Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Busted Shrubs.
http://www.salon.com/1999/11/23/bush_39/
SALON
TUESDAY, NOV 23, 1999 09:00 AM PST
The mediocrity that roared
Three books probe the mystery at the core of the angry, ordinary guy who might just be our next president.
BY JOAN WALSH
You’ve got to have a little sympathy for J.H. Hatfield. The would-be boss-killer turned George W. Bush biographer had a tough job: to make sense of the life of the feckless frat boy turned Texas governor who now wants to be president.
There was another cause that got his goat at Yale, though he wouldn’t be able to articulate his outrage for some years: the spectacle of privileged youth protesting the institutions of their privilege. This utterly cheesed the young Bush, first at Yale, then at Harvard. Minutaglio quotes him later, describing his sense of anger at his left-wing classmates: “These are the ones who felt so guilty that they had been given so many blessings in life — like an Andover or a Yale education — that they felt they should overcompensate by trying to give everyone else in life the same thing.”
He would find solace, years later, in the works of David Horowitz, a ’60s radical who would become famous for denouncing the decade in the same outsized rhetoric that he earlier used to promote it. George W. resonated to the critiques of Horowitz and other reformed radicals, who gave him solace that his inherited privilege should be enjoyed, not resisted, or — God forbid — redistributed.
(Ironically, his discomfort with Yale’s prevailing liberalism helped the son of privilege craft an unlikely self-image as an oppressed Texas outsider, which would serve him well personally and especially politically in the years to come.)
Despite how many others have covered it, it’s still worth spending some time on those entrepreneurial years. These authors, as well as reporters for the Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, the New York Times and, yes, Salon, have sniffed around Bush’s vaguely dodgy investments, stock trades, buyouts and mergers, and none has come up with a blockbuster story to tell.
Here’s the story in a nutshell (the narrative comes from Minutaglio, since Bush is mostly silent on these issues and Hatfield’s book, which hews to essentially the same story, was withdrawn by the publisher and thus shouldn’t be relied on for factual accuracy): Bush mostly cleaned up his act, went to Harvard Business School (“the West Point of Capitalism,” a Cambridge cab driver told him) and became a loyal foot soldier for the profit motive. He drove out to Midland in a 1970 Cutlass to be a “land man,” a glorified paralegal who researched the ownership of the mineral rights beneath certain plots of land, and hooked them up with those who wanted to drill. He then founded Arbusto Energy (the name means “bush” or “shrub”
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
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Sheldon 'Shelly' Marcone: Joe, have you ever heard of the Senate's Commission to Investigate Gambling in Professional Sports?
Joe Hallenbeck: Is that who you're payin' off?
Sheldon 'Shelly' Marcone: The commission's gonna vote next March. I got every one of 'em in my hip pocket, except Senator Calvin Baynard. I tried to bribe that son of a bitch, Joe. He gave it back because it wasn't enough.
Joe Hallenbeck: [chuckles] What's he want?
Sheldon 'Shelly' Marcone: Six million. Or he'll go straight to the police. You know, I think it's just gonna be cheaper to kill that son of a bitch.
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White Men Can't Jump (1992) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Sidney Deane: Billy, listen to me. White men can't jump.
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George Bush [ SEVERELY TREASONOUS AGENT OF THE SOVIET UNION VIOLENTLY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ]
Statement on Humanitarian Assistance to Bosnia
October 2, 1992
All Americans, and people of compassion everywhere, remain deeply troubled by the cruel war in Bosnia and the broader turmoil in what was Yugoslavia. We took several important initiatives in August, and today I am announcing further steps to help ease this conflict.
The United States has been working intensively with other concerned nations to contain the conflict, alleviate the human misery it is causing, and exact a heavy price for aggression. This international effort has produced some results. The recent London conference set up an international mechanism for addressing all aspects of the Yugoslav problem and put in motion an active negotiation. The tenuous truce in Croatia is holding. International observers are on their way to neighboring countries and other parts of the former Yugoslavia to prevent the violence from spreading.
Now, a new enemy is about to enter the battlefield: winter. Some weeks ago, I asked for an assessment of the effects that the combination of war and winter could inflict on the suffering people of Bosnia. The answer was profoundly disturbing: thousands of innocent people, some uprooted, others trapped, could perish from cold, hunger, and disease. Anticipating this danger, the United States has been working with other nations and with the United Nations to mount a major expansion of the international relief effort and to support the tireless negotiations of U.N. and EC envoys, Cyrus Vance and David Owen, to get the fighting stopped.
I want the American people to know what the United States intends to do to help prevent this dreadful forecast from becoming a tragic reality. I have decided to take a number of further steps:
Fourth, we will offer to the United Nations and the Red Cross help in transporting and caring for those who are being freed from detention camps. We have already provided $6 million for this purpose.
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- Tell me about your village. - It's a very busy place.
Everyone seems to be in a hurry. And they all wear identical bowler hats.
Little black round things on their heads.
- What do you do there? - Well, I was a teacher like Mara.
- And I make things, - Mealso,
I made a sess'quin'tan with my father. We still use it.
