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Elmer Fudd (Character)
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980) (TV)
Elmer Fudd: be vewy, vewy quiet!
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The Delta Force (1986)
Quotes
Maj. Scott McCoy: Going somewhere?
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 4:43 PM
I was probably still in pretty bad shape on 7/21/1987. I have these thoughts that I could barely stand up there at that wedding ceremony on 7/21/1987 and that I actually fell down at one point. Someone might have commented that I had too much to drink the night before. I also have thoughts that Phoebe and I had another photo shoot in our wedding garments about 6 months later after I had put more weight on.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 4:46 PM
I wonder a lot about who all was there at that ceremony and if there some kind of separate viewing area so that one crowd couldn't see the other group.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 4:47 PM
I was wearing the white ceremonial USN uniform as I was still a Lieutenant and Phoebe looked beyond stunning in her white wedding dress.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 4:50 PM
Maybe that wedding chapel we were in had a balcony and there was another group in the balcony that the other people didn't know about.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 5:45 PM
The wedding ceremony might have also been because my grandmother wanted us to wait awhile until we had a real ceremony. My grandmother is choosy about who I get married to. Something like that.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 8:41 PM
I also wonder if I had literally lost conscious standing there at our wedding and my first sight was of Phoebe's face as she kneeled over me.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/06/07 8:58 PM
I have other artificial memories that I guess are other people memories of seeing me fall to the floor.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/07/07 6:26 PM
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"The Telltale Head" was the eighth episode of The Simpsons. The episode deals with Bart pulling a questionable stunt that shocks the entire town. The title is a play on Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/07/07 7:40 PM
Did someone plea "not here" when it looked like I had fallen over dead as Phoebe and I were standing there at the altar?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/07/07 7:56 PM
I wonder if anyone would ever ponder over how the paramedics got to me so quickly after I passed out.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/08/07 4:15 PM
That time Tracie's father, Joseph, was helping cut down trees in my yard at Country Club Estates. I "remember" Tracie, Amanda, and Betty, were in the house and something about Amanda's observations from the sound and feel of the tall trees hitting the ground. There was one time I yelled to Joseph to watch out because the rope snapped on the winch I was using and it jumped away towards him. I had a winch connected to one tree and was pulling over the tree he was using the chainsaw on so we could get the tree to fall away from the house. I was standing there with the winch handle in my hand as I watched the winch jump away from me and it seemed to happening in slow motion.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 October 2007 excerpt ends]
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Naval flight officer
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A Naval Flight Officer (NFO) is an aeronautically designated commissioned officer in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps that specializes in airborne weapons and sensor systems. NFOs are not pilots (Naval Aviators) per se, but they may perform many "co-pilot" functions, depending on the type of aircraft.
Similarly, Marine Corps NFOs are considered also eligible for command at sea and ashore within Marine Aviation, and are also eligible to hold senior general officer positions, such as command of Marine Aircraft Wings, Joint Task Forces, Marine Expeditionary Forces, Marine Corps component commands and unified combatant commands.
Naval Aviator vs Naval Flight Officer
Naval Flight Officers operate some of the advanced systems on board most multi-crew naval aircraft, and some may also act as the overall tactical mission commanders of single or multiple aircraft assets during a given mission. NFOs are not formally trained to pilot the aircraft, although they do train in some dual-control aircraft and are given the opportunity to practice basic airmanship techniques. Some current and recently retired naval aircraft with side-by-side seating are also authorized to operate under dual-piloted weather minimums with one pilot and one NFO. However, in the unlikely event that the pilot of a single piloted naval aircraft becomes incapacitated, the crew would likely eject or bail out, if possible, as NFOs are not normally qualified to land the aircraft, especially in the carrier-based shipboard environment.
Past aircraft
NFOs also flew in these retired aircraft, including as mission commander:
A-6 Intruder (A-6A, A-6B, A-6C, KA-6D, A-6E) serving as bombardier/navigator.
EA-6A Prowler serving as electronic countermeasures officer.
F-14 Tomcat (F-14A, F-14B, F-14D) serving as radar intercept officer.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X02 - WATER
Original Airdate: January 14, 2005 (USA)
Helo: Never send a pilot to do an E.C.O.'s job.
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/25/1993 is 10906 days
10906 = 5453 + 5453
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 10/7/1980 ( premiere US film "Private Benjamin" ) is 5453 days
From 4/9/1986 ( --- ) To 5/25/1993 is 2603 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 12/18/1972 ( premiere US film "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" ) is 2603 days
From 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 ) To 5/25/1993 is 1406 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 9/8/1969 ( premiere US film "The Honeymoon Killers" ) is 1406 days
From 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 ) To 5/25/1993 is 1406 days
1406 = 703 + 703
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 10/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Mirror, Mirror" ) is 703 days
From 6/27/1963 ( John Kennedy - Remarks at Redmond Place in Wexford ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 10066 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 5/25/1993 is 10066 days
From 6/27/1963 ( John Kennedy - Remarks at Redmond Place in Wexford ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 10066 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 5/25/1993 is 10066 days
From 12/25/1942 ( premiere US film "Arabian Nights" ) To 5/25/1993 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 12/25/1942 ( premiere US film "Arabian Nights" ) To 5/25/1993 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 12/25/1942 ( premiere US film "Destruction Inc." ) To 5/25/1993 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 12/25/1942 ( premiere US film "Destruction Inc." ) To 5/25/1993 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 4/1/1964 ( Lyndon Johnson - Executive Order 11149 - Establishing the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport ) is 20132 days
20132 = 10066 + 10066
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 5/25/1993 is 10066 days
From 5/8/1952 ( premiere US film "Without Warning!" ) To 5/25/1993 is 14992 days
14992 = 7496 + 7496
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 5/12/1986 ( premiere US film "Top Gun" ) is 7496 days
From 7/25/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Executive Order 10774 - Providing for the Protection of the Civil-Service Rights of Federal Personnel Who Transfer to the International Atomic Energy Agency ) To 2/14/1986 ( premiere US film "The Delta Force" ) is 10066 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 5/25/1993 is 10066 days
From 12/23/1900 ( the first radio broadcast by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden ) To 2/5/1956 ( premiere US film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ) is 20132 days
20132 = 10066 + 10066
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 5/25/1993 is 10066 days
From 2/9/1941 ( the Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools" speech ) To 5/25/1993 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 5/25/1993 ( ) is 801 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 1/12/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"A Piece of the Action" ) is 801 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Monaco Grand Prix ) To 5/25/1993 is 744 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 11/16/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Charles B. Morris, USA ) is 744 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Monaco Grand Prix ) To 5/25/1993 is 744 days
744 = 372 + 372
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 11/9/1966 ( premiere US film "My Brothers Wife" ) is 372 days
From 6/24/1977 ( premiere US film "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo" ) To 5/25/1993 is 5814 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 10/3/1981 ( premiere US TV movie "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game" ) is 5814 days
From 6/24/1977 ( George Walker Bush fraudulently incorporates Arbusto ) To 5/25/1993 is 5814 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 10/3/1981 ( premiere US TV movie "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game" ) is 5814 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 5/25/1993 is 7822 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 4/3/1987 ( premiere US film "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" ) is 7822 days
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Exchange With Reporters on the White House Travel Office
