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If you were at West Point in 1915, you might realize the importance of Americans not killing each other again, of keeping North and South together. Other domestic questions would pale beside that important consideration.

Put concern for national unity and sectional reconciliation together with a shared West Point background and an admiration for Lee's military capacities and you can understand where Eisenhower was coming from.

If you were at West Point in 2015, the necessity of keeping the country together, of blacks and whites not killing each other in the streets might be most important for you and regional considerations secondary (if that).

So today's Eisenhowers and tomorrow's might look at Lee differently than Ike did. Approaching the question with the same values in mind could yield a different answer given the differences in the national context.

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“in 2015, the necessity of keeping the country together, of blacks and whites not killing each other in the streets might be most important for you”

Eisenhower's letter concerning General Lee was intelligent, thoughtful and well articulated.

The current politically correct trend to lie about great Americans in the past and distort our history is stupid and destructive.

The Democrats try to create and exploit racial animosity and racial violence. Some call for a race war. Democrats are the party of slavery, the party of the Ku Klux Klan and the party of racial violence. They are the party of government enforced segregation. They are now using race to poison the minds of many and make violence and crime acceptable.

The case in South Carolina was a drug user and criminal who attacked Christians. This goes on all the time and would be ignored by the Democrats and the media but they saw it as a chance to create racial animosity and to exploit it.