be fun. Rosie's a loser. A real loser. I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As if that wasn't enough, Rosie had to regularly go toe-to-toe with panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who was aided by an executive producer who -- rumor has it -- fed Hasselback with Republican party talking points every morning. Every weekday, in front of millions, Elisabeth would dish out an entrée of alternative facts, and Rosie would take the bait.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The near-constant sparring resulted in numerous news cycles of Rosie being painted as the alleged bully and antagonist to Hasselbeck’s innocent-seeming, pretty, conservative Christian (one\u003c/span> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles Times \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">piece went with the headline\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-goldberg3apr03-column.html\">The 'Queen of Nice' Goes Nuts\u003c/a>\")\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The fact that Hasselbeck was pregnant for this particular season of \u003cem>The View\u003c/em> didn’t necessarily help optics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-800x909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-800x909.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-160x182.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-768x873.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-1020x1159.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-1920x2182.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-1180x1341.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-960x1091.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-240x273.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-375x426.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-520x591.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosie and Barbara in happier times. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each time some feud blossomed, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The View\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> enjoyed huge ratings, leading to a 17% increase in viewers from the previous Rosie-less season. Despite having a hit on their hands, things weren’t too joyous behind the scenes. A culture of distrust began to build; Rosie felt as though Walters, whom she thought of as a surrogate mother, didn’t have her back -- and that Walters and the show's producers were setting her up for more and more fireworks with Hasselbeck.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On May 23, 2007, everything finally boiled over. Comedian Joy Behar started a conversation about Al Gore and Jimmy Carter's belief that Bush was the country’s worst president, and listed Bush’s bad qualities (his handling of torture at Abu Ghraib; his response to Hurricane Katrina; his repeated mispronunciation of \"nuclear\"; the time he choked on a pretzel). Joy, Elisabeth, and Sherri Shepherd (a woman who, on a different episode of \u003cem>The View\u003c/em>, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkrkaH_V7fE\">the world might actually be flat\u003c/a>) got into it for several minutes, while Rosie sat quietly. Tired of having her words misconstrued by Fox News every night, she was waiting for the clock to run out on her contract in a few weeks. But she couldn’t help but say something in response to Elisabeth calling Iraqis our enemies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things quickly exploded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwoPLhJVAs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six uninterrupted minutes of an epic, messy, personal fight ensued. The curtain was pulled back to reveal not just TV personalities debating \"hot topics,\" but one human being feeling betrayed and used by someone she thought was a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment evokes and pokes holes in an idea that's been batted around a lot since the 2016 election -- that the way to heal the divisions in the country is for people from opposite ends of the political spectrum to engage in conversation. (If only liberals and conservatives had broken bread and chatted about their differences over some Budweisers, the thinking goes, then the country wouldn't have elected a man who called Mexican immigrants \"rapists,\" mocked a disabled reporter, promised to ban Muslims, and admitted to sexual assault on camera.) But no matter how good anyone's intentions may be, it can be impossible to have a productive dialogue when one person's belief system is founded in another's oppression, or argues against another's humanity and right to exist. There’s isn’t anywhere to go from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the back-and-forth, Rosie noticed that the producers had placed a split-screen between the two women so that viewers at home could watch each of their faces getting redder and angrier. The split-screen had never been used on the program before, and Rosie has said that she believes they crafted it specifically for this inevitability, which they seemed to hope would happen someday. They got their wish, and Rosie didn't return to the show the next day -- or the following day, or the one after that. A few weeks before her contract expired, Rosie quit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP-x78w48Es\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week marked that moment’s tenth anniversary. A lot has happened in the past 10 years, but has our discourse really changed that much? After a detour to the left during the oasis of Obama, we’re right back into a timeline where criticizing the President or his administration is seen as unpatriotic. These days, President Trump will tweet about any celebrity who criticizes him (Rosie is still one of his favorite targets, so much so that he randomly brought her up during one of the 2016 presidential debates). And, beyond celebrities, working journalists are regularly attacked -- figuratively and literally -- for reporting the facts. Trump declaring the press “the enemy of the people” and “fake news” has engendered a culture in which a Montana Republican seeking election \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/867535038749040640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">body-slams a reporter for asking a question\u003c/a>, and it’s not even the most shocking news item of the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every year, reality TV thrives more and more on conflict, overturned tables, wig tugs, and televised celebrity firings. It's gotten so bad that, on\u003cem> Love & Hip Hop Hollywood\u003c/em>,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tacky_Nerd/status/656206312120975360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbossip.com%2F1242768%2Fyuck-on-yuck-lhhh-star-nikki-baby-mudarris-claps-back-at-nasty-nastassia-for-throwing-vomit-at-her-during-fight%2F\"> one woman vomited into her hand and threw it in another woman's face\u003c/a>. Has reality TV influenced us into becoming more conflict-oriented? Or has reality TV simply been holding up a mirror to what we already were? It's hard to say, but something that’s clear is that this moment between Rosie and Elisabeth foretold what we’re living through now: a culture of division, and a culture in which someone speaking or reporting truth will be smeared or punished. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-83818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover.jpg 670w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-240x310.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-375x485.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-520x672.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Since their epic showdown, Rosie has returned to stand-up and acting. Hasselbeck moved over to Fox News, where she was able to make statements like “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” before eventually being replaced by another young blonde woman. In 2014, when Elisabeth heard that Rosie was asked to return as a host of \u003cem>The View\u003c/em>, she did not take the high road: \"What could ruin a vacation more than to hear news like this?\" she said. \"Talk about not securing the border. Here comes to \u003cem>The View\u003c/em> the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am happy to have a #momversation about why I would never defend her 2007 comments. #letfreedomring.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As far as I know, Rosie didn't respond to Elisabeth's remarks or take her up on that \"#momversation,\" and I don't blame her. As comforting as the notion of healing through conversation may be, I don't see much hope for Rosie and Elisabeth to ever mend fences. And the way things have gone in the past 10 years, I'm not sure \"conversation\" is going to unite the divided left and right in America either. But I hope I'm wrong. I really do.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Certain historical events leave a mark. Some even go on to define entire generations. Where were you when JFK was shot? When Obama won the 2008 election? When Kurt Cobain died? When O.J. tried to speed away from the law in a Bronco? It makes sense why we can’t shake these moments; they changed the landscape of politics, culture, and so much more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But iconic historical moments are not all created equal. There are macro events, like the ones mentioned above, that affect a grand swath of people, and then there are smaller, less significant cultural moments that only stick in the minds of a select few. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you remember where you were on May 23, 2007? I’m guessing that’s a no. But I do. That was the day Rosie O’Donnell and former \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survivor\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contestant / conservative pundit Elisabeth Hasselbeck yelled in each other’s faces on \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The View\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, leading to the show’s first use of a split-screen, and Rosie’s premature exit from the show. Daytime TV had never been so radical or so real.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But before we get into the impact of that moment, let’s get some backstory:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-83808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-800x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-800x875.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-768x840.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-240x263.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-375x410.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs-520x569.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/CnbbcHBXgAAB5Bs.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>Rosie O’Donnell made a name for herself in movies like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A League of Their Own\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Flintstones\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sleepless in Seattle\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harriet the Spy\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But with her talk show, \u003cem>The Rosie O'Donnell Show\u003c/em>, she really shot to fame, like \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0c/b4/01/0cb401d5fea759842810918bedb2ae6b.jpg\">a koosh ball arcing into a studio audience\u003c/a>. She came to be known as the \"Queen of Nice.\" She kept conversations with her celebrity guests fun and light. Still in the closet, she played up her love of Tom Cruise. She made strangers' lives better by giving away scholarships, donations, and gifts. She sang show tunes and geeked out over Barbara Streisand. She did everything Ellen now gets to do (thanks to Rosie paving the way).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83817\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 430px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts.jpg 680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-160x153.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-240x230.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-375x359.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-520x498.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-and-view-co-hosts-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rosie Show\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ended, six seasons later in 2002, Rosie left the limelight to focus on her family. It wasn’t long before people in the industry tried to coax her back onto daytime television. She turned down all offers -- until one of her childhood idols, Barbara Walters, asked her to be the main host of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The View\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She agreed, and returned to the space that put her on the map. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the Rosie that showed up on set in 2006 was not the Rosie America had grown accustomed to. This new Rosie was an out lesbian who was no longer afraid to speak her mind on politics and everything else. Rather than keeping it cute, Rosie had found her voice and wasn’t going to give it up without a fight. After years of saying what America was ready to hear, she switched gears to what America \u003cem>needed\u003c/em> to hear.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-83821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007.jpg 315w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/oreillyrosie2007-240x178.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\">\u003c/a>Her stint on \u003ci>The View\u003c/i> lasted only a year, and was filled with drama at every turn. Fox News regularly attacked her for her views on the Iraq War and President George W. Bush. This, remember, was in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/dixie.chicks.reut/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dixie Chicks being blacklisted\u003c/a> for their political opinions, which created an environment that equated criticism of Bush and his administration's policies with being anti-American or unpatriotic. