Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy

[Guno צְבִי]

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy.

“On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” read one of the April 30 termination emails from Cate Dillon, the White House liaison to the State Department, according to The Washington Post.

A senior State Department official told the Post “there is a plan in place to maintain the committee” but did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the firings.

The nine-member panel is tasked with reviewing records to make recommendations to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and Foreign Service Institute for its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, which documents major U.S. foreign policy decisions.

Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy. “On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the...

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[Dutch Uncle]

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy.

“On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” read one of the April 30 termination emails from Cate Dillon, the White House liaison to the State Department, according to The Washington Post.

A senior State Department official told the Post “there is a plan in place to maintain the committee” but did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the firings.

The nine-member panel is tasked with reviewing records to make recommendations to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and Foreign Service Institute for its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, which documents major U.S. foreign policy decisions.

Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy. “On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the...

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....and the MAGAt Congress doesn't utter a peep. Sad.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Almost certainly a great move.....the chances that there were any honest historians here approach zero.....honest historians now being essentially unicorns.

 

[AProudLefty]

Almost certainly a great move.....the chances that there were any honest historians here approach zero.....honest historians now being essentially unicorns.

To be replaced with Trump's historians?

 

[Into the Night]

....and the MAGAt Congress doesn't utter a peep. Sad.

MAGA isn't a congress, Sybil.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

MAGA isn't a congress, Sybil.

Random words. No apparent coherency.

 

[AProudLefty]

MAGA isn't a congress, Sybil.

No shit, Sherlock?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy.

“On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” read one of the April 30 termination emails from Cate Dillon, the White House liaison to the State Department, according to The Washington Post.

A senior State Department official told the Post “there is a plan in place to maintain the committee” but did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the firings.

The nine-member panel is tasked with reviewing records to make recommendations to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and Foreign Service Institute for its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, which documents major U.S. foreign policy decisions.

Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy. “On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the...

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Calling anything in politics, or about politics, "nonpartisan" is an oxymoron. Of course, this advisory committee was partisan. The members brought their political views and baggage along with them. Given that somewhere around 75% of all academics in the field of history are somewhere Left of Center and that about 10 to 15% are radical Leftists, I'd say there's going to be some serious political bias involved in that "nonpartisan" committee.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Calling anything in politics, or about politics, "nonpartisan" is an oxymoron. Of course, this advisory committee was partisan. The members brought their political views and baggage along with them. Given that somewhere around 75% of all academics in the field of history are somewhere Left of Center and that about 10 to 15% are radical Leftists, I'd say there's going to be some serious political bias involved in that "nonpartisan" committee.

Link or just your opinion?

 

[martin]

Link or just your opinion?

He has a point. Trump's administration was always going to be sheer self promotion. No point in preserving obstacles only to run them over later.

 

[martin]

Link or just your opinion?

Doesn't even rise to an "opinion". More an automatic reflex.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

He has a point. Trump's administration was always going to be sheer self promotion. No point in preserving obstacles only to run them over later.

MAGAts are dumbing down America. Sad.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

To be replaced with Trump's historians?

That would be the plan. MAGAts accuse "lefties" of rewriting history to justify rewriting history themselves.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

He has a point. Trump's administration was always going to be sheer self promotion. No point in preserving obstacles only to run them over later.

Past presidents have done the same thing. Obama fired every US attorney at the beginning of his first term and replaced them with lawyers he liked. The protests by Republicans were dismissed by the press and barely reported. If Trump did that, you'd hear the Democrats and press howling bloody hell about what a dictator Trump is being.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy.

“On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” read one of the April 30 termination emails from Cate Dillon, the White House liaison to the State Department, according to The Washington Post.

A senior State Department official told the Post “there is a plan in place to maintain the committee” but did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the firings.

The nine-member panel is tasked with reviewing records to make recommendations to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and Foreign Service Institute for its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, which documents major U.S. foreign policy decisions.

Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy. “On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the...

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trump is trying to stop the illumaniti historical revisionists.

he is justified!

 

[archives]

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy.

“On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” read one of the April 30 termination emails from Cate Dillon, the White House liaison to the State Department, according to The Washington Post.

A senior State Department official told the Post “there is a plan in place to maintain the committee” but did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the firings.

The nine-member panel is tasked with reviewing records to make recommendations to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and Foreign Service Institute for its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, which documents major U.S. foreign policy decisions.

Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy

The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy. “On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the...

news.yahoo.com

Of course he did, he’s fired anyone who who could offer transparency, and, in an effort to rewrite his own legacy, making sure the history only records him as “tremendous” and “the best in history”

 

[archives]

trump is trying to stop the illumaniti historical revisionists.

he is justified!

How can he be stopping revisionists when the history hasn’t even been written yet?

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Past presidents have done the same thing. Obama fired every US attorney at the beginning of his first term and replaced them with lawyers he liked. The protests by Republicans were dismissed by the press and barely reported. If Trump did that, you'd hear the Democrats and press howling bloody hell about what a dictator Trump is being.

So you agree that is the way you want the US government to be run. I do not. Trump promised to drain the swamp and, instead, is filling it with fecal water and alligators.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So you agree that is the way you want the US government to be run. I do not. Trump promised to drain the swamp and, instead, is filling it with fecal water and alligators.

No, you retard. I'm saying it's the way the government has operated for decades, even centuries. As for "drain(ing) the swamp," you have to remember one man's swamp is another man's high ground.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

How can he be stopping revisionists when the history hasn’t even been written yet?

well that's the key to revisionism isn't it. a ounce of prevention before a pound of cure.