Teddy and his girl cousins

Interesting historical tid-bit

A lot of people have questioned that I fought with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan.  Yesterday I was cleaning up and found this old photograph (I blurred  the objectionable parts so as not to offend).  Teddy and I were in the same eating club at Harvard College.  Well, he was a student, and I was a busboy.  This is a picture of Teddy and one of his cousins, which shocked me at the time.  One day Teddy was the only one in the dining hall and I said, "Excuse me, Mr. Ted, but I'm a pretty good judge of character, and I think you'll be a famous president one day."  He was pleased by that, and asked me to sit down and have coffee with him.  I continued, ''I don't think you should be carrying on so, like you was last night at the smoker."  Teddy:  "Pshaw.  All the lads do it." Me: "No, I mean, she was your cousin,right?" Teddy: "What of it?" Me: "Well sir, most people, common folk, them what vote in elections, they think that fornicating with kin is unnatural.  I'm afraid that it could be used against you someday. Teddy:  "By Jove, you are correct." That began a long friendship, and later on I became his batman when we fought the spics in Cuba. Too bad I never had the chance to warn his cousin Franklin.  Course, it didn't seem to hurt him much politically. Anyway, now you know.  I don't bullshit about stuff.