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/07/politics/donald-trump-rosie-odonnell-feud/\">Donald Trump also got into the action, attacking Rosie \u003c/a>for bringing up his bankruptcies and mocking his combover, calling her \"a woman out of control\" and threatening to sue her (\"Rosie will rue the words she said. I'll most likely sue her for making those false statements -- and it'll be fun. Rosie's a loser. A real loser. I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As if that wasn't enough, Rosie had to regularly go toe-to-toe with panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who was aided by an executive producer who -- rumor has it -- fed Hasselback with Republican party talking points every morning. Every weekday, in front of millions, Elisabeth would dish out an entrée of alternative facts, and Rosie would take the bait.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The near-constant sparring resulted in numerous news cycles of Rosie being painted as the alleged bully and antagonist to Hasselbeck’s innocent-seeming, pretty, conservative Christian (one\u003c/span> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles Times \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">piece went with the headline\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-goldberg3apr03-column.html\">The 'Queen of Nice' Goes Nuts\u003c/a>\")\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The fact that Hasselbeck was pregnant for this particular season of \u003cem>The View\u003c/em> didn’t necessarily help optics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-800x909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-800x909.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-160x182.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-768x873.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-1020x1159.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-1920x2182.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-1180x1341.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-960x1091.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-240x273.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-375x426.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/GettyImages-57489257-520x591.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosie and Barbara in happier times. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each time some feud blossomed, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The View\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> enjoyed huge ratings, leading to a 17% increase in viewers from the previous Rosie-less season. Despite having a hit on their hands, things weren’t too joyous behind the scenes. A culture of distrust began to build; Rosie felt as though Walters, whom she thought of as a surrogate mother, didn’t have her back -- and that Walters and the show's producers were setting her up for more and more fireworks with Hasselbeck.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On May 23, 2007, everything finally boiled over. Comedian Joy Behar started a conversation about Al Gore and Jimmy Carter's belief that Bush was the country’s worst president, and listed Bush’s bad qualities (his handling of torture at Abu Ghraib; his response to Hurricane Katrina; his repeated mispronunciation of \"nuclear\"; the time he choked on a pretzel). Joy, Elisabeth, and Sherri Shepherd (a woman who, on a different episode of \u003cem>The View\u003c/em>, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkrkaH_V7fE\">the world might actually be flat\u003c/a>) got into it for several minutes, while Rosie sat quietly. Tired of having her words misconstrued by Fox News every night, she was waiting for the clock to run out on her contract in a few weeks. But she couldn’t help but say something in response to Elisabeth calling Iraqis our enemies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things quickly exploded:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/aAwoPLhJVAs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/aAwoPLhJVAs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Six uninterrupted minutes of an epic, messy, personal fight ensued. The curtain was pulled back to reveal not just TV personalities debating \"hot topics,\" but one human being feeling betrayed and used by someone she thought was a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment evokes and pokes holes in an idea that's been batted around a lot since the 2016 election -- that the way to heal the divisions in the country is for people from opposite ends of the political spectrum to engage in conversation. (If only liberals and conservatives had broken bread and chatted about their differences over some Budweisers, the thinking goes, then the country wouldn't have elected a man who called Mexican immigrants \"rapists,\" mocked a disabled reporter, promised to ban Muslims, and admitted to sexual assault on camera.) But no matter how good anyone's intentions may be, it can be impossible to have a productive dialogue when one person's belief system is founded in another's oppression, or argues against another's humanity and right to exist. There’s isn’t anywhere to go from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the back-and-forth, Rosie noticed that the producers had placed a split-screen between the two women so that viewers at home could watch each of their faces getting redder and angrier. The split-screen had never been used on the program before, and Rosie has said that she believes they crafted it specifically for this inevitability, which they seemed to hope would happen someday. They got their wish, and Rosie didn't return to the show the next day -- or the following day, or the one after that. A few weeks before her contract expired, Rosie quit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/NP-x78w48Es'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/NP-x78w48Es'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week marked that moment’s tenth anniversary. A lot has happened in the past 10 years, but has our discourse really changed that much? After a detour to the left during the oasis of Obama, we’re right back into a timeline where criticizing the President or his administration is seen as unpatriotic. These days, President Trump will tweet about any celebrity who criticizes him (Rosie is still one of his favorite targets, so much so that he randomly brought her up during one of the 2016 presidential debates). And, beyond celebrities, working journalists are regularly attacked -- figuratively and literally -- for reporting the facts. Trump declaring the press “the enemy of the people” and “fake news” has engendered a culture in which a Montana Republican seeking election \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/867535038749040640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">body-slams a reporter for asking a question\u003c/a>, and it’s not even the most shocking news item of the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every year, reality TV thrives more and more on conflict, overturned tables, wig tugs, and televised celebrity firings. It's gotten so bad that, on\u003cem> Love & Hip Hop Hollywood\u003c/em>,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tacky_Nerd/status/656206312120975360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbossip.com%2F1242768%2Fyuck-on-yuck-lhhh-star-nikki-baby-mudarris-claps-back-at-nasty-nastassia-for-throwing-vomit-at-her-during-fight%2F\"> one woman vomited into her hand and threw it in another woman's face\u003c/a>. Has reality TV influenced us into becoming more conflict-oriented? Or has reality TV simply been holding up a mirror to what we already were? It's hard to say, but something that’s clear is that this moment between Rosie and Elisabeth foretold what we’re living through now: a culture of division, and a culture in which someone speaking or reporting truth will be smeared or punished. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-83818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover.jpg 670w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-240x310.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-375x485.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/rosie-odonnel-returns-to-the-view-cover-520x672.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Since their epic showdown, Rosie has returned to stand-up and acting. Hasselbeck moved over to Fox News, where she was able to make statements like “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” before eventually being replaced by another young blonde woman. In 2014, when Elisabeth heard that Rosie was asked to return as a host of \u003cem>The View\u003c/em>, she did not take the high road: \"What could ruin a vacation more than to hear news like this?\" she said. \"Talk about not securing the border. Here comes to \u003cem>The View\u003c/em> the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am happy to have a #momversation about why I would never defend her 2007 comments. #letfreedomring.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/02/Twinzies.mp3\" title=\"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Thanks to Trump\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You may have noticed a few changes in the White House in recent months. While Obama was off sporting a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/07/watch-ex-dad-in-chief-barack-obama-enjoy-his-life-without-us/\">backwards baseball cap and kite surfing\u003c/a> (he's earned it), Donald Trump did a little bit of redecorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77349\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-77349 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"portrait\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait timeline. Image: Emmanuel Hapsis\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A small change on the walls of the Oval Office caught my eye the other day: the portrait hanging next to the president’s desk. In that spot, Obama originally had a photo of the Statue of Liberty’s torch, and, later, Childe Hassam's patriotic painting of American flags, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/treasures-of-the-white-house-avenue-in-the-rain\">\u003cem>The Avenue in the Rain\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady Liberty is now gone (take that as you will), along with Hassam's painting. Their replacement? A portrait of the controversial Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States who graces the $20 bill (until \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/20/harriet-tubman-to-replace-slave-holder-andrew-jackson-on-the-20-bill/\">Harriet Tubman bumps him off\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-harriet-tubman-jackson_us_5718c72be4b0c9244a7aeae7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fierce defender\u003c/a> of Andrew Jackson -- his advisers have even made \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rudy-giuliani-trump-win-andrew-jackson-2016-231035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public comparisons\u003c/a> of Trump as the modern-day Jackson -- so let's take a look at Jackson's life to get a better understanding of why Trump reveres this particular president so much, and what that says about who he is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's start at the beginning (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k33ZQ4I4p24\">a very good place to start\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson came from nothing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Jackson was born somewhere along the North and South Carolina border in 1767, while his mother was on a long journey back from his father's funeral. Jackson's father was a struggling farmer, who didn't have much of anything to leave his wife and children. Trump, on the other hand, inherited millions from his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson served in the Revolutionary War as a teen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM.png\" alt=\"A young Jackson gets scarred for life. Photo: The Hermitage\" width=\"599\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM.png 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-240x167.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-375x262.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-520x363.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Jackson gets scarred for life. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/orphan/\">The Hermitage\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of us spend puberty fighting with our parents. Andrew Jackson spent his awkward teen years fighting the British during the Revolutionary War (as a courier, but still). At the age of 13, he was captured and, w\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hile in captivity, was not treated well. When a British general ordered Jackson to polish his boots, Jackson, who was known for being bold and having a temper, essentially told this Brit to go f--k himself. This did not go over well. The British officer took out a blade and slashed Jackson, leaving a scar that would last the rest of his life. Trump has no battle scars, thanks to deferring military service five times (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html\">four for college, one for bad feet\u003c/a>).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson was known as a troublemaker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the age of 15, Jackson's mother and both of his brothers had died. Alone in the world, he blew off steam by getting into trouble. One of his neighbors testified to this: \"Andrew Jackson was the most roaring, rollicking, game-cocking, horse-racing, card-playing, mischievous fellow that ever lived in Salisbury.