晏阳初粉丝们宣称晏阳初在1943年被评选为和爱因斯坦并列的“现代世界最具革命性贡献”的十大伟人之一。我的考证无可辩驳地证明了这个说法是可耻的谎言。
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晏阳初粉丝们宣称晏阳初在1955年被美国《展望》杂志评选为当代世界一百位最主要人物。我的考证无可辩驳地证明这个说法是极度的夸大其词。
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晏阳初粉丝们说里根总统给晏阳初发了生日贺电,里根总统如何如何高度评价晏阳初。现在我开始考证这件事。
众所周知,美国每一位卸任总统都会有一个总统图书馆。这个总统图书馆收集了该总统任职期间几乎所有资料。里根总统的总统图书馆就在加州洛杉矶附近。欧也。
我首先询问如何获得总统写信祝贺生日(birthday greeting)?
我得到的回答: The vast majority of the birthday greetings that went out over President Reagan’s signature were not written by him personally. Rather, they were drafted by the White House Office of Correspondence, using standard “boilerplate” language, and signed with an autopen. This is hardly surprising given the number of important items that a President has to tend to every day. Recommendations for presidential birthday greetings came to the Correspondence Office from several sources, including members of Congress and other important leaders, members of the White House staff, and friends and acquaintances of the President.
(大意:绝大部分生日祝贺信并不是总统自己写的。那些信是由白宫的一个办公室起草并用一台签名机签名的。考虑到总统一天需要处理那么多的重要事情,这并不奇怪。建议总统写生日祝贺信的来源很多,例如国会议员,白宫职员,总统的朋友和熟人,等等。)
里根总统图书馆的工作人员问我到底要查证哪一位人士的生日祝贺信。我回答说:James Yen (晏阳初的英文名)
很快,里根总统图书馆的工作人员查到: I was able to locate two occasions, in 1983 and 1988, in which Mr. Yen received a presidential birthday greeting during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The 1983 greeting was drafted by the National Security Council staff, and sent as a telegram from President Reagan. The 1988 one was drafted by the Correspondence Office and mailed with an autopen Reagan signature, as I described previously. If other presidential birthday greetings were sent to Mr. Yen, we are unable to locate them here using our current finding aids.
(大意: 我找了两次里根总统给晏阳初的生日祝贺。一次是1983,一次是1988。1983年那次的生日祝贺信是由国家安全委员会的职员起草的,以电报形式发出。1988年那次是由白宫的通信办公室起草然后用签名机签名之后邮寄出去的。正如我前面所说,如果有别的总统给晏先生写了生日祝贺信,我们这里现在查不到。)
请注意:这里应该很清楚了,给晏阳初的生日祝贺信里根总统根本都没见过!而是白宫职员起草生日祝贺信之后用签名机签名后就寄出了。:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
我又问里根总统任职期间总共发出了多少生日祝贺信?
回答说: We do not have a figure for how many presidential birthday greetings were sent during the Reagan Administration. I can tell you that the White House sent them on a continual basis throughout the Reagan presidency.
(大意: 里根总统任职期间到底寄出了多少生日祝贺信,我们并没有一个具体数字。但是我可以告诉你: 在里根总统任职期间白宫一直不停地向外发出生日祝贺信。):lol:lol:lol
我又好奇地问:到底是什么人请求总统给晏阳初法生日祝贺信的呢?(我心里怀疑是不是晏阳初本人去要求的?)
回答说: 相关资料还没有对公众开放。如果需要这些资料,可以按照程序提出申请,经批准后可以给你。
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