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Today my wife happened to find this sublime bit of poetry in an old New Yorker, page 79 of the 7 June 2010 issue:
"Before embarking for Cuba, in 1898, the Rough Riders, led by Theodore Roosevelt, chanted
Rough tough, we're the stuff.
We want to fight, and we can't get enough.
Whoopee!.
...William Randolf Hearst..., to witness the war he had helped instigate, traveled on a steamship with two chorus girls dressed as sailors."
The source is a book called The War Lovers, by Evan Thomas.
"Before embarking for Cuba, in 1898, the Rough Riders, led by Theodore Roosevelt, chanted
Rough tough, we're the stuff.
We want to fight, and we can't get enough.
Whoopee!.
...William Randolf Hearst..., to witness the war he had helped instigate, traveled on a steamship with two chorus girls dressed as sailors."
The source is a book called The War Lovers, by Evan Thomas.