On Christmas Eve 1972, at his ninth and final annual Christmas show in Vietnam, Bob Hope told a joke about Senator George McGovern (b. 1922) that antagonized some of McGovern’s supporters when they saw it in a network news broadcast, prompting this letter of complaint from a viewer. Hope defended his routine responding, “I know Senator McGovern and I am sure that any jokes I do about him would make him laugh. . . . I don’t spare anybody. But I don’t hurt anybody too much.”