“You Bring Happiness”
Two days after returning from Moscow, Bob Hope entertained reporters’ questions. Hope related the Russian infatuation with American popular culture, noting that they enjoyed Elvis Presley (1935–1977) and Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) recordings, and that Russian bands played arrangements by Les Brown (1912–2001) and Glenn Miller (1904–1944). A minister of culture, he recalled, contrasted Hope’s globetrotting with that of a more traditional cold war diplomat, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), noting, “You fly for a different reason, you bring happiness.”
Two days after returning from Moscow, Bob Hope entertained reporters’ questions. Hope related the Russian infatuation with American popular culture, noting that they enjoyed Elvis Presley (1935–1977) and Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) recordings, and that Russian bands played arrangements by Les Brown (1912–2001) and Glenn Miller (1904–1944). A minister of culture, he recalled, contrasted Hope’s globetrotting with that of a more traditional cold war diplomat, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), noting, “You fly for a different reason, you bring happiness.”