http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-21/news/mn-2189_1_federal-army
Los Angeles Times
Yugoslav Fighting Growing Fiercer : Independence: The army sweeps into breakaway Croatia. Federal presidency's chairman calls on soldiers to stop following their commanders' 'illegal' orders.
September 21, 1991 CHARLES T. POWERS TIMES STAFF WRITER
ZAGREB, Croatia — The fighting in Yugoslavia escalated sharply Friday as federal army tank and artillery units moved into eastern Croatia to relieve its besieged garrisons and to crank up the military pressure on the breakaway republic.
The moves, coinciding with continued fighting along Croatia's coastal areas, leave the latest European Community bid for a cease-fire in tatters and edge the country closer to all-out civil war.
Stipe Mesic, a Croat and the chairman of Yugoslavia's collective federal presidency, called on federal army soldiers to stop following the "illegal" orders of their commanders, to "put down their arms and go back to their garrisons" and to "go over to the side of the people."
He said the federal army command, starting with the defense minister, Gen. Veljko Kadijevic, had failed to follow orders of the federal presidency to hold to terms of a cease-fire, negotiated by Britain's Lord Carrington, which Kadijevic signed Tuesday along with the presidents of Serbia and Croatia.
"It is obvious," Mesic said, "that the army is out of control."
Although the army declares itself to be neutral in the territorial fight between Serbia and Croatia, it has steadily intervened on the side of the Serbs. Its largely Serbian officer corps also is deeply opposed to the Croatian bid for independence.
Last weekend, under orders from the Croatian government, Croatian police and national guard units surrounded and blockaded most federal army installations in the republic, cutting off supplies of food, water and electricity. The Croatians have been buoyed by the success of the blockades, which came after weeks of military setbacks at the hands of Serbian guerrillas and national army units. More than a dozen of the smallest of these installations have now been taken over by Croatian forces.
But on Thursday, a six-mile column of tanks, artillery, armored vehicles and soldiers pulled out of the federal capital of Belgrade, headed toward Croatia.
The army columns moved through neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Muslims and Croats--traditional enemies of the Serbs--threw up barricades. Bosnia's leaders, worried that the violence could engulf their ethnically mixed republic, ordered a mobilization of territorial reserves and demanded that federal troops "return from where they came."
By morning, the federal troops arrived in the eastern Croatian border villages of Nijemci, Lipovac and Tovarnik, which came under attack from mortars and howitzers, according to Croatian Defense Ministry officials.
Although it was not immediately clear how much of the column of reinforcements was engaged in the battle, a Yugoslav army commander in Zagreb said it was likely that the bulk of the force would be headed toward eastern Slavonia, where the Croatian cities of Vukovar and Osijek have been under siege for about a month.
"There is a war going on in that area," said Gen. Andrija Raseta, "so that is where I think they are going."
There were reports of heavy rocket barrages in Osijek and Vukovar, where Croatian forces have surrounded the army's garrisons, suggesting to some officials that a major assault could be coming.
In Vinkovci, 18 miles southeast of Osijek, defense officials said 120-millimeter shells had fallen around the local government headquarters.
Heavy fighting was also reported Friday along the coast around the strategic Adriatic port of Sibenik, where the army was trying to free its bases. Air raid alerts Friday morning sent residents rushing for shelters.
"This is the biggest fighting of the war so far," said Branko Salej, a Croatian government spokesman. "It would seem that the aggressor has decided he wants to make a final move."
If the army presses its assault on Osijek, Vukovar and the surrounding regions, it could slice more territory from Croatian control. Already, more than one-third of its land area is in the hands of Serbian guerrilla units, which have driven Croats from scores of villages in southern and eastern Croatia. The region includes many villages with a majority population of ethnic Serbs. Serbian nationalist fighters want to see them annexed to Serbia.
More than 500 deaths have been reported since the fighting began, shortly after Croatia declared its independence June 25. Repeated attempts at cease-fires have all collapsed virtually as soon as they were ordered. It now seems that both the Croatian and Serbian sides are determined to fight, while a worried European Community remains divided, and, so far, paralyzed over whether or how to intervene to stop the bloodshed.
The EC on Thursday decided against dispatching an armed peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia until a lasting cease-fire is in effect. About 200 EC observers in Croatia have so far accomplished little beyond noting that the cease-fires have been broken by all sides in the conflict.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-21/news/mn-2189_1_federal-army/2
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Yugoslav Fighting Growing Fiercer : Independence: The army sweeps into breakaway Croatia. Federal presidency's chairman calls on soldiers to stop following their commanders' 'illegal' orders.
September 21, 1991 CHARLES T. POWERS TIMES STAFF WRITER
Australia and Canada have urged the United Nations to dispatch peacekeepers to Yugoslavia. French President Francois Mitterrand also called for "the Security Council to intervene with its authority. It could also give a mandate to the European Community to do something." He added: "It's clear that these (Yugoslav) republics do not want to live together anymore. It's important that they do not continue to kill each other, that they determine the borders and pledge to protect minorities."
Raseta, the deputy commander of the 5th Military District that includes Croatia, spoke to reporters in army headquarters in Zagreb.
He expressed doubts similar to those of some of the European ministers about the efficacy of any foreign peacekeeping force in Yugoslavia. "Where would they stand?" he asked rhetorically. "Where is the line? Where would you deploy them?"
He blamed Yugoslavia's political leaders, top to bottom, for allowing the conflict to get out of hand, and painted a gloomy picture of the future, should the war continue. "If serious talks are not begun immediately, I think the (final) deterioration of the situation has begun."
He said the outcome of an all-out war would be "far from certain." The blockade of military installations in Croatia, he admitted, has weakened the army's position.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-22/news/mn-4147_1_federal-army
Los Angeles Times
Croatia Says It Stalled Main Army Thrust
September 22, 1991 CHARLES T. POWERS TIMES STAFF WRITER
ZAGREB, Croatia — Federal army forces continued their attacks in eastern Croatia and along the Adriatic coast Saturday, but Croatian officials said they have stalled the main thrust of the army's attack at Vukovar, breaking through army lines to resupply the city's defenders.
The overall situation, however, is difficult to assess with only sketchy reports coming from the front lines during the second day of a sharp escalation in the fighting that has torn Yugoslavia apart and left the federation's government virtually without authority.
The government of the breakaway Croatian republic offered to relieve its siege of army installations in Croatia if the federal army ended its attack, but a similar offer issued late Friday had no effect, and there was little indication that the new offer would receive more favorable consideration.
Croatian officials, however, spoke with unusual assurance Saturday of their forces' success in stalling the army's push to regain control of their barracks and installations in Vukovar and Osijek.
"We broke though the army's lines at 5 a.m.," said Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Susak, "and we were able to resupply our forces at Vukovar. They are now supplied with antitank weapons and antiaircraft weapons."
