Reagan repeated that anecdote to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, claiming he would show death camp camp footage to deniers which he himself had filmed during the war. The story was total fabrication: he spent the entire war in California.
Joan Didion, in her essay "The Reagan Administration", makes the case that this and other anecdotes were false memories Reagan genuinely came to believe. That at some point during his Presidency his cinematic fantasy narratives became his reality.
Reagan repeated that anecdote to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, claiming he would show death camp camp footage to deniers which he himself had filmed during the war. The story was total fabrication: he spent the entire war in California.
Joan Didion, in her essay "The Reagan Administration", makes the case that this and other anecdotes were false memories Reagan genuinely came to believe. That at some point during his Presidency his cinematic fantasy narratives became his reality.
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