THE USES AND ABUSES OF HISTORY
100 Years Doesn't Seem To Change Much Of History
by Richard Reeves, uexpress.com

History can be revised or downplayed for a time -- in Manila last week, everyone talked about new public schools and the 550 teachers sent from San Francisco in 1901 rather than the 70,000 occupiers -- but reality emerges at embarrassing times because history is forever. As another American president, Harry S. Truman, once said: "The only thing new in this world is the history you don't know."
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