Vladimir Seks, the mayor of the Danube River city of Osijek, the scene of major destruction that has gone on for about five weeks, said Croatian National Guard units had succeeded in taking over a barracks and army storage facility about 30 miles west of Osijek, where the guardsmen found stores of antitank weapons.
The Croatian forces, until about a week ago, had been losing steadily in battles with the federal army and Serbian guerrilla units, who oppose Croatia's bid to secede from the Yugoslav federation. The Serbian guerrilla units, with close support from the army, have sliced off about one-third of Croatian territory, which they say should be annexed to a greatly expanded Serbian republic.
Croatia, with about 80,000 poorly trained and poorly equipped national guardsmen and police units, has been heavily outgunned by the better-equipped guerrillas and by the firepower--including tanks, heavy artillery and jet fighters--employed by the Yugoslav federal army, with about 180,000 troops in uniform.
But Croatia's diminishing military prospects took a turn for the better a week ago when the Croatian government ordered the blockade of all federal military installations in the republic. All of these facilities, ranging from small communications centers to major barracks, were surrounded by Croatian guardsmen, who shut off water, electricity and food supplies.
The move not only buoyed the sagging spirit of Croatia's citizens and the fortunes of its government--still heavily criticized for its "soft" conduct of the war--but it has now begun to yield badly needed equipment to fight the war. Croatia has virtually no tanks or weapons to combat opposing forces.
Reports from the East Slavonia towns of Vukovar and Vincovci told of virtually no fighting there Saturday, indicating that the federal army's push into the region had slowed, although perhaps only temporarily.
The army's advance began Thursday when a six-mile-long column of reinforcements, including more than 100 tanks and scores of heavy guns, left the federal capital of Belgrade, heading to Croatia.
The federal minister of defense, Gen. Veljko Kadijevic, announced that the troops were being sent to relieve the besieged army facilities in Croatia. Mobilized federal units were on the move in Croatia's neighboring republic to the south, Bosnia-Herzegovina, bringing protests from the republic's leadership and prompting Croatian residents in the area to throw up roadblocks to prevent their movement.
Fighting that erupted Friday was the death blow to the latest attempt at a cease-fire, engineered on Tuesday by Britain's Lord Carrington and signed by presidents of Serbia and Croatia as well as by Gen. Kadijevic.
Apparently alarmed at the early reports of extensive fighting, which ranged across Croatia from the Danube to the Adriatic (where federal warplanes attacked at Split and Sibenik), Croatian President Franjo Tudjman appealed to Kadijevic to withdraw his troops in return for a lifting of the Croatian blockade of the army's installations.
The bid brought a sharp rejection from Kadijevic, who said that the Croats had shown that "they cannot be trusted."
He sounded even more ominous Saturday in an interview with Belgrade television, asserting that Yugoslavia, as it had been known, has virtually ceased to exist.
"The fact is that there no longer is a Yugoslavia such as there was until recently," he declared.
"The country is moving very rapidly toward the maelstrom of an all-encompassing civil war and genocide against the Serbian population in Croatia."
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-22/news/mn-4147_1_federal-army/2
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Croatia Says It Stalled Main Army Thrust
September 22, 1991 CHARLES T. POWERS TIMES STAFF WRITER
Kadijevic denied that the army had effectively seized power by launching its offensive without the backing of the Yugoslavia collective presidency. He said the army had been forced to take "decisive action" to liberate its blockaded barracks in Croatia.
In Zagreb, where sporadic shooting broke out in the night Saturday, Gen. Andrija Reseta, a deputy commander of the federal army region in the area, predicted that the Croatian National Guard units in Slavonia, now surrounding army installations, "will be surrounded themselves shortly."
Gojko Susak, the Croatian defense minister, said the Croatian government would not offer any further concessions to the army. "Our proposal will not change," he said.
"The offer demonstrates our willingness to negotiate," he said, "but we will not negotiate out of fear. We have no doubt about the final outcome, but we will do all we can to end the conflict."
Should the army agree to withdraw from its positions, he said, Croatian forces would restore power and water to the blockaded forces and would allow the soldiers inside to leave. Croatia, he said, would even continue to pay benefits and allowances to army personnel who wished to join the Croatian officers. The government, however, would not return the army's weapons and equipment.
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Milestones: 1945–1952
The Truman Doctrine, 1947
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts.
The Truman Doctrine arose from a speech delivered by President Truman before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947. The immediate cause for the speech was a recent announcement by the British Government that, as of March 31, it would no longer provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in its civil war against the Greek Communist Party. Truman asked Congress to support the Greek Government against the Communists.
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at a Reception for Hillary Clinton in New York City
September 11, 2000
Well, if I were showing good judgment, I would say nothing after that. [Laughter] First, let me thank our host and hostess for making us feel so welcome in this beautiful, beautiful place.
I would like to thank all of you for the contributions you have made to America in these last years that I've been privileged to serve as President, because I sometimes think that most of what I did was to get the stumbling blocks out of your way. You did the rest—every one of you, each in your own way.
One of the things that bothers me as I travel around the world today is, I see everywhere I go, in the poorest village in Africa—I can sit with children for 10 minutes, and I see the light of intelligence in people's eyes. I see the energy, the belief, the hope. And I realize that so many times, people like me in positions of responsibility just mess it up for them, if people play games with power and create illusions in the minds of people about false values, and all of a sudden, all these brilliant children grow up and there's nothing for them to do; there's no education for them to get and no dreams for them to fulfill.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/12/nyregion/congressman-gets-help-of-president.html
The New York Times
Congressman Gets Help Of President
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: September 12, 2000
DANBURY, Conn., Sept. 11— President Clinton attended a fund-raiser and political rally here today to support the re-election campaign of Representative James H. Maloney, hoping to tip the scales in a tight Congressional race that has drawn intense interest from both major parties nationally.
In a rematch of the 1998 campaign, Mr. Maloney, a two-term incumbent Democrat, is being challenged by Mark Nielsen, a Republican lawyer and former state legislator. Two years ago, Mr. Nielsen came within 2,400 votes of unseating Mr. Maloney in one of the country's closest races.
At a luncheon that raised more than $200,000 for the Maloney campaign and at the rally later on the campus of Western Connecticut State University here, Mr. Clinton warmly embraced Mr. Maloney, presenting him as part of a Democratic package for continued prosperity.
''You need Al Gore, Joe Lieberman and Jim Maloney,'' he told more than 3,000 people who filled an outdoor amphitheater for the rally. Mr. Clinton, who campaigned earlier in the day in Westchester County for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the New York Senate race, also included her in that package.
''Thanks for the Hillary sign back there,'' he told someone in the Danbury crowd as he prepared to leave the stage. ''If you get to New York, help her.''
