| EISENHOWER EXPLAINS ABOUT GENERAL LEE President Dwight Eisenhower answers question about General Lee at press conference. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 8619 | |
| Catalog #: | 237108 | |
| Clip Number: | 237108-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 2966 I | |
| Timecode: | 01:39:30 - 01:41:20 | |
| Location: | Washington DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | JOURNALISM: Press Conference LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) | |
| Description: | EISENHOWER EXPLAINS ABOUT GENERAL LEE Washington DC, United States of America (USA). BV. Press reporters rising as Eisenhower arrives. High angle shot of Eisenhower walking to stand. SV Eisenhower listening to woman asking question. Q. Mrs. May Craig, Portland ( Maine ) Press Herald: There is a good deal of interest over the weekend analysis of how the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. Now, you, looking back on the Second World War, do you see any major thing that you think the Allies could have done differently? THE PRESIDENT. Oh, well, yes, of course, all the time but no one knows the answer. It is awfully hard to quarrel, Mrs. Craig, with victory. And as long as one plan brought victory in a thing that is so serious as war, it is pretty hard to prove that another plan would have brought it earlier. Now, I just want to take a word about this quarrel. I think there are a good many of you people here, both photographers and representatives of the press, who have been going into my office for the past four and a half years, occasionally. No doubt you have noticed that on the walls there are prints of four men, men that I consider in my book are about the four top Americans of the past. They are Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, and Lee, and anybody who ever tries to put me in any other relationship with respect to General Lee is mistaken. [Laughter] | |
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