A sess'quin'tan?
Mara, der'enjen'wenlen?
Sess'quin'tan, Steps of rope.
Oh, a rope ladder.
We can make one. I will teach you.
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Los Angeles Times
Rancher Will Hit the Trail for a Spell
Politics: After taking heat for an extended stay at Texas home, Bush will visit Colorado, raise funds in New Mexico.
August 14, 2001 JAMES GERSTENZANG TIMES STAFF WRITER
CRAWFORD, Texas — Ten days after President Bush arrived at his ranch for a monthlong holiday, and about nine days after critics began grousing about the length of his stay, the president is interrupting his vacation to do some roadwork.
He is expected to visit Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado today for a bit of brush-chopping and trail-clearing to highlight a YMCA program. Then it's on to some fund-raising in the political underbrush (he's bringing in bucks for one of Colorado's incumbent Republican senators and its Republican governor) and a baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and Atlanta Braves.
On Wednesday, there is more fund-raising planned in New Mexico, plus a visit to an elementary school there and a speech on small business before Bush returns to Crawford.
But his departure from the 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch here serves largely to underscore the sensitivity Bush and his staff have shown to any suggestion that the president is goofing off.
Call the time in Texas a trip home, not a vacation. That's the message from Bush and his aides.
"Get used to it, because this is where I'm coming back to," the president said adamantly to reporters Monday. "Some people say, 'Well, this is a vacation spot.' Actually, this is our house and home.
"I'm a Texan," he said, for anyone who--ignoring the accent, the faded jeans and the considerable belt buckle bearing the imprint "Governor George W. Bush"--may have missed the point. "This is where I was raised
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Jack Twist: Brokeback got us good, don't it?
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The Washington Post
Down on the Ranch, President Wages War on the Underbrush
By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 31, 2005
CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 30 -- On most of the 365 days he has enjoyed at his secluded ranch here, President Bush's idea of paradise is to hop in his white Ford pickup truck in jeans and work boots, drive to a stand of cedars, and whack the trees to the ground.
If the soil is moist enough, he will light a match and burn the wood. If it is parched, as it is across Texas now, the wood will sit in piles scattered over the 1,600-acre spread until it is safe for a ranch hand to torch -- or until the president can come home and do the honors himself.
Sometimes this activity is the only official news to come out of what aides call the Western White House. For five straight days since Monday, when Bush retreated to the ranch for his Christmas sojourn, a spokesman has announced that the president, in between intelligence briefings, calls to advisers and bicycling, has spent much of his day clearing brush.
This might strike many Washingtonians as a curious pastime. It does burn a lot of calories. But brush clearing is dusty, it is exhausting (the president goes at it in 100 degree-plus heat), and it is earsplitting, requiring earplugs to dull the chain saw's buzz.
For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession.
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WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FARA?
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http://www.cowboysindians.com/Cowboys-Indians/December-2002/The-Bush-Ranch/
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Cowboys & Indians [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
COWBOYS & INDIANS / DECEMBER 2002 / THE BUSH RANCH
The Bush Ranch
The Texas Town of Crawford is about as far from Washington D.C., as a Man could Hope to Get
BY ERIC O'KEEFE
By now the stories of over-indulgence are yesterday's news. When the longest and strongest bull market in the history of the United States peaked in the late 1990s, the number of newly minted millionaires and billionaires seemed unending—as did their excesses. Gulfstreams replaced Hummers as the ride of choice, $20,000 dinners became cocktail party fodder, and the concept of a second home was upgraded to include third, fourth, and fifth locations.
But in 1999 when Governor George W. Bush gave architect David Heymann a list of design priorities for the new ranch house that he and his wife sought to build, the Texan's top three requests were anything but extravagant: a king-sized bed, a good shower, and some comfortable chairs on the porch.
The ranch retreat is a presidential tradition that dates back long before Camp David. Ronald Reagan's Rancho del Cielo and LBJ's Pedernales spread are only the most recent incarnations of a Western connection to the White House that began with Teddy Roosevelt. It was 1883 when a 24-year-old TR first set foot in Little Missouri, a soon-to-be-forgotten cowtown in the Dakota Territory. Intent on overcoming his physical frailties, Roosevelt spent two weeks in the region on his first foray. By the time he left, he had bagged not only a bison but also a stake in the Maltese Cross Ranch.
It was the first of two cattle operations the Knickerbocker would buy into, and the years he spent ranching, hunting, and scouting the "Bad Lands" would serve him well up San Juan Hill and into the White House. In Roosevelt's words, "The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."
A century later, one of Roosevelt's successors finds similar solace in the Lone Star State among the live oaks and limestone canyons of McLennan County. The Bushes' now-traditional August hiatus on their ranch outside Crawford is as much an attempt at normalcy as it is a working vacation with visits by foreign dignitaries and heads of state, regular gatherings with White House staffers and Cabinet members, and some good, old-fashioned politicking.