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
[Spock's quarters]
McCOY: (in Spock's voice) Jim, ...Help me. ...You left me on Genesis. ...Why did you do that? ...Help me.
KIRK: Bones, ...what the hell are you doing? Have you lost your mind!
McCOY: Help me, Jim. ...Take me home.
KIRK: Bones, we are. We are home.
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Aired September 11, 2000 - 3:36 p.m. ET
LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Lou Waters here at CNN Center.
We're off to Bellville, Illinois, Illinois one of the battleground states in the presidential election. Al Gore campaigning hard, the subject today education, a strong subject with women voters, whom Al Gore is, according to recent polls, scoring rather successfully as of late.
Let's listen to what the vice president has to say.
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ALBERT A. GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ... put out a report showing how many millions of children come home to an empty house after school.
Joe Lieberman and I are proposing a very large program to help local communities establish, more broadly, high-quality after-school programs so that parents who are working can have a higher level of confidence that their children are not going to get into some mischief or danger and instead will get an enriching experience after school.
I believe we ought to have universal pre-school, expanding Head Start and then going beyond that as well. I think we need more child care. And I think that when parents decide that one of them should stay home longer after a baby is born, it ought to be economically feasible for them to make that choice. We ought to give tax credits for that as well as for child care for working parents.
(APPLAUSE)
And in addition, we have to take on the challenge of how the popular culture competes with parents when we try to raise our children. And I bring this up with special emphasis today because today the Federal Trade Commission just released a very troubling report showing that the majority of all underage children are the targets of marketing campaigns by the entertainment industries to persuade them to come and be exposed to mature and adult material that they themselves -- the companies -- have said is not appropriate for children.
We saw, for example, the video game "Doom," that was a source of obsession by the two young men charged with the killing at Columbine High School. We have seen a number of shocking incidents of violence by young people. And in a number of the cases, afterwards they have talked about their obsession with particularly violent images that they have been exposed to.
Now nobody's for censorship. We have a First Amendment, and we're going to respect and protect the First Amendment. But parents have a right to play a meaningful role in sheltering their children from adult and mature material and explicit violence that their children are not just ready to handle -- are just not ready to handle.
Now here's the essence of the report that came out today.
While these industries have taken some commendable steps to establish policies, such as labeling their material, rating their material, going through the motions of trying to restrict access to children of a certain age, what the study found is that at the same time these industries are establishing these standards and assuring parents that they're going to protect children, the marketing divisions of some of these companies have spelled out in great detail exactly how much money they're spending and how they're going about attracting underage children to come and buy tickets or buy the games or buy the CDs of the very material that the companies themselves have said is inappropriate for children.
In some cases, children as young as 6 are targeted as markets for adult material. In other cases, companies were found to have said in their files, "This is our plan for trying to persuade every 12-year- old in the country to go and see this particular R-rated movie."
Now, if parents are given the assurance by the industry that there's going to be self-restraint and responsible corporate citizenship, and then surreptitiously they're putting ads in teen magazines and advertising on Saturday morning children's programming underneath the parents' radar screen, trying to persuade the kids to get into the -- to see the material or buy the video games or CDs without the parents' knowledge, that's just plain wrong. And if the retailers are not cooperating with the industry standards, that's wrong, too.
So, Joe Lieberman and I are saying the following three things. Number one, I call on these industries for an immediate cease-fire; stop targeting, advertising for adult material to young children, when you say it's inappropriate for young children.
(APPLAUSE)
Secondly, I know that the best solution for this is self- regulation, self-restraint, an industry policy that all of the companies buy into, to stop doing what is clearly wrong. So we're going -- Joe and I are going to establish a six-month period to hold the industry accountable.
If, at the end of that six-month period, there is not yet an acceptable industry response, then we're prepared to go to step three, and that is to evaluate whether additional legislation is needed, not on the content of the material, that's protected by the First Amendment. But false and deceptive advertising is illegal under the current laws, no matter what industry it is.
And if they are saying to parents in one breath, "We're going to work with you and we're going to protect children," and then behind the scenes they're advertising directly to children to attract them to the material they're not ready to handle, that is false and deceptive as an advertising strategy...
WATERS: Al Gore in Belleville, Illinois, capitalizing on the FTC report, which was commissioned after the Columbine High School shootings by the president to get to some conclusions about youth violence in America. The conclusion of the FTC report that Hollywood, the video makers and the music makers were marketing their violent product to children. And you just heard Al Gore say that he and Joseph Lieberman plan to do something about it if the industry does not, as the vice president put it, clean up its act.
Education was the subject in Illinois, but it seems as though the FTC report is the order of the day.
Mr. Gore and Mr. Lieberman will also be appearing on Oprah Winfrey today on that subject.
I'm Lou Waters at CNN Center.
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at a Reception for Hillary Clinton in New York City
September 11, 2000
Well, if I were showing good judgment, I would say nothing after that. [Laughter] First, let me thank our host and hostess for making us feel so welcome in this beautiful, beautiful place.
I would like to thank all of you for the contributions you have made to America in these last years that I've been privileged to serve as President, because I sometimes think that most of what I did was to get the stumbling blocks out of your way. You did the rest—every one of you, each in your own way.
One of the things that bothers me as I travel around the world today is, I see everywhere I go, in the poorest village in Africa—I can sit with children for 10 minutes, and I see the light of intelligence in people's eyes. I see the energy, the belief, the hope. And I realize that so many times, people like me in positions of responsibility just mess it up for them, if people play games with power and create illusions in the minds of people about false values, and all of a sudden, all these brilliant children grow up and there's nothing for them to do; there's no education for them to get and no dreams for them to fulfill.
And so if I've had anything to do with what any of you have achieved in the last 8 years, I've just tried to make sure that we were doing the right thing so that you would be able to do what you do so well.
And I have to tell you, I think America is profoundly indebted to all of its immigrant people, and there are many people who came here from other countries, not from India, here in this room tonight, and I thank them as well.
But I think I should say a special word of appreciation to the Indian community in the United States which, of all of our more than 200 ethnic and religious groups, ranks first in education and in income, a great tribute to your efforts and to your values.
I loved my trip to India. And when Hillary and Chelsea came home, they told me that if I didn't go to another country before I left the Presidency, I had to go to India. So I did. As you know, I visited more briefly the rest of the subcontinent. I regret that I was not more help to you in the cause of peace, but I will keep trying.
I had to confess to a reporter the other day— I say this out of deference to my good friends John and Margo Catsimatidis, who are here, who have more than a passing interest in Greece and the relationships between Greece and Turkey and the problems in Cyprus. I do believe when I leave office, I will have made progress on every problem I tackled around the world except, so far, I can't say I moved the ball forward on the Indian subcontinent or in Cyprus. But I have tried, and I will keep trying. I promise you that.
