06-10-2013, 04:45 PM
I am confident all readers of this forum know the Dulles quote, "But nobody reads. Don't believe people read in this country. There will be a few professors that will read the record. The public will read very little."
For years I have tried, on and off, to find a source for this oft-cited quote. I even posed the question here on DPF in 2008.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...lBPMhaztn8
The question has come up again, twice, in conversations (well, e-conversations) I've had in the last few days. I'm sure I've Googled it before. But I Googled it again. One of the hits I got directed me to this forum, and the post I made back in ought-eight.
Feels like I'm going in circles.
Joseph McBride, I did not include your name in the subject line of today's post, but trust you'll see this. The quotation is on p. 193 of Into the Nightmare. Do you know a primary source for it?
No comment now on the cynical-to-ominous nature of the statement, which is self-evident. My bigger concern is the possibility that this quote is erroneous, and that it has reached the level of urban legend. I am not suggesting that is the case I have no doubt Dulles would make such a remark, and probably did. It's just that I have never seen a bona fide primary source, and the statement seems to have a momentum all its own.
For years I have tried, on and off, to find a source for this oft-cited quote. I even posed the question here on DPF in 2008.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...lBPMhaztn8
The question has come up again, twice, in conversations (well, e-conversations) I've had in the last few days. I'm sure I've Googled it before. But I Googled it again. One of the hits I got directed me to this forum, and the post I made back in ought-eight.
Feels like I'm going in circles.
Joseph McBride, I did not include your name in the subject line of today's post, but trust you'll see this. The quotation is on p. 193 of Into the Nightmare. Do you know a primary source for it?
No comment now on the cynical-to-ominous nature of the statement, which is self-evident. My bigger concern is the possibility that this quote is erroneous, and that it has reached the level of urban legend. I am not suggesting that is the case I have no doubt Dulles would make such a remark, and probably did. It's just that I have never seen a bona fide primary source, and the statement seems to have a momentum all its own.