He realized that Western civilization itself is at stake in this modern world of dictatorships and of technology in thralldom to totalitarianism. Back in 1945. Senator Jackson accompanied the American Forces that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. One can only guess at the thoughts that he must have had on that occasion. But one can surmise what impact the starving survivors. the furnaces. the pile of victims. and the unbroken acres of death and agony must have had on a young Congressman who grew up in a decent Norwegian immigrant family and in the beauty and order of the State of Washington. Whatever that impact was. Senator Jackson had a deep sense of history and a realistic view of the future.
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