May 25, 1993
Q. Mr. President, are you upset by this whole Travel Office mess? And who's responsible for it, sir?
The President. Well, ultimately, anything that happens in the White House is the responsibility of the President. And whenever you've asked me a question, I've told you all I knew about it. All I knew was there was a plan to cut the size of the office, save tax dollars, save the press money. I talked to Mr. McLarty about it this morning. I said, you know, I keep reading this; I know that there is a feeling at least, based on what I've read, that someone in the White House may have done something that was inappropriate or that wasn't quite handled fight or something. Mack and I talked about it today. He said he would spend some real time on and look into it, try to ascertain exactly what happened, make a full report to me, which I think is the appropriate thing to do. I simply can't tell you that I know something I don't. I literally don't know anything other than what I've told you. He's looking into it now. He's worked on it quite a bit today. And he's going to make a report to me, and then we will take appropriate steps, including saying whatever's appropriate to you.
Q. Do you think that the White House approached the FBI improperly in this case?
The President. I don't have any reason to believe that. I mean, for example, there are lots of cases where, historically, as nearly as we can determine, The White House, if something happened within The White House, might ask the FBI to look into it. So I don't know that. I don't know that. And I don't have an opinion yet. I have to wait. Mack agreed that he needed to really make sure that he had all the facts down; he needed to know exactly what had happened; he needed to report to me. I said, "Look, this is just a simple case. Let's just follow the do-right rule here, make up your own mind, get the facts, see what you think happened, let me know, and we'll tell the public." I mean, there's nothing funny going on here. We really were just trying to save money for everybody. That was the only thing I was ever asked about personally. And I don't believe that anybody else had any other motives that I know about. And so I asked him to look into it. When we know more, we'll be glad to say more.
Q. What about Dole saying it has a tinge of Watergate?
The President. There's none of that because, you know, there's nothing like that going on. There's no—no.
Q. Don't you think—
Q. [Inaudible]
The President. We're on top of it. We'll—
Q. Don't you think a lot of people were hurt by the way it was handled?
The President. Well, the question is whether the people that were hurt did anything to merit it. We'll just have to see. I mean, I want to get a report, and then I will be glad to tell you whatever I know. But let me find out—
Q. [Inaudible]
The President. All those decisions have been made by Mack. We talked yesterday. We talked again this morning. He said, "Look, I just want to get on top of this. I'll tell you exactly what happened. I'll tell you what I think." So I'm waiting for a report. And I don't think I should say anything else until I know more.
NOTE: The exchange began at 5:43 p.m. in the East Room at the White House.
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 4
AAR
"That's how our society works, isn't it? We pay people for doing useful work. Is this area useful enough?"
"If you bring it off, I suppose it is." This senator was himself a physician, a family practitioner who knew the basics but was well over his head on the deep-scientific side. The concept, the objective of Horizon Corporation, was well beyond breathtaking, but he would not bet against them. They'd done too well developing cancer drugs and synthetic antibiotics, and were the leading private company in the Human Genome Project, a global effort to decode the basics of human life. Himself a genius, John Brightling had found it easy to attract others like himself to his company. He had more charisma than a hundred politicians, and unlike the latter, the senator had to admit to himself, he really had something to back up the showmanship. It had once been called "the right stuff'! or pilots. With his movie-star looks, ready smile, superb listening ability, and dazzlingly analytical mind, Dr. John Brightling had the knack. He could make anyone near him! gel interesting-and the bastard could teach, could apply his lessons to everyone nearby. Simple ones for the unschooled and highly sophisticated ones for the specialists in his field, at the top of which he reigned supreme. Oh, lie had a few peers. Pat Reily at Harvard-Mass General. Aaron Bernstein at Johns Hopkins. Jacques Elise at Pasteur. Maybe Paul Ging at U.C. Berkeley. But that was it. What a fine clinician Brightling might have made, the senator-M.D. thought, but, no, he was too good to be wasted on people with the latest version of the flu.
About the only thing in which he'd failed was his marriage. Well, Carol Brightling was also pretty smart, but more political than scientific, and perhaps her ego, capacious as everyone in this city knew it to be, had quailed before the greater intellectual gifts of her husband. Only room in town for one of us, the doctor from Wyoming thought, with an inner smile. That happened often enough in real life, not just on old movies. And Brightling, John, seemed to be doing better in that respect than Brightling, Carol. At the former's elbow was a very pretty redhead drinking in his every word, while the latter had come alone, and would be leaving alone for her apartment in Georgetown. Well, the senator-M.D. thought, that's life.
Immortality. Damn, all the pronghorns he might take, the doctor from Cody thought on, heading over to his wife. Dinner was about to start. The chicken had finished the vulcanization process. The Valium helped. It wasn't actually Valium, Killgore knew. That drug had become something of a generic name for mild sedatives, and this one had been developed by SmithKline, with a different trade name, with the added benefit that it made a good mix with alcohol. For street people who were often as contentious and territorial as junkyard dogs, this group of ten was remarkably sedate. The large quantities of good booze helped. The high-end bourbons seemed the most popular libations, drunk from cheap glasses with ice, along with various mixers for those who didn't care to drink it neat. Most didn't, to Killgore's surprise.
The physicals had gone well. They were all healthy sick people, outwardly fairly vigorous, but inwardly all with physical problems ranging from diabetes to liver failure. One was definitely suffering from prostate cancer his PSA was off the top of the chart-but that wouldn't matter in this particular test, would it? Another was HIV+, but not yet symptomatic, and so that didn't matter either. He'd probably gotten it from drug use, but strangely, liquor seemed all he needed to keep himself regulated here. How interesting.
