On Monday, May 16, 2005 at 17:39:49 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes: >I am listening to Walter Cronkite discuss the issue with reference to >the U-2 shoot down -- that the U-2 found that the missle gap did not >exist. Very interesting.
I think you mean "US found...". Cronkite said Eisenhower "took the heat" for the missile gap even though he knew it was not true because he could not expose the facts, which would inevitably point to the U-2 as the means of gathering them. So, how does he know Eisenhower didn't want the facts to be hidden and just went along with it? Cronkite made it sound as if Eisenhower were just being a stand-up guy and taking one on the chin "for the good of the country". What a load of baloney. If Eisenhower knew and chose to conceal it from the country, he was a liar, period. It's amazing how "liberals" such as Cronkite are revered for what is in fact not-too subtle support of empire while the crude right wing, with their venomous excesses, does far more damage to it in the long run. Bill
