Shirley Temple BLACK Does NOT Support BOLTON for the U.N.

[UTUSN]

Leave it to the old kiss-up Army ARCHERD to pass over his real news in favor of RAYGUNesque reminiscing with his memories.

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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117923398?categoryid=2&cs=1

SHIRLEY TEMPLE made the switch from movie star to U.S. Ambassador (Ghana and the Czech Republic) and was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1969. She has always been a supporter of Republican candidates over the years. But don't look for her support for John R. Bolton as U.N. Ambassador. During her term at the U.N., Shirley gave me a personal tour of the U.N., an experience I shall never forget. She was surprised when I told her "The Interpreter" claimed to have been the first film to get an OK to shoot scenes at the U.N. But 1964's "Global Affair" producer Ed Feldman says he not only got an OK from Ambassador Adlai Stevenson to film in the U.N., but Stevenson also appeared at the U.N. in the Bob Hope starrer ... Feldman, talking about Jane Fonda and her return to pix in "Monster-in-Law," recalled Fonda once asking if she could borrow his parking space on the 20th-Fox lot. "You can not only have my space," he told her, "you can have my CAR!" Ah, those were some fun days in Hollywood.

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[katmondoo]

1. I thought she hated Ronald Reagan for his support of McCarthy

and for his giving up names to the UnAmerican Committee headed by McCarthy.

[liberalitch]

2. After briefly being a CPA member himself

[UTUSN]

6. There Was Nuttin' But Love Between Her and RAYGUN

I'll keep looking for something totally specific on this point, but in the meantime here's this, where she served 8 solid years under her co-star's Mal-administration.


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http://www.mailtribune.com/primet/archive/1999/72799p1.htm

.... And at the age of 8, Shirley was accused by Red-hunting congressmen of being a dupe of the Communist Party. The evidence: among the thousands of photos she autographed was one to the Hollywood correspondent of an allegedly communist newspaper in Paris. ....

Temple Black's career in diplomacy began when her brother George was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1952.

"I got very active on the Los Angeles board, then the national board and finally was a co-founder of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies," she said. "I called it my little United Nations, because we had 19 countries."

President Nixon in 1969 appointed Temple Black as delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. In 1974, President Ford made her ambassador to Ghana.

"Ambassadors, if they do it right, work about 14-hour days," she remarked. "My favorite part of the job was working in the office and with the people of the country. My unfavorite part was the parties and the receptions."

Returning to Washington in 1976, she was appointed by Ford as U.S. chief of protocol, a job that she describes with a thumbs down. "A lot of parties for one who doesn't like parties," she explained. She lasted six months, her tenure ending with Jimmy Carter's election.

For eight years in the administration of her co-star in "That Hagen Girl," Ronald Reagan, she undertook another government job, as teacher at the State Department, conducting seminars for ambassadors and their wives.

In 1989, Temple Black was traveling to promote the first half of her autobiography, "Child Star," when President Bush reached her in Seattle. "I want you to be my ambassador to Czechoslovakia," he said.

"Yes!" she replied immediately.

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[UTUSN]

7. A Bit More: No Objection to RAYGUN, Plus Cold Warrior

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http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=126&article=22183&archive=true

.... She opposes actors and actresses running for public office unless they give up their theatrical careers. "In the first place you alienate half your audience automatically — because half of your fans are going to be of another view. Your show's ratings will go down."

But she didn't object to Gov. Ronald Reagan and Sen. George Murphy (both of whom she starred with in films) running for office without coming up through the political ranks.

"They would have been leaders no matter what their walk of life. It doesn't matter if you work in a drugstore or what. If you have something to offer, that's what matters."



http://www.nndb.com/people/089/000023020/

.... Temple called an old friend, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and asked him to check into Black's background. In the age before prenuptial agreements, it may have been a wise choice. "I didn't want to be surprised again... Fortunately they said Charlie was clean -- good as applesauce." Shortly thereafter, she became Shirley Temple Black. ....

In 1967, Temple ran for Congress on a platform urging more American involvement in the war in Vietnam. She lost the election, and attributes this to political cartoons that showed the child Shirley Temple facing off against big grown-up politicians. She was 49 at the time. ....

As a child, Temple's heroes were Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart, and Temple met both. She says of the First Lady, "I met Eleanor Roosevelt when I was 10 years old and we became friends. I did hit her in the rear end with my sling shot with a pebble at her home in Hyde Park. ....

Of her diplomatic posts, the strongly anti-communist Temple thought her most exciting position was as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, under George H.W. Bush. "I was told I was going to a Stalinist backwater, one of the toughest countries around... And I thought, 'Good! Let's go get 'em!'" While in Czechoslovakia, she once eluded the secret police and attended an anti-government rally, and then watched that nation's 1968 Velvet Revolution from a friend's apartment.

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[Dogmudgeon]

3. Ms. Black is an old-school Republican

Certainly not a progressive, but not a regressive, either.

Also, as far as I remember, she strongly supported Civil Rights (and, no, I'm not referring to her dance number with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson).

Take a good look at the Republicans of Ms. Black's era and mindset, then compare them to the modern Neo-Con mountebank. It is always instructive to be struck by the difference.

--p!

[CBHagman]

5. Indeed.

Can you imagine how someone like Margaret Chase Smith or Dwight Eisenhower would react to today's slash-and-burn politics?

As for Ms. Black, I can't imagine her being able to stomach someone like Bolton, who apparently rides roughshod over people.

[Cha]

4. That's cool that

Shirley Temple Black is still around and she feels this way.

I wish the news would get out There that she does not support bolton..but then who would except cretins like the bushreich.

[dogday]

8. Thinks Bolton should board the Good Ship Lollipop and sail

away, very far away....A poster child for what a UN Representative should not be....

[UTUSN]

9. FDR & Eleanor & Everybody Liked Her, So What Can We Do? n/t