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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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Quotation by Will Rogers:

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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1879-1935 (Age at death: 56 approx.)

American cowboy, motion picture actor (50 silent films and 21 talkies), vaudeville performer(including the Ziegfeld Follies), social commentator (more than 4000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns),radio personality, political wit and humorist."Oklahoma's favorite son." He died at age 55 in a small plane crash.

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