Singer Pearl Bailey was displeased with her accompanist. When he tried to resign, saying "I probably don't know any songs you know," she shrugged, "Mr. President, anything you play, I know—however old." But when he broke into a stilted Home on the Range, she withered him with "I came here to sing a song, not to ride a horse." Finally, Pearlie Mae and President Richard Nixon harmonized. With 41 Governors and guests at the White House dinner last week, they chorused My Wild Irish Rose and God Bless America.
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