Will Rogers State of the Trump Burlesque

According to Capitol guides, each US president rubs the left shoe of the Rogers statue for good luck before entering the House Chamber to give the State of the Union address.

Wll said, "There are three kinds of men.

 The one that learns by reading. 

The few who learn by observation. 

The rest of them have to pee on the  Moscow Ritz electric fence for themselves.
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"William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma.

 Of mixed race, he identified as Cherokee, as his parents did.

His father, Clement, was a leader in the Cherokee Nation. An attorney and Cherokee judge, he was a Confederate veteran. 

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

He served as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Rogers County, Oklahoma, is named in honor of him. He served several terms in the Cherokee Senate.

 Clement Rogers achieved financial success as a rancher and used his influence to help soften the negative effects of white acculturation on his people."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers

Rogers quipped that his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower, but they "met the boat".

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Roof_Garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Roof_Garden
Rogers later recalled these early years:


I got a job on Hammerstein's Roof at $140 a week for myself, my horse, and the man who looked after it.

 I remained on the roof for eight weeks, always getting another two week extension when Willie Hammerstein would say to me after the Monday matinee, 'you're good for two weeks more'...

 Marty Shea, the booking agent for the Columbia, came to me and asked if I wanted to play burlesque.

 They could use an extra attraction....I told him I would think about it, but 'Burlesque' sounded to me then as something funny."

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Before his death, the state of Oklahoma commissioned a statue of Rogers, to be displayed as one of the two it has in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol. 

Rogers agreed on the condition that his image would be placed facing the House Chamber, supposedly so he could "keep an eye on Congress". 

Of the statues in this part of the Capitol, the Rogers sculpture is the only one facing the Chamber entrance.

According to Capitol guides, each US president rubs the left shoe of the Rogers statue for good luck before entering the House Chamber to give the State of the Union address.

http://thehill.com/capital-living/329753-will-rogers-still-watches-the-lawmakers-he-loved-to-spoof