Today is the birthday of another one of them “Massachusetts liberals,” e.e. cummings. According the The Writer’s Almanac, cummings was a “conservative, irritable man.” He traveled to Russia in 1931 and later likened life under communism to Dante’s Inferno. He wrote about the experience. “Most of the publishers were communists themselves, and they turned their backs on cummings for criticizing communist Russia,” according to TWA.
It’s also the birthday of that pesky republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower, says TWA, who said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." And, “He was also one of the only generals who loved talking to the press. He said, ‘[Journalists are] quasi members of my staff.’”
Massachusetts liberals, sneaky republicans, pesky labels.
