House Historian Fired

Re “Gingrich Fires House Historian Over Nazi Flap,” Jan. 10:

Newt Gingrich hires protege Christina Jeffrey as House historian (for $85,000 taxpayer dollars a year) and gets her husband to be his “personal chronicler” for free? The most troubling aspect of the Jeffrey hiring was not her controversial statements, but the personal benefit Gingrich was to gain in this sweetheart, two-for-one deal at taxpayer expense. If I volunteer to be a personal stamp-licker for Newt, can my mom get hired as the House postmaster?

RICHARD KRAFT

Los Angeles

How on earth is it possible to teach about the Holocaust without explaining the “Nazi point of view,” as Jeffrey recommended? Her comments weren’t indicative of “anti-Semitism,” they were indicative of common sense.

MICHAEL DARE

Hollywood

As the child of a Holocaust survivor, I grew up without grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Why? Because they were shot, gassed and cremated by the Nazis. The Nazis made soap, lamp shades, and perpetrated other atrocities on Jews and others. I am stunned and outraged with Jeffrey’s belief that any history program on the Holocaust is biased and unbalanced unless it presents the “Nazi point of view.”

I wonder if Jeffrey would maintain this same smug aura of academia if she or her daughter had been the victims of a violent gang rape, and then found a program on rape being rejected because it did not present the “rapists’ point of view.”

MICHAEL J. GURFINKEL

Los Angeles