Victor Kilian: Raymond Larkin

Quotes 

• Martha Shumway : Look! You must've lost thirty pounds since you bought these pants.

  Raymond Larkin : Works out to a pound a year. I bought them when Harry Truman was in the White House, spring of '46.

  Martha Shumway : Well, then no wonder you keep losing them! They're just too big for ya. I should take in the waist.

  Raymond Larkin : Best president we ever had. Never took no guff from nobody.

• Raymond Larkin : The only mishap I have is living past any reasonable man's threescore and ten.

  [looks heavenward] 

  Raymond Larkin : You want me, Grace?

  Martha Shumway : Long life is a blessing, you know that, Pa.

  Raymond Larkin : For who? For hearing aid companies and denture manufacturers, that's for who. Another man who wouldn't take any guff was Harold Ickes.