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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (58825)10/13/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>>I do wonder, though, that you seem so acute in discerning the role of the Schlesingers as hagiographers, yet so willing to accept the judgements of Reagan's hagiographers.

Both Schlesingers were partisans. Both were "Court Historians". Both, I believe were on the payroll. Jr definitely was and worked on JFK's campaign.

Lou Cannon a hagiographer? What a joke. You know not of what you speak - Cannon was anti-Reagan from the start and is a liberal Dem. Cannon began his anti-Reagan career "at the beginning" as a CA reporter. His first two books on Reagan were very anti, his last one less so. But that was only after a successful Presidency which more or less defeated the purpose of the first two books. During Reagan's two terms Cannon wrote a weekly column in the Washington Post which criticized whatever Reagan had done the past week. Cannon is no hagiographer and fails as a historian because he has no objectivity - he hated the guy from the start. I read Cannon to see what the Reagan-haters think and I quoted from him about Marcos to show that what I said is true re: the US angle.

As for Marcos, you make many leaps of faith. It is just as obvious that you refuse to give Reagan any credit for what he eventually did: Reagan eased Marcos out of office and avoided the Carter example re: the Shah and Somoza. The record makes it clear that there was a strong probability that Marcos would have stayed and fought had he not been offered asylum. Marcos doubtlessly had Carter and "his good friend" the Shah example on his mind. Certainly more people would have died.
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