Killgore didn't have to be here, and it troubled his conscience to look at them so much, but they were his lab rats, and he was supposed to keep an eye on them, and so he did, behind the mirror, while he did his paperwork and listened to Bach on his portable CD player. Three were claimed to be-Vietnam veterans. So they'd killed their share of Asians-"gooks" was the word they'd used in the interview-before coming apart and ending up as street drunks. Well, homeless people was the current term society used for them, somewhat more dignified than bums, the term Killgore vaguely remembered his mother using. Not the best example of humanity he'd ever seen. Yet the Project had managed to change them quite a bit. All bathed regularly now and dressed in clean clothes and watched TV. Some even read books from time to time Killgore had thought that providing a library, while cheap, was an outrageously foolish waste of time and money. But always they drank, and the drinking relegated each of the ten to perhaps six hours of full consciousness per day. And the Valium calmed them further, limiting any alteranions that his security staff would have to break up. Two of them were always on duty in the next room over, also watching the group of ten. Microphones buried in the ceiling allowed them to listen in to the disjointed conversations. One of the group was something of an authority on baseball and talked about Mantle and Maris all the time to whoever would listen. Enough of them talked about sex that Killgore wondered if he should send the snatch team back out to get some female "homeless" subjects for the experiment-he would tell Barb Archer that. Utter all, they needed to know if gender had an effect on the experiment. She'd have to buy into that one, wouldn't she'? And there'd be none of the sisterly solidarity with them. There couldn't be, even from the feminazi who joined him in running this experiment. Her ideology was too pure for that. Killgore turned when there came a knock at the door.
"Hey, doe." It was Benny, one of the security guys.
"Hey, how's it going?"
"Falling asleep," Benjamin Farmer replied. "The kids are playing pretty nice."
"Yeah, they sure are." It was so easy. Most had to be prodded a little to leave the room and go out to the courtyard for an hour of walking around every afternoon. But they had to be kept fit-which was to say, to simulate the amount of exercise they got on a normal day in Manhattan, staggering from one dreary corner to another.
"Damn, doe, I never knew anybody could put it away the way these guys do! I mean, I had to bring in a whole case of Grand-Dad today, and there's only two bottles left."
"That their favorite?" Killgore asked. He hadn't paid much attention to that.
"Seems to be, sir. I'm a Jack Daniel's man myself - but with me, maybe two a night, say, for Monday Night Football, if it's a good game. I don't drink water the way the kids drink hard booze." A chuckle from the ex-Marine who ran the night security shift. A good man, Farmer. He did a lot of things with injured animals at the company's rural shelter. He was also the one who'd taken to calling the test subjects the kids. It had caught on with the security staff and from them to the others. Killgore chuckled. You had to call them something, and lab rats just wasn't respectful enough.
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May 25 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is created in The Hague.
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The late 1980s and early 1990s witnessed dramatic political and social change across eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the collapse of the majority of communist systems and resurgence of nationalism. In Yugoslavia – properly referred to as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia up until formally dissolving in 1992 – a series of economic and political crises led ultimately to the violent break up of the country.
In the early 1990s, a brief flare up of hostilities in Slovenia was soon followed by brutal conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The chronology of the wars in the former Yugoslavia was completed with armed conflicts in Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in 1998-99 and 2001, respectively.
The mass atrocities committed first in Croatia and later in Bosnia and Herzegovina spurred the international community into action. As early as September 1991, the United Nations took note of the situation and urged parties to the conflict to abide by international law. Thousands were injured and killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced.
Reports about massacres of thousands of civilians, rape and torture in detention camps, terrible scenes from cities under siege and the suffering of hundreds of thousands expelled from their homes, moved the UN in late 1992 to establish a Commission of Experts to examine the situation on the ground.
In its report, the Commission documented horrific crimes and provided the Secretary-General with evidence of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other violations of international humanitarian law. Its findings led the Security Council to decide that it would establish an international tribunal for persons responsible for these crimes in order to stop the violence and safeguard international peace and security.
On 25 May 1993, the UN Security Council passed resolution 827 formally establishing the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, known as the ICTY. This resolution contained the Statute of the ICTY which determined the Tribunal’s jurisdiction and organisational structure, as well as the criminal procedure in general terms. This was the first war crimes court established by the UN and the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. This date marked the beginning of the end of impunity for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
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John F. Kennedy
XXXV President of the United States: 1961 - 1963
276 - Remarks at Redmond Place in Wexford.
June 27, 1963
Mr. Mayor, Chairman of the Council, Mr. Minister, my friends:
I want to express my pleasure at being back from whence I came. There is an impression in Washington that there are no Kennedys left in Ireland, that they are all in Washington, so I wonder if there are any Kennedys in this audience. Could you hold up your hand so I can see?
Well, I am glad to see a few cousins who didn't catch the boat.
And I am glad to take part in this ceremony this morning for John Barry. I have had in my office since I was President the flag that he flew and the sword that he wore. It is no coincidence that John Barry and a good many of his successors played such a leading part in the American struggle, not only for independence, but for its maintenance. About 2 months ago I visited the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battlefield in the American Civil War, and one of the monuments to the dead was to the Irish Brigade. In Fredericksburg, which was another slaughter, the Irish Brigade was nearly wiped out. They went into battle wearing a sprig of green in their hats and it was said of them what was said about Irishmen in other countries: "War battered dogs are we, gnawing a naked bone, fighting in every land and clime, for every cause but our own."
It seems to me that in these dangerous days when the struggle for freedom is worldwide against an armed doctrine, that Ireland and its experience has one special significance, and that is that the people's fight, which John Boyle O'Reilly said outlived a thousand years, that it was possible for a people over hundreds of years of foreign domination and religious persecution--it was possible for that people to maintain their national identity and their strong faith. And therefore those who may feel that in these difficult times, who may believe that freedom may be on the run, or that some nations may be permanently subjugated and eventually wiped out, would do well to remember Ireland.
And I am proud to come here for another reason, because it makes me even prouder of my own country. My country welcomed so many sons and daughters of so many countries, Irish and Scandinavian, Germans, Italian, and all the rest, and gave them a fair chance and a fair opportunity. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is of Irish descent. The leader of the Senate is of Irish descent. And what is true of the Irish has been true of dozens of other people. In Ireland I think you see something of what is so great about the United States; and I must say that in the United States, through millions of your sons and daughters and cousins-25 million, in fact--you see something of what is great about Ireland.
So I am proud to be here. I am proud to have connected on that beautiful golden box the coat of arms of Wexford, the coat of arms of the kingly and beautiful Kennedys, and the coat of arms of the United States. That is a very good combination.
Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 1:40 p.m. His opening words referred to Thomas F. Burne, Mayor of Wexford; James I. Bowe, Chairman of the County Council; and Frank Aiken, Minister of External Affairs.
After leaving New Ross that morning the President and his party drove to Dunganstown to visit the farm where Patrick Kennedy had spent his early years. Hostess for the occasion was Mrs. Mary Kennedy Ryan, third cousin to the President, who had assembled about 25 relatives and the Parish Priest for a family reunion. The President was shown the house and was served light refreshments in the farmyard. He gave no speech but proposed a simple toast "to the Kennedys who went away and to the Kennedys who stayed behind."
