[willamedwardwallace]

Can you point to an original source, other than Benson, that verifies the comment? The problem with Benson’s recollection have already been pointed out.

So, can you point to something other than “liberals lie,” which coincidentally has nothing to do with google, as the google books link is nothing than a snippet of an actual, in print, book by Paul F. Boller and John George.

[Yosemitest]

"Can you point to an original source, other than Benson, that verifies the comment?"

Why? So you can shoot it down?

I triedc to find out just who Paul F. Boller and John George are?
Funny, why is it that no biographies are available on them?
So next I researched their book, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions.
You'll be amazed what a little research can tell you ab out a source.

First review:
I thought this book would contain not just a list of quotes, but would be arranged as a narrative about misattribution.
Instead it was laid out like a reference book, with a list of misattributed quotes by their supposed authors.

Also, while it contained a good number of quotes from political figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill,
it contained fewer literary quotes than I'd hoped. Perhaps these misquotes
(such as the supposed quote by Charles Dickens "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate")
have only proliferated since the advent of the Internet?
I'd be curious to read more on that topic, but this book (published in 1989) is obviously not the place.

Second review:
I enjoyed this book much less than I expected.
About half way through I began looking forward to the end.
When I finished the book I tried to think why I felt this way.
I came up with a couple of things that may be the reason.
First, this book was put together by two professors who may well know the facts;
but that doesn't mean they can use the facts to make a good, entertaining or inspiring book.
Upon finishing this book,a reader should thirst for more.
My feeling was;
enough is enough.
Secondly, there seemed to be no overall direction but rather collecting up examples in very selected areas.
Thirdly, the authors seemed to have an agenda to dispute statements attributed to liberal/socialist individuals by right wingers, but not the other way around.
Being a good writer, like being a good teacher, means that one should inspire the reader or student to want to read or learn more.
This book just didn't do it for me.

It deserves repeating:

"the authors seemed to have an agenda to dispute statements attributed to liberal/socialist individuals by right wingers, but not the other way around."

So ... lets look at the original statement and situation.

" “Watchman, what of the night?” (Isaiah 21:11) is the cry of the faithful.
I have tried to warn you of the darkness that is moving over us
and what we can do about it if we will only follow the Prophet.

Have you counted the cost if our countrymen and especially the body of the Priesthood continue to remain complacent,
mislead through some of our news media, deceived by some of our officials, and perverted by some of our educators?

Are you prepared to see some of your loved ones murdered, your remaining liberties abridged, the Church persecuted, and your eternal reward jeopardized?

I have personally witnessed the heart-rending results of the loss of freedom.
I have seen it with my own eyes.
I have been close to the godless evil of the socialist-communist conspiracy on both sides of the iron curtain,
particularly during my years as European Mission President at the close of the war,
and today and also during my eight years in the Cabinet.

It may shock you to learn that the first communist cell in government, so far as we know, was organized in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1930’s, John Abt was there.
It was John Abt whom Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, requested for his attorney.
Harry Dexter White was there.
Lee Pressman was there.
And communist Alger Hiss, who was the principle architect and first secretary of the United Nations organizing committee, was there also.

I have talked face-to-face with the godless Communist leaders.
It may surprise you to learn that I was host to Mr. Khrushchev for a half day, when he visited the United States.
Not that I’m proud of it –
I opposed his coming then and I still feel it was a mistake to welcome this atheistic murderer as a state visitor.
But according to President Eisenhower, Khrushchev had expressed a desire to learn something of American agriculture,
and after seeing Russian agriculture I can understand why.

As we talked face-to-face, he indicated that my grandchildren would live under Communism.
After assuring him that I expected to do all in my power to assure that his, and all other grandchildren, would live under freedom,
he arrogantly declared, in substance:
You Americans are so gullible.
No you won’t accept Communism outright,
but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism
until you’ll finally wake up and you find you already have Communism.
We won’t have to fight you.
We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over-ripe fruit into our hands.

And they are ahead of schedule in their devilish scheme. "

So after reading, and LISTENING to his statement, I can only imagine

that Ezra Taft Benson and Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev were walking together on Mr. Benson's farm,
with Mr. Benson's grandchildren runing well ahead of them, play in the fields, when this occured.

I assume that

there were no other witnesses to the event.

That being my estimation of the situation, proof is in WHO you believe.
Do the words spoken ... ring true?

"You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won’t accept Communism outright.
But we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism
until you finally wake up and realize you already have communism.
We won’t have to fight you;
we’ll so weaken your economy
that you will fall like over ripe fruit into our hands. "


Nikita Kruschev, Former Soviet Premier

Yes, I believe the words DO RING TRUE.
That's why liberals, communists, Fabian Socialists, whatever ... can't abide this statement.
They must destroy it, because LIBERALS LIE, and are burned in the fiery furnace of truth.