I just want to say a couple of words about this election and about Hillary in particular. So many of you were kind to say things when you went through the line, and you wished I could run for a third term and all of that. But this is a country of citizens, and this has always been a country in which the citizens were the most important people.
When Harry Truman went home to Missouri after an enormously important period in our country's history, when he basically organized our world to deal with the cold war, he said that he was resuming his most important title, that of citizen. And so now that my party has a new leader and my family has a new candidate—[laughter]—I suppose my official title should be Cheerleader in Chief instead of Commander in Chief. [Laughter]
But I will say this because I think all of you who have enjoyed great success in our country will identify with it. If you work hard, you also have to work smart. Ideas have consequences. If you have a bad idea, it doesn't matter how hard you work with it; you still won't get good consequences out of it. And the important thing that I think that has been at the core of all my concern about this election is that I think it is easier for a free people to make a mistake when times are good than when times are bad.
The American people took a chance on me and Hillary and Al and Tipper Gore in 1992, but it wasn't much of a chance, because we were in trouble, and everybody knew we had to change and try something new. So they gave us a chance. But we changed the economic policy, the education policy, the health care policy, the environmental policy, the criminal justice policy, and big parts of the foreign policy of our country.
You now have had a test run. And so, yes, I feel especially strongly, obviously, about Hillary. But the thing that matters to me as an American is that we keep changing but that we keep changing in the direction in which we are going, because we still have big challenges out there. There are still too many children living in poverty in this country when they should not be. There are still too many children that don't have excellence of education that they should have. There is still inadequate preparation for the aging of America when the so-called baby boom generation retires. And under present estimates, there will only be about two people working for every one person retired and on our Social Security system. We must not let the aging of America impose a burden on our children and their ability to raise our grandchildren.
So we have these big challenges. We also, as Americans, have not fully recognized the extent to which we are interdependent with the rest of the world. We should be doing more to develop the capacities of Indians within India and other peoples around the world and building trading and other ties with people and working with people more. That's why I came up here and spent 3 days last week at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, meeting with leaders from all over the world, doing my best to try to create the impression that America does not wish to dominate the world but to work with it so that we can all win together.
There is a very interesting book out today called "Non Zero," by an American writer named Robert Wright. But it might have had some roots in Oriental philosophy. The basic argument of the book, the "Non Zero" book, is that as societies grow more advanced and complex, people inevitably grow more interdependent, both within nations and across national boundaries.
And therefore, notwithstanding the terrible things that happened in the 20th century and the World Wars and the oppression of the dictatorships, the world essentially has continued to grow more interdependent, which means that wisdom dictates that we look for more and more human interaction where everyone wins, which are not, in the parlance of game theories, zerosum solutions, but win-win solutions, where we look for non-zero solutions.
The reason that I think it is important for Hillary to be in the Senate is that for 30 years, starting with the welfare of children and their families, with the need for people to balance work and childrearing with the understanding that the most important work of any society is raising children well, she has spent a lifetime looking for solutions in which everyone comes out better.
Now, the book is not naive, and neither am I. There is a race for President. One person will win, and one person will lose. There's a race for this Senate seat. One will win, and one will lose. But we should vote for the person who will make us all win more, who realizes that we all do better when we help each other and when everyone has a chance. And for all the advances in this country, we can't yet say that is the truth.
One of the things that upsets me from time to time is when some of our critics—and I say it because, regrettably, she's inherited most of my enemies—[laughter]—and probably, maybe she's made one or two on her own, but not many—[laughter]—they'll say, "Well, she wouldn't be up here running for the Senate if she weren't the First Lady." The truth is that if she hadn't been married to me and spent 30 years trying to help other people and do things for other people, she might have been doing this 20 years ago.
So I want you to understand that, yes, I'm biased, but New York could not pick a person who is better suited for the genuine challenges that our State, our Nation, and our world face in the new millennium than Hillary. And I thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 7:43 p.m. at a private residence.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
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Clinton votes for wife in primary
'Cheerleader in chief' attends campaign events
Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 12 2000 9:11 a.m. MDT
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — Putting their political role reversal in high relief, President Clinton cast his first vote as a New Yorker Tuesday, pronouncing it "a thrill" to vote for his wife.
Hillary Rodham Clinton faces the little-known Dr. Mark McMahon in the New York Democratic primary. The president accompanied Mrs. Clinton to an elementary school lobby, where she took the first turn in an old-fashioned, gingham-curtained voting booth.
"After all these years of her helping me, it was a thrill," Clinton said after early morning balloting in his newly adopted hometown, where they bought a home last year when Mrs. Clinton began her Senate campaign in earnest.
Perhaps less familiar with the slate, the president took about twice as long behind the curtain as did his wife. It was Clinton's first vote as a New Yorker; until now he had remained an Arkansas voter.
At a fund-raising reception Monday estimated to raise $500,000 for his wife's campaign, Clinton said her political career may have been hurt, not helped, by his long years in politics.
"One of the things that upsets me from time to time is some of our critics, and I say that because regrettably she's inherited most of my enemies . . . they say she wouldn't be up here running for the Senate if she wasn't the first lady.
"The truth is, if she hadn't been married to me, and spent 30 years trying to help other people and doing things for other people, she might have been doing this 20 years ago."
Calling himself the "cheerleader in chief," the president attended half a dozen events Monday, mostly in service of his wife's campaign.
"This is an interesting time in my life. My family has a new candidate and my party has a new leader. I've become the cheerleader in chief, and I love it," Clinton said
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Springfield! Springfield!
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
[ Duty Officer: ] Well, today's your lucky day. The only A-6B qualified crew, Jackson and Greeves, were scrubbed because they didn't have a day trap. So your BN volunteered you
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David Schwimmer
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Date of Birth 2 November 1966, Astoria, New York, USA
Birth Name David Larry Schwimmer
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1975 TV Movie)
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
KIRK: Give me back the Enterprise! With Scotty's help I could...
MORROW: No, Jim! The Enterprise would never stand the pounding and you know it.
KIRK: Then I'll find a ship. I'll hire a ship.
MORROW: Out of the question, my friend! The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis! Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behaviour and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself! Do you understand me, Jim?
KIRK: I hear you. ...I had to try.
MORROW: Of course.
KIRK: Thanks for the drink.
MORROW: Any time.
(as Kirk leaves he is joined by Sulu and Chekov)
SULU: The word, sir?
KIRK: The word ...is no. I am therefore going anyway.
SULU: You can count on our help, sir.
KIRK: Thank you, Mister Sulu. I'll need it.
