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To: Zoltan! who wrote (57117)	10/5/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not "spouting" "lies." You are unutterably rude. If I am wrong, and what Reagan did was report on his reaction to some films he had seen, then a cruel and elaborate hoax has, indeed, been perpetrated, and I owe Reagan and his supporters an apology for having been a dupe of it. This is what the records shows happened. If it is not a hoax, you owe me an apology. The sources is the same Garry Wills book I mentioned earlier, p l68. "On November 29, 1983, speaking in the Oval Office to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Ragan said that he had been assigned... to the filming of Nazi death camps for the Signal Corps. He kept one film [he claimed] because he felt... that the authenticity of the Holocaust would one day be questioned, and sure enough, one day he had to show the film to convince a skeptic. The story was so movingly told that Shamir repeated it in detail to his Cabinet, from which the Jerusalem newspaper Ma'ariv printed it... Two and a half months [after the Shamir meeting] Reagan told... the same story... [to Simon Weisenthal and a visiting Rabbi, that he had personally photographed the death camps for the Signal Corps.]" This telling of the story was brought to the attention of Joanne Omang of the Washinton Post. Wills continues: "She thought that interesting, but not news... But when she next saw Cannon, Reagan's biographer, at the office of the Post, she asked why he never mentioned to her that Reagan had photographed the death camps. Because he didn't, said Cannon; he was never out of the country during the war." Wills goes on to tell how Cannon had had the story confirmed.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (57117)	10/5/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

The Wills book tells this cute little Reagan-at-war anecdote on the same page, 168: "...When he makes one of his rare references to his divorce... he presents it as a war movie: 'By the time I got out of the army Air Corps, all I wanted to do -- in common with several million other veterans -- was to rest up awhile, make love to my wife, and come up refreshed...' ... Where had he been where he could not make love to his wife? They had been in the same town for the last three years... yet Reagan obviously believes he was 'off to war.'" (In fact, he was "in a never-never land of publicity absences and fan-magazine presence." The only absence he had from his wife was when she took a tour of the southern states for a bond drive. She got farther from Hollywood than he did!)