"I want to stay in touch with real Americans," said the President to a crowd of Crawford residents shortly after the 2001 inaugural ceremonies. As the locals knew, the President and the First Lady had already put those plans in motion several years earlier by purchasing a spread in the heart of "real America" during his second term as governor of Texas. Flush with a $14.9-million profit from the sale of the Texas Rangers in 1998
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[ Established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924), was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan.
Bush is the father of [ established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida
he was commissioned [ fraudulently ] as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date
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00:34:20
McCaskey: He got a beef with Baynard?
Lieuntenant Benjamin Bessalo: Yeah, the Senator got him fired from his old job.
Jimmy Dix: Secret Service. Huh? And Baynard had you fired? How come?
Joe Hallenbeck: None of your business.
Joe Hallenbeck: [ Flashback ] [ Woman screaming ] [ Bruce Willis looks serious. What an American Hero. Stands in front of the camera heroically selling out to communists perverts. ]
Senator Baynard: [ Flashback continues ] [ Bitch slapping ] What the fuck are you doing here?
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[ Established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924), was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan.
Bush is the father of [ established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida
he was commissioned [ fraudulently ] as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date
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[ Established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924), was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan.
Bush is the father of [ established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida
he was commissioned [ fraudulently ] as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date
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Sandusky, Penn State case timeline
Updated: November 9, 2011, 11:03 PM ET
ESPN.com news services
A chronological look at the case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, based on a grand jury report in Pennsylvania state court. Some key dates in Penn State football history are included. Sandusky has been charged with 40 criminal counts, accusing him of serial sex abuse of minors
1969
Jerry Sandusky starts his coaching career at Penn State University as a defensive line coach.
1977
Jerry Sandusky founds The Second Mile. It begins as a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys and grows to become a charity dedicated to helping children with absent or dysfunctional families.
September 2010
Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and handle personal matters.
March 2011
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News reports that grand jury is investigating Sandusky on allegations of indecent assault against a teenage boy. The Patriot-News reports that five people with knowledge of the case said the grand jury has been meeting for 18 months and has called witnesses, including Paterno and Curley. Penn State declines comment.
Nov. 5, 2011
Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts.
Nov. 7, 2011
Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says Paterno is not a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations. But she refuses to say the same for university president Graham Spanier. Curley and Schultz, who have stepped down from their positions, surrender on charges that they failed to alert police to complaints against Sandusky.
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[ Established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924), was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan.
Bush is the father of [ established national traitor against the United States and known coward ] George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida
he was commissioned [ fraudulently ] as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date
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George Bush
Nomination of Henry Edward Hudson To Be Director of the United States Marshals Service
November 20, 1991
The President today announced his intention to nominate Henry Edward Hudson, of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S. Marshals Service at the U.S. Department of Justice. He would succeed Michael Moore.
Currently Mr. Hudson serves as Of Counsel, general litigation, with the law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay in Alexandria, VA. Prior to this, he served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1986 - 1991; Commonwealth's attorney of Arlington County, VA, 1980 - 1986 and assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Criminal Section, 1978 - 1980.
Mr. Hudson graduated from American University (B.A., 1969; J.D., 1974). He was born July 24, 1947
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3659&year=1991&month=11
George Bush
Presidential Library and Museum
Public Papers - 1991 - November
Nomination of Henry Edward Hudson To Be Director of the United States Marshals Service
1991-11-20
The President today announced his intention to nominate Henry Edward Hudson, of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S. Marshals Service at the U.S. Department of Justice. He would succeed Michael Moore.
Currently Mr. Hudson serves as Of Counsel, general litigation, with the law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw McClay in Alexandria, VA. Prior to this, he served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1986 - 1991; Commonwealth's attorney of Arlington County, VA, 1980 - 1986 and assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Criminal Section, 1978 - 1980.
Mr. Hudson graduated from American University (B.A., 1969; J.D., 1974). He was born July 24, 1947, in Washington, DC. Mr. Hudson is married, has one child, and resides in Alexandria, VA.
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3659&year=1991&month=11
George Bush
Presidential Library and Museum
Public Papers - 1991 - November
Nomination of Henry Edward Hudson To Be Director of the United States Marshals Service
He was born July 24, 1947
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Sky Bandits (1986)
Release Dates
USA 31 October 1986
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National Transportation Safety Board
Aircraft Accident Report
United Airlines Flight 232, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10,
Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa
July 19, 1989
Executive Summary
On July 19, 1989, at 1516, a DC-10-10, N1819U, operated by United Airlines as flight 232, experienced a catastrophic failure of the No. 2 tail-mounted engine during cruise flight. The separation, fragmentation and forceful discharge of stage 1 fan rotor assembly parts from the No. 2 engine led to the loss of the three hydraulic systems that powered the airplane's flight controls. The flight crew experienced severe difficulties controlling the airplane, which subsequently crashed during an attempted landing at Sioux Gateway Airport, Iowa. There were 285 passengers and 11 crewmembers onboard. One flight attendant and 110 passengers were fatally injured.
