EARTHA KITT, 1993: When the wars were over, you didn't tell us not to hate them. You didn't retrain us. And then on top of all of that, you took the industry out of the United States and gave the American jobs to the enemy!

Over 20 years ago, Legendary singer Eartha Kitt sat down with a seemingly “normal” Whoopi Goldberg (?) to discuss America + her interaction w president + Mrs. Johnson decades earlier

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Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008.

This was from a 1993 interview she did on the Whoopi Goldberg Show.  Find it on YouTube in Part I and Part II.  The segment above is found in Part II of the interview.  Enjoy.  Find my transcript of the segment below.

It is something like what Perot has done today but in a much bigger way but of course nobody was doing it. First of all, people thought that I was invited to the White House to sing my songs, "Baby, I Want to Be Evil," 1954 and "Just an Old-Fashioned Girl," 1956.  That was not the case at all.

50 of us women were invited there to give our opinions as to why there was so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.  That was the question.  I kept raising my hand.  Every time somebody said something I raised my hand.  Mrs. Johnson was saving me for last it seems.  First of all, I want you to know that President Johnson was not supposed to be there.  But everybody was wondering if he's coming.  It was like waiting for Cary Grant, "Is he coming, is he not coming?" And all of a sudden, the Walls of Jericho opened up and here comes President Johnson with cameras in back of him, you know.  He puts his arm on the rostrum and he actually, I swear to God, cross my heart and hope to die if I'm not telling you the truth, the man said, "I want you all to know how fortunate it is that you are all here today to have lunch with the world's most important family.  I would like for you to go back to your communities and tell your communities what a wonderful family you have here."  

I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth, Whoopi, may the gods strike me dead if I'm not telling you the truth, anyway . . . .

1:26.  Also, Whoopi, I said to her,

We were taught to hate the Germans because we had to fight that war.

We were taught to hate the Koreans because we had to fight that war.

We were taught to hate the Vietnamese because etc., etc.

We were taught to hate the Japanese.  

When the wars were over, you didn't tell us not to hate them.  You didn't retrain us.  And then on top of all of that, you took the industry out of the United States and gave the American jobs to the enemy!  How can you possibly expect us to accept that when you never told us any differently?  And now you're telling us that we are a problem?  And we came home from these wars without a job?  

2:14. And look at the Gulf War.  These boys came home and didn't even find practically enough money to pay their mortgages, and they're considered undesirables!?  

The poor boys who came back from Vietnam were not even considered first class citizens when they came back.  They were hated!  Undesirables!  And you're now telling us that we should love one another . . . without jobs?  You tell us that we should be good . . . without jobs that you gave to what you told us was the enemy? What are we supposed to do now?  Walk the streets that's what they were doing . . . well, I mean I may be exaggerating a bit now because every time I think about it I just get so angry and annoyed inside about what that government, these governments, are doing to us as Americans citizens.  "MY country 'tis of thee!" as the man said on the voice, the boys who came back from the Vietnamese Wars.  "Great land of bigotry!" What happened?  Why aren't we correcting these situations?  When you bring foreigners into the country, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Japanese, and they're walking all over us in our jobs and you expect us to be nice, sweet, loving people when the community is being broken apart.  Now the taxes are so high that both parents have to work and we are latchkey kids. What do you expect of the children?  

3:40.  Anyhow, one lady got up way over in the corner of the room and she said, "Miss Kitt, I'll have you know I have eight sons and I would be glad to donate each one of them to Vietnam."

How can I talk to you?. 

3:57.  Jack Anderson called me in January 1974, I remember it very well, because I was packing up the car taking my daughter and the big Saint Bernard dog up to the mountains to a friend of my daughter's, and the phone rang, and it was Seymour Hirsch from The New York Times who was asking me permission to print what they had found.  And he told me what he found.  He said what I'm sending . . . he sent me a bit of it, it was only a smidgen of what the CIA had on me.  Now the way they put you out of work, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson. called the networks across the nation, the media in general, all the media, and said "I don't want to see that woman's face anywhere" because he was escalating the wars obviously it seems to me.  And according to my dossier at the bottom of the page it says, "Specifically requested by Lyndon Baines and Ladybird Johnson."  He sent out the FBI to go out to the venues that I had been working in, or that I might be working in, because every place that I'd ever worked at always had return engagement clause in it.  And if the FBI is on the doorsteps of these venues then you are considered a problem.

5:05.  The Ambassador Hotel I had a contract there about 3 weeks later and suddenly they couldn't find the contract it was a signed contract on both parties side all of a sudden the agents don't want to know you even your friends don't want to know you nobody called I was up there in my house and La Colima Drive wondering what happened So eventually I never left this country I will never leave this country I love this country basically I love what America stands for she has a lot of problems and I'm perfectly willing to help her solve her problems so I'm not afraid to open my mouth even though you get your face slapped but I went to Europe, and different places in South America Australia, anywhere that I could find work. And to this day, you still don't know who is remembering, and said, "Well, that mother-in-law said, 'Yes, Eartha, I believe in what you said.  I agree with what you said, but did you have to say it?'" Even my girlfriends who have sons that were about to be at an age to be sent to Vietnam, they were at an age to be sent to Vietnam, who said to me, "I think you should apologize to our friends because of what you did."

