Campaign Truths
As a professional creator of fiction for movies, television and theater since 1943, I can only marvel with envy at the way political campaigns serve to correct popular misconceptions about the facts of history. Without the current presidential campaign, for example, would we ever have learned that it was really Al Gore who invented the Internet? Or that, as George W. Bush enlightened us in his acceptance address, it was not the Democrats but the Republicans who gave us Social Security, Medicare, Head Start, welfare and civil rights legislation, led by their stirring marching song “We Shall Overcome”?
Who was it that said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free”? Some politician, no doubt.
IRVING STANTON ELMAN
Pacific Palisades
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