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Friday, December 26, 2008
 
Talk about outspoken words and guts. The great Eartha Kitt passed away this Christmas. She was invited to the White House in 1968 and asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. Her reply: You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

It's worth mentioning that bookings dried up and she was exiled in Europe for almost a decade until President Jimmy Carter invited her back to the White House in 1978.

Obit in the New York Times.

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