\" Trump's youth was reportedly marked by \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?utm_term=.81d0ab4075a8\">similar exploits\u003c/a>: pulling girls' hair, throwing rocks at neighbors, almost pushing a classmate out of a second-story window, even hitting teachers. Trump got into trouble so regularly that his friends called detention \"DT\" (short for Donny Trump). Trump himself admits in his memoir \u003cem>The Art of the Deal\u003c/em> that his main focus during his early years was \"creating mischief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson became one of the country's first celebrities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-77195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-1020x575.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Jackson leading an underdog victory against the Brits in the Battle of New Orleans. Photo: Library of Congress\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-768x433.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Jackson leading an underdog victory against the Brits in the Battle of New Orleans. Photo: Library of Congress\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a short tint in the Senate (he resigned one year into his term because he didn't like meetings), Jackson got involved in another war, this time the War of 1812. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, killing more Native Americans than on any other day in U.S. history (pause for side-eye). With the help of free African Americans, Native Americans, and -- randomly enough -- French pirates, he went on to pull a major upset in the Battle of New Orleans, changing the course of the War of 1812. SAT analogy: George Washington was to the Revolutionary War as Andrew Jackson was to the War of 1812.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the victory spread quickly, and Jackson became a bona fide celebrity, inspiring songs, clubs, holidays, and more. Again, there's no Trump parallel because bad feet, but the following quote -- said about Jackson -- rings true for both men: \"He was a cultural force before he was a political force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson branded himself as a voice for the common man\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following his war hero fame, Jackson ran for President against John Quincy Adams, the acting Secretary of State. Adams was intelligent, had a history of overseas diplomacy, and intimately knew what goes into the role (his father, John Adams, was a former president and one of the Founding Fathers). Jackson used these qualities as proof that Adams was a corrupt insider who was out of touch with the people. Jackson argued that his lack of a resume proved that he could be a champion for the common man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The similarities between the 1824 and 2016 elections are obvious, but the results differ. Despite winning the popular vote, Jackson did not manage to get a majority in the Electoral College. Giving in to the widespread opinion that Jackson was unfit to serve as the President (Thomas Jefferson called Jackson \"a dangerous man\"), the House of Representatives elected Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson wasn't opposed to winning by smear campaign\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 613px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77212\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM.png\" alt=\"A 1828 Jackson poster.\" width=\"613\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM.png 613w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-160x207.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-240x310.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-375x485.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-520x673.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1828 Jackson poster.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackson and his supporters believed that the election was stolen from him, so he ran again in 1828, a campaign that was to become the dirtiest and most brutal the country had ever seen. News broke that Jackson's wife was in fact married to another man when she started shacking up with him decades earlier. Jackson was irate and decided to fight fire with all the embers of Hell: he accused Adams of living in sin, gambling, breaking the Sabbath, pimping out an American virgin for the pleasure of a Russian czar, among other things. He also kept up the anti-intellectual strategy from the previous election; one of his slogans was \"Vote for Andrew Jackson who can fight, not John Quincy Adams who can write.\" The election turned from disagreements over actual issues to bitter fights over personal lives. Jackson won decisively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson knew how to throw a party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 675px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson's inauguration rager. Photo: Library of Congress.\" width=\"675\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackson's inauguration rager. Photo: Library of Congress.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upon his inauguration, Jackson introduced an open-door policy at the White House. Any citizen could come inside and party with him. Things quickly got out of hand. First-eye accounts include stories of broken china, scary drunks, bloody noses, fainting women, and the use of windows as entrances and exits. Booze was eventually moved to the lawn to convince people to leave the White House. Trump's Inauguration festivities were... \u003ca href=\"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-inauguration-crowd-1484943564224/trump-inauguration-crowd-1484943564224-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg\">not like that\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson took politics personally\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife.jpg\" alt=\"how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-768x403.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-240x126.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-375x197.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-520x273.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson had a thing for taking it outside. He was involved in an estimated 103 duels, often because someone said something negative about his wife. His love of revenge and settling scores carried over into his time as President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon taking office, Jackson fired his enemies (he removed more government employees -- many of whom had served since George Washington's terms -- than all of his predecessors combined) and hired his unqualified friends in their place, creating what came to be known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system\">spoils system\u003c/a>.\" Jackson also consulted with a group of unofficial advisers that came to be known as his \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Cabinet\">Kitchen Cabinet\u003c/a>.\" (Hello, Jared Kushner!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress passed a bill to renew the Second Bank of America's charter, thanks to strong advocacy from one of Jackson's worst enemies, John C. Calhoun, Jackson vetoed it, claiming \"the Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.\" He deemed the bank president, Nicholas Biddle, an enemy of the people, and ordered all of the country's funds to be taken out of the bank. His Treasury Secretary refused to do so because it was illegal. So Jackson fired him and hired another man, who also refused. Jackson fired him too and finally found a man who would do it anyway. This kind of maneuver wouldn't happen again until Watergate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after his time in office was up, Jackson still held a grudge or two: \"After eight years as President, I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would you be surprised if Trump said the something similar about Rosie O'Donnell and Hillary Clinton at the end of his tenure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson did not play by the rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew.jpg\" alt=\"A political cartoon depicting a veto-happy King Jackson I trampling the Constitution.\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A political cartoon depicting a veto-happy King Jackson I trampling the Constitution.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pre-presidency, General Jackson invaded what is now Florida without permission and executed two British soldiers for helping the Native Americans. Despite the illegality of this, President James Monroe refused to censure Jackson. Jackson was also known to execute his own soldiers for insubordination. While Trump hasn't executed anyone (yet?), he did attack Syria without approval from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson was racist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 902px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the Trail of Tears routes. Photo: Wikipedia Commons\" width=\"902\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg 902w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-160x79.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-800x393.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-768x377.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-240x118.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-375x184.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-520x255.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the Trail of Tears routes. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg\">Wikipedia Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As if owning over 100 slaves wasn't bad enough, Jackson also was the mastermind behind the Indian Removal Act, which called for the eviction of Native Americans east of the Mississippi River from their ancestral lands. The Cherokee sought help from the Supreme Court, which ruled in their favor. Jackson's alleged response: \"[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!\" Ignoring the whole business of the judiciary being an equal branch of government, Jackson ordered that the Native Americans be rounded up at gunpoint, have their property seized, and be put on a forced march to Oklahoma during the winter. One out of four Cherokee died en route. Jackson gave their homeland to white farmers, which they turned into slave plantations. Trump has his own prejudices based on religion, race, sexuality, and gender. Hopefully nothing he or any future President does will be as contemptible as the Trail of Tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson was a hothead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Described as a \"cantankerous, iron-willed, intimidating manager,\" Jackson used his temper as a weapon. You can probably imagine what his tweets would have been like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson was inconsistent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson often found himself in contradiction. He grabbed more and more executive power for himself, while insisting he was doing so for the people. He hated the idea of a monarch forcing his will on his subjects, yet vetoed more legislation than anyone before him. He wanted limited government, unless it stood in the way of what he wanted to do. Needless to say, he wasn't too worried about consistency. Judging by his first 100 days, neither is Trump. China was a currency manipulator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/trump-backtracks-on-china-wont-label-it-a-currency-manipulator.html\">until it wasn't\u003c/a>. NATO was obsolete, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nato-secretary-general-meet-hold-news-conference-live-updates/\">until Trump changed his mind\u003c/a>. Intervening in Syria was the worst decision ever, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/376334423069032448\">until it was a good one\u003c/a>. The electoral college was undemocratic, until it was genius:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/266038556504494082\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798521053551140864\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Lining all these similarities in a row, it's easy to see why Trump reveres Jackson. In a way, it's a form of self-love. Now the question is: Will history continue to repeat itself? Or have we, as a nation, evolved enough to hold this kind of person accountable? Stay tuned.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You may have noticed a few changes in the White House in recent months. While Obama was off sporting a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/07/watch-ex-dad-in-chief-barack-obama-enjoy-his-life-without-us/\">backwards baseball cap and kite surfing\u003c/a> (he's earned it), Donald Trump did a little bit of redecorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77349\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-77349 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"portrait\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/portrait-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait timeline. Image: Emmanuel Hapsis\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A small change on the walls of the Oval Office caught my eye the other day: the portrait hanging next to the president’s desk. In that spot, Obama originally had a photo of the Statue of Liberty’s torch, and, later, Childe Hassam's patriotic painting of American flags, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/treasures-of-the-white-house-avenue-in-the-rain\">\u003cem>The Avenue in the Rain\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady Liberty is now gone (take that as you will), along with Hassam's painting. Their replacement? A portrait of the controversial Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States who graces the $20 bill (until \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/20/harriet-tubman-to-replace-slave-holder-andrew-jackson-on-the-20-bill/\">Harriet Tubman bumps him off\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-harriet-tubman-jackson_us_5718c72be4b0c9244a7aeae7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fierce defender\u003c/a> of Andrew Jackson -- his advisers have even made \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rudy-giuliani-trump-win-andrew-jackson-2016-231035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public comparisons\u003c/a> of Trump as the modern-day Jackson -- so let's take a look at Jackson's life to get a better understanding of why Trump reveres this particular president so much, and what that says about who he is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's start at the beginning (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k33ZQ4I4p24\">a very good place to start\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson came from nothing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Jackson was born somewhere along the North and South Carolina border in 1767, while his mother was on a long journey back from his father's funeral. Jackson's father was a struggling farmer, who didn't have much of anything to leave his wife and children. Trump, on the other hand, inherited millions from his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson served in the Revolutionary War as a teen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM.png\" alt=\"A young Jackson gets scarred for life. Photo: The Hermitage\" width=\"599\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM.png 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-240x167.