Charles Bukowski Quotes
I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
Adams had been in the position before. A perukemaker was a wig maker. Most men wore fancy wigs in public for formal occasions. All the ambassadors were expected to wear a wig to court with the exception of Benjamin Franklin who had his own identity as a major celebrity and could do anything he wanted and get away with it. He often wore a coon skin hat with tail from the American frontier while everyone else, including the king wore wigs. In the high English courts, wigs are still worn by the judges and attorneys.
Many Conservatives were afraid of the WWI experience being repeated whereby American soldiers would board boats and sail over to Europe to fight a “European War.” At the recommendation of Chief of Staff General Marshall, Roosevelt had increased the military readiness. The military was woefully prepared. There were not even enough rifles available for the soldiers we had. Willkie exaggerated the preparedness using the metaphor of the American troops sailing off to the European War. That is what happened much later, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States.
Henry Charles Bukowski was a German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