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at a Reception for Hillary Clinton in New York City
September 11, 2000
And I realize that so many times, people like me in positions of responsibility just mess it up for them, if people play games with power and create illusions in the minds of people about false values
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The Fresh Prince Project
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Sep 10, 1990 on NBC
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STARGATE ATLANTIS
RISING, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
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RISING, PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER - 102
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04
FORD: Alright, boys, get ready to go. (As the bulkhead in the centre of the ship closes, shutting the marines in the rear compartment, he comes up front and sits down next to Sheppard.) Gateship One ready to go.
SHEPPARD: Gateship One?! A little puddle jumper like this?!
FORD: It's a ship; it goes through the Gate: Gateship One.
SHEPPARD: Oh no, no, no, that's all wrong.
FORD: Doctor McKay thought it was cool.
SHEPPARD: Oh, OK. Well, it's official -- you don't get to name anything. Ever. (He speaks into the comms.) Flight, this is ... (he grins) Puddle Jumper.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 10:05 AM Friday, August 19, 2011
I did it again.
As I work on my next report, a report of critical importance to the national security of the United States of America, which will be again ignored by all of you, my dream last proved to me that what I already believe and that I wrote about yesterday. I wrote about how my dreams contain details about the future and I have means unconventional to sense in my waking and sleeping mind details about the future. Those details in the dream are connected to what I will report later today. And there is no possible way - no possible way - that dream could have influenced me into choosing a topic that matches up with those corresponding details. Only after I started working on it did I read details that are consistent with my dream. I wasn't going to write about the dream until I read those details consistent with the dream and that I read just a few minutes ago after I had that dream several hours ago.
I have forgotten some of the dream now, such as how it started, but the only part I can remember from the start was a part where I saw Phoebe and I also saw the actor Will Smith the "Fresh Pansy" and I was running past them and I ran up to the top of an aluminum ladder that was probably more than twelve feet high. I remember that because I suddenly started to struggle at being so high and I thought I was going to fall off the top step of that aluminum ladder and then there was something else behind me, some other kind of structure and I thought I was going to fall off it too but I cannot recall what happened after that. I must have climbed down from the ladder.
But the reason I ran up onto the ladder was I stood up there and yelled out to the people below me "Will Smith is a faggot."
After that, Phoebe was leaving and she asked me if I wanted to take the bus with her and so we were on the bus and I was sitting there and the bus was crowded and I suddenly realized I had got on the bus and I had no money in the pockets of my shorts. I was going to ask Phoebe if she could lend me the bus fare because I couldn't get off the bus otherwise. I saw a familiar bus stop pass by and I wanted to get off there but that was before I noticed there was change on the seat next to me. I don't know whose it was but a woman was sitting on it. One woman got up and left and the other woman was still there and I was looking at the change. I also saw some documents there too someone seemed to have left and I think those pages were legal document length and I don't remember if I knew in the dream what was written on those pages but I do specifically recally that 'Carr' was written at the top of one of them. The dream seems to end there. I was aware in the dream where the bus was going and we were on our way to Bellevue Washington state just a few miles to the north.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 August 2011 excerpt ends]
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I, Robot (2004)
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Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
Sonny: Can *you*?
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/21/08 11:54 AM
In the hour or so after waking up, I was thinking again about possible conversations and events related to this experience or that occurred around the same time. I find myself thinking again that I was enjoying very much my day off at home with my wife Phoebe but I was called to rush to meet the helicopter as described in the text below so I could fly it to the river to rescue the survivors, although I did not explain to her why I had to leave. After I got back home to my wife Phoebe, I explained that President Reagan had personally invited us to spend the next weekend at Camp David with Nancy and him because he had called me in at such short notice. We got there the following weekend and we were talking with Ronald and Nancy and Ronald was explaining to Phoebe that he knows life in the military is difficult on marriages, especially new ones, and so he wanted to talk to us personally and thank us for giving up our day off together. He then explained that he had called me in to fly the helo that rescued the survivors. Phoebe had watched some of it on local news but did not think too much about whether that was me flying the helicopter. President Reagan went on to inform her that he had called me in because I was a military pilot for Special Operations, among my other activities which he did not elaborate on, such as U.S. Navy SEAL, and that it was good that she did not think too much about where I was at when something spectacular was on the news at the same time I was gone. He said something else about how he wanted me to fly that helicopter because I was the best helicopter pilot he knew of in the U.S. military but also because of the failed rescue attempt less than 2 years earlier in Iran. I then explained to my wife Phoebe that I had been one of the pilots on that operation and so she then understood why I was gone during that time. In the back of my mind, I knew that processes were in motion to bring her into the world of the CIA and these were the first steps. One of the important reasons at the beginning, before she established a career on her own merits, was so she would learn how to not give away and details about my activities that I did not want the enemy to know. My involvement in Operation Eagle Claw and that rescue flight on 1/13/1982 was the only activities I told her about. She might have learned of my other activities over time but I expected that could occur regardless of how much I tried to keep her from knowing.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 June 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 07/29/08 10:13 AM
I have been thinking a lot lately about what I did after I returned to the United States following the failed Operation Eagle Claw mission. I have been thinking that I called my wife Phoebe and told her I had a week of leave to spend with her and then I stayed with her at her mothers house for that week. After that, I went somewhere to work on the space shuttle for a while. I have been thinking that I told my wife Phoebe and her mother that I had been part of the team to go into Iran and that I had been assigned to pilot the lead helicopter into Tehran but we did not make it that far, as they knew from the news. I also explained that I was considered the best helicopter pilot in the U.S. military at the time and that was why I, considering my known status as a U.S. Navy midshipman, was the pilot of the lead helicopter. I have also been thinking that I got to spend that entire summer with my wife Phoebe in Florida and that I had some kind of assignment at the NASA facilities.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 29 July 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/08/08 7:10 AM
My wife knew, based on what I told her, only that I was a helicopter pilot with U.S. Special Operations Forces. Later, I would discuss that I was an E-2C Hawkeye pilot. As I assumed would happen for reasons important to me, my wife was secretly recruited into the CIA and she was allowed to monitor my activities in the fleet during my activities as a U.S. Navy Ensign and on the days I was assigned to pilot the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft. I normally was a pilot of the F-14 Tomcat when operating on aircraft carriers but those activities were especially classified. My wife did not know I was a jet pilot or that I was an astronaut until the time I was missing in Africa in 1986 and that was when President Reagan informed her that everything she did not understand about how he and I knew each other, other than her knowledge that I had been assigned to the White House as part of my U.S. Naval Academy duties under the guise of attache', was because he is my grandfather.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 December 2008 excerpt ends]
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Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
659 - Letter to the Chairman and Members of the Senate Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities
November 4, 1975
I AM writing to urge the Select Committee not to make public the report on the subject of assassinations which I understand is currently in preparation. Reviews of the Select Committee's draft assassination report by officials of the Departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, who examined it at the request of your Committee, have been submitted to me by the heads of those departments and the agency. Under separate cover, I am providing these classified reviews for your consideration. Their substance was previously communicated to the Select Committee staff by the reviewing officials. I also want to offer my views on this matter and appeal to the Committee not to release this report publicly.
