This is a Jeff Rense article. If you do not know who he is, well he makes up stories and silly people support him. There are a dozen or so of these not quite stable people. An example, he believes in alien abduction, he says that lizard people come to earth to do experiments. He also claims that much of his information is directly beamed into his head by these aliens. Another one, Texe Marrs.... both are anti-Semitic and both are UFO conspiracy believing... not quite in touch with reality.
And Stephen E. Ambrose, well he wrote good fiction, but according to him he got the information from President Eisenhower. He often said that his "life had been transformed by getting to know the former President and spending hundreds and hundreds of hours interviewing him over a five-year period before Eisenhower died, in 1969. Although he did meet the president, according to the President's aide there we major problems with what Ambrose wrote. To quote his aide "Eisenhower never approached him to write his biography. By telephone the other day from his office in Abilene, Rives said, And, Im sorry to say, these werent the only problems.
Access to Eisenhower in his retirement years was tightly controlled and his activities were documented by his staff, particularly by his executive assistant, Brigadier General Robert L. Schulz, who kept meticulous records of his bosss schedule and telephone calls (now part of the Abilene archive). These records show that Eisenhower saw Ambrose only three times, for a total of less than five hours. The two men were never alone together. The footnotes to Ambroses first big Eisenhower book, The Supreme Commander, published in 1970, cite nine interview dates; seven of these conflict with the record. On October 7, 1965, when Ambrose claimed that he was interviewing Eisenhower at Gettysburg, Ike was travelling from Abilene to Kansas City. On December 7, 1965, another of the purported interview dates, Eisenhower was at Walter Reed Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., and saw only General Arthur Nevins, his neighbor and farm manager; George Allen, a golf and bridge pal; and Gordon Moore, his brother-in-law. He dined that evening with his son, John Eisenhower. On October 5, 1967, rather than hobnobbing with his young biographer, Eisenhower met with General Lucius D. Clay, the former military governor of occupied Germany and a close friend, and, after Clay left, he talked politics over the phone with Walter Cronkite and called his attorney to discuss a trust fund for his grandchildren. The former President was very busy that day, but he didnt meet with Stephen Ambrose. On October 21, 1967, another footnoted Gettysburg date, Eisenhower was on vacation at Augusta National Golf Club. He was still there on October 27th, when Ambrose claims that he again interviewed his subject in Gettysburg.
Is it possible that Ambrose met with Eisenhower outside office hours? John Eisenhower told Rives that such meetings never happened: Oh, God, no. Never. Never. Never. John Eisenhower, who is now eighty-seven, liked Ambrose, and he recalled, too, Ambroses fondness for embellishment and his tendency to sacrifice fact to narrative panache.
One can only conclude..... what a story teller!!