Schwarzenegger Releases Data on Hitler Comments [View All]

[Snellius]

The NY Times this morning released a revised transcript, provided by Arnold Schickelgroper's own campaign aides, clarifying his controversial comments about Hitler, comments which Mr. Schickelgroper had originally said he had forgotten making.

In an interview yesterday as he campaigned in California, Mr. Schwarzenegger said that he did not know precisely where the relevant outtakes were and that aides were trying to trying to find them.
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In the portion of the interview read over the phone and later distributed by the campaign, Mr. Schwarzenegger said: "In many ways I admired people -- It depends for what. I admired Hitler for instance because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it. It is very hard to say who I admired and who are my heroes. And I admired basically people who are powerful people, like Kennedy. Who people listen to and just wait until he comes out with telling them what to do. People like that I admire a lot."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/national/04BOOK.html

However, the following excerpts from Arnold Schickelgroper’s interview, missing from the Times online version, are included in the print edition.

I feel if you want to create a strong nation and a strong country you cannot let everybody be an individual, because everybody has his own opinion and you can't just stick together as a strong nation. Then you have to tell people what to do and you can't just let them float away. In Germany, there was a lot of unity, and with the police force and everything.
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Asked what system of government he preferred, Mr. Schwarzenegger said, "America," but he continued: ‘Except there’s only one thing I don’t like here and that people go on their own little trips too much. The unity isn’t there anymore. And I don’t think it’s too much the people’s fault. I think it’s because we don’t have a strong leader here."