The President then flew to Wexford where he laid a wreath at the Barry Memorial--a 1956 gift from the U.S. Government to the people of Ireland. He then proceeded to Redmond Place where he spoke and was given the freedom of Wexford.
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Stark: I'm going as far as I'm prepared to go. I'll catch the rest on CNN.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:16:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Kerry Burgess"
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 3/6/06
To: "Kerry Burgess"
And then there was the time she broke into my apartment when I was sleeping. That was 91 I think, early on when we were dating. I was still living in Taylors, SC, nearby my job in Greenville. I remember I had been feeling very jumpy back then, I don't know why. I had a good job, I had a nice duplex apartment, it was a nice neighborhood. But I was worried about someone sneaking in while I was asleep. I had the doors rigged to make noise to wake me up. Apparantly she was able to pry the lock on the back door and I woke up with her standing next to me in my bed. The door trap had worked, but all it did was scare her, I didn't hear it because I had drank a lot of beers and passed out drunk.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 March 2006 excerpt ends]
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Arabian Nights (1942)
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USA 25 December 1942 (New York City, New York)
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Arabian Nights (1942)
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Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells Kamar, brother of kalif Haroun. He planned a coup d'etat, which failed at first, but supported by the wasir he finally succeeds. Haroun is injured and gets help from Ahmad's actor troupe, where he is nursed by Sherazade, who doesn't recognise him. When she hears that Kamar is looking for her she goes to him, but is sold with the complete troupe of actors to slavery. They're able to escape, but Haroun is still in danger. To save him, Sherazade agrees to poison Kamar, but Haroun tries to establish his rulership first.
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Destruction Inc. (1942)
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USA 25 December 1942
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Geronimo
Geronimo, Indian name Goyathlay (“One Who Yawns”) (born June 1829, No-Doyohn Canyon, Mex.—died Feb. 17, 1909, Fort Sill, Okla., U.S.), Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, who led his people’s defense of their homeland against the military might of the United States.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963 - 1969
Executive Order 11149 - Establishing the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport
April 1, 1964
WHEREAS the United States has initiated a program for the development of commercial supersonic aircraft; and
WHEREAS supersonic transport will advance technical knowledge, expand our international trade, strengthen our manufacturing capability, and provide employment for thousands of our citizens; and
WHEREAS the development of supersonic transport will require the participation and assistance of various Federal agencies as well as private manufacturing and transportation interests; and
WHEREAS the development of supersonic transport will involve heavy expenditures of money and resources and it is therefore essential that the activities of the Federal agencies concerned be coordinated at the highest level:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby established the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport (hereinafter referred to as the Committee). The Committee shall be composed of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency, and such other members as the President may from time to time appoint. The Secretary of Defense shall serve as Chairman of the Committee.
Sec. 2. The Committee shall study, and shall advise and make recommendations to the President with regard to, all aspects of the supersonic transport program. The Committee shall devote particular attention to the financial aspects of the program and shall maintain close coordination with the Director of the Bureau of the Budget in this regard.
Sec. 3. All Federal departments and agencies shall cooperate with the Committee and furnish it with such information and assistance, not inconsistent with law, as it may require in the performance of its duties.
Sec. 4. Members of the Committee who are officers or employees of the Federal Government shall receive no additional compensation by reason of such membership. Other members of the Committee shall be entitled to receive compensation and travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving the government intermittently (5 U.S.C. 73b—2).
Sec. 5. Each Federal department and agency represented on the Committee shall furnish necessary assistance to the Committee in accordance with section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat. 134 (31 U.S.C. 691). Such assistance may include the detailing of employees, including consultants and experts, to the Committee to perform such functions consistent with the purposes of this Order as the Committee may assign.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The White House,
April 1, 1964.
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Top Gun (1986)
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Top Gun
Maverick. I flew with his old man.
Tell me, if you had to go into battle,|would you want him with you?
I just don't know.
- Still awake?|- Yeah.
- What's up?|- I can't sleep.
When I realised we were off to Top Gun,|all I could think about was that trophy.
I've got to be straight with you, Mav.|Right now, I just hope we graduate.
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How Apache Helicopters Work
by Tom Harris
Apache Controls
The Apache cockpit is divided into two sections, one directly behind the other. The pilot sits in the rear section, and the co-pilot/gunner sits in the front section. As you might expect, the pilot maneuvers the helicopter and the gunner aims and fires the weapons. Both sections of the cockpit include flight and firing controls in case one pilot needs to take over full operation.
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Without Warning! (1952)
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Without Warning! (1952)
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Carl Martin is a morose and deranged Los Angeles gardener, who,in retribution for the infidelity of his unfaithful wife, sets about to kill as many blonde's as he can. From the time the film opens, to the sound of a radio turned up full-blast over the still-warm corpse of a blonde, the audience knows the identity of the killer. The film depicts, with documentary realism as it was shot on location in and around Los Angeles, how the police, using laboratory techniques against the few clues they have, track down Martin. Their key clue is a spring from a pair of garden shears. The police move in just as Martin is about to add Jane Saunders, the daughter of a greenhouse owner, to his long list of victims.
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953 - 1961
Executive Order 10774 - Providing for the Protection of the Civil-Service Rights of Federal Personnel Who Transfer to the International Atomic Energy Agency
July 25, 1958
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 631), the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403; 5 U.S.C. 632 et seq.), section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and section 6 (c) of the International Atomic Energy Agency Participation Act of 1957 (71 Stat. 455), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
SECTION 1. Subject to the restrictions and conditions set forth herein, the United States Civil Service Commission is designated and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 6 (c) of the International Atomic Energy Agency Participation Act of 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 6 of the Act and to protect the retirement, insurance, and other civil-service rights and privileges of any Federal employee, Presidential appointee, or elected officer who enters the employ of the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the Agency) pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of the Act.
SEC. 2. Consistent with the provisions of section 6 of the Act and this order, and to the extent provided in regulations prescribed pursuant to section 1 of this order, a Federal employee, a Presidential appointee, or an elected officer who enters the employ of the Agency pursuant to section 6 of the Act after August 27, 1957, shall be entitled to the protection and benefit of the rights and privileges specified in the Act and of such other civil-service rights and privileges to which he would have been entitled had he continued his employment in his position in the Federal service.
SEC. 3. The regulations prescribed pursuant to section 1 of this order shall provide for the following protections and benefits:
(a) The retention by a Federal employee of coverage and all rights and benefits under the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, and the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, as amended, during the re-employment period in which the employee is properly exercising or could exercise the re-employment right provided by section 6 (a) of the Act. During such reemployment period, the employee shall be considered as on leave without pay for retirement and insurance purposes: Provided, that nothing in this subsection shall preclude the vesting of retirement or insurance coverage for a Federal employee, a Presidential appointee, or an elected officer in the event of his death during the first three consecutive years of his employment with the Agency or, in the case of a Federal employee, during the re-employment period referred to in this subsection.