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-375x262.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-3.00.12-PM-520x363.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Jackson gets scarred for life. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/orphan/\">The Hermitage\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of us spend puberty fighting with our parents. Andrew Jackson spent his awkward teen years fighting the British during the Revolutionary War (as a courier, but still). At the age of 13, he was captured and, w\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hile in captivity, was not treated well. When a British general ordered Jackson to polish his boots, Jackson, who was known for being bold and having a temper, essentially told this Brit to go f--k himself. This did not go over well. The British officer took out a blade and slashed Jackson, leaving a scar that would last the rest of his life. Trump has no battle scars, thanks to deferring military service five times (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html\">four for college, one for bad feet\u003c/a>).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson was known as a troublemaker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the age of 15, Jackson's mother and both of his brothers had died. Alone in the world, he blew off steam by getting into trouble. One of his neighbors testified to this: \"Andrew Jackson was the most roaring, rollicking, game-cocking, horse-racing, card-playing, mischievous fellow that ever lived in Salisbury.\" Trump's youth was reportedly marked by \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?utm_term=.81d0ab4075a8\">similar exploits\u003c/a>: pulling girls' hair, throwing rocks at neighbors, almost pushing a classmate out of a second-story window, even hitting teachers. Trump got into trouble so regularly that his friends called detention \"DT\" (short for Donny Trump). Trump himself admits in his memoir \u003cem>The Art of the Deal\u003c/em> that his main focus during his early years was \"creating mischief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson became one of the country's first celebrities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-77195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-1020x575.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Jackson leading an underdog victory against the Brits in the Battle of New Orleans. Photo: Library of Congress\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-768x433.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/History_Andrew_Jackson_Defends_New_Orleans_1812_rev_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Jackson leading an underdog victory against the Brits in the Battle of New Orleans. Photo: Library of Congress\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a short tint in the Senate (he resigned one year into his term because he didn't like meetings), Jackson got involved in another war, this time the War of 1812. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, killing more Native Americans than on any other day in U.S. history (pause for side-eye). With the help of free African Americans, Native Americans, and -- randomly enough -- French pirates, he went on to pull a major upset in the Battle of New Orleans, changing the course of the War of 1812. SAT analogy: George Washington was to the Revolutionary War as Andrew Jackson was to the War of 1812.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the victory spread quickly, and Jackson became a bona fide celebrity, inspiring songs, clubs, holidays, and more. Again, there's no Trump parallel because bad feet, but the following quote -- said about Jackson -- rings true for both men: \"He was a cultural force before he was a political force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson branded himself as a voice for the common man\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following his war hero fame, Jackson ran for President against John Quincy Adams, the acting Secretary of State. Adams was intelligent, had a history of overseas diplomacy, and intimately knew what goes into the role (his father, John Adams, was a former president and one of the Founding Fathers). Jackson used these qualities as proof that Adams was a corrupt insider who was out of touch with the people. Jackson argued that his lack of a resume proved that he could be a champion for the common man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The similarities between the 1824 and 2016 elections are obvious, but the results differ. Despite winning the popular vote, Jackson did not manage to get a majority in the Electoral College. Giving in to the widespread opinion that Jackson was unfit to serve as the President (Thomas Jefferson called Jackson \"a dangerous man\"), the House of Representatives elected Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson wasn't opposed to winning by smear campaign\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 613px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77212\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM.png\" alt=\"A 1828 Jackson poster.\" width=\"613\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM.png 613w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-160x207.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-240x310.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-375x485.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-4.05.33-PM-520x673.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1828 Jackson poster.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackson and his supporters believed that the election was stolen from him, so he ran again in 1828, a campaign that was to become the dirtiest and most brutal the country had ever seen. News broke that Jackson's wife was in fact married to another man when she started shacking up with him decades earlier. Jackson was irate and decided to fight fire with all the embers of Hell: he accused Adams of living in sin, gambling, breaking the Sabbath, pimping out an American virgin for the pleasure of a Russian czar, among other things. He also kept up the anti-intellectual strategy from the previous election; one of his slogans was \"Vote for Andrew Jackson who can fight, not John Quincy Adams who can write.\" The election turned from disagreements over actual issues to bitter fights over personal lives. Jackson won decisively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson knew how to throw a party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 675px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson's inauguration rager. Photo: Library of Congress.\" width=\"675\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/19xp-jackson-master675-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackson's inauguration rager. Photo: Library of Congress.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upon his inauguration, Jackson introduced an open-door policy at the White House. Any citizen could come inside and party with him. Things quickly got out of hand. First-eye accounts include stories of broken china, scary drunks, bloody noses, fainting women, and the use of windows as entrances and exits. Booze was eventually moved to the lawn to convince people to leave the White House. Trump's Inauguration festivities were... \u003ca href=\"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-inauguration-crowd-1484943564224/trump-inauguration-crowd-1484943564224-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg\">not like that\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson took politics personally\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife.jpg\" alt=\"how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-768x403.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-240x126.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-375x197.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/how-many-duels-did-andrew-jackson-fight-mostly-defending-the-integrity-of-his-wife-520x273.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson had a thing for taking it outside. He was involved in an estimated 103 duels, often because someone said something negative about his wife. His love of revenge and settling scores carried over into his time as President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon taking office, Jackson fired his enemies (he removed more government employees -- many of whom had served since George Washington's terms -- than all of his predecessors combined) and hired his unqualified friends in their place, creating what came to be known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system\">spoils system\u003c/a>.\" Jackson also consulted with a group of unofficial advisers that came to be known as his \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Cabinet\">Kitchen Cabinet\u003c/a>.\" (Hello, Jared Kushner!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress passed a bill to renew the Second Bank of America's charter, thanks to strong advocacy from one of Jackson's worst enemies, John C. Calhoun, Jackson vetoed it, claiming \"the Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.\" He deemed the bank president, Nicholas Biddle, an enemy of the people, and ordered all of the country's funds to be taken out of the bank. His Treasury Secretary refused to do so because it was illegal. So Jackson fired him and hired another man, who also refused. Jackson fired him too and finally found a man who would do it anyway. This kind of maneuver wouldn't happen again until Watergate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after his time in office was up, Jackson still held a grudge or two: \"After eight years as President, I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would you be surprised if Trump said the something similar about Rosie O'Donnell and Hillary Clinton at the end of his tenure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson did not play by the rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew.jpg\" alt=\"A political cartoon depicting a veto-happy King Jackson I trampling the Constitution.\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/king_andrew-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A political cartoon depicting a veto-happy King Jackson I trampling the Constitution.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pre-presidency, General Jackson invaded what is now Florida without permission and executed two British soldiers for helping the Native Americans. Despite the illegality of this, President James Monroe refused to censure Jackson. Jackson was also known to execute his own soldiers for insubordination. While Trump hasn't executed anyone (yet?), he did attack Syria without approval from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jackson was racist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 902px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the Trail of Tears routes. Photo: Wikipedia Commons\" width=\"902\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg 902w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-160x79.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-800x393.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-768x377.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-240x118.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-375x184.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/04/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS-520x255.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the Trail of Tears routes. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg\">Wikipedia Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As if owning over 100 slaves wasn't bad enough, Jackson also was the mastermind behind the Indian Removal Act, which called for the eviction of Native Americans east of the Mississippi River from their ancestral lands. The Cherokee sought help from the Supreme Court, which ruled in their favor. Jackson's alleged response: \"[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!\" Ignoring the whole business of the judiciary being an equal branch of government, Jackson ordered that the Native Americans be rounded up at gunpoint, have their property seized, and be put on a forced march to Oklahoma during the winter. One out of four Cherokee died en route. Jackson gave their homeland to white farmers, which they turned into slave plantations. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2016/10/Brangelina.mp3\" title=\"R.I.P. Brangelina: Why Do We Care So Much about Celebrity Breakups?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/celebrity-breakups.