When I was an adolescent, a young comedienne named Carol Burnett burst into public awareness by singing a song on the Jack Paar show entitled "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles." Dulles was Dwight Eisenhower's peripatetic and somewhat stodgy Secretary of State, for whom the international airport near Washington DC is appropriately named.I googled the lyrics and found them here.
I made a fool of myself over John Foster Dulles
Oh I made a chump of myself over John Foster Dulles
The first time I saw him t'was at the UN
Oh I never have been one to swoon over men
But I swooned and the drums started poundin and then
I made a fool of myself over John Foster Dulles
I knew it was futile to dream
for we never could marry
still my heart ripped apart at the seams
for our state secretary
The next time I saw him he was flying to Spain
He waved to someone as he boarded the plane
Was it me cried my heart
and then I went insane
I made a fool of myself over John Foster Dulles
Get a hold of yourself, I told myself
To my heart I said "oh behave"
"Who are you to John Foster Dulles?", I asked my heart
and it replied "his slave"
Then in somebody's newspaper column, I think, Robert Rewark
I read that John Foster was due at the airport in Newark
To Jersey by taxi I made a mad race
I pushed through the crowd till we stood face to face
I grabbed for his sleeve ... but I got his briefcase
at least it was something belonging John Foster Dulles
It's so nice of you all to come visit me here in prison
with good behaviour I should be out oh in about seven years
but I'm not unamerican and I'm not a spy
but how can I convince the FBI
that I'm simply on fire with desire for John Foster Dulles.
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