Submitted by Patrick Murray, Jan 30, 2008 15:50

The presidential historian Michael Beschloss informed Michael Korda that Robert H. Ferrell and Francis H. Heller published "Plain Faking" in American Heritage 46 (May/June 1995), page 16, stating there is no tape, notes, or transcription in Truman's or Miller's papers indicating that the Truman-Marshall-Eisenhower letters stories ever took place; Ferrell, both an Eisenhower and Truman scholar, concluded that Miller had made up the story to sell books. Miller came close to admitting as much in his final book, Eisenhower: The Soldier. His chief researcher, Dr. D.K.R. Crosswell, of the Singapore Defense College, has stated that there is no written record proving a physical affair between Eisenhower and Summersby. Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, the author of the official American history on SHAEF, The Supreme Command, and later the official four-volume biography of George C. Marshall, told me that he had read all of Marshall's papers, including his confidential personal letter file to contemporaries, and that there was no such letter. Pogue said that Marshall knew all of these men whose marriages ended in divorce and that his letters expressed regret rather than rancor. It is now 2008 and no one from the general's inner circle has come forward to confirm Summersby's posthumous ghost written second book. From the standpoint of history, two confirming sources without an ax to grind, this whole matter must stand as refuted. There is no corroboration of any of the Miller Truman letter story.

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