It is my opinion that public disclosure now of information I provided to the Senate Select Committee concerning allegations of political assassination activities of the United States Government will result in serious harm to the national interest and may endanger individuals.
As I stated publicly when the allegations were published, the very idea that any person or organization within the United States Government could consider assassination as an acceptable act is abhorrent. I know you share this view and a determination to make certain that such deeds will not take place in the future.
To facilitate legitimate investigation of allegations related to assassination, I have endeavored to make available all the materials in the Executive Branch on this subject to the Select Committees of the Senate and the House and the Department of Justice. This was done under procedures designed to serve the national interest. The materials were turned over in classified form. You will recall that I said on June 9, 1975:
"I know that the Members of the Congress involved will exercise utmost prudence in the handling of such information."
It is not a question of withholding information required by the Select Committee to carry out its inquiry into these allegations which relate entirely to past Administrations of both parties. On the contrary, I have endeavored to make all of the information available to your Committee so that legislation can be proposed, if necessary, and to the Justice Department to facilitate any investigation indicated. However, we must distinguish between disclosure to the Select Committee of sensitive information and publication of that information which is harmful to the national interest and may endanger the physical safety of individuals.
There is no question about access to these materials by appropriate officials. The only issue concerns publication which obviously cannot be limited to Members of Congress and other American citizens.
Public release of these official materials and information will do grievous damage to our country. It would likely be exploited by foreign nations and groups hostile to the United States in a manner designed to do maximum damage to the reputation and foreign policy of the United States. It would seriously impair our ability to exercise a positive leading role in world affairs.
I am convinced that publication at this time will endanger individuals named in the report or who can be identified when foreign agents carefully study it. I am sure none of us want such an unfortunate result. I urge that we avoid any action that would bring it about.
I have sought to balance the competing interests involved in this matter. I made relevant intelligence information and documents available to the appropriate Committees of Congress and the Department of Justice. However, to protect our national defense and ability to conduct foreign affairs as well as the traditional American right of individual privacy, I have provided most of this information in classified form.
There can be legislation, if deemed necessary, and prosecutions, if warranted. But let us do this without the damage to the United States, which will occur if this information is made available to actual and potential enemies of the United States.
For the reasons set out above, I appeal to you and your colleagues on the Senate Select Committee to oppose publication of this report on alleged assassination activity.
I am sure the Select Committee will recognize the enormous responsibility it has to see to it that serious damage will not result to the United States by the publication of this report and will recognize also the duty which I have to emphasize the disastrous consequences which can occur by publication.
Sincerely,
GERALD R. FORD
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
227 - Remarks at a Dinner in Bel Air, California, Honoring the President.
July 21, 1974
Roy, Mrs. Ash, and all of our very distinguished friends:
I am very grateful, certainly, for those words that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget has just spoken. And I speak not only for myself but for Pat and for Tricia and Ed, for his remembering them as well.
And I am particularly grateful that he gave us the opportunity on this trip to California to meet a number of people who we have known for a great many years. In fact, most of you are about as old as I am. And when I think of the campaigns going back 27 years and see some who were even here then, I realize how long we have worked together and fought together for good causes.
I want you to know, too, that the only regret I have on such an occasion like this is that we can't have the opportunity to sit and chat with each of you, as we have here at this table. But when there are 150 people, you can have only one table for 8, and consequently, that opportunity is denied us.
And I suppose that many of you out there, all of whom, of course, we met in the receiving line, wonder what we talked about.
I would normally say that on such an occasion that when you see the President of the United States and his wife at a table with six other people, well, they talk about the very things you are talking about--what happened at the Bohemian Grove1 before you came down, you wonder whether that swimming pool is really there under you or not, and you hope the boards don't break because that is a swimming pool you are all sitting on there, you know.
1The Bohemian Grove was a redwood grove in northern California owned by the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and site of the club's annual encampment.
And you wonder about the fact that Roy Ash is probably the only person in this great city or in this Nation who has his own tent.
He owns the tent. I mean, he doesn't rent it, he owns it himself, he constructed it. That, among many other reasons, is one of the reasons we made him Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
But tonight, it would be of interest for you to know that as you saw two or three members of the White House Staff come up and speak to me, that we had had some very serious international problems over the last few hours--I should say, the last several days.
And at this time, it appears that there are some very hopeful signs and that a very positive announcement will be made, perhaps before we finish this dinner, be made from Washington in the State Department.
I will not indicate to you what the nature of that announcement is, except to say this: that in this rather tragic struggle, it could have been much more tragic and would be if it were to be allowed to continue between two friends and allies of the United States, arising over Cyprus.2
2On July 20, 1974, Turkish troops invaded the island of Cyprus in response to the ouster, on July 15, of Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, by troops of the Cypriote National Guard led by Greek officers. A cease-fire agreement was reached on July 21 between the governments of Greece and Turkey, after which further negotiations on the situation were held in Geneva, Switzerland, under the auspices of the United Kingdom.
This struggle is one that could only be averted by the leadership of the United States of America. This is true in all parts of the world today. American leadership is the key to whether or not nations that could be at swords' point, nations that could be engaged in war against each other, may find a way to get along, to avoid war, and in this instance, of course, our goal has been, as you have noted, to attain a cease-fire between Greece and Turkey before it exploded between these traditional enemies in times past, but two nations that have been friends and NATO partners over the last 27 years. This certainly is a goal that we are rightfully dedicated to, both from the standpoint of the great NATO alliance but also from the standpoint of two nations involved.
And so, I hope that this announcement, which will be made in Washington within the next few minutes, is one that will be followed by the action that we all desire, a cease-fire, and then the process of developing again a friendly relation between two nations who are our allies and our friends and, of course, are essential to the whole great NATO alliance which is the cornerstone of America's foreign policy and the free world's foreign policy in all of Western Europe.
Now, so much for the serious things that we talked about. There were many other things as well, but since we are off on this track for a moment, just let me say that as I look back over the 5 1/2 years that Roy has referred to--and as a matter of fact, he really counts those days; I hadn't realized that it is just 2 1/2 years, but you see, he keeps the budget and he knows all about that sort of thing--but I realize as we look at America's role in this potentially explosive struggle between Turkey and Greece, the role that we are playing and will continue to play, that looking back over the past 5 1/2 years that all of us, as Americans, regardless of our partisan affiliation, can be proud of the role America, our country, has played in making this world a safer and better place for all people on it, not just for ourselves.
I don't refer just to the event that means the most to most Americans, because it--our friends and our families and so forth, I mean the ending of the war in Vietnam, the fact that our young people are not being drafted, these are things that we all understand. But difficult, long, arduous as that terrible struggle was, we have to realize that other developments have occurred over the past 5 1/2 years that will have far more lasting and far greater effect in terms of building a peaceful world than simply ending that war on the kind of a just and honorable basis that was essential if we were able to continue to play the role of world leader.
