HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT E. LEE! After President Dwight D. Eisenhower revealed on national television that one of the four “great Americans” whose pictures hung in his office was none other than Robert E. Lee, a thoroughly perplexed New York dentist reminded him that Lee had devoted “his best efforts to the destruction of the United States government” and confessed that since he could not see “how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be emulated, why the President of the United States of America should do so is certainly beyond me.” Eisenhower replied personally and without hesitation, explaining that Lee was, “in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. . . . selfless almost to a fault . . . noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history. From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities . . . we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.” R.E. LEE: A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans! Search the Internet today for Robert E. Lee and many of the returned results will make absurd claims about Lee.  That he was not highly respected/revered by both friend and foe during war, that he was not a kind and gentle man, that these impressions are just myth.  These articles that try to bend well established historical facts that are well documented by personal letters and correspondences, are every bit as Fake News as reports of POTUS collusion.