(b) The entitlement of a Federal employee to the rate of basic compensation to which he would have been entitled had he remained in the Federal service when he is re-employed pursuant to section 6 (a) of the Act, and the entitlement of a Presidential appointee or an elected officer to such rate of basic compensation when he is re-employed in the Federal position which he left or one of like seniority, status, and pay within ninety days from the date of his separation from the Agency following a term of employment not extending beyond the first three consecutive years from the date of his entering the employ of the Agency.
(c) The entitlement of a Federal employee upon re-employment as prescribed in subsection (b) of this section, or of a Presidential appointee or an elected officer who is re-employed within ninety days from the date of his separation from the Agency following a term of employment not extending beyond the first three consecutive years from the date of his entering the employ of the Agency, to service credit for all appropriate civil-service purposes for the period commencing with his separation from his Federal position and ending with the termination of his service with the Agency, and, in the case of a Federal employee, for the additional period between the termination of his service with the Agency and his re-employment.
(d) The restoration of the sick-leave account of a Federal employee, a Presidential appointee, or an elected officer to its status at the time he left the Federal service if he is re-employed as prescribed in subsection (c) of this section.
(e) The right of appeal to the Civil Service Commission by any Federal employee who enters the employ of the Agency pursuant to section 6 (a) of the Act and who is denied re-employment. The decision of the Commission on the appeal shall be final, and the department or agency concerned shall take the action necessary to effectuate the decision of the Commission.
SEC. 4. Regulations prescribed pursuant to section 1 of this order need not be limited in their coverage and application to the protections and benefits set forth herein.
SEC. 5. Prior to the re-employment of a Federal employee pursuant to section 6 (a) of the Act and during the employment of a Presidential appointee or an elected officer pursuant to section 6 (b) of the Act, all computations under section 6 of the Act, this order, or regulations prescribed pursuant to section 1 of this order shall be made in the same manner as they would have been if the rate of basic compensation received by the Federal employee, Presidential appointee, or elected officer concerned on the last day of his Federal service had continued without change.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 25, 1958.
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Maj. Scott McCoy: Better hurry, Nick... I think there's gonna be reinforcements on the way.
Nick Alexander: How do you know?
Maj. Scott McCoy: Something I heard on the radio.
Nick Alexander: I didn't know you spoke Arabic?
Maj. Scott McCoy: If we don't get outta here, we're all gonna be speaking it!
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White House travel office controversy
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The White House travel office controversy, sometimes referred to as Travelgate, was the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton administration. It began in May 1993, when seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired. This action was unusual because although theoretically staff employees serve at the pleasure of the President and could be dismissed without cause, in practice, such employees usually remain in their posts for many years.
The White House stated the firings were done because financial improprieties in the Travel Office operation during previous administrations had been revealed by an FBI investigation. Critics contended the firings were done to allow friends of President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to take over the travel business and that the involvement of the FBI was unwarranted. Heavy media attention forced the White House to reinstate most of the employees in other jobs and remove the Clinton associates from the travel role.
The White House Travel Office
The White House Travel Office, known officially as either the White House Travel and Telegraph Office or the White House Telegraph and Travel Office, dates back to the Andrew Jackson administration and serves to handle travel arrangements for the White House press corps, with costs billed to the participating news organizations. By the time of the start of the Clinton administration, it was quartered in the Old Executive Office Building, and had seven employees with a yearly budget of $7 million. Staffers serve at the pleasure of the president; however, in practice, the staffers were career employees who in some cases had worked in the Travel Office since the 1960s and 1970s, through both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Travel Office Director Billy Ray Dale had held that position since 1982, serving through most of the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, and had started in the Travel Office in 1961. To handle the frequent last-minute arrangements of presidential travel and the specialized requirements of the press, Dale did not conduct competitive bidding for travel services, but relied upon a charter company called Airline of the Americas.
Initial White House actions
According to the White House, the incoming Clinton administration had heard reports of irregularities in the Travel Office and possible kickbacks to an office employee from a charter air company. They looked at a review by KPMG Peat Marwick which discovered that Dale kept an off-book ledger, had $18,000 of unaccounted-for checks, and kept chaotic office records. White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty and the White House counsels thus decided to fire the Travel Office staff and reorganize it. The actual terminations were done on May 19, 1993, by White House director of administration David Watkins. There was also a feeling among the White House and its supporters that the Travel Office had never been investigated by the media due to its close relationship with press corps members and the plush accommodations it afforded them and favors it did for them. (Congress would later discover that in October 1988, a whistleblower within the Travel Office had alleged financial improprieties; the Reagan White House counsel looked into the claim but took no action.)
Republicans and other critics saw the events differently. They alleged that friends of President Bill Clinton, including his third cousin Catherine Cornelius, had sought the firings in order to get the business for themselves. Dale and his staff had been replaced with Little Rock, Arkansas-based World Wide Travel, a company with a substantial reputation in the industry but with several ties to the Clintons. In addition, Hollywood producer and Inauguration chairman Harry Thomason, a friend of both Clintons, and his business partner, Darnell Martens, were looking to get their air charter company, TRM, the White House business in place of Airline of the Americas. The Clinton campaign had been TRM's sole client during 1992, collecting commissions from booking charter flights for the campaign. Martens wanted the White House to award TRM a $500,000 contract for an aircraft audit, while also seeking Travel Office charter business as an intermediary which did not own any planes.
Attention initially focused on the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), since on May 12, 1993, a week before the firings, associate White House counsel William Kennedy had requested that the FBI look into possible improprieties in the Travel Office operation. FBI agents went there and, although initially reluctant, authorized a preliminary investigation. Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster became worried about the firings about to take place and ordered the KPMG Peat Marwick review. The review started on May 14 and the report was given to the White House on May 17. KPMG was unable to do an actual audit, because there were so few records in the Travel Office that could be audited and because the office did not use the double-entry bookkeeping system that audits are based upon. One KPMG representative later described the office as "an ungodly mess in terms of records" with ten years of material piled up in a closet. When the review came back with its reports of irregularities, Watkins went ahead with the terminations on May 19.
Investigations
The travel office affair quickly became the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton presidency and an embarrassment for the new administration. Criticism from political opponents and especially the news media became intense; the White House was later described as having been "paralyzed for a week". The effect was intensified by cable television news and the advent of the 24-hour news cycle. Within three days of the firings, World Wide Travel voluntarily withdrew from the White House travel operation and were replaced on a temporary basis by American Express Travel Services. (Later, after a competitive bid, American Express received the permanent role to book press charters.)
Various investigations took place.
