{"id":192910,"date":"2009-02-06T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/06\/richard-b-cheney-will-you-please-go-now\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T11:04:00","slug":"richard-b-cheney-will-you-please-go-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/06\/richard-b-cheney-will-you-please-go-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard B. Cheney Will You Please Go Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, 1974, Art Buchwald, with permission of Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), made a column of the book, &#8220;Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Mr. Geisel sent his friend Buchwald a copy of the book and  replaced &#8220;Marvin K. Mooney&#8221; and with &#8220;Richard M. Nixon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buchwald wrote, &#8220;It sounded like fun so I asked him if I could reprint it&#8221; with the suggestion that it be read aloud.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, do not have the writing chops of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">either<\/span> the late Mssrs. Geisel or Buchwald, but this has to be shared.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom, is Keith Olbermann&#8217;s special comment from last night, saying the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Richard B. Cheney will you please go now!<br \/>The time has come.<br \/>The time has come.<br \/>The time is now.<br \/>Just go.<br \/>Go.<br \/>Go!<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how.<br \/>You can go by foot.<br \/>You can go by cow.<br \/>Richard B. Cheney will you please go now!<br \/>You can go on skates.<br \/>You can go on skis.<br \/>You can go in a hat.<br \/>But<br \/>Please go.<br \/>Please!<br \/>I don&#8217;t care.<br \/>You can go<br \/>By bike.<br \/>You can go<br \/>On a Zike-Bike<br \/>If you like.<br \/>If you like<br \/>You can go<br \/>In an old blue shoe.<br \/>Just go, go, GO!<br \/>Please do, do, do, DO!<br \/>Richard B. Cheney<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how.<br \/>Richard B. Cheney<br \/>Will you please<br \/>GO NOW!<br \/>You can go on stilts.<br \/>You can go by fish.<br \/>You can go in a Crunk-Car<br \/>If you wish.<br \/>If you wish<br \/>You may go<br \/>By lion&#8217;s tale.<br \/>Or stamp yourself<br \/>And go by mail.<br \/>Richard B. Cheney<br \/>Don&#8217;t you know<br \/>The time has come<br \/>To go, go, GO!<br \/>Get on your way!<br \/>Please Richard M.!<br \/>You might like going in a Zumble-Zay.<br \/>You can go by balloon . . .<br \/>Or broomstick.<br \/>Or<br \/>You can go by camel<br \/>In a bureau drawer.<br \/>You can go by bumble-boat<br \/>. . . or jet.<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how you go.<br \/>Just get!<br \/>Richard B. Cheney!<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how.<br \/>Richard B. Cheney<br \/>Will you please<br \/>GO NOW!<br \/>I said<br \/>GO<br \/>And<br \/>GO<br \/>I meant . . .<br \/>The time had come<br \/>So . . .<br \/>Richard WENT.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/29043314#29043314\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit msnbc.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, 1974, Art Buchwald, with permission of Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), made a column of the book, &#8220;Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!&#8221; It appears that Mr. Geisel sent his friend Buchwald a copy of the book and replaced &#8220;Marvin K. Mooney&#8221; and with &#8220;Richard M. Nixon.&#8221; Buchwald wrote, &#8220;It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}