CSPAN2 Book TV November 13, 2011
important and new about edmund from his own mouth this morning that it's thanks solely to the efforts of edmund taken directly to don grahm that the comic strip, zippy, was restored to the "washington post". [applause] he's a great subject of thee dore roosevelt, and there was a tree in front of their house on second street that the city of washington was determined to cut down, and edmund was so determined that it not be cut down, that he climbed the tree and wrapped his arms around it and said, shoot if you must, this old gray head, but spare my favorite tree, he said. [laughter] h...
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