Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War.

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

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