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 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| His observations will be useful to historians when they write their assessments of this administration. An insider's view will have to be taken into account. |
Memoirs are retrospective, spun to suit the author's purposes, and difficult to use as sources. What do they include? What do they exclude? What explains the selection and editing process? (I use them, as well as oral histories. But we must ask these and other questions before doing so.)
In any case, one thing future historians may do is to compare McClellan's positions and statements in staff meetings while working for W. Bush vs. the positions he claims represent his views in his memoir. That might just prove an interesting comparison, once the W. Bush Presidential Library opens and once it declassifies such papers, that is. |
I don't really have much respect for what McClellan did. He staunchly defend the president for quite a while and now he is trying to clean himself up. It seems kind of hypocritical to me. He should have simply resigned if he had second thoughts. His excuses don't fly with me. |
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