FBI
The role of the White House staff in pressuring the FBI to launch an investigation had been heavily criticized; on May 28, 1993, the FBI issued a report saying it had done nothing wrong in its contacts with the White House. (This conclusion was reiterated by a March 1994 report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.)
Clinton White House report
On July 3, 1993, the White House issued its own 80-page report on the firings, one that the New York Times termed "strikingly self-critical". Co-written by Chief of Staff McLarty, it criticized five White House officials, included McLarty himself, Watkins, Kennedy, Cornelius, and another, for dismissing the Travel Office members improperly, for appearing to pressure the FBI into its involvement, and for allowing friends of the Clintons to become involved in a matter they had a business stake in. It said that the employees should instead have been placed on administrative leave. However, the White House said no illegal actions had occurred, and no officials would be terminated; this did not satisfy Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, who called for an independent investigation. As Chief of Staff McLarty personally apologized to the fired Travel Office employees — some of whom had all their personal documents and travel photographs related to years of service thrown out during the firing process — and said they would be given other jobs (which five of them were; Dale and his assistant director retired.) The White House report also contained the initial indications of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement in the firings, saying that she had taken an interest in Travel Office mismanagement and had been informed two days in advance that the firings would take place. There was no indication of involvement from President Clinton himself, although he had earlier taken broad public responsibility for what had happened.
The travel office controversy was subsequently judged to have been a factor in Vince Foster's depression and July 20, 1993, suicide. In his torn-up resignation note from a few days before, he wrote "No one in The White House, to my knowledge, violated any law or standard of conduct, including any action in the Travel Office. There was no intent to benefit any individual or specific group. [...] The press is covering up the illegal benefits they received from the travel staff". (In the last part, Foster may have been referring to lax customs treatment by the Travel Office of goods brought back from foreign trips by reporters.)
GAO Report
In July 1993, Congress requested the non-partisan General Accounting Office investigate the firings; on May 2, 1994, the GAO concluded that the White House did have legal authority to terminate the Travel Office employees without cause, because they served at the pleasure of the president. However, it also concluded that Cornelius, Thomason, and Martens, who all had potential business interests involved, had possibly influenced the decision. Moreover, the GAO report indicated that First Lady Hillary Clinton played a larger role than previously thought before the firings, with Watkins saying she had urged "that action be taken to get 'our people' into the travel office." The First Lady, who had given a written statement to the inquiry, said she did "not recall this conversation with the same level of detail as Mr. Watkins."
Independent Counsel investigation begins
Special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske tangentially investigated travel office events during the first half of 1994, as part of investigating the circumstances surrounding Foster's death.
In August 1994, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr took over from Fiske in investigating Whitewater, Foster, and indirectly the travel office matter. On July 22, 1995, Hillary Clinton gave a deposition under oath to the Independent Counsel that touched on travel office questions; she denied having had a role in the firings, but was unable to recall many specifics of conversations with Foster and Watkins.
Oversight Committee investigation begins
In late 1994, following the 1994 Congressional elections which switched Congress from Democratic to Republican control, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, chaired by Pennsylvania Republican William Clinger, launched an investigation into the White House Travel Office firings. In October 1995, the committee began hearings on the matter; Clinger soon accused the White House of withholding pertinent documents and sought subpoenas to compel witnesses to appear.
Private investigations
Not all investigations were by governmental bodies. Right-wing anti-Clinton magazine The American Spectator latched onto Travelgate, as it would other Clinton scandals real and imagined, describing it as "a story about influence-peddling and sleazy deal-making... in the Clinton White House"; publisher R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. would claim that the magazine's early Travelgate stories provided useful material to the congressional investigations. In general, Clinton administration controversies such as Travelgate allowed opinion magazines and political debate television shows to attract subscribers and viewers.
Prosecution and acquittal of Billy Dale
Meanwhile, former Travel Office Director Billy Dale was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 7, 1994, on two counts of embezzlement and criminal conversion, charged with wrongfully depositing into his own bank account $68,000 in checks from media organizations traveling with the president during the period between 1988 and 1991. He faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Dale's attorneys conceded that funds had been co-mingled, but stated that Dale had not stolen anything but rather used the monies for the substantial tips and off-the-book payments that the job required, especially in foreign countries, and that anything left over was used as a discount against future trips.
At the 13-day trial in October and November 1995, prominent journalists such as ABC News' Sam Donaldson and The Los Angeles Times' Jack Nelson testified as character witnesses on Dale's behalf. Much of the trial focused on the details of the movement of Travel Office funds into Dale's personal account, and not on the political overtones of the case. The jury deliberated less than two hours before acquitting Dale of both charges on November 16, 1995.
A memo surfaces regarding Hillary Clinton
On January 5, 1996, a new development thrust the travel office matter again to the forefront. A two year-old memo from White House director of administration David Watkins surfaced that identified First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as the motivating force behind the firings, with the additional involvement of Vince Foster and Harry Thomason. "Foster regularly informed me that the First Lady was concerned and desired action. The action desired was the firing of the Travel Office staff." Written in fall 1993, apparently intended for McLarty, the Watkins memo also said "we both know that there would be hell to pay" if "we failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady's wishes."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:12 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Journal May 25, 2006
When I left the ship, we were anchored off the coast and they took me into port in the Captain's gig. I was very hung over. Then they took me to the airport, in Toulon I think, and I had to ride in the back of the mail truck, sitting on boxes. From there, I took off one a military flight, but they landed shortly after take off because of some mechanical problem and I was stuck there for a long time before we took off again. There is also some memory here about Sicily, but I'm not sure what that is about, I had to stay there for a while, there is almost something like a pleasant memory that won't come up to the surface associated with that time. There was something there about being by myself.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 25 May 2006 excerpt ends]
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The Delta Force (1986)
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USA 14 February 1986
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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, (born October 6, 1866, Milton, Canada East [now Quebec], Canada—died July 22, 1932, Hamilton, Bermuda), Canadian radio pioneer who on Christmas Eve in 1906 broadcast the first program of music and voice ever transmitted over long distances.
The son of an Anglican minister, Fessenden studied at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and at Bishop’s College in Lennoxville, Quebec (where he taught in addition to studying). Before completing his degree, he took a job as principal of the Whitney Institute, a then recently established school in Bermuda. There he met Helen Trott, who would later become his wife, and developed an interest in science that led him to resign his teaching post and go to New York City. In 1886 he began working as a tester at the Edison Machine Works. He met Thomas Edison and in 1887 went to work at the new Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, where he became chief chemist. In 1890 he was laid off from the Edison Laboratory and went to work for the Westinghouse Electric Company in Newark, New Jersey. In 1891 he transferred to the Stanley Company, a small electric company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1892 that company folded, and Fessenden turned to an academic career as professor of electrical engineering, first at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and then at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh), where he received funding from the Westinghouse company and worked on the problem of wireless communication.