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you're attached or single this Valentine's Day, just be glad you're not getting a love note from Evelyn Waugh, the author of \u003cem>Brideshead Revisited \u003c/em>and the only man to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/25/oops-male-crashes-times-list-of-most-read-female-writers/\">(mistakenly) end up on\u003c/a> \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>’s list of most-read female writers. He had a way with words, but using them to be romantic -- or even decent -- didn't seem to be one of his talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take this 1945 letter he wrote to his wife, Laura, for instance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-13 at 1.36.40 PM\" width=\"532\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM.png 532w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-160x75.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-240x112.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-375x175.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-520x242.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It starts off promisingly enough with a cute nickname -- sweet whiskers! -- but quickly devolves into documenting just how very boring and disappointing he thinks his wife is. The letter ends with a condescending catchphrase perfectly suited for a reality TV villain. 'Do grasp that'? Do grasp this drink in your face, Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not knowing much about Waugh, I did some research: Was he just having a bad day, or was he kind of an a-hole?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what I found, it's the latter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> Waugh was referred to as \"the nastiest-tempered man in England.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He believed that \u003c/span>class divisions and\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> inequalities were \u003c/span>natural.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">anti-Semitism was considered by some to be his \"most persistent nastiness.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He named one of his characters \"Black Bitch.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He didn't mind fascism.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When he converted to Catholicism, someone asked him, \"How can you be a Christian when you are such an a-hole?” Waugh didn't deny it: \"Just think how much worse an a-hole I would be if I were not a Christian.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In a piece called \"The Misguided PC Attacks on 'Black Mischief,'\" a writer tries -- and fails -- to defend Waugh's bigotry: \"Waugh ridicules women, Jews, fascists, Arabs, the French, upper class white colonials, as well as indigenous populations, therefore showing himself to hold intense disdain for humanity. Rather than racist, Waugh is anti-human and pro-God.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in summary, Evelyn Waugh was the worst. This Valentine's Day, be thankful you're not dating him. And if any of the above reminds you of your boo, dump him/her immediately. You can do so much better, sweet whiskers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED's weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/05/BetteDavisJoanCrawford.mp3\" title=\"Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford, The Shadiest Hollywood Feud of All Time\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fresh off hits like \u003cem>American Crime Story\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The People v. OJ Simpson\u003c/em>, Ryan Murphy recently announced his next project. Tentatively titled \u003cem>Feud\u003c/em>, the 8-episode season will focus on the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Susan Sarandon will play Ms. Davis and Jessica Lange will star as Ms. Crawford. If you are familiar with this historic feud, you know the series will be must-see juiciness. But for those of you who aren’t up on your Old Hollywood drama, let me take you on a shade retrospective of Davis v. Crawford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before we get to the barbed one-liners, let's get some backstory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33507 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\" width=\"400\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucille Fay LeSueur was born to a single mother in Texas and spent her childhood moving from state to state, struggling to get a proper education. She dreamed of a better life as a famous dancer. After some time in various chorus lines, Lucille decided to switch gears and landed a $75 a week gig as an actress at MGM. The studio publicist didn't like the sound of her name (too close to \"sewer\") so he organized a \"Name the Star\" magazine contest. And a star (named Joan Crawford) was born!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33505 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg\" alt=\"Bette Davis, slaying in Of Human Bondage.\" width=\"400\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette Davis, slaying in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known early on as \"Betty,\" grew up in New England and had an easier upbringing. She was fortunate enough to attend boarding schools and receive theater training, which led to time on Broadway. Eventually, she made her way to LA, where success didn't seem likely at first. Upon arrival, the driver who was meant to pick her up left without her because he didn't see anyone that \"looked like an actress.\" Hollywood big wigs didn't think she was sexy enough. But Bette persisted and got her big break two years later with a lead role in \u003cem>The Man Who Played God. \u003c/em>Two years after that, her performance as a no-nonsense waitress in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage \u003c/em>got so much fanfare that, when she was snubbed at the Oscars, there was such an uproar that the Academy had to change their voting rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '30s and '40s, both Joan and Bette were at the top of their game. Joan was the movie star, better known for her looks and off-screen hook-ups (she was married to Douglass Fairbanks Jr. and had a thing with Clark Gable, among other notable men), while Bette was considered a serious character actress, intensely focused on her craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, actors were more or less owned by a studio and couldn’t work on any other productions, unless specifically loaned out. Crawford was part of MGM and Davis was part of Warner Bros. so, even though they were competing for America’s attention, they rarely had to compete for the same roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33465\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Bette on the set of Dangerous.\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Bette on the set of \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things started to bubble in 1935 when Bette was filming \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> with a hot(ish) guy named Franchot Tone. She developed a crush on him. \"I fell in love with Franchot, professionally and privately. Everything about him reflected his elegance, from his name to his manners,\" Bette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33509\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Joan get hot and heavy.\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Joan, connoisseurs in PDA.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for her, Joan got to him first. Rumor has it that she invited Tone to her home and met him naked in the solarium. It wasn't long before Joan started visiting the set, much to Bette's chagrin. “He was madly in love with her. They met each day for lunch. He would return to the set, his face covered in lipstick. I was jealous of course.” Joan and Franchot married once filming wrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, Bette would open up about this time in her life to journalist Michael Thorton: \"She took him from me. She did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness. I have never forgiven her for that and never will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> was met with critical acclaim and\u003cem> \u003c/em>Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar. Because she was relatively new to the game and didn't believe she would win, Bette wore a simple navy blue dress to the ceremony. The voters proved her wrong and her name was called. According to legend, Franchot got up and embraced her, while his now-wife Joan refused to get up and had her back to Bette. After being called out for her rude behavior by Franchot, Joan allegedly looked Bette up and down and snidely said \"Dear Bette! 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Now Bette and Joan were directly competing for the same roles. Around this time, Bette was considering the titular role in \u003cem>Mildred Pierce\u003c/em>, which she eventually turned down. Joan ended up snagging it and won an Oscar for her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33474 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford twirl gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan is feeling herself.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33473 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette is not here for it.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years of competition and sh*t talk ensued. Here are some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Joan on Bette:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor Bette! She looks like she’s never had a happy day... or night!... in her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it ‘art.’ Others might call it camouflage, a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t hate Bette Davis, even though the press wants me to; I resent her. I don’t see how she built a career out of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. She’s a phony, but I guess the public likes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford kennel gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bette on Joan:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, due to Hollywood being grossed out by the idea of women over 29, both actors weren’t in such demand anymore. Work was so hard to come by that Bette resorted to putting out an ad in \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> that read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Thirty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumor would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood (Has had Broadway).\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In 1961, now in her fifties, Bette was performing on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’ \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">The Night of the Iguana\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">. One night, an unexpected Joan showed up backstage, gave Bette a novel called\u003c/span> \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">and proposed that they star in the adaptation. \u003c/span>They would play two has-been child star sisters living together. Bette’s character spends the entire film tormenting Joan’s character, who is paralyzed and can't defend herself, so it's no wonder that Bette said \u003cem>Hell yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting Bette to sign on was the first challenge. The more daunting task was getting someone in Hollywood to finance a movie starring older women. Studio after studio, including Bette and Joan's former home Warner Bros, turned down the idea or claimed they would only be interested if the leading women were replaced with younger talent. Eventually, a small production company called Seven Arts said yes and handed over some meager funds. Both women had to take a drastic pay cut, in exchange for a percentage of the profits, in order to get the ball rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33526\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Joan and Bette on set.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-960x650.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan and Bette on set.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, the petty shenanigans on set were of Biblical proportions. For instance, Joan had been married to the CEO of Pepsi and advocated for Pepsi product-placement in the film. Bette responded by having a Coca-Cola machine installed on set. And it didn't take long for the bad behavior to migrate from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned that Bette would actually hurt her during a scene that required the two actresses to fight, Joan requested a body double, but there was one close-up shot that required her participation. During this take, whether by accident or not, Bette gave Joan's head such a kick that Joan required stitches. What did Bette have to say for herself? “I barely touched her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/WHTBJJ.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/WHTBJJ.gif\" alt=\"WHTBJJ\" width=\"245\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan wanted revenge and got it while filming a later scene, which involved Bette dragging her across the room. To prepare, Joan, who knew Bette had a history of back problems, strapped on a weightlifters' belt to make herself as heavy as possible. \"There is a way of making it easy on the actor who is doing the carrying, but Crawford wanted Bette to suffer,\" director Robert Aldrich later said. And suffer she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy_1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy_1.gif\" alt=\"whatever happened to baby jane drag body joan bette\" width=\"245\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">turned out to be a huge hit. Bette and Joan got rich all over again, thanks to the profit percentages they had agreed to in the budget negotiations. The movie also raked it in with five Oscar nods total. Davis was nominated for Best Actress. \u003ca href=\"http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/gretchencandycanes422.gif\">And none for\u003c/a> Joan Crawford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan was not happy for her co-star, to say the least. She actively campaigned against Bette during the Oscar season and hatched a secret plan to humiliate her at the ceremony. Bette lost that year's title to Anne Bancroft and couldn't believe her eyes when none other than Joan, herself, waltzed on stage to collect the award. (Joan had called all the other nominees and offered to accept the award on their behalf, should they win.