http://www.usmarshals.gov/history/directors.htm
U.S. Marshals Service
Justice. Integrity. Service
History - List of USMS Directors and Predecessors
Name Title Appointed
Henry E. Hudson Acting Director, and Director, U.S. Marshals Service February 24, 1992 (Acting) & August 12, 1992 (Director)
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV Movie)
Release Dates
USA 24 February 1992
From 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 71 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/12/1966 ( premiere US TV series "Batman" ) is 71 days
From 1/31/1940 ( premiere US film "Convicted Woman" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 18956 days
18956 = 9478 + 9478
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9478 days
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 10318 days
10318 = 5159 + 5159
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/18/1979 ( premiere US TV movie "Casper's First Christmas" ) is 5159 days
From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 7/30/1986 ( premiere US film "Flight of the Navigator" ) is 9478 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9478 days
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 7/30/1986 ( premiere US film "Flight of the Navigator" ) is 9478 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9478 days
From 8/7/1963 ( Patrick Bouvier Kennedy ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 9478 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9478 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 10/9/1981 ( premiere US film "Ticket to Heaven" ) is 9478 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/15/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Herbert Walker Bush and the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9478 days
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George Bush
Presidential Library and Museum
Remarks at the Dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
1991-10-15
Thank you all very much. Thank you, Senator D'Amato. Please be seated, all of you. And Barbara and I are just delighted to be with you here today. Mr. Speaker, honored to have you here, sir. I understand that Senator Mitchell was here, had to leave. Senator Pell is with us. And, of course, your friend and mine, Al D'Amato, who's out there on the firing line day in and day out on behalf of our law enforcement officers. Al, thank you for that introduction, sir.
May I thank especially Craig Floyd. And I heard Barbara Dodge's moving remarks, in the back, Barbara and I just when we came here. I salute her. Of course, our Acting Attorney General Bill Barr; former Attorney General Ed Meese; the head of the FBI is with us; head of the Secret Service; and so many others that are committed to law enforcement.
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Release Dates
USA 30 July 1986
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Star Trek Generations [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
[Veridian III mountaintop]
PICARD: You don't need to do this, Soran. ...I'm sure we could find another way of getting you into this Nexus.
SORAN: I've spent eighty years looking for another way. Believe me, this is the only one.
(Soran presses some buttons on a keypad and a rocket reveals itself on the launcher)
PICARD: What you're about to do Soran, is no different from when the Borg destroyed your world. They killed millions too, ...including your wife ...and children.
SORAN: Nice try. ...You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came. And they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe. ...It's death. ...Afterwards I began to realise it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you? ...It's like a predator. It's stalking you. ...Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end time is going to hunt you down, ...and make the kill.
PICARD: It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence.
SORAN: What if I told you I've found a new truth.
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Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Release Dates
USA 9 October 1981
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Star Trek Generations [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
PICARD: Enhance grid nine-A. ...Where was the Amargosa star? ...Now you said when the Amargosa star was destroyed, it affected the gravitational forces in this sector. Did the computer take that into account when it projected the course of the ribbon?
DATA: No sir. I will make the appropriate adjustments.
PICARD: That's what Soran's doing, ...he's changing the course of the ribbon. ...But why? Why would he try to change its path? ...Why doesn't he just fly into it with a ship?
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THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of JUSTICE
WHAT IS FARA?
FARA is short for the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FARA?
The purpose of FARA is to insure that the U.S. Government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information (propaganda) and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws. In 1938, FARA was Congress' response to the large number of German propaganda agents in the pre-WWII U.S..
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28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Melinda Gates (1 January 1994 - present) 3 children [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Children: Jennifer Katharine (26 April 1996), son Rory John (23 May 1999), Phoebe Adele (14 September 2002)
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San Quentin (1937)
Release Dates
USA 3 August 1937 (New York City, New York)
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San Quentin (1937)
Pat O'Brien ... Capt. Stephen Jameson
Humphrey Bogart ... Joe 'Red' Kennedy
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Plot Summary for
San Quentin (1937)
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Quotes
Jimmy Dix: You don't like women much do ya Joe.
Joe Hallenbeck: [about his wife] At least I liked the guy she was fuckin'. He was my best friend.
Jimmy Dix: Nah man, he was a scumbag private detective.
Joe Hallenbeck: All private detectives are scumbags.
Jimmy Dix: Yeah, but that scumbag tried to get you killed.
Joe Hallenbeck: Yeah well, friends can't be perfect.
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Convicted Woman (1940)
Release Dates
USA 31 January 1940
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Casper's First Christmas (1979 TV Movie)
Release Dates
USA 18 December 1979
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Batman Season 1 Episode 1
Hi Diddle Riddle
A bomb goes off at the Gotham City World's Fair revealing a riddle which leads Batman and Robin to the Peale Art Gallery. The duo find out it's a trick from the Riddler who serves them subpoenas.
AIRED: 1/12/66
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Epiphany [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
EPISODE NUMBER - 212
DVD DISC - Season 2, Disc 3
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 01.13.06
INSIDE THE BARRIER. John is on his feet by the doorway, talking into the radio. He has a couple of days' growth of beard.
SHEPPARD: Rodney, Teyla, Ronon? Come in? (There's no reply.) You guys are starting to worry me a little bit here.
OUTSIDE THE BARRIER.