I said why?  Don't you have sons?  Do you want your sons to go to Vietnam?

6:19.  We want to build our country from the inside again.  As a matter of fact what the politicians, all of these politicians, Clinton, Perot, all of them, are saying exactly the same thing I told them in 1968.  You take the industry out of this country and you're going to have a big problem because everybody's going to be without a job and they're going to wonder what happened.  You can find billions of dollars to go to the Gulf.  Why can't you find billions of dollars to take care of the poor people in this country?  Why are we walking the streets?  A lot of those boys who went to wars and fought for this country.  I know that some people think I'm bitter and maybe in some respects I am bitter, and in very many ways I'm very angry because this is my country and we are entitled to fight for it from the inside.  And sometimes I think what happened?  I thought my country said that we have freedom from oppression? Freedom from hunger? Freedom of expression?  You can speak your mind as long as you're not hitting anybody over the head with a baseball bat, you're entitled to speak your mind.  We don't want to be on welfare.  We want jobs.  I want to have dignity and respect for myself, and this is what I feel about every one of us in the United States as well as the rest of the world.  But if you're going to pay people to stay poor, why not stay poor?  And if you get a job, if the job pay is as much as you can get from the welfare, you don't have to pay taxes on the welfare money but you have to pay taxes on the money that you get from a job.

7:45.  I'm terribly disappointed particularly in my own country that threw me out of work in this country for over 20 some odd years or whatever the figure might be and put me out of work.  I lost a lot of lucrative years, and then the disappointing thing too is that the American public and I didn't have a chance to grow up together, and they thought that I had either gotten out of the business, I died, or I had moved to Paris, or I had moved to some foreign country.  So no I never left America.  I have no intentions of leaving the United States.  But what goes around comes around . . . 

5 Worst Presidents, Ranked by How they Violated Their Oath of Office, by How they Defended the Constitution

McClanahan's criteria for judging the worst or best presidents was based on their ability to uphold their oath of office, how well did they defend the Constitution? These 5 presidents are the worst because they violated their oath of office.  When a president takes office, he takes an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.  What does that mean?  Well, that's the Constitution as ratified in the original Constitution: we don't have elected kings.  Now, of course, Alexander Hamilton said he wanted that, but we didn't get that.  "An elected king" was not ratified; in fact, one of the arguments against the Constitution is that it created an elected king, but those who said it never would.  Even reading Alexander Hamilton's Federalists 69 he says "No, the American president will never be an elected king, it's not designed that way."  So that's the Constitution we got, but typically the men that are considered the best act as dictators or kings or tyrants, and the ones that are considered the worst are generally those who follow the Constitution.

#5 HARRY S. TRUMAN

4:00. Harry Truman was so aggressive, we didn't have a peace treaty on the war.  We had to end it through essentially a  Congressional resolution because Harry Truman was blocking any attempt to have a real peace treaty with Germany or Japan.  Also, Harry Truman, when the war was over, the United States attempted to demobilize.  Harry Truman didn't let it happen; in fact, we just kind of rolled all these big massive unconstitutional government programs into something else and then called it something else.  The United States has never gone off of wartime footing since World War II, and a lot of that is due to Harry Truman.  A lot of the stuff was unconstitutional.  We know it. Harry Truman nationalized the steel industry.  Harry Truman attempted to arrest blue-collar workers for opposing his policies.  Where have we seen this before in the modern era?  Well, let's see, it's called mandates.  So Harry Truman was doing things that were completely out of line.  He's got his Fair Deal, "everyone deserves a fair deal," which was a massive expansion of federal programs, unconstitutional Federal programs.  Harry Truman in so many ways is the personification of the Progressive Left: a) centralized power, b) come up with unconstitutional programs, c) be a warmonger, d) got us involved in Korea, the first time the United States had gotten into a major undeclared war and it's in Korea?  Come on.  This guy was one of the worst presidents in American history bar none.  He makes the top five because he is so bad.

#4 LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, LBJ 

5:36. All right, coming in number four is another democratic warmonger, Lyndon Baines Johnson, another guy that is a . . .  people try to give him credit for the Great Society which, of course, is massively unconstitutional.  He's pushing that legislative agenda.  They'll also try to give him credit for things like civil rights legislation and they'll give him a pass because of that, but we know Johnson wasn't really interested in real civil rights.  What he really wanted was too ensure the ascendency of the Democratic Party and maintain power, and that's exactly what happened.  He took one group of people, African Americans who had voted Republican for a long time, and made them Democratic voters because he thought that was the way forward.  So was he really committed to civil rights or not, that's an open question.  But the guns and butter policies of Lyndon Baines Johnson are some of the worst in American history.  His War on Poverty didn't end poverty, hasn't ended it at all.  His engagement in Vietnam cost tens of thousands of American lives and this is all under the guise of strong centralization, major centralization in American history.  So Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society and the Vietnam War are two disastrous things; it's no wonder that Johnson, who assumes office after Kennedy's assassination, is essentially out in 1968. Because he knows he's not going to be reelected, so the man is out and we've got he's followed up by Richard Nixon, who's also really bad but not anywhere near as bad as Lyndon Johnson.  So if you want to look at number four in terms of unconstitutional powers and abuse abusing power, Lyndon Johnson is your guy.