I refer, for example, to events that didn't seem possible 5 1/2 years ago: the new relationship with those who rule over one-fourth of all the people of the world, the People's Republic of China; the new relationship with the Soviet Union in which we now have had three summit meetings--a fourth one to be scheduled next year--and in which--while we still recognize that with the Soviet Union, as with the People's Republic of China, we have great philosophical differences, differences that are not going to be changed by any kind of agreement that we may enter into--that nevertheless we have been able to develop and are developing means whereby peoples with different governments, different systems of government, different principles, different ideals, can settle those differences peacefully and can work together rather than against each other to build a more peaceful world.
I could refer also to more recent events. Many of you followed the trip to the Middle East. And I think most Americans perhaps were rather surprised to see the great outpouring of real friendship for the United States of America that was apparent every place that we went, not just with Egypt Cairo and Alexandria-where in the space of 2 days, there were perhaps 6 to 6 1/2 million people by most estimates out, but in all the other capitals that we visited, Saudi Arabia, Syria-Damascus, the oldest inhabited city in the world that has been inhabited continually-and of course, Jerusalem, and then finally in Amman, Jordan.
The fact that an American President-and here it was not just the man, it was more than that, it was the United States of America as the leader of the free world--that we have after so many years of difficulty with many of these nations were received in that way, tells us something about America's role in the world.
Let me put it quite bluntly. We have made our mistakes in foreign policy over the years. Looking at this century, when we consider the four wars in which we have been engaged, we can be proud that the United States has always fought to defend freedom and never to destroy it.
We have always fought to keep the peace, to bring peace, and never to break the peace. And consequently, the United States, in all parts of the world, is respected. The United States, in most parts of the world, is not only respected but there is real affection for the American people and for our government. And in any event, we are not feared, not feared in terms insofar as any fear that the United States would use its great power and its great wealth for the purpose of conquest or destruction or breaking the peace.
As we look back over those events and as we look at the current problem that we have in the Mediterranean, I would only suggest this: that we Americans are a very impatient people. We like to think that there is an instant solution to every problem, and we are impatient when we get a war over with; peace, isn't it wonderful, we can just take it for granted.
We must recognize that for the balance of our lives, for the balance of this century and, perhaps, well into the next century--and no one can look further than that, but certainly well into the next century--a strong, responsible United States of America is indispensable if peace is to be kept in the world. There is no one else that can play that role. There is no other nation in the free world that can take up that great responsibility, and so we have that responsibility.
We believe over the past 5 1/2 years that we have met it and met it reasonably well. We think more progress has been made in that period toward building a peaceful world than has been made in any similar period, certainly in this century and probably in this period of modern civilization.
There is a chance now, a very real chance that due to the profound changes that have been made--the new relations with the People's Republic of China, the new relationship with the Soviet Union, the beginning of a peaceful era in the Middle East--that as a result of these profound changes, the chance for peace to survive on a world basis is better now than it has been at any time in this century.
And yet, anytime. that we say that, when we have an incident like the one that has occurred over the past few days involving America's friends and allies, it shows us how fragile that structure is. It shows us how much it needs constantly to be tended. It shows us how important it is that not only the United States of America but particularly the leadership of the United States of America assume the responsibility of world leadership which is ours and never back away from it because that might be the easier course.
It also explains something else that I think is very important that Roy has touched upon tangentially, at least, and that is apart from the man, the Office of the Presidency must never be weakened, because a strong America and a strong American President is something which is absolutely indispensable if we are to build that peaceful world that we all want.
This brings me to one other point that I want to mention here tonight, particularly in Roy's presence and in the presence of so many other people in the Administration who are out here with me, and it is very simply this: that in order for the United States to play the role it does in the world, we not only need the military strength, we not only need the diplomatic skill, but essential to that role is an America that maintains the position of world leadership, and this we have without any question.
We can argue about whether we are number one or number two in this or that or the other area, but economically the United States is the wonder of the world. We can say that despite the problems we have--the energy crisis through which we have passed and are still passing to an extent, the problem of inflation, which is a world problem incidentally--and having met with most of the world leaders recently, I can assure you that I wouldn't trade their problems for ours anytime, as difficult as ours are. But in order to maintain that strong economy, it is necessary to have responsible leadership, and it is necessary to make some very hard decisions.
Roy Ash is one of those men that has to make a lot of them. He is a man that has to say no, no to a spending program that might help some of the people, but would raise the cost of living for all of the people. And when we have to make, as we will, some very hard budget decisions in the next few weeks and months, it will be necessary for us to veto some spending bills that the Congress is inevitably going to pass, far exceeding our budget. Just remember we do that not because we like to say no to some good cause, but because the greater cause is the whole problem of inflation which affects every person in this country. We are out to win that battle, and we can't win it unless we start right with the Government of the United States itself.
I can assure you that with the leadership of men like Roy Ash and Herb Stein, who is here tonight, and the rest, we are going to set the example in Washington of fighting the battle of the Federal budget so that people can win the battle of the family budget at home.
And Roy, we thank you for your leadership and all that you have meant in this respect. Now, before you cheer too long, you must remember that you may be writing Roy a letter one of these days saying, "Why did you cut this program or that one?" Remember, we told him to, and you applauded it here tonight. And he will not do anything, you can be sure, unless I am backing him, and I will back him all the way, just as he backs the Administration.
Let me just conclude with two personal thoughts. One, as we stand here in this beautiful home in Bel Air, I think of the sacrifice that men like Roy Ash and his wife and his family have made to come to Washington to serve there. Obviously, it is a financial sacrifice, but also it is a personal sacrifice. I haven't been to the Ash home in Washington, but I can't imagine it is like this. It is probably very nice, but it couldn't be like this.
And I think, too, of the dedication of people that have done that. There are many in this room that I could mention who have served in this Administration: Dave Packard is over here, Bob Finch, Herb Klein, Charlie Thomas, Fred Russell, and others.1 They are legion. But what is vitally important for us to all remember is this--we think in terms of those that hold the highest office, the Presidency of the United States and all the glory, even though it has sometimes many very great burdens, burdens which we assume without any complaining about them, because that is part of the job--but we have to remember that for this government of ours to work effectively, it takes men and women of great dedication, willing to sacrifice a great deal, willing to take a lot of unfair criticism, which they do, if they do anything worthwhile, to come to Washington and do a job.
3David Packard, Deputy Secretary of Defense (1969 1971; Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare ( 1969 1970) and Counsellor to the President (1970 1972); Herbert G. Klein, Director of Communications for the Executive Branch (1969-1973); Charles S. Thomas, Chairman of the National Tourism Resources Review Commission (1971 1973); and Fred J. Russell, Under Secretary of the Interior (1970- 1971) and Ambassador to Denmark (1971- 1972).
