politics. it s about this so-called special relationship that we have been covering since we ve first started covering politics and even before that. i was looking back and remembering, jim, it was almost exactly 20 years ago that george w. bush, the white house i covered, went and met for the first time with tony blair and they bonded over colgate toothpaste. i don t expect there to be a colgate toothpaste moment but there were questions whether the two of them could get together and look what happened? for better or worse, they became linked to one another. so there is going to be presented later today a new atlantic charter. and, obviously, this harkens back to fdr, but what s different this time and what s notable and our colleague steven collins pointed out this morning is that even fdr didn t have to face the unraveling democratic values at home when he was
of what was going on in europe at the time, the attempt to exterminate european jews. there were eyewitnesses, jewish groups that came to the new york times , it s owned by a injury publisher. but he didn t want his newspaper to be pigeon holed as a jewish newspaper. fdr didn t want to focus that much on the holocaust. so what they did was worse than push it to the back pages. the american people really didn t know much about the holocaust until 944. 1944. millions of people in europe were being killed. you would expect the new york times to at least point that out. they had front page stories in the new york times where hundreds of people were killed. not involving jews. and they had other kinds of
6 million jews are slaughtered. others are slaughtered. the new york times barely covered it. the new york times barely covered the holocaust. the new york times is owned by a jewish family. it barely covered the holocaust because mr. solsberg decided he didn t want it to be seen as as jewish newspaper. he wanted it to be a universal newspaper. f.d.r. didn t want to focus on the holocaust. so the new york times complied. they couldn t except two hours that is printed european papers. people had escaped, the firsthand accounts and for the most part they ignored it. three scholars in particular have written about you this. how many people know that the new york times self-censored when it came to the holocaust? ten years before when stallone was starving u when stallin
slaughtered. others are slaughtered. the new york times barely covered it. the new york times barely covered the holocaust. the new york times is owned by a jewish family. it barely covered the holocaust because mr. solsberg decided he didn t want it to be seen as as jewish newspaper. he wanted it to be a universal newspaper. f.d.r. didn t want to focus on the holocaust. so the new york times complied. they couldn t except two hours that is printed european papers. people had escaped, the firsthand accounts and for the most part they ignored it. three scholars in particular have written about you this. how many people know that the new york times self-censored when it came to the holocaust? ten years before when stallone was starving u when stallin