Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.