McKAY: Empty your pockets -- everything you think he might need to survive.
(Ronon takes various items out of his pockets. Teyla is taking energy bars out of her own pockets and they put everything into her knapsack.)
McKAY: We might just buy him a little more time there. (He puts some items into the knapsack himself.) Come on.
DEX: Go.
McKAY: Good. (He pulls the drawstrings shut, takes the knapsack to the doorway and tosses it through.)
INSIDE THE BARRIER. John has built himself a small fire and is sitting by it, licking the inside of the wrapper of his last energy bar. He scrunches it up and then looks down at his right hand, flexing his fingers painfully, so it's either very cold in the cave or he is weak from hunger. He tosses the wrapper down onto the floor. At that moment, the cave shakes as if a small earthquake is going off. He ducks, covering his head as small rocks fall from the ceiling. The earthquake subsides. As John looks around cautiously, there's a sound from the doorway and the energy field starts to glow blue. John stands up and runs over to the doorway as a knapsack flies through. John bends down to the knapsack, then stares at the doorway.
SHEPPARD: What the hell took you guys so long?!
(He unties the drawstrings of the knapsack, pulls out a canteen of water and takes a long drink.)
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Batman Season 1 Episode 1
Hi Diddle Riddle
TRIVIA
Gotham City is 14 miles from the Batcave entrance.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-21/magazine/tm-263_1_manuel-noriega
Los Angeles Times
THE SPOOKS, THE KOOKS & THE DICTATOR : If Noriega Goes Down, He's Threatening to Take the CIA, the DEA and the White House With Him
July 21, 1991 DOUGLAS FRANTZ and ROBERT L. JACKSON Douglas Frantz and Robert L. Jackson, reporters in The Times' Washington bureau, have been providing ongoing coverage of the Noriega case.
The crowded courtroom fell silent. * A white-haired judge, straight out of central casting, peered down thoughtfully from his lofty perch. The man before him was short and stood very erect, no expression on that famous pockmarked face. He wore a khaki uniform with four stars on each shoulder and spoke Spanish in urgent, even tones. * "When I was brought to the United States, I mistakenly believed that I would be able to receive a fair trial," Manuel Noriega began. "In order for this to come true, I also believed that I would be able to use my money to hire the lawyers of my choice. It is painfully obvious that the United States government does not wish me to be able to defend myself and (has) done everything possible to deprive me of a fair trial and due process."* Noriega paused for the interpreter to catch up. Then he started again: "They have taken my money, deprived me of my lawyers, videotaped me in my cell, wiretapped my telephone calls with my lawyers and even given them to the press." * The deposed dictator of Panama accused the U.S. government of waging a one-sided courtroom war, the equivalent of its December, 1989, invasion of his country. And he let it be known that he, too, has weapons in his arsenal. Nearing the end of his 18-minute oration, he mocked the U.S. government's claim that it could not force foreign banks to any of the $20 million frozen in Noriega's accounts to pay his defense lawyers. * He knew the power wielded by the men in Washington, he said, for he had once done their bidding. On his orders, Panamanian-flagged ships were searched in international waters, fugitives were sent to the United States for trial, Panamanian banking laws were breached--all at the behest of U.S. authorities. * "The Drug Enforcement Administration knows this, the White House knows this, and the State Department knows this," he said. "I know that when the government of the United States wishes something to be done, they obtain it."* When Noriega demanded the release of his money to pay his lawyers last November in his only courtroom statement to date, the general also delivered a threat: If the United States puts him on trial this fall, he intends to turn the tables and put the United States on trial, too.
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Quotes
Jimmy Dix: ...You wanna be left alone, don't you?
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-12/news/mn-212_1_firing-tear-gas
Los Angeles Times
Bush Flees Tear Gas, Gunshots in Panama : Diplomacy: U.S. agents lead a chaotic evacuation from plaza, where President was to have spoken, after authorities fire to curb protesters. He and wife are unhurt.
June 12, 1992 DOUGLAS JEHL TIMES STAFF WRITER
PANAMA CITY — Gunshots and tear gas fired by local authorities and maybe others drove President Bush from a stage in a downtown plaza here Thursday when he was just moments away from delivering a speech in praise of the revival of democracy in Panama.
Secret Service agents carrying automatic weapons led a chaotic evacuation from the plaza, whisking the President and his wife, Barbara, to a nearby American air base for safety.
Waiting for his speech, a joyous, flag-waving throng of about 3,000 Panamanians abruptly panicked at the sound of gunfire and dull explosions apparently caused by the launching of tear gas at protesters demonstrating on the fringes of the crowd.
The throng's enthusiasm turned to pandemonium as a stinging, choking mist of tear gas wafted across the plaza.
As the crowd surged forward, Secret Service agents surrounded Bush, draped him in a bulletproof coat and hustled him and the First Lady rearward away from the stage, amid a stampede of guests and invited dignitaries. Everyone's eyes streamed from the effects of the tear gas.