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqjO39TX5RY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost dropped dead! I was paralyzed with shock. To deliberately upstage me like that! Her behavior was despicable. I will never forget the look she gave me. It was triumphant. It clearly said: 'You didn't win, and I am elated!'\" Bette later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Robert Aldrich wanted to get the old gang back together again for \u003cem>Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte\u003c/em>. The public's interest in the Bette and Joan rivalry had made them so much money the first time around; why not have another go? Both stars agreed, but the film was immediately plagued by drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the production had to be delayed a month due to Joan wanting to attend a Pepsi sales conference. Once filming did start, Joan complained about no one coming to collect her and her team (a maid, a makeup artist and a hairdresser), after they had landed in Baton Rouge. She also complained about the accommodation, which was too close to garbage cans. Bette snapped, \"Oh, Joan, pull yourself together. This is Baton Rouge, not Beverly Hills!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-crawford-is-embarrassed-for-you-o.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-crawford-is-embarrassed-for-you-o.gif\" alt=\"Joan misses LA, where everywhere you go has valet.\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan misses LA, where everywhere you go has valet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joan also suspected that Bette had too much control over the director and was plotting against her: \"She's practically directing the picture for him right in front of me, so God knows what else she's up to behind my back. I might wind up on the cutting-room floor.\" And Bette's behavior on set didn't assuage that paranoia; Joan would say \"Hello\" or \"Good morning\" every day and Bette would simply ignore her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the shoot continued, Joan began complained of exhaustion and refused to work or speak to the director. The suspicion was that she planned to feign illness to get out of the movie. Insurance doctors and private detectives were involved and the studio's insurance company gave the director an ultimatum: either replace Joan or it's a wrap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film left Joan behind, who promptly checked herself into a hospital. Olivia de Havilland, a friend of Bette's, was selected as her replacement. Back on set, Bette toasted Joan's exit and Olivia's entrance with a glass full of Coca-Cola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bettedavisamen.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bettedavisamen.gif\" alt=\"bette+davis+amen\" width=\"243\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bette and Joan would never work together again. Joan died first, but even death didn't soften Bette towards her former co-star. \"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was their feud real? Or was it a media creation, which Bette and Joan capitalized on? Most likely a bit of both. They say that what you hate in someone else is what you hate in yourself. Maybe these two women always found themselves at odds because they were just too similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both came from single-mother households. Both were headstrong Alpha leading ladies trying to survive in a world that only allowed for one. Both were Aries (\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/21/will-our-next-president-be-hillary-or-trump-astrologers-think-they-know/\">if you believe in that sort of thing\u003c/a>). Both struggled with love (four marriages each) and parenting (their children wrote tell-alls about them).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just imagine what could have been if they had realized how much they had in common...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BD.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BD.gif\" alt=\":-(\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">🙁\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For even more Bette and Joan thoughts and feelings, get a load of this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264856470&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fresh off hits like \u003cem>American Crime Story\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The People v. OJ Simpson\u003c/em>, Ryan Murphy recently announced his next project. Tentatively titled \u003cem>Feud\u003c/em>, the 8-episode season will focus on the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Susan Sarandon will play Ms. Davis and Jessica Lange will star as Ms. Crawford. If you are familiar with this historic feud, you know the series will be must-see juiciness. But for those of you who aren’t up on your Old Hollywood drama, let me take you on a shade retrospective of Davis v. Crawford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before we get to the barbed one-liners, let's get some backstory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33507 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\" width=\"400\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucille Fay LeSueur was born to a single mother in Texas and spent her childhood moving from state to state, struggling to get a proper education. She dreamed of a better life as a famous dancer. After some time in various chorus lines, Lucille decided to switch gears and landed a $75 a week gig as an actress at MGM. The studio publicist didn't like the sound of her name (too close to \"sewer\") so he organized a \"Name the Star\" magazine contest. And a star (named Joan Crawford) was born!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33505 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg\" alt=\"Bette Davis, slaying in Of Human Bondage.\" width=\"400\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette Davis, slaying in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known early on as \"Betty,\" grew up in New England and had an easier upbringing. She was fortunate enough to attend boarding schools and receive theater training, which led to time on Broadway. Eventually, she made her way to LA, where success didn't seem likely at first. Upon arrival, the driver who was meant to pick her up left without her because he didn't see anyone that \"looked like an actress.\" Hollywood big wigs didn't think she was sexy enough. But Bette persisted and got her big break two years later with a lead role in \u003cem>The Man Who Played God. \u003c/em>Two years after that, her performance as a no-nonsense waitress in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage \u003c/em>got so much fanfare that, when she was snubbed at the Oscars, there was such an uproar that the Academy had to change their voting rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '30s and '40s, both Joan and Bette were at the top of their game. Joan was the movie star, better known for her looks and off-screen hook-ups (she was married to Douglass Fairbanks Jr. and had a thing with Clark Gable, among other notable men), while Bette was considered a serious character actress, intensely focused on her craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, actors were more or less owned by a studio and couldn’t work on any other productions, unless specifically loaned out. Crawford was part of MGM and Davis was part of Warner Bros. so, even though they were competing for America’s attention, they rarely had to compete for the same roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33465\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Bette on the set of Dangerous.\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Bette on the set of \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things started to bubble in 1935 when Bette was filming \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> with a hot(ish) guy named Franchot Tone. She developed a crush on him. \"I fell in love with Franchot, professionally and privately. Everything about him reflected his elegance, from his name to his manners,\" Bette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33509\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Joan get hot and heavy.\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Joan, connoisseurs in PDA.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for her, Joan got to him first. Rumor has it that she invited Tone to her home and met him naked in the solarium. It wasn't long before Joan started visiting the set, much to Bette's chagrin. “He was madly in love with her. They met each day for lunch. He would return to the set, his face covered in lipstick. I was jealous of course.” Joan and Franchot married once filming wrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, Bette would open up about this time in her life to journalist Michael Thorton: \"She took him from me. She did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness. I have never forgiven her for that and never will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> was met with critical acclaim and\u003cem> \u003c/em>Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar. Because she was relatively new to the game and didn't believe she would win, Bette wore a simple navy blue dress to the ceremony. The voters proved her wrong and her name was called. According to legend, Franchot got up and embraced her, while his now-wife Joan refused to get up and had her back to Bette. After being called out for her rude behavior by Franchot, Joan allegedly looked Bette up and down and snidely said \"Dear Bette! What a \u003cem>lovely\u003c/em> frock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif\" alt=\"Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif\" alt=\"Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All was quiet on the western front for a while after that...until Joan left MGM and got hired -- where else? -- Warner Bros! Now Bette and Joan were directly competing for the same roles. Around this time, Bette was considering the titular role in \u003cem>Mildred Pierce\u003c/em>, which she eventually turned down. Joan ended up snagging it and won an Oscar for her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33474 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford twirl gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan is feeling herself.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33473 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette is not here for it.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years of competition and sh*t talk ensued. Here are some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Joan on Bette:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor Bette! She looks like she’s never had a happy day... or night!... in her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it ‘art.’ Others might call it camouflage, a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t hate Bette Davis, even though the press wants me to; I resent her. I don’t see how she built a career out of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. She’s a phony, but I guess the public likes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford kennel gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bette on Joan:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, due to Hollywood being grossed out by the idea of women over 29, both actors weren’t in such demand anymore. Work was so hard to come by that Bette resorted to putting out an ad in \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> that read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Thirty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumor would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood (Has had Broadway).\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In 1961, now in her fifties, Bette was performing on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’ \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">The Night of the Iguana\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">. One night, an unexpected Joan showed up backstage, gave Bette a novel called\u003c/span> \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">and proposed that they star in the adaptation. \u003c/span>They would play two has-been child star sisters living together. Bette’s character spends the entire film tormenting Joan’s character, who is paralyzed and can't defend herself, so it's no wonder that Bette said \u003cem>Hell yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting Bette to sign on was the first challenge. The more daunting task was getting someone in Hollywood to finance a movie starring older women. Studio after studio, including Bette and Joan's former home Warner Bros, turned down the idea or claimed they would only be interested if the leading women were replaced with younger talent. Eventually, a small production company called Seven Arts said yes and handed over some meager funds. Both women had to take a drastic pay cut, in exchange for a percentage of the profits, in order to get the ball rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33526\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Joan and Bette on set.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-960x650.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan and Bette on set.