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The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day and Defense Spending
May 18, 1985
My fellow Americans:
Not too long ago one of our Ambassadors visited an American armored cavalry regiment stationed on the NATO line in Germany. As he returned to his helicopter, he was followed by a young 19-year-old trooper. The trooper asked him if he could get a message to the President. Well, the Ambassador said that sometimes getting messages to the President was part of his job. And the young trooper then said, "Will you tell him we're proud to be here, and we ain't scared of nothin."
Well, not long ago the Ambassador was in Washington and told me the sequel to that incident. I'd repeated a story in a talk that was carried on our Voice of America radio program, and there in that base in Germany the young trooper heard the broadcast and knew that I'd received his message. His commanding officer said that he ran down the company street yelling: "The system works! The system works!"
Well, the system does work, but not just because Ambassadors can get messages from a 19-year-old trooper to the President.
Only a few days ago did I look closer at the footwear "Doc Brown" wears in the 1985 film and that I had thought all the time before were construction boots.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/24/07 10:09 PM
That's why I had those brown boots. I had a lighter pair that looked like a style of construction boots that were actually Nike boots. Then I had a really good pair of darker brown boots that I can remember wearing up until I lived at Redmond. I felt there was some kind of "buzz" around that, not unlike Lynn laughing at my "Buzz Off" bicycle seat, but I never could fully understand what it all meant.
Brown Shoe: An officer or CPO in the Naval Aviation community.
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I started thinking this morning about a jacket I used to wear long ago. I bought it around the time Lynn and I started bicycling, which I think was in 1999. I wore that jacket every time I went cycling and some parts of it were green and other parts blue. I remember one time, after I had been wearing it for a long time, I noticed that the logo emblem on one side of the chest was labeled as “Brooks.” I can remember feeling something like surprise that it was labeled “Brooks.”
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Lou Carruthers: Hey, kid. You jump ship?
Marty McFly: What?
Lou Carruthers: What's with the life preserver?
1985 film "Back to the Future" DVD video:
Stella Baines: Marty, how long have you been in port?
Marty McFly: Excuse me?
Stella Baines: I guessed you're a sailor. That's why you wear that life preserver.
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GLOVER v. SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION
Lydia E. GLOVER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 98-1130.
Argued Dec. 4, 1998. -- March 09, 1999
Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, KING, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAMS, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.
ARGUED: Marilyn Lynette Hudson, Andrews & Hudson, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Vance J. Bettis, Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: A. James Andrews, Andrews & Hudson, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant.
OPINION
After she was discharged for her deposition testimony in a federal employment discrimination suit, Lydia Glover sued her employer, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), for retaliation under section 704(a) of Title VII. The district court granted summary judgment to SLED, reasoning that Glover's conduct was not within the participation clause of section 704(a) because she testified unreasonably in her deposition. We hold that the participation clause shields even allegedly unreasonable testimony from employer retaliation, and we therefore reverse the judgment of the district court.
I.
SLED hired Lydia Glover as a police captain in June 1994. Upon her hire Glover became the second-in-command to Major Jim Martin in SLED's Criminal Justice Information and Communications Systems (CJICS) section. Despite this relatively senior position, Glover had to complete a twelve-month probationary period before she became a permanent SLED employee.
Glover and Martin spent much of Glover's probationary term at daggers drawn. Martin criticized Glover for inferior work, for missing deadlines, and for failing to learn the operational aspects of CJICS. In March 1995 Glover wrote a memorandum to SLED Chief Robert Stewart criticizing Martin's management style and suggesting that he be moved to a different work location. Glover's memorandum described Martin as “moody, unpredictable, and overly critical” as well as “authoritarian and dictatorial.” Sensing that their relationship had badly deteriorated, Chief Stewart asked Glover and Martin to enter mediation.
At about the same time, Glover received a notice of deposition for a Title VII action that had been filed in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. Jane Koball, a deputy marshal in South Dakota, had sued the United States Marshals Service for gender discrimination. Glover's connection to the case came from her own years in the Marshals Service-immediately before SLED hired her, Glover had been the United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina. During her nine-year career in that office she had served as chair of the Marshals Service Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee and had met and counseled Koball.
Glover's deposition lasted the entire day of April 3, 1995. Her testimony was open and wide-ranging. With minimal prompting from the government's deposing attorney, Glover freely offered not only facts directly related to Koball's problems with the South Dakota marshals office, but also her impressions of the operations of the South Carolina marshals office. In particular, Glover perorated upon the perceived failings of her successor as the South Carolina U.S. Marshal, Israel Brooks. During the course of her testimony Glover accused Brooks of mismanagement, destruction of office documents, wasting funds, inappropriate behavior, dishonesty, and discrimination.
The parties offer different explanations for Glover's testimonial attack on Marshal Brooks. Glover asserts that she was merely responding to the questions of the deposing attorney. SLED, on the other hand, argues that Glover went out of her way through irrelevant and unresponsive answers to malign and disparage Brooks and other members of his office. In any event, the subject of Brooks and the state of the South Carolina marshals office occupies nearly one hundred pages of the 268-page deposition transcript.
