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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - June 1, 2010
The War Over America's Past
by Pat Buchanan
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls
the present controls the past."
That was the slogan of the Ministry of Truth in George
Orwell's "1984," where Winston Smith worked ceaselessly
revising the past to conform to the latest party line of
Big Brother.
And so we come to the battle over history books in the
schools of Texas. Liberals are enraged that a Republican-
dominated Board of Education is rewriting the texts. But
is the rewrite being done to falsify history, or to undo
a liberal bias embedded for decades?
Consider a few of the issues.
The new texts will emphasize that the separation of church
and state was never written into the Constitution.
Is that not right? The First Amendment prohibits Congress
from establishing a national religion. But, in 1776, nine
of the 13 colonies had state religions established in
their constitutions.
Thomas Jefferson's words about a "separation of church and
state" were not written until 1802, when he responded to
a letter from the Danbury Baptist Association. Not until
after World War II did the Supreme Court begin the
systematic purge of Christianity from American public
life.
Barack Obama may have declared, "We do not consider our-
selves a Christian nation." But Woodrow Wilson said,
"America was born a Christian nation," and Harry Truman
wrote Pius XII to affirm, "This is a Christian nation."
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The Texas school board wants the U.S. economic system
called "free enterprise" rather than the term Karl Marx
used, "capitalism."
Anything wrong with that?
The Christian Science Monitor cites one professor Phillip
VanFossen as appalled the new history texts will put a
"more positive spin on Sen. Joe McCarthy's communist witch
hunt."
Witch hunt?
The FDR and Truman administrations were shot through with
treason. Alger Hiss, who was with FDR at Yalta and Truman
in San Francisco when the U.N. was founded, was a Stalinist
spy, exposed by Whittaker Chambers and Rep. Richard Nixon.
Harry Dexter White, Treasury's No. 2, who pushed the
infamous Morgenthau Plan to turn Germany into a pasture-
land, was a Soviet agent, as was White House aide Laughlin
Currie and State's Laurence Duggan, whose treason was
confirmed by the VENONA decrypts of Soviet cables in 1995.
William Remington at Commerce was convicted of perjury for
denying his ties to a spy ring. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
were executed for their role in betraying the secrets of
the atom bomb.
The VENONA transcripts contained the names of scores of
U.S. citizens assisting known Soviet agents during and
after World War II.
By 1952, Truman, having been repudiated by his own party
in New Hampshire, was down to 23 percent, and was the
most unpopular president ever to leave office.
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But Joe McCarthy's approval, four years into this crusade
in January 1954, stood at 50 percent, with only 29 percent
disapproving.
And was that really a time of anti-communist hysteria?
Why, then, does not a single Gallup poll from 1950 to 1954
show even 1 percent of Americans giving anti-communist
extremism or witch hunts or Joe McCarthy as an issue of
concern?
Not only did Joe Kennedy Sr. admire and support Joe
McCarthy, Jack Kennedy befriended him, Bobby worked for
him, Teddy played touch football with him at Hyannis Port
and the Kennedy girls dated him.
When, at a Harvard reunion, Jack heard a speaker say he
was proud the college never produced an Alger Hiss or Joe
McCarthy, JFK roared, "How dare you couple the name of a
great patriot with that of a traitor?" and stormed out.
That 1954 was a year of disaster for Joe, with the Army-
McCarthy hearings and censure by the Senate, is undeniable.
But Joe is hated today not for what he got wrong, but for
what he got right.
What is the purpose of teaching America's children the
history of their country? Few said it better than Ronald
Reagan in his farewell address: "An informed patriotism
is what we want....
"So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in
fashion but what's important. ... You know, four years
ago, on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter
from a young woman writing of her late father, who'd
fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn,
and she said, 'We will always remember, we will never
forget what the boys of Normandy did.' Well, let's help
her keep her word.
"If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm
warning of an eradication of the American memory that
could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American
spirit."
Teaching American history to America's children is done so
that they will come to know and love their country. And
while all nations have sins of scarlet, none has a greater,
more glorious past than ours.
And if teaching that is what the Texas Board of Education
is all about, ensuring that the children of Texas know both
sides of every great American quarrel and come away loving
their country all the more, then God bless 'em.
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