A second wave of heavily armed Secret Service agents pressed forward to meet the crowd, pointing their weapons and directing the crowd away from the President and his party. Others, brandishing submachine guns and pistols and some wearing gas masks, crouched near Bush's limousine as the Plaza Porras was transformed into something resembling a war zone.
With weapons-toting agents perched on the running boards, Bush and a small party sped away to the air base that was the site of his next scheduled Panama City stop. Unhurt and only a little flustered, Bush described the incident as the result of a "tiny left-wing demonstration."
The White House said it did not believe Bush was ever in immediate danger.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=21523
George Bush
Remarks at the East Dallas Renaissance Neighborhood Project in Dallas, Texas
September 28, 1992
The President. Thank you so much. I love what Michael Fells said about his house. That's the way we all ought to feel about our homes. And I was very proud of that.
Thanks to all of you for this great Dallas welcome. May I salute your wonderful Mayor, an old friend of mine and Barbara's, Steve Bartlett, doing an outstanding job for this wonderful area, this wonderful city. Also I want to salute Judge Lee Jackson and your Congressman, a Congressman, not this district but right next door, Sam Johnson, doing a fine job for Dallas. May I salute our sheriff, Sheriff Bowles, and our new police chief from Dallas, been here a while, doing a great job with the law enforcement community, Chief Bill Rathburn over here.
While I'm in the neighborhood, I want to recognize Meadows Foundation for their work restoring homes, restoring hope in this community. I saw a little bit of that when Steven here and Dirk and Cheryl, Cheryl Harley, showed me around this house that they are fixing to restore. So I'm just delighted to be here. Also pleased to welcome a cross-town guest from west Dallas, Mr. Artrous Hill, who for 41 years ran the barber-shop on Puget Street. When the drug epidemic came to west Dallas, Mr. Hill's landlords were the local crack dealers until U.S. marshals and the Dallas police put them out of business.
Audience member. Chicken George, why don't you debate?
The President. [Laughter] Listen to this guy. There are going to be debates.
May I say a word about the chicken question? May I say a word about -- you're talking about the draft record chicken or are you talking about the chicken in the Arkansas River? Which one are you talking about? Which one? Get out of here. Maybe it's the draft. Is that what's bothering you?
All right now. As I was saying before being so rudely interrupted
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-16/news/mn-606_1_enforcement-officers
Los Angeles Times
Bush Takes Part in Dedication of Memorial for Slain Officers
October 16, 1991 From Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth was shot to death while serving an arrest warrant in Georgia on Jan. 11, 1794.
James McKnight, a policeman in West Sacramento, Calif., was killed in a shoot-out on June 16, 1990.
Forsyth was the first to die and McKnight one of the most recent among 12,561 law enforcement officers whose names are engraved on the walls of a memorial dedicated here Tuesday.
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felony murder doctrine
a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the commission of a felony is first degree murder, and all participants in that felony or attempted felony can be charged with and found guilty of murder. A typical example is a robbery involving more than one criminal, in which one of them shoots, beats to death or runs over a store clerk, killing the clerk. Even if the death were accidental, all of the participants can be found guilty of felony murder, including those who did no harm, had no gun, and/or did not intend to hurt anyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_Murder_Doctrine
Felony Murder Doctrine
The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine current in some common law countries that broadens the crime of murder in two ways. First, when a victim dies accidentally or without specific intent in the course of an applicable felony, it increases what might have been manslaughter (or even a simple tort) to murder. Second, it makes any participant in such a felony criminally responsible for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-16/news/mn-598_1_clarence-thomas
Los Angeles Times
Bush Warned Thomas: Politics, Not Merit : Confirmation: The President calls to extend congratulations and justice-to-be delivers a public thank-you after a tumultuous, painful time.
October 16, 1991 JAMES GERSTENZANG TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — The prescient warning was there, from none other than the President of the United States, right at the start.
On that crisp summer day in Kennebunkport, Me., when George Bush offered Clarence Thomas the nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States, he was said to have told his guest at the Bush family's summer home: "Clarence, you've made it this far on merit, but from here on out it's politics."
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Senator Baynard: What the fuck are you doing here?
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:14:49
What happened to your face?
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Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Jan-96
Bush takes his four by four and spins donuts on the Simpson front lawn, spraying mud in all directions.
Marge: President Bush is driving on our lawn! He must be lost.
Homer: [threatening] He's not lost.
Bart: Looks like we're experiencing some blowback from the wig offensive.
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:43:37
You walked in and punched him in the head.
:43:39
- The President!
- He wasn't president then.
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:43:57
You punched the President?
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Gun Shop Owner: Well, let's see here. According to your background check, you've been in a mental institution...
Homer: Yeah.
Gun Shop Owner: ...frequent problems with alcohol...
Homer: [laughs nervously] Yeah.
Gun Shop Owner: ...beat up President Bush!
Homer: Former President Bush.
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1-08 - Flesh And Bones 12/06/04
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X08 - FLESH AND BONE
Original Airdate: February 25, 2005 (USA)
Starbuck - We, uh, got the entire avionics package figured out fire control, navigation and I think that I am zeroing in on her F.T.L. Drive.
