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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lisa who wrote (6112)	9/27/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I agree but there are a lot of books about WWII... it seems like one historical period where you can actually get more information now vs. having lived through it. Of course thats not quite the same thing, I know, but interesting anyway. I learned some things from reading Lindbergh's biography last year... come to think of it, the book I'm reading now is WWII (Gravity's Rainbow)... lol if you know what that is about... <gg> On recent history in general, I was enlightened by someone recently about McCarthyism. He had friends in top positions at Los Alamos... apparently when the russian rockets worked and ours did not the scientific community felt there was a real chance that the Soviets were going to send a rocket into space and bomb the USA from there. This after the Rosenbergs and China and all that... a real climate of fear. It put a face on McCarthyism I never thought about before, in contrast to WWII there isn't much written on the perspectives of the time....

To: Lisa who wrote (6112)	9/27/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: pezz	Respond to of 769667

<< It is very difficult to formulate an opinion about the political events of an era in which you never lived>> Hmmmm...good point but that's what we have history books for. My dad used to believe that the longer the period between the history and the book the more likely that an objective story will be told. Had I lived during that period unless I were some how an insider I'm afraid I would have a pretty weak knowledge on the subject. But I believe that the potential for knowledge through reading is there. As it is I have not been a student of this subject but I point out that some who have studied this have agreed with TD's point. pez .

To: Lisa who wrote (6112)	9/27/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: truedog	Respond to of 769667

to: Lisa from: truedog Lisa, you sent the post to me but then indicate it was to go to pezz. As for my statements, I did live during the era of the Second World War. A child, yes, but, at six years old, had some awareness of what was going on plus the good old Movietone News between the features ot the movies. As for the Pearl Harbor events, most of my uncles served in the armed forces with 3 of them being in the Pacific theater. One of them was a naval officer stationed at Pearl at the time of the attack. He came home on leave absolutely incensed about the messages from Washington that superceded any of the military opinions and placed our entire Pacific fleet in danger, including the Army at Scholfield Barracks and the Air Corps at Hickham Field. Had "Bull" Halsey not had mysterious engine trouble in his carrier task force, we would have had nothing but plywood PT boats to fight with. People can defend FDR all they want to, but I feel that I know better.^ ^ ^TD