Overview
In a little over a score of years he had risen from obscurity to become not only America's foremost comedian, but an Ambassador to the World and the best beloved character of these United States. He had been a cowboy, a performer in a circus, an actor on both the stage and the screen, a lecturer, a writer, a world traveler. For all his varied experience, he retained a natural simplicity of outlook which enabled him to express in terse, commonsense, witty phrases the thoughts and feelings of the common man. He concealed under a quizzical rustic manner that was infinitely winning the breadth of wisdom and the real comprehension of world events that were his. He was always himself; no King, nor President, nor other exalted personage could overawe him or claim exemption from his humorous and pointed quips. His targets became his friends. Never was he more engaging or funnier than in this classic tale of a hospital experience which is presented here in this volume. One of Will Rogers' most famous lines, "I have never yet met a man that I didn't like," was part of a longer quotation and in its original form was in reference to Leon other quotes "Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke." "Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them." "Our foreign policy is an open book - a checkbook.", "I belong to no organized party, I'm a Democrat.", "Lettin' the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than puttin' it back in.", "People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. "The income tax has made more liars out of Americans than golf.", "If stupidity got us in this mess, why can't it get us out?" ,"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.", "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." , "A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now if you think the senators were hot imagine how the jackasses must feel."