Adama - I did this in a hurry about three weeks ago. It's an after-action report on Leoben. It's a very clever machine. Manipulative, cunning. The only problem with Leoben isn't that he lies, that'd be too easy. It's that he mixes lies with truth.
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Adama: Are you really going to press charges against Kara?
Tigh: For striking a superior officer? You're damn right I am.
Adama: Heard you started the day off pretty early.
Tigh: (walks over, picks up picture of Adama and his kids) I wasn't on duty.
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Striking Distance
- Why didn't you question them?
- What for?
- The body was dumped last night.
- How do you know?
I used to be a homicide detective.
- Round up the usual suspects.
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Will Smith
Date of Birth
25 September 1968
Birth Name
Willard Christopher Smith Jr.
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Confidence trick
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A confidence trick (also known as a scam) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual operating alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté, or greed.
Terminology
The perpetrator of a confidence trick is often referred to as a confidence (or "con") man
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THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of JUSTICE
WHAT IS FARA?
FARA is short for the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FARA?
The purpose of FARA is to insure that the U.S. Government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information (propaganda) and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws. In 1938, FARA was Congress' response to the large number of German propaganda agents in the pre-WWII U.S..
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/12/nation/na-bush12
Los Angeles Times
That Retro Feel to Bush's Style: It's Reaganesque
In many ways, he has more in common with the 40th president than with the 41st, his father.
January 12, 2003 James Gerstenzang Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — The similarities between the two presidents are striking: the retreats to the ranch whenever possible to clear brush and to clear their minds; the readiness to delegate important missions to aides; the reliance on tax cuts to spur the economy.
In many ways, George W. Bush, as president, has more in common with Ronald Reagan than he has with George H.W. Bush, his father.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/07/local/me-cap7
Los Angeles Times
At 72, Did He or Didn't He? Answer Stayed Hidden Behind Reagan's Smile
Region & State George Skelton / CAPITOL JOURNAL
June 07, 2004 George Skelton
Ronald Reagan may have been the first president to be asked in an interview about his sex life.
The fact that I survived to write about it -- that I wasn't tossed off Air Force One by Secret Service agents -- tells a lot about Reagan. How he handled my awkward question spoke reams about his sense of humor, self-confidence, character and class.
It's the kind of story that might be told at a eulogy. But since I won't be a eulogizer, I'll recount the tale here.
President Reagan had counseled young people at a Houston drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in 1983 to take care of their bodies so they could enjoy sex late into life. At least, that's the way it sounded to bemused reporters, startled aides and the recovering addicts, who responded to the grinning president with laughter.
This is what the 72-year-old Reagan actually said:
"When you get along to where I am, you find out taking care of that machinery sure pays off when ... you can still tie your shoes and pull on your own socks without sitting down and do a lot of things that are much more enjoyable than that."
There was a big smile on his face.
Later, I asked longtime Reagan advisor Michael Deaver, whom I'd known since we were fraternity brothers at San Jose State, whether the president had been referring to sex. Deaver said he thought so, but it was a question only the president could answer.
He arranged an interview for me as Reagan flew from Washington to Santa Barbara for a Fourth of July holiday. Our topic was to be aging. Reagan would be running for reelection the next year, and many voters were concerned about the physical stamina and mental agility of America's oldest president, particularly after he had narrowly survived an assassination attempt.
Sitting across a table from the president in his private cabin, I decided to make my first question about the drug clinic comments. Reagan explained that he had actually been thinking about activities such as cutting tree limbs, riding horses and swimming. Sex "wasn't in my mind," he said, chuckling, but he instantly realized the audience had interpreted his remarks that way.
I plowed ahead: "Well, I'm on shaky ground here, OK?"
"Fine," Reagan replied.
"But I've got to ask a 72-year-old president ... "
"Yeah?"
" ... if you still have an active sex life?"
Reagan's eyes opened wide, he grinned broadly and laughed. Deaver sat up straight.
"I don't think, no, George -- and I'm remembering things like Mr. Carter in Playhouse [sic]." -- Reagan was referring to candidate Jimmy Carter's 1976 confession in Playboy that he had "lusted" in his heart. -- "No, this is a subject I think I'll stay away from."
Reagan spoke candidly about how he loved his ranch but would be "bored" if he weren't president. He talked about his sparing use of alcohol and shunning of tobacco, the slow loss of hearing in his right ear, the gradual curling of a finger because of a rare hereditary malady -- and the attempt on his life, the inevitability of death and his deep religious faith.
I didn't write a word about sex, feeling he really hadn't said much. But others later did, because snickering White House aides leaked excerpts to reporters.
The point here is that Reagan was a rare politician -- rare person -- who could make a reporter feel comfortable fishing in treacherous waters. He took it in stride and seemed to enjoy the banter. He was invariably at ease with himself and everyone else.
Later, I received a White House photo of me querying the beaming president. He wrote on it: "Then I said -- !?"
Reporters did not intimidate Reagan. As governor, he held weekly news conferences in the Capitol, a practice long since abandoned by successors who have opted for staged photo-ops. Reagan prospered politically from news conferences because his sincerity and conviction got through to the public.