Brooks eventually learned of Glover's deposition testimony and complained to SLED Chief Stewart. After reading the deposition transcript, Stewart reprimanded Glover for her testimony.
On June 16, 1995, Stewart informed Glover that he would not be retaining her after the expiration of her probationary period. Stewart cited three reasons for his decision. Two stemmed from the quality of her work during the first ten months of her tenure: first, that she had not developed an appropriate level of knowledge for her position, and second, that her priorities were inconsistent with those of the organization. Stewart's third criticism was that Glover's performance in her deposition had demonstrated poor judgment.
Stewart later admitted that he did not fire Glover solely for her job performance. Instead, he acknowledged that “the deposition caused [him] to go back and rethink the whole issue,” that he “took the deposition into consideration,” and that the deposition testimony “tipped the balance in favor of firing.”
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Alonzo Harris: You okay, kid? That was a man-sized hit you took, dog. When was the last time you smoked weed?
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Alonzo Harris: Left that out your service jacket.
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Galactica - Locker Room
BB: Captain Thrace. If Scar jumps us out there, um--
Starbuck: Keep your eyes open so he can't.
BB: Okay. But, if I screw up and he bushwhacks me, what do I do then?
Starbuck: Come on! They drilled this into you over and over and over again at basic air combat. I know, sir, but Scar's something I'm not-- Scar is no different than any other attacker. He comes at you, turn into him, get closer, pull the trigger.
BB: Turn into him, get closer, pull the trigger. Thank you, sir.
Starbuck: Don't run, or you'll die.
BB: Right.
Starbuck: What are you waiting for?
BB: Nothing, sir.
Kat: Come here. Come here, I want to talk to you. Now listen me, you're flying Duck's wing today. Baxton, right?
BB: Yes, call sign BB, sir.
Kat: Okay, that's one of our best pilots that we got. Okay, so just do what he says, and you'll be fine. Just don't let the raiders get anywhere near the miners. Okay.
BB: Yeah. Thank you, sir.
Kat: Okay, go get 'em, tiger. (to Starbuck) Starbuck. That kid needs more than a pat on the ass and a textbook quote about tactics, okay?
Starbuck: You wanna be his wet-nurse, go right ahead, all right? Be my guest. His jacket says he's a qualified viper jock.
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Marty McFly: [Doc has just been shot. Marty runs over to him] Doc! Doc! Doc?
Marty McFly: [Marty turns Doc's body over to reveal it is apparrently bullet-riddled and lifeless. Marty begins to cry] Oh, no!
Marty McFly: [Doc suddenly blinks and sits up] You're alive!
Marty McFly: [Doc unzips his radistion suit to reveal a bullet proof vest underneath] Bullet proof vest? How did you know? I... I never got a chance to tell you.
Marty McFly: [Doc smiles and removes a weathered piece of paper from his pocket. Marty unfolds the paper to reveal it is the warning letter he had written in 1955, taped back together] What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell?
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[last lines]
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PINK FLOYD
"Dogs"
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye, and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer.
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it's too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone
Dragged down by the stone.
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everythings done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone.
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We knew Dekker was
trying to design something,
but when he sold his plans,
he wasn't even halfway done.
I don't understand.
Dekker was working at JPL
on a laser-enhanced lens.
He claimed the lens
was powerful enough
to see around the curvature
of the universe.
He believed if you could see
around a curve that went on forever
you would end up back
where you started,
looking at yourself.
Except you're not looking
at yourself now, in the present.
No, you are not.
You're looking at the future.
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Fail-Safe
Jay, where are you?
On the top floor of the embassy
in Moscow, Mr. President.
Where are you, Mr. Lentov?
In the U.N. Building in New York.
I suppose there is a reason...
for your ambassador
and Comrade Lentov to join us.
There is, Mr. Chairman.
Then let's get on with it.
His voice is firmer, sir.
Final.
Like he's made up his mind.
In a few minutes,
the bombs may be falling.
I have brought our forces
to a condition of full readiness.
Unless we can satisfy one another,
I must release those forces.
What do you propose,
Mr. President?
Do your people think there is still
a chance of bringing down the bombers?
There is always a chance.
But I'm asking you,
what if they cannot?
What will you do?
Have you made a decision?
Yes.
It's my decision,
and I take full responsibility.
Mr. Swenson...
are you on the line?
Yes, Mr. President.
- General Bogan?
- Yes, sir.
This is what will happen if even one
of the bombers gets through.
It will drop two
-megaton bombs on Moscow.
- Jay?
- Yes, Mr. President?
You might hear
the sound of the engines...
just before the bombs drop,
maybe not.
In any case, you'll hear
the defensive missiles going off.
Right after that,
the bombs will explode.
I'm told that what we will hear
at this end...
will be a high, shrill sound.
That will be
the ambassador's phone...
melting from the heat
of the fireball.
When we hear that sound...
the ambassador will be dead.
You understand,
Mr. Ambassador...
you're to stay
exactly where you are.
Yes, Mr. President.
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