"He's a son-of-a-bitch, but he's our son-of-a-bitch" - FDR supposedly said this on the eve of Somoza's visit to Washington in 1939 (Pastor, Condemned to repetition, p. 321).
However, Andrew Crawley (Somoza and Roosevelt, p. 153) notes that the expression predates Somoza's presidency (namely, the first recorded mention is 1932) and could have been first used with reference to FDR himself, or have been invented by Somoza. J. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