Each summer, he'd invite Capitol reporters and their families -- kids and all -- to his house for a swimming party and barbecue. My three daughters still cherish a snapshot of them standing waist-high to Reagan as he nonchalantly held a half-hidden beer can. How many pols today would dare be photographed with a beer can?
When he was president and I was covering him, Reagan called my mother on her 85th birthday. "Haven't you got better things to do?" she asked with typical Skelton tact. Of course he did, but Reagan loved to call and surprise people. He complimented her for years of volunteer work at the Ojai Valley museum.
"The essence to understanding Ronald Reagan is that he genuinely likes people," said press aide Mark Weinberg, who set up the call. "He took great pleasure in brightening their day.
"There was nothing insincere about him. He may have been an actor, but he wasn't a fake."
And that was the essence of Reagan's popularity. Even people who disagreed with him knew he was genuine.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/07/nation/na-nancy7
Los Angeles Times
THE REAGAN LEGACY
A New Role for Nancy Reagan
Former first lady is expected to be visible, and vigilant, as she tends to her husband's legacy.
June 07, 2004 Patt Morrison Times Staff Writer
Not a single one of the movie roles on Nancy Davis' brief film resume -- housewife, pregnant housewife, mother, nurse -- was ever remotely as meaty as the parts she undertook as Nancy Reagan:
First lady of California and the nation, defender of the Reagan faith, lady in red, and lastly and lately, first caretaker -- for that 10-year watch over the dwindling mind and memory of the husband she had spent a half-century admiring, warning, protecting.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday June 09, 2004 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 37 words Type of Material: Correction
Nancy Reagan -- A caption in Monday's Section A with a photo from the film "Hellcats of the Navy" referred to Nancy Davis as Ronald Reagan's future wife. They were already married when the movie was made.
Life at its pinnacle, with the mightiest man in the world, transported her in the space of one week in 1988 to the Kremlin, to Buckingham Palace, to Disney World and home to the White House. Life at its ebb gave her a golden wedding anniversary with a man who may not even have been able to remember the face or the name of "the one person I can trust."
Always, it was Rawhide and Rainbow -- their Secret Service code names -- the two of them, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, unshakable and unbreakable.
Nancy Reagan lost her husband first to Alzheimer's disease, which cast his mind adrift, and now to death itself.
She spent 16 years as the political wife in the public eye and nearly that many behind the gates of Bel-Air, a sick man's wife out of the public gaze.
Now, about to turn 83 in July, she moves to a new and solo role, beginning this week, with public mourning and ceremonials on both coasts.
Already she has shown she is unlikely to disappear completely from public view.
George W. Bush has styled himself as the inheritor of the Reagan legacy -- even to buying a ranch and cutting brush, as Reagan did -- but Nancy Reagan emphatically crossed him recently with a public endorsement of research using embryonic stem cells as a possible path to an Alzheimer's cure. Bush has banned the use of federal money for most stem-cell research.
From 2/6/1911 ( Ronald Reagan my biological maternal grandfather ) To 2/11/1969 ( Jennifer Aniston ) is 21190 days
21190 = 10595 + 10595
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/5/1994 ( my maternal biological grandfather Ronald Reagan announces that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease ) is 10595 days
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/reagan-alzheimers
PBS
On November 5, 1994, former President Ronald Reagan published a letter to the American people announcing his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
My fellow Americans,
I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.
Upon learning this news, Nancy and I had to decide whether as private citizens we would keep this a private matter or whether we would make this news known in a public way.
In the past, Nancy suffered from breast cancer and I had cancer surgeries. We found through our open disclosures we were able to raise public awareness. We were happy that as a result many more people underwent testing. They were treated in early stages and able to return to normal, healthy lives.
So now we feel it is important to share it with you. In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clear understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.
At the moment, I feel just fine. I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done. I will continue to share life's journey with my beloved Nancy and my family. I plan to enjoy the great outdoors and stay in touch with my friends and supporters.
Unfortunately, as Alzheimer's disease progresses, the family often bears a heavy burden. I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience. When the time comes, I am confident that with your help she will face it with faith and courage.
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Thank you, my friends.
Sincerely,
Ronald Reagan
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Chapter 9
At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/17/news/cl-64550
Los Angeles Times
Polishing the President's Image One Last Time
Longtime aide Michael Deaver recalls Ronald Reagan's influence on the nation and on him.
May 17, 2001 J. MICHAEL KENNEDY TIMES STAFF WRITER
Michael Deaver still feels the wrench of emotion when he rereads the concluding pages of his book, the words describing the last time he would ever see his old boss, Ronald Reagan. It was in the winter of 1998, after Alzheimer's disease had done its terrible work. Nancy Reagan had made the decision that the former president would no longer be seen in public, that only the immediate family would have access to the Great Communicator in his waning days.
She wanted the world to remember the president who'd cleared brush on his ranch, who'd stood erect as he challenged the Evil Empire, not the one who no longer recognized the people who once made up the tapestry of his life.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 08:19 AM Pacific Time near Seattle Washington State USA Wednesday 31 July 2013