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, the petty shenanigans on set were of Biblical proportions. For instance, Joan had been married to the CEO of Pepsi and advocated for Pepsi product-placement in the film. Bette responded by having a Coca-Cola machine installed on set. And it didn't take long for the bad behavior to migrate from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned that Bette would actually hurt her during a scene that required the two actresses to fight, Joan requested a body double, but there was one close-up shot that required her participation. During this take, whether by accident or not, Bette gave Joan's head such a kick that Joan required stitches. What did Bette have to say for herself? “I barely touched her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/WHTBJJ.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/WHTBJJ.gif\" alt=\"WHTBJJ\" width=\"245\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan wanted revenge and got it while filming a later scene, which involved Bette dragging her across the room. To prepare, Joan, who knew Bette had a history of back problems, strapped on a weightlifters' belt to make herself as heavy as possible. \"There is a way of making it easy on the actor who is doing the carrying, but Crawford wanted Bette to suffer,\" director Robert Aldrich later said. And suffer she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy_1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy_1.gif\" alt=\"whatever happened to baby jane drag body joan bette\" width=\"245\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">turned out to be a huge hit. Bette and Joan got rich all over again, thanks to the profit percentages they had agreed to in the budget negotiations. The movie also raked it in with five Oscar nods total. Davis was nominated for Best Actress. \u003ca href=\"http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/gretchencandycanes422.gif\">And none for\u003c/a> Joan Crawford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan was not happy for her co-star, to say the least. She actively campaigned against Bette during the Oscar season and hatched a secret plan to humiliate her at the ceremony. Bette lost that year's title to Anne Bancroft and couldn't believe her eyes when none other than Joan, herself, waltzed on stage to collect the award. (Joan had called all the other nominees and offered to accept the award on their behalf, should they win.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eqjO39TX5RY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eqjO39TX5RY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I almost dropped dead! I was paralyzed with shock. To deliberately upstage me like that! Her behavior was despicable. I will never forget the look she gave me. It was triumphant. It clearly said: 'You didn't win, and I am elated!'\" Bette later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Robert Aldrich wanted to get the old gang back together again for \u003cem>Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte\u003c/em>. The public's interest in the Bette and Joan rivalry had made them so much money the first time around; why not have another go? Both stars agreed, but the film was immediately plagued by drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the production had to be delayed a month due to Joan wanting to attend a Pepsi sales conference. Once filming did start, Joan complained about no one coming to collect her and her team (a maid, a makeup artist and a hairdresser), after they had landed in Baton Rouge. She also complained about the accommodation, which was too close to garbage cans. Bette snapped, \"Oh, Joan, pull yourself together. This is Baton Rouge, not Beverly Hills!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-crawford-is-embarrassed-for-you-o.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-crawford-is-embarrassed-for-you-o.gif\" alt=\"Joan misses LA, where everywhere you go has valet.\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan misses LA, where everywhere you go has valet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joan also suspected that Bette had too much control over the director and was plotting against her: \"She's practically directing the picture for him right in front of me, so God knows what else she's up to behind my back. I might wind up on the cutting-room floor.\" And Bette's behavior on set didn't assuage that paranoia; Joan would say \"Hello\" or \"Good morning\" every day and Bette would simply ignore her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the shoot continued, Joan began complained of exhaustion and refused to work or speak to the director. The suspicion was that she planned to feign illness to get out of the movie. Insurance doctors and private detectives were involved and the studio's insurance company gave the director an ultimatum: either replace Joan or it's a wrap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film left Joan behind, who promptly checked herself into a hospital. Olivia de Havilland, a friend of Bette's, was selected as her replacement. Back on set, Bette toasted Joan's exit and Olivia's entrance with a glass full of Coca-Cola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bettedavisamen.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bettedavisamen.gif\" alt=\"bette+davis+amen\" width=\"243\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bette and Joan would never work together again. Joan died first, but even death didn't soften Bette towards her former co-star. \"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was their feud real? Or was it a media creation, which Bette and Joan capitalized on? Most likely a bit of both. They say that what you hate in someone else is what you hate in yourself. Maybe these two women always found themselves at odds because they were just too similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both came from single-mother households. Both were headstrong Alpha leading ladies trying to survive in a world that only allowed for one. Both were Aries (\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/21/will-our-next-president-be-hillary-or-trump-astrologers-think-they-know/\">if you believe in that sort of thing\u003c/a>). 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"headTitle": "Rosemary Kennedy: The Tragic Story of Why JFK’s Sister Disappeared from Public View | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/04/kennedycurse.mp3\" title=\"The Kennedy Curse: A Family-Sized Portion of Murphy's Law\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Kennedys are arguably the most famous family in American history (sorry, Kim). But for every charmed luxury they’ve enjoyed, there’s been a tragedy or three. So many sad fates have befallen this brood that even Murphy’s Law is like, \u003cem>Ok, we get it. Damn! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you’re not familiar with what has been dubbed the “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/07/the-kennedy-curse-a-family-sized-portion-of-murphys-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Curse\u003c/a>,” here is an abbreviated CliffsNotes sampler: The eldest child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, Joe Jr. was groomed to run for President someday, but was killed in action during World War II before he had the chance. The expectation then fell to second-born son John, who was almost killed in WWII, but survived to become President, only to be assassinated. Then it was Robert’s turn to lead. He was assassinated the night he won the California Democratic presidential primary. Their sister, Kathleen, died in a plane crash while en route to the south of France with her new fiancé. Robert Kennedy’s mother and father-in-law perished in a plane crash. Ted Kennedy barely survived a plane crash, in which some of his traveling companions weren’t so lucky. JFK Jr. died in a … you get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are familiar stories, but we rarely hear any mention of Rosemary, the Kennedy sister who disappeared from public view in her 20s. All these years of being a passed-over footnote are about to come to an end though, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/emma-stone-rosemary-kennedy\">thanks to a biopic\u003c/a>, starring Emma Stone, which plans to explore the unfortunate twists and turns of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s her story, you ask? I’ll tell you, but first:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning:\u003c/em> this will depress the hell out of you, so gird yourself or flee from here at once in search of a feel-good YouTube \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCpsIS90F0\">video of kittens and puppies being best friends\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t say I didn’t warn you…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 456px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/514694534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/514694534.jpg 456w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/514694534-400x521.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary as a baby, flanked by her older brothers Joe Jr. and John. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/ Bettmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rosemary’s entry into the world was as troubled as what came after it. The year was 1918. World War I was still raging and Spanish influenza was making its way around the world, killing millions. Because so many people in the Boston area needed care, the family physician wasn’t able to immediately pay the Kennedys a house call to deliver Rosemary. The attending nurse, who was fully capable of delivering the baby, ordered Rose to keep her legs closed until the doctor arrived. When this didn’t work, the nurse pushed the baby’s head back into the birth canal and held it there for two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=pop_27643]The effects of this decision only became clear as Rosemary grew older. Every infant milestone — crawling, standing, walking, speaking — arrived later than it should have. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This delay continued at school; teachers advised that she repeat kindergarten and then the first grade too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joe and Rose Kennedy, who both came from overachieving families, were known for placing high academic and physical expectations on their children, and they made no exception for Rosemary. Both parents believed that Rosemary could be “cured” through a combination of holding her to the same standard as her siblings, specialized education and experimental injections. Despite their best efforts, Rosemary would never advance intellectually past the fifth grade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588-800x612.jpg\" alt=\"A line of very wet small children stand waist or chest-deep in the ocean, arms around each other warmly.\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588-800x612.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588-1020x780.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588-768x587.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588-1536x1174.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-510607859-scaled-e1693510039588.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary, John, Eunice, Joseph Jr, and Kathleen Kennedy enjoying the water at Hyannisport, Massachusetts in summer 1925. \u003ccite>(PhotoQuest/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early 20th century, many elites were swept up in the eugenics movement, an ideology marked by a belief that some groups — immigrants, people of color, the poor and the disabled — had a “bad gene” and should not be allowed to breed. The Catholic Church, which was a major part of the family’s way of life, refused Communion and Confirmation to the disabled. If the Kennedys were to be honest about Rosemary’s challenges, their friends and other influential people would blame them for passing along defective genes and their religion would shun them and their daughter. Worried that the truth about Rosemary would sully the family reputation or complicate their political aspirations, Rosemary was sent away to various schools and her parents did their best to keep her condition a secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was more frustrated by not being able to make her parents proud than Rosemary. Her desire to please them can be felt in letters to her father: “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would do anything to make you so happy. I hate to [disappoint] you in any way. Come to see me very soon. I get very lonesome everyday.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A couple stands in a garden with, to their left, their eight children standing in descending order of height.\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698-768x572.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698-1536x1144.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515488494-scaled-e1693510397698.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JFK and his family in 1934. Rosemary is fourth from the right. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learning challenges and parental pressures aside, Rosemary was a very social, amiable person, known for her big smile. She loved fashion, swimming, and going out on the town. Her older brothers, Joe Jr. and John, would often accompany Rosemary to dances. “They waltzed her around the ballrooms, brought her punch, stood with her and shared a quiet laugh, stayed with her so that she appeared not different at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=pop_106807]Despite this compassion for his sister, Joe Jr. would later become radicalized on a trip to Germany in 1934 and adopt less than tender attitudes towards “undesirables,” including people with disabilities. He wrote home to his father: “[Hitler] has passed the sterilization law which I think is a great thing. I don’t know how the Church feels about it, but it will do away with many of the disgusting specimens of men which inhabit this earth.” His father seemed to agree in his reply: “I think your conclusions are very sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1938, FDR appointed Rosemary’s father as ambassador to the United Kingdom. The entire family relocated and it wasn’t long before Rosemary and her younger sister Kathleen were presented to the King and Queen in a debutante “coming out” to high society. Despite only having two weeks to prepare (most women dedicated months), Rosemary aced all the customs she had been taught and, apart from a minor stumble in front of the royals, had a perfect evening of socializing and dancing with high-profile, eligible bachelors. British newspapers were enamored with Rosemary and her dress, and favored her greatly over her sister in their coverage of the events, much to the dismay of her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a mother and her two daughters, all dressed in elegant 1930s evening wear, all smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-1020x802.