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Daniel Immerwahr
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Historian, Northwestern U. | Author: How to Hide an Empire
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Daniel Immerwahr
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I used to be able to read Gregg shorthand, but those days are long gone. It's just a sample text from the internet.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Perhaps disingenuous, but my understanding is that Eisenhower was unusually nervous about raw materials and insisted on maintaining stockpiles at levels far beyond what his advisors thought reasonable. My theory has been that he never mentally recovered from the 1941 shortages.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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I tried, too. Not easy! I'm surprised by how few times I've encountered shorthand in an archive. But maybe I've been looking in the wrong places.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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And given the self-erasing nature of shorthand and these other silent editing technologies, it's actually very hard to know how much gentle (or not-so-gentle) secretarial shaping went into producing the transcript as we have it.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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What's so fascinating is that you have to remember that for every utterance of a powerful person, there was some subordinate transcribing it, patching the call through, or whatever--and presumably forming some unrecorded but deeply felt opinion about it.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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It's a weirdly ephemeral aspect of print culture. We're used to smells and sounds lost to history. This is a whole script system, totally common in its day, that has vanished to the point where students don't know what it *is*.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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I tried to learn Gregg. Takes a while to get the hang of.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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That excerpt is Gregg shorthand. There are other systems.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Shorthand: a widely taught script for real-time transcription. Not much shorthand survives in US archives; it was used *before* the letters got typed (and then it was thrown out). But shorthand, written mainly by women, was the backbone of mid-20thC communications. pic.twitter.com/S3PffftB0I
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Daniel Immerwahr
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The funny thing about that tin and tungsten speech is that I don't think Eisenhower was right. I.e., I think he was still fighting early WWII in his mind. The US had long since figured out how to substitute synthetics for all kinds of raw materials.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Welcome to Chicago, Vanessa!!!!
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Daniel Immerwahr
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She studied anthropology with him at Columbia/Barnard. A lot of her interest in folk culture is connected to her work as an anthropologist.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Yes to this, very hard.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Thanks! I've also tried to find it; no luck. I'm desperate to hear it.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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From Robert Dallek's LBJ bio. I just . . . I mean . . . pic.twitter.com/YMfrxIDrIK
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Daniel Immerwahr
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This is a key perspective. I think telling mainlanders that Puerto Ricans are citizens is an important first step, given how few seem to know that. But noting that fact shouldn't be confused with endorsing it.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Hey, that's lovely to hear! Thanks for letting me know.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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