Lyyne Cheney orders destruction of Dept. of Education booklets. Nice.
Quote:
The Education Department this summer destroyed more than 300,000 copies of a booklet designed for parents to help their children learn history after the office of Vice President Dick Cheney's wife complained that it mentioned the National Standards for History, which she has long opposed.
In June, during a routine update, the Education Department began distributing a new edition of a 10-year-old how-to guide called "Helping Your Child Learn History." Aimed at parents of children from preschool through fifth grade, the 73-page booklet presented an assortment of advice, including taking children to museums and visiting historical sites.
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At the time, Lynne Cheney, the wife of now-Vice President Cheney, led a vociferous campaign complaining that the standards were not positive enough about America's achievements and paid too little attention to figures such as Gen. Robert E. Lee, Paul Revere and Thomas Edison.
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Rumour has it that the books were "destroyed" on the front lawn of the Naval Observatory in DC, with kerosene and a match. The Vice President was also reported to be in attendance, although the shadows cast by the flickering light of the bonfire, and the obscuring of his features by the tall upward collar of his black robe, caused reports on the sighting to differ.
Seriously, I wonder what the reaction would be if something like this were to have occurred at any time during the Clinton Administration.