In 1900 Fessenden left the university to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy for the U.S. Weather Bureau, which wanted to adapt radiotelegraphy to weather forecasting. Impatient with the simple on-off transmission of Morse Code signals, he became interested in transmitting continuous sound, particularly that of the human voice. He developed the idea of superimposing an electric signal, oscillating at the frequencies of sound waves, upon a radio wave of constant frequency, so as to modulate the amplitude of the radio wave into the shape of the sound wave. (This is the principle of amplitude modulation, or AM.) The receiver of this combined wave would separate the modulating signal from the carrier wave and reproduce the sound for the listener. On December 23, 1900, on Cobb Island in the Potomac River in Maryland, Fessenden succeeded in transmitting a brief, intelligible voice message between two stations located about 1 mile (1.6 km) apart.
Fessenden invented and patented a number of components useful for “radiotelephony” (as wireless transmission of speech was called in those days), including an electrolytic detector sensitive enough to pick up continuous radio waves. Fessenden further contributed to the development of radio by demonstrating the heterodyne principle of converting low-frequency sound signals to high-frequency wireless signals that would be more easily controlled and amplified before the original low-frequency signal was recovered by the receiver. This was the forerunner of the principle of superheterodyne reception, which made easy tuning of radio signals possible and was a critical factor for the later growth of commercial broadcasting.
In 1902 Fessenden joined two Pittsburgh financiers in organizing the National Electric Signaling Company to manufacture his inventions, which they intended to sell to customers such as the U.S. Navy or shipping companies whose far-flung operations would benefit from wireless telegraph communication. The company was also interested in competing with Guglielmo Marconi in transmitting across the Atlantic Ocean. To this end Fessenden built a station at Brant Rock, Massachusetts, and another at Machrihanish, Scotland, some 3,000 miles (5,000 km) away. He directed Ernst Alexanderson of the General Electric Company in building a 50,000-hertz alternator that could be used as a long-distance high-frequency radio transmitter.
In January 1906 Fessenden established transatlantic wireless telegraphic communication between Brant Rock and Machrihanish, though the service was variable and unreliable. Later that year he received word from Machrihanish that the Scottish station had picked up voices that were being transmitted between the Brant Rock station and another station in nearby Plymouth, Massachusetts. Before Fessenden could explore direct transatlantic voice communication, the receiving tower at Machrihanish was wrecked by a storm. Determined to demonstrate the capabilities of his system, he sent notice to the company’s wireless telegraph customers in America to tune in to the company’s frequency on Christmas Eve. Starting at 9:00 pm on December 24, wireless operators as far away as Norfolk, Virginia, were startled to hear speech and music from Brant Rock through their own receivers. Fessenden read verses from the Gospel According to Luke, played an Edison phonograph recording of Handel’s “Largo” aria, gave a violin solo, and ended the broadcast by wishing his listeners a Merry Christmas. A New Year’s Eve show, similar in content to the first, was picked up by banana boats of the United Fruit Company in the West Indies. Fessenden probably ended his broadcasts with these two shows, as he intended them to be solely for publicity.
Differences with his partners over the conduct of business led Fessenden to leave Brant Rock in 1911 and sue his former company. Abandoning work in radio, Fessenden went on to work in marine power and signaling. He has been credited with inventing a sonic depth finder, submarine signaling devices, and a turboelectric drive for battleships. In the 1920s he engaged in a long lawsuit against a group of companies that included the Radio Corporation of America, which had purchased patents from the defunct National Electric Signaling Company. With the proceeds from the settlement of that suit in 1928, Fessenden and his wife restored and moved into a historic seaside house in her native Bermuda.
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White House travel office controversy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White House travel office controversy, sometimes referred to as Travelgate, was the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton administration. It began in May 1993
The White House Travel Office
The White House Travel Office, known officially as either the White House Travel and Telegraph Office or the White House Telegraph and Travel Office
Legacy
In the legal aftermath, Swidler & Berlin v. United States became an important Supreme Court decision. The length, expense, and results of the Travelgate and the other investigations grouped under the Whitewater umbrella turned much of the public against the Independent Counsel mechanism. As such, the Independent Counsel law expired in 1999, with critics saying it cost too much with too few results; even Kenneth Starr favored the law's demise.
Opinions would differ over the legacy of the affair. Some agreed with Safire, who had said that Hillary Clinton was "a vindictive power player who used the FBI to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage."
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
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Chris Burnett: [to Reigart] Sir, I signed up to be a fighter pilot. I didn't want to be a cop. And I certainly didn't want to go walking a beat on a neighborhood nobody cares about.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/a-piece-of-the-action-24929/
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Star Trek Season 2 Episode 17
A Piece of the Action
Aired Unknown Jan 12, 1968 on NBC
The Enterprise travels to a planet suffering from cultural contamination from an earlier expedition--the inhabitants mimic the culture of 1920's gangland Chicago.
AIRED: 1/12/68
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
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Wheely Applegate: Dirty road hog! Why doesn't he learn how to drive?
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=28554
The American Presidency Project
Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963 - 1969
494 - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Charles B. Morris, USA.
November 16, 1967
Sergeant and Mrs. Morris, and Doug, Secretary Resor, General Johnson, General Westmoreland, distinguished Members of Congress from Virginia, and other Representatives here, distinguished guests:
One of America's greatest war correspondents wrote about courage--intimately and well.
He called the decorations for bravery "pinnacles of triumph" in a man's life, "that will stand out until the day he dies."
Ernie Pyle spoke for all wars--for all those moments when men must reach down into their deepest reserves of courage. He celebrated those times when men risk life for a principle--or risk life for a comrade--or risk their lives for their country.
On whatever field, on whatever day--war is an agony of spirit and flesh and mind.
After thousands of years of civilization, the saddest of human failures is this--the precious wealth of man's courage must still today be spent on the battlefield.
But all the wisdom of the earth has not yet found a way to preserve freedom without defending it.
Staff Sergeant Charles Morris is one of those who defended freedom on the battlefield. He fought with dogged courage through long hours of hell. He fought far above and far beyond the call of any duty.
Just a few days ago, I returned from a journey of 33 hours and 6,000 miles, where I met thousands of Sergeant Morris' comrades.
I stood with American sailors on the deck of a mighty carrier, the Enterprise, at sea in the Pacific Ocean. I stood with our airmen under skies that were filled with American power, many of them who had just finished their 100 missions in Vietnam. I saluted the infantry, the Queen of the Battle, at Fort Benning, and the Marines at El Toro and Camp Pendleton. And I ended my trip at Yorktown with the gallant men of the Coast Guard.
Some of the men that I saw were there just beginning their training for combat.
