The Archbishop of Canterbury

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Hey Roy E. Belson,

Listen to Frank Sinatra Jr. on his father:
"I admired him because of the fact that he was a person who believed in the principle of maintaining one's own character...the things he believed in, he believed in.  The things he did not believe in he stayed away from. He practiced those beliefs devoutly.  And I always felt it hurt him many times. He was bruised many times by his non-compromising attitude.  If I like someone or something I am not going to just let that disappear because suddenly it is fashionable to let such a thing disappear, and I always admired him for that."

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmpJKpa5N_4

 ...there's a story, during the war, the Archbishop of Canterbury asked the prime minister, Mr. Churchill, "Since you stand on the side of justice and civilization, why do you have so many enemies?"

(3:36 mark in on the video)

And the story goes that the prime minister of England, Winston Churchill, turned and said:

"Your grace, the man who has no enemies has no character."  And my father did not mind the fact that his character, on occasion, would generate enemies. That's going to happen, if you have character you're going to have enemies.

I always felt that the reason why he afforded himself that luxury is because the friends outnumbered the enemies probably about 20 to 1."

Park Marenteau on this Editor:

"He has enemies."

Ya think?

It also means I have character! if you believe in what Frank Sinatra Jr. said.



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and Roy, Charles Pignone wrote the wonderful liner notes to the DVD / Blu-ray of the HBO Special on Frank Sinatra

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