And I just want to say that I have been very proud of the people we have had in our Administration for their dedication. I have been proud of the hard work they have put in. When people, say, look at our record in the field of foreign policy or look at what we have accomplished in this or that or the other area, I can just assure you this: It isn't done simply by one individual, it is done because there are hundreds of people in the top leadership and, of course, thousands throughout an administration, many of whom I never get a chance to meet and thank personally, who are also working.
And so, I pay a tribute not only to Roy, to his family, but to all of the other Administration families who are here tonight, and my thanks to them.
And finally, to all of you: I mentioned that we go back a number of years--I look around here, and I don't see any of you looking a bit older than I remember when I campaigned the old 12th Congressional district out through San Marino in that area, and some who live there, I remember. Then, when I campaigned the State of California for the United States Senate and I met most of you then if I hadn't met you before, in 1950, and then of course, the Presidential campaigns, the Vice President campaigns and the rest.
You wonder sometimes, and I am often asked, you know, how do you really take the burden of the Presidency, particularly when at times it seems to be under very, very grievous assault. Let me say, it isn't new for it to be under assault, because since the time we came into office for 5 years, we have had problems. There have been people marching around the White House when we were trying to bring the war to an end, and we have withstood that, and we will withstand the problems of the future.
People wonder, how does any individual, in these days when we have very high-pressured campaigns, usually, in the media and the rest, taking on public figures, how does an individual take it, how does he survive it, how do you keep your composure, your strength, and the rest?
Well, there are a number of factors. First, you have got to have a strong family, and I am very proud of my family. But the second thing is, you have got to have also a lot of good friends, people that you have known through the years, people who write you, who call you, or who see you and say, "We are sticking by you." And I can assure you that no man in public life--and I have studied American history rather thoroughly--has ever had a more loyal group of friends, has never been blessed with, certainly, a more loyal group of friends who have stood by him through good days as well as tough days than I have.
And I am just very, very proud to be here among our California friends and to say from the bottom of my heart for all the years past and for all the years to come, thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 8:27 p.m. at the home of Mr. Ash.
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The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 1
Where is Everybody?
AIRED: 10/2/59
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BBC
ON THIS DAY 19 August
1960: Moscow jails American U-2 spy pilot
The United States pilot, Francis Gary Powers, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Soviet military court.
Powers had pleaded guilty to spying for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after his plane was shot down on 1 May at an altitude of about 68,000 ft (20,760 m), south of Sverdlovsk, 850 miles (1,368 km) east of Moscow.
The charge sheet said the route taken by Powers "left no doubt that it was a deliberate intrusion into the air space of the Soviet Union with hostile purposes".
Powers told the court the U-2 was designed and built for high-altitude flights. He had been told it could fly beyond the reach of anti-aircraft fire.
Summit called off
He described the moment the plane was hit: "I felt a hollow-sounding explosion. It was behind and there was a kind of orange flash."
In the wreckage of the U-2 were found films of Soviet airfields and other important military and industrial targets. A tape recording was found of the signals of certain Soviet radar stations.
Powers was asked why he made the 1 May flight. He said he assumed he was looking for rocket launching sites.
The court heard Powers was equipped with emergency gear, including money and gold, and there was a mechanism on the plane for destroying it to avoid capture. He also carried a poisoned pin to enable him to commit suicide in case of torture.
Powers told the court he was offered a well-paid job with the CIA after leaving the US Air Force.
He was told his work would involve flying along the borders of the Soviet Union with the purpose of picking up any radio or radar information.
Powers was asked if he now regretted making his last flight. He replied, "yes, very much".
He also apologised for the damage to US/Soviet relations. His plane was shot down on the eve of a superpower summit in Paris, which was subsequently called off. A visit by President Dwight Eisenhower to the Soviet Union was also cancelled.
In his final speech to the court, prosecutor Roman Rudenko outspokenly attacked the United States as inspirers and organisers of what he called "monstrous crimes" against peace.
He said the US had demonstrated "the real intention of making use of the provocative incursion of the U-2 plane into the Soviet air space as a pretext for wrecking a summit meeting, plunging the world again into the state of cold war, aggravating the tensions in international relations and putting a brake on the Great Powers' talks on disarmament".
Powers' wife Barbara and parents have been in court since the trial began three days ago. They are hoping to appeal against the sentence.
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HISTORY
AUGUST 19, 1960 : CAPTURED U.S. SPY PILOT SENTENCED IN RUSSIA
In the USSR, captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for his confessed espionage.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:50 AM Saturday, July 21, 2007
When I was sitting there in that bar in our office in historic Bellevue, Washington, in 1999
Later that evening, from my apartment at Oakwood
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Battle Hymn (1957)
Release Info
USA 14 February 1957 (Marietta, Ohio) (premiere)
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
McCOY: I know engineers. They love to change things.
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Relics [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Stardate: 46125.3
Original Airdate: 12 Oct, 1992
SCOTT: Well, I'll say this about your Enterprise. The doctors are a fair sight prettier.
From 8/26/1909 ( the Cro-Magnon skeleton discovered by Otto Hauser team ) To 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 19682 days
19682 = 9841 + 9841
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/12/1992 is 9841 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/04/relic.html ]
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tv.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6 Episode 4
Relics
Aired Unknown Oct 12, 1992 on CBS
Stardate: 46125.3 Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott is discovered suspended in a transporter beam 75 years after he disappeared. After the Enterprise crew re-materialise him, he has a hard time adjusting to the new future.
AIRED: 10/12/92
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TV GUIDE
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 6, Episode 4 Relics
First Aired: October 12, 1992
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: December 27, 2008
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/27/08 7:55 AM
I woke up during the night clenching a knife again
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: November 06, 2007
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/06/07 2:44 AM
When I wake up, as I have on many occasions, and realize I am holding a knife in my hand, which I was not holding when I went to sleep, I wonder what I was dreaming about.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/01/08 2:44 PM
What the hell must I have been dreaming about that makes me realize I am clenching a knife in my hand when I wake up.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/01/08 2:57 PM
Damn. I just gave them another alibi for murdering me.
They could break in here and stab me in my sleep and then use my journal as an alibi that I accidently stabbed myself as I was asleep.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 01 October 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/08/10 2:00 PM
Something was really making me paranoid when I was sleeping earlier today. Instead of a knife I several times found myself clutching a wooden club and I was really feeling paranoid and I got up out of bed several times to get that club.
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Star Trek (2009)
Quotes
Scotty: I'm s... Wha... It... Are you from the future?
James T. Kirk: Yeah, he is. I'm not.
Scotty: Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:58 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 23 May 2015
