Можно было бы. Но методологические принципы важней. Даже отсутствие результата способно принести методологическую пользу: историки не идут на поводу у конспирологов.
Да, в статье эта книжка упоминается. Но немногие читали ее так же внимательно, как вы, и заметили этот момент. Поэтому интервью Барнса в этом году стало сенсацией.
Mr. Barnes identified four living people he said he had confided in over the years: Mark K. Updegrove, president of the L.B.J. Foundation; Tom Johnson, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson (no relation) who later became publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN; Larry Temple, a former aide to Mr. Connally and Lyndon Johnson; and H.W. Brands, a University of Texas historian. All four of them confirmed in recent days that Mr. Barnes shared the story with them years ago. “As far as I know, Ben never has lied to me,” Tom Johnson said, a sentiment the others echoed. Mr. Brands included three paragraphs about Mr. Barnes’s recollections in a 2015 biography of Mr. Reagan, but the account generated little public notice at the time.Records at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum confirm part of Mr. Barnes’s story. An
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Офф: не подскажете, вот эта вот цитата из дневников Кеннана подлинная?
"...January 17To a visiting Soviet dignitary I imagined saying: “You can say to your people that there is no use in your trying to patch things up with the Reagan administration. They are determined to make things as bad as possible, short of outright war. There is nothing you could do to appease this administration. The only effective way you could handle these people would be to take the consequences of their attitude: to take a deep breath and resolve to live without trade with the U.S., even without the grain, to be prepared for the elimination of all forms of cultural interchange, to insist on a mutual recall of ambassadors, and on a drastic reduction of their staffs, and to settle down to a long period of relations at the lowest and coldest conceivable level short of hostilities, retaining only a readiness to continue with all seriousness the talks on the reduction of nuclear weaponry-to learn, in other words, to live totally independently of the United
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Я дневники Кеннана не читал, но Гугльбукс подтверждает, что такая цитата имеется в книге «The Kennan Diaries» By George F. Kennan W W Norton & Company, New York & London. 2014, Стр. 539 ( глава про 1982 год)
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Кратенько можно сказать что никаких фактов сговора нет и успокоиться :)
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Да, в статье эта книжка упоминается. Но немногие читали ее так же внимательно, как вы, и заметили этот момент. Поэтому интервью Барнса в этом году стало сенсацией.
Mr. Barnes identified four living people he said he had confided in over the years: Mark K. Updegrove, president of the L.B.J. Foundation; Tom Johnson, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson (no relation) who later became publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN; Larry Temple, a former aide to Mr. Connally and Lyndon Johnson; and H.W. Brands, a University of Texas historian.
All four of them confirmed in recent days that Mr. Barnes shared the story with them years ago. “As far as I know, Ben never has lied to me,” Tom Johnson said, a sentiment the others echoed. Mr. Brands included three paragraphs about Mr. Barnes’s recollections in a 2015 biography of Mr. Reagan, but the account generated little public notice at the time.Records at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum confirm part of Mr. Barnes’s story. An ( ... )
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Офф: не подскажете, вот эта вот цитата из дневников Кеннана подлинная?
"...January 17To a visiting Soviet dignitary I imagined saying: “You can say to your people that there is no use in your trying to patch things up with the Reagan administration. They are determined to make things as bad as possible, short of outright war. There is nothing you could do to appease this administration. The only effective way you could handle these people would be to take the consequences of their attitude: to take a deep breath and resolve to live without trade with the U.S., even without the grain, to be prepared for the elimination of all forms of cultural interchange, to insist on a mutual recall of ambassadors, and on a drastic reduction of their staffs, and to settle down to a long period of relations at the lowest and coldest conceivable level short of hostilities, retaining only a readiness to continue with all seriousness the talks on the reduction of nuclear weaponry-to learn, in other words, to live totally independently of the United ( ... )
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«The Kennan Diaries» By George F. Kennan
W W Norton & Company, New York & London. 2014,
Стр. 539 ( глава про 1982 год)
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Благодарствую.
Надо бы конечно на досуге это дело почитать. Но вот когда этот досуг появится - науке это не известно. Годика через пол, по оптимистичным оценкам ;)
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