re: #59 EPR-radar

From Wikipedia: “The mistake of crediting Lincoln for “The Ten Cannots” has been repeated many times since, notably by Ronald Reagan in his address to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston.”

Yeah.

The thing is we had a copy of the source document for the mistake in the library in which I worked. Simplifying (and noting this is memory so may have a slipsy or two), back in 1942 some organization in DC printed up this little flyer that had some statements by Lincoln on one side and Boetcker’s Ten Cannots on the other. But whoever did the work bollixed it thoroughly and the ‘who said them’ was put on the wrong side.

They actually printed a correction (the library had both in the archives along with several other ‘mistake’ documents), but a lot of people just don’t pay attention. And it happened to get my attention back then about 15 years ago because some fool passed out this whole flyer and the head archivist went off with laughter and explained it. And showed the fool. With the news crew present.

The thing is a lot of people will point to the misprint as proof it was Lincoln who said the phrases, and they refuse to believe otherwise because they’ve seen a copy of the 1942 error - unless you happen to have the correction document around.