#3 WOODROW WILSON

7:15. Coming in at #3 is a man who did a lot to change the way we think about the executive office in the 20th century, and that would be Woodrow Wilson, the man who got us involved in World War I, the first time in American history that Americans are going to be fighting in Europe in a major war, that's Woodrow Wilson.  Also Woodrow Wilson and his legislative programs, he provided the blueprint for the New Deal and the unconstitutional measures used by the general government during World War II.  This guy was terrible when it came to defending his oath; he didn't do it at all.  He's a progressive and Woodrow Wilson thought it was the job of the progressives to change the nature of government.  Wilson, in fact, said as much.  He said, you know, the Constitution is not something that should get in our way, right. The Constitution is something that we can use to our advantage.  Now, Wilson at one time was very much a strict constructionist, but he saw that as an obstacle to good effective, efficient government, so from that point forward after he became president of Princeton and he was governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson certainly decided that unconstitutional authority was was the best kind of authority and an aggressive foreign policy was the best kind of foreign policy.  So if you want to look at the beginning of the American age and World War 1 and the American Empire, it certainly started before that with the Spanish-American War, 1898, but World War I really put the United States front and center on the world stage and that was thanks to Woodrow Wilson.  And you wouldn't have had the New Deal without Wilson and Wilson's domestic policies.  This guy was awful and if you look at him defending his oath, he did a very poor job.

#2 ABRAHAM LINCOLN

8:58. Coming in at #2, this is the one that's going to infuriate a lot of people but it's true: the second worst president in American history is Abraham Lincoln.  Now I could have put him number one; as a matter of fact, I could have put any of these people number one, but Lincoln did so much to create the modern Imperial presidency.  Now, Lincoln had precedence: he had Andrew Jackson and he also had George Washington.  Why Jackson and Washington, those are good presidents.  What are you saying?  Lincoln was a good president.  Anyone who engages in a war that kills a million Americans is not a good president.  Lincoln could have chosen to have peace but he chose War instead.  In fact, historians pointed this out for years.  It's only been recently that we've had this idolization of Lincoln to the point of making him a demigod.  There's a very good book by James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, 2012.  Everyone recognized Lincoln's dubious constitutional tactics.  People understood that Lincoln was violating the Constitution, his opponents knew he was violating the Constitution.  Heck, Lincoln himself even admitted at times, "I think I'm violating the Constitution.  It doesn't matter."  But if you want to point to presidential powers, war powers, and how they are abused, you've got to go back to Abraham Lincoln.  There's a guy that said, "Look, I don't care if it's constitutional or not; it's best to designed to subdue the enemy."  And that of course became the basis of every single presidential act when it came to unconstitutional military power, you can't go beyond Lincoln for that.  So Lincoln did a lot to create this national government, destroying State powers.  We go from a federal republic to a national Empire.  I mean this is the Lincoln Administration in a nutshell, and I think that you can't get around the fact that Lincoln is a disaster constitutionally in terms of defending his oath.  His opponents said it, and we should all recognize that.

#1 FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

10:51. Coming in at number one the worst president in American history, Franklin Roosevelt, King Franklin, the only man to serve 4 terms, which broke precedent.  George Washington had established precedent; he only served 2 terms.  Franklin Roosevelt elected 4 times, died in office very early into his 4th term.  Regardless, really a man who transformed the way we think of the modern Executive Branch.  Here's a guy who assumes office in 1933 and essentially admits openly in his inaugural address that he's going to be a dictator and that's what he does.  So the New Deal which Roosevelt essentially authored the Roosevelt administration.  He threatened the Supreme Court, so they'd bend to his will.  He gets the United States involved in World War II, which there was a question, did it have to be involved in World War II?  So all these unconstitutional things and, of course, all the programs that were put into effect and solidified by World War II, the creation of the military-industrial complex, all of that is because of King Franklin and FDR's Administration.  This guy is absolutely horrible in defending his oath, yet he's often elevated to the status of a great president.  You can't get around the fact that people loved FDR.  He's right up there at the top, always ranked near the top with Lincoln, of course, and George Washington.  I could say that George Washington is a great president in many ways.  Of course, in my 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her, 2018, I made the case for Washington who had some problems as well but . . . .  Franklin Roosevelt is the worst president in American history bar none.  

Who are McClanahan's 5 Best Presidents?  His criterion?  Based on defending their oath of office.  If they did a good job of defending the Constitution, they are going to be in this 5 Best.