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It is a sad reality of human life that generations “rise and pass away”….. and that with each generation’s passing- a significant trove of memory and institutional knowledge passes with them.There has been a meme making the rounds on Facebook, about Eisenhower telling his underlings to document everything, photograph everything, about the concentration camps, because, words to the effect "when we are gone, some will insist it never happened".
Snopes says Ike did not say exactly that. However, in a letter Ike wrote:
But the most interesting -- although horrible -- sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'.snopes.com - Eisenhower proof nazi atrocitiesThere was a special on TV, not too long ago, about Watergate. Of course, it regurgitated material from years before, because most of the people involved, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Cox, Elliot Richardson, Bill Ruckelshaus, Liddy, Hunt, are gone.
John Dean still lives, as does Woodward and Bernstein, but they are in their 80s
Steve