Some of the men I saw had just returned from combat. They wore its badges--and many of them wore its wounds. I saw other badges, too.
I saw the white carnations that were worn by wives of the missing men.
I saw the loneliness on the faces of waiting families, and little boys and girls.
I felt oh so humble to be among these men and women. But I also felt a towering pride--pride in them--pride in this Nation.
I realized that some good day, war was going to be only a shadowed memory.
We will labor, with all of our passion and with all the strength God gives us, to quicken the coming of that day.
But until it does come, our lives, our safety, and our hope of freedom's survival are in the hands of all those like Sergeant Morris, all of those who serve--here and in Vietnam.
Sergeant Charles Morris was there when America needed him.
And I am so glad that his commander, General Westmoreland, could be here today to observe this ceremony concerning one of his very own soldiers.
Once before, I stood with General Westmoreland at a ceremony for Sergeant Morris when he enjoyed one of his other "pinnacles of triumph." It was at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, just a little bit more than a year ago. Upon General Westmoreland's suggestion I awarded Sergeant Morris the Distinguished Service Cross.
Today, I am so proud to stand with him again, here in the East Room of the White House, on a hero's very highest summit--the Medal of Honor.
Sergeant Morris, I don't know anything more or anything better that I could say to you than all the American people for whom I am supposed to speak are grateful to you and appreciative that the Good Lord has given you to us and has brought you back. May God bless you.
Secretary Resor will now read the citation.
[Text of citation read by Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor]
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of The Congress the Medal of Honor to
STAFF SERGEANT CHARLES B. MORRIS, UNITED STATES ARMY
for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:
While on a search and destroy mission in the Republic of Vietnam on 29 June 1966, Staff Sergeant (then Sergeant) Morris was a leader of the point squad of a platoon of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry. Seeing indications of the enemy's presence in the area, Sergeant Morris deployed his squad and continued forward alone to make a reconnaissance. He unknowingly crawled within 20 meters of an enemy machine gun, whereupon the gunner fired, wounding him in the chest. Sergeant Morris instantly returned the fire and killed the gunner. Continuing to crawl within a few feet of the gun, he hurled a grenade and killed the remainder of the enemy crew.
Although in pain and bleeding profusely, Sergeant Morris continued his reconnaissance. Returning to the platoon area, he reported the results of his reconnaissance to the platoon leader. As he spoke, the platoon came under heavy fire. Refusing medical attention for himself, he deployed his men in better firing positions confronting the entrenched enemy to his front.
Then for eight hours the platoon engaged the numerically superior enemy force. Withdrawal was impossible without abandoning many wounded and dead. Finding the platoon "medic" dead, Sergeant Morris administered first aid to himself, and was returning to treat the wounded members of his squad with the "medic's" first aid kit when he was again wounded. Knocked down and stunned, he regained consciousness and continued to treat the wounded, reposition his men, and inspire and encourage their efforts. Wounded again when an enemy grenade shattered his left hand, nonetheless he personally took up the fight and armed and threw several grenades which killed a number of enemy soldiers. Seeing that an enemy machine gun had maneuvered behind his platoon and was delivering fire upon his men, Sergeant Morris and another man crawled toward the gun to knock it out. His comrade was killed and Sergeant Morris sustained another wound, but firing his rifle with one hand, he silenced the enemy machine gun. Returning to the platoon, he courageously exposed himself to the devastating enemy fire to drag the wounded to a protected area, and with utter disregard for his personal safety and the pain he suffered, he continued to lead and direct the efforts of his men until relief arrived.
Upon termination of the battle, important documents were found among the enemy dead revealing a planned ambush of a Republic of Vietnam battalion. Use of this information prevented the ambush and saved many lives. Sergeant Morris' conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty were instrumental in the successful defeat of the enemy, saved many lives, and were in the highest traditions of the United States Army.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
[Following the reading of the citation, the President resumed speaking.]
General Westmoreland, would you favor us by making a comment or two? We are so proud to have you.
General Westmoreland and I just finished a long briefing.
He, Mrs. Westmoreland, and their daughter, Margaret, are our guests at the White House. We will be visiting together in the next few days.
I know how you must feel about your men. I thought you might like to say a few words.
[At this point General Westmoreland stated that he knew Sergeant Morris. "We are not only fellow soldiers, but we are friends. I saw him at Cam Ranh Bay when he was decorated ... by our Commander in Chief. I saw him several times in the hospital. The indomitable spirit that he displayed on the battlefield ... he displayed in the hospital every time I saw him--self-confident, proud to be a soldier, proud m serve his country ... , proud to be an American." The General then recalled that he had told the President at that time that there were no finer troops than those commanded by President Johnson around the world as well as in Vietnam.]
Note: The President spoke at 1:20 p.m. in the East Room at the White House. In his opening words he referred to Sergeant Morris, his wife Lillian Mary, their 10-year-old son Douglas, Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor, Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, whose remarks on the occasion are printed in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (vol. 3, P. 1582).
A White House announcement on November 14 (3 Weekly Comp. Pres. Docs., p. 1567) recalled that during his visit to U.S. troops at Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, in October 1966, the President had awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to Sergeant Morris, a native of Galax, Va.
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Star Trek Season 2 Episode 4
Mirror, Mirror
Aired Unknown Oct 06, 1967 on NBC
Kirk and three of his officers are accidentally transported into a parallel "mirror" universe where violence, greed, and evil are commonplace.
AIRED: 10/6/67
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/39.htm
Mirror, Mirror
Stardate: Unknown
Original Airdate: Oct 6, 1967
MCCOY: Jim, if we're here, what do you suppose our counterparts doing back in our universe?
KIRK: On our Enterprise.
[Brig]
(A furious duplicate Captain is being manhandled along the corridor by two security guards and thrown into the Brig. Uhura, Scott and McCoy are already there.)
KIRK2: I order you, Let me go! Traitors!
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Private Benjamin (1980)
Release Info
USA 7 October 1980 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081375/fullcredits
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Private Benjamin (1980)
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Goldie Hawn ... Judy Benjamin
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Private Benjamin (1980)
Quotes
Pvt. Mary Lou Glass: Jesus! Benjamin! I don't get it, what do you do after a thing like that?
Judy Benjamin: Join the Army!
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Medical Corps (United States Army)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license.
The MC traces its earliest origins to the first physicians recruited by the Medical Department of the Army, created by the Continental Congress in 1775. The US Congress made official the designation "Medical Corps" in 1908, although the term had long been in use informally among the Medical Department's regular physicians.
Currently, the MC consists of over 4,400 active duty physicians representing all the specialties and subspecialties of civilian medicine. They may be assigned to fixed military medical facilities, to deployable combat units or to military medical research and development duties. They are considered fully deployable soldiers.
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