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-768x604.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-1536x1208.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-2048x1611.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-1920x1510.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">11th May 1938: Rosemary (R) with her mother (C) and sister Kathleen (L) on the day of her presentation to the King and Queen. \u003ccite>(Keystone/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Rosemary settled into life abroad, her circumstances continued to improve. Her parents enrolled her in a Montessori school, which traded the competitive qualities of Rosemary’s home life for a more reassuring, confidence-building approach. Rosemary flourished, academically and socially. Her lead educator wrote her parents that Rosemary had made “remarkable progress” and that there had been “a great change in her lately.” After visiting her, Joe Sr. agreed: “She is happy, looks better than she ever did in her life, is not the slightest bit lonesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Rosemary was finally finding comfort and happiness, history intervened. Germany was getting more and more aggressive on the continent and Rosemary had to first be moved out of London and then out of England entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=arts_13926069]Back in the States, Rosemary became more rebellious, her behavior more erratic. “Every day there would be fights where Rosemary would use her fists to hit and bruise people.” She was known to break out of school to roam the streets of D.C. Rosemary’s actions worried her parents. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping\">The Lindbergh tragedy\u003c/a> had made many prominent families paranoid about their children being targeted in kidnappings or worse. Wrought with stress over Rosemary’s safety and their social standing, Joe Sr. and Rose reached a breaking point and began to desperately seek surgical solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Sr. had heard news of a new surgery called a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">prefrontal lobotomy, which was performed as therapy for people with mental disorders, LGBT people, women who were considered too sexual, criminals and addicts. The surgery had only been practiced for three years in the States. 80% of the patients were women. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evidence suggested that this experimental surgery was risky, unreliable, often damaging and sometimes lethal (9% of all patients died). The American Medical Association strongly advised against the practice until further studies could be done. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite all this, Joe Sr. arranged for \u003c/span>Rosemary to undergo the operation without consulting his wife or anyone else in the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in smart 1930s fitted coats and hats stand arm in arm smiling. They are both wearing white gloves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-1020x795.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-768x598.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-1536x1197.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eunice (L) and Rosemary (R), just three years before her lobotomy. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rosemary’s head was shaved. She was strapped to an operating table and kept awake for the surgery. The doctors asked her to sing songs like “God Bless America,” recite the Lord’s Prayer and tell stories, as they cut into her brain, only stopping after she had gone quiet. “They knew right away that it wasn’t successful.” The attending nurse is said to have been so traumatized by what she saw that she quit her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was once a manageable behavioral problem was now something far worse. Rosemary, then 23-years-old, had regressed to the state of a two-year-old, losing her ability to walk and speak. Joe Sr. immediately sent Rosemary to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York, much to the confusion of her siblings and others. “[Why] after all these years, did she have to be institutionalized now? And why couldn’t any of the family see her?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=arts_13890853]Joe Sr. allegedly told his wife it would be best for her not to visit Rosemary so she could get “accustomed” to her new living arrangement. They told everyone else that she was off studying to be a teacher or getting involved in social work. Eunice, the sibling Rosemary was closest to, said that she didn’t know where Rosemary was for over a decade. In letters to the family, Joe Sr. kept up a vague facade that Rosemary was “getting along quite happily,” never once mentioning the surgery. After 1944, all mentions of Rosemary in family letters stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1948, John had been elected to the House of Representatives and had aspirations for higher offices. Joe Sr. started to worry about the secret of Rosemary getting out and spoiling things, so he made arrangements to have Rosemary relocated to an institution in Wisconsin, where she would live for the remaining 56 years of her life. He never visited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1958, John secretly went to see Rosemary and only then did he realize the severity of what had been done to her. This traumatic revelation inspired him to eventually use his power as President to enact several pieces of legislation that funded research and programs for the disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyfCdOo7ft4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eunice was also doing what she could to enact change, first dedicating money from the Kennedy Foundation to research, then founding Camp Shriver, a retreat for disabled kids, and eventually creating the Special Olympics. These efforts, coupled with John’s political actions, changed America’s public perception of the disabled in a major way. In Ted Kennedy’s words, she “taught us the worth of every human being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, Rose decided to visit Rosemary. It had been over 20 years. Upon seeing her mother after all this time, Rosemary became very upset and “recoiled” from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the ’70s, Rosemary began to attend family vacations. Being around her mother was stressful for her, but her nephews and nieces did their best to create a supportive, loving environment, filled with desserts, swimming, card games, music and other things Rosemary loved. She ended up making quite the impression on Eunice’s sons. Anthony Shriver, who built a room for Rosemary in his home, founded Best Buddies International, a non-profit that provides disabled individuals with a mentor, as well as employment opportunities. And his brother, Timothy, took over the role of Special Olympics CEO from his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTGl-uNgY8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosemary lived out her days in a cottage specifically built for her and her caretakers on the grounds of the Wisconsin institution. She was popular with the staff and other residents, enjoyed swimming, going out for joy rides, playing card games, and spoiling her pets (a canary named Skippy and a poodle named Lollie). In 2005, Rosemary died of natural causes with her four surviving siblings by her side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Want another lesson in little-known history? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite this compassion for his sister, Joe Jr. would later become radicalized on a trip to Germany in 1934 and adopt less than tender attitudes towards “undesirables,” including people with disabilities. He wrote home to his father: “[Hitler] has passed the sterilization law which I think is a great thing. I don’t know how the Church feels about it, but it will do away with many of the disgusting specimens of men which inhabit this earth.” His father seemed to agree in his reply: “I think your conclusions are very sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1938, FDR appointed Rosemary’s father as ambassador to the United Kingdom. The entire family relocated and it wasn’t long before Rosemary and her younger sister Kathleen were presented to the King and Queen in a debutante “coming out” to high society. Despite only having two weeks to prepare (most women dedicated months), Rosemary aced all the customs she had been taught and, apart from a minor stumble in front of the royals, had a perfect evening of socializing and dancing with high-profile, eligible bachelors. British newspapers were enamored with Rosemary and her dress, and favored her greatly over her sister in their coverage of the events, much to the dismay of her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a mother and her two daughters, all dressed in elegant 1930s evening wear, all smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-1020x802.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-768x604.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-1536x1208.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-2048x1611.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-3321730-1920x1510.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">11th May 1938: Rosemary (R) with her mother (C) and sister Kathleen (L) on the day of her presentation to the King and Queen. \u003ccite>(Keystone/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Rosemary settled into life abroad, her circumstances continued to improve. Her parents enrolled her in a Montessori school, which traded the competitive qualities of Rosemary’s home life for a more reassuring, confidence-building approach. Rosemary flourished, academically and socially. Her lead educator wrote her parents that Rosemary had made “remarkable progress” and that there had been “a great change in her lately.” After visiting her, Joe Sr. agreed: “She is happy, looks better than she ever did in her life, is not the slightest bit lonesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Rosemary was finally finding comfort and happiness, history intervened. Germany was getting more and more aggressive on the continent and Rosemary had to first be moved out of London and then out of England entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Back in the States, Rosemary became more rebellious, her behavior more erratic. “Every day there would be fights where Rosemary would use her fists to hit and bruise people.” She was known to break out of school to roam the streets of D.C. Rosemary’s actions worried her parents. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping\">The Lindbergh tragedy\u003c/a> had made many prominent families paranoid about their children being targeted in kidnappings or worse. Wrought with stress over Rosemary’s safety and their social standing, Joe Sr. and Rose reached a breaking point and began to desperately seek surgical solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Sr. had heard news of a new surgery called a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">prefrontal lobotomy, which was performed as therapy for people with mental disorders, LGBT people, women who were considered too sexual, criminals and addicts. The surgery had only been practiced for three years in the States. 80% of the patients were women. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evidence suggested that this experimental surgery was risky, unreliable, often damaging and sometimes lethal (9% of all patients died). The American Medical Association strongly advised against the practice until further studies could be done. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite all this, Joe Sr. arranged for \u003c/span>Rosemary to undergo the operation without consulting his wife or anyone else in the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in smart 1930s fitted coats and hats stand arm in arm smiling. They are both wearing white gloves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-1020x795.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-768x598.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793-1536x1197.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-515428388-scaled-e1693510802793.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eunice (L) and Rosemary (R), just three years before her lobotomy. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rosemary’s head was shaved. She was strapped to an operating table and kept awake for the surgery. The doctors asked her to sing songs like “God Bless America,” recite the Lord’s Prayer and tell stories, as they cut into her brain, only stopping after she had gone quiet. “They knew right away that it wasn’t successful.” The attending nurse is said to have been so traumatized by what she saw that she quit her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was once a manageable behavioral problem was now something far worse. Rosemary, then 23-years-old, had regressed to the state of a two-year-old, losing her ability to walk and speak. Joe Sr. immediately sent Rosemary to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York, much to the confusion of her siblings and others. “[Why] after all these years, did she have to be institutionalized now? And why couldn’t any of the family see her?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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