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Statement on United States Military Personnel Recommendations From Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates

January 5, 2007

I am pleased to accept the recommendations of Secretary Gates for several key positions in our Nation's Armed Forces. These leaders are accomplished military professionals whose experience, skill, and dedication will enable them to successfully lead our troops as they protect our country.










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Macbeth

William Shakespeare


Act 1. Scene II

SCENE II. A camp near Forres.


And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage










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George W. Bush

XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009

Statement on United States Military Personnel Recommendations From Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates

January 5, 2007

I am pleased to accept the recommendations of Secretary Gates for several key positions in our Nation's Armed Forces. These leaders are accomplished military professionals whose experience, skill, and dedication will enable them to successfully lead our troops as they protect our country.

General George Casey has been a strong and effective commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq. I have come to depend on his wise counsel and solid judgment in our efforts to protect the American people in the war on terror. I look forward to working with him in his new role as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. General Casey will succeed General Peter Schoomaker, who has done an outstanding job in helping transform the U.S. Army to confront the challenges of the 21st century. I wish General Schoomaker all the best as he retires from active duty after a distinguished career.

Lieutenant General Dave Petraeus will succeed General Casey. General Petraeus is a soldier of vision and determination. His service in Iraq has equipped him with expertise in irregular warfare and stability operations and an understanding of the enemy we face. I am confident that General Petraeus has the right experience, leadership skills, and judgment to be an outstanding commander of MNF-I.

Admiral William J. Fallon, currently the commander of U.S. Pacific Command, has earned a reputation as one of our country's foremost military strategists. His experience and leadership will be critical to helping our country achieve victory over the radicals and extremists who threaten freedom. He will be an excellent commander of U.S. Central Command.

Admiral Fallon will succeed General John Abizaid, who has overseen some of our military's most extraordinary efforts to spread freedom and democracy. He has earned the respect and admiration of a grateful nation, and his service is a model for those who wear our country's uniform. As he retires, I express my deep appreciation for all he has done for America.

NOTE: The statement referred to Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, USA, commanding general, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth.










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Blondie: I've never seen so many men wasted so badly.










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George W. Bush

XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009

Remarks on the Nomination of John D. Negroponte To Be Deputy Secretary of State and J. Michael McConnell To Be Director of National Intelligence

January 5, 2007

Mr. Vice President, thank you. Madam Secretary, thank you for joining us. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the White House. I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate Ambassador John Negroponte to be our next Deputy Secretary of State and Vice Admiral Mike McConnell to be America's next Director of National Intelligence.

Under the leadership of Secretary Rice, the men and women of the State Department are working to expand freedom and defend America's interests around the world. The Deputy Secretary of State is a key role in shaping American foreign policy and in guiding our diplomats deployed around the globe. The Deputy Secretary also helps our Nation's chief diplomat manage the State Department and helps coordinate with other Federal Agencies so that America speaks to the world with one voice.

I have asked John Negroponte to serve in this vital position at this crucial moment. John Negroponte knows the State Department well. After all, he started there in 1960 as a foreign service officer in the administration of President Eisenhower. In the four and a half decades since, he has served our Nation in eight foreign service posts, spanning three continents. He served as Deputy National Security Adviser to President Reagan. He represented America at the United Nations. He served as our first Ambassador to a free Iraq. And for nearly 2 years, John has done a superb job as America's first Director of National Intelligence.

John Negroponte's broad experience, sound judgment, and expertise on Iraq and in the war on terror make him a superb choice as Deputy Secretary of State. And I look forward to working with him in this new post.

Ambassador Negroponte leaves big shoes to fill as the Director of National Intelligence. The DNI has become a core part of our national security team. The DNI determines the national intelligence budget, oversees the collection and analysis of intelligence information, ensures that intelligence agencies share information with each other, and creates common standards for intelligence community personnel. The vigilance of the DNI helps keep the American people safe from harm.

Admiral Mike McConnell has the experience, the intellect, and the character to succeed in this position. He served as Director of the National Security Agency during the 1990s. He was the intelligence officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the liberation of Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm. Admiral McConnell has decades of experience, ensuring that our military forces had the intelligence they need to fight and win wars.

He's worked with the Congress and with the White House to strengthen our defenses against threats to our information systems. He has earned our Nation's highest award for service in the intelligence community. As DNI, Mike will report directly to me, and I am confident he will give me the best information and analysis that America's intelligence community can provide.

I thank John and Mike for taking on these new challenges. I appreciate their service to our country. Each of them will do good work in their new positions. And it is vital they take up their new responsibilities promptly. I'm confident the United States Senate will also see the value of these two serving in crucial positions, and I would hope that they would be confirmed as quickly as possible.

Congratulations to you both. Thank you very much.

NOTE: The President spoke at 9:45 a.m. in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.










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Macbeth (1948)

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Macbeth

William Shakespeare


Act 1. Scene II

SCENE II. A camp near Forres.


Sergeant
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.

DUNCAN
Dismay'd not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

Sergeant
Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

DUNCAN
So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.

Exit Sergeant, attended

Who comes here?

Enter ROSS

MALCOLM
The worthy thane of Ross.

LENNOX
What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
That seems to speak things strange.

ROSS
God save the king!

DUNCAN
Whence camest thou, worthy thane?

ROSS
From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.

DUNCAN
Great happiness!

ROSS
That now
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

DUNCAN
No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.

ROSS
I'll see it done.

DUNCAN
What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.










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The First “Modern” War – August 25, 1914

POSTED 2 YEARS AGO BY JOSEPH WAUGH

So many things about the Great War—especially 1914—seem of a different age to us. It is almost quaint to think that the French Army went into battle in those August days wearing blue, tailed coats and bright red trousers just like those worn by Napoleon’s soldiers. There were cavalry skirmishes, and bayonet charges, and officers carrying swords. In retrospect, August 1914 can be considered the last month of the previous century. It has been said, in fact, that the 19th century ended in those bloody late summer days.

If it is true that August 1914 was the last month of the 19th century, then it is true that it was also the first month of the 20th century. This period of time is so fascinating because the old world of cavalry charges and bright uniforms co-existed for a brief time with methods of warfare that would seem familiar to us. For instance: strategic bombing.

E. Alexander Powell was an American war correspondent who travelled to Belgium as Germany invaded it in 1914. In late August, after Brussels had been occupied by the German Army, he found himself living in the newly established Belgian capital, Antwerp. This city was soon under siege by the Germans who were anxious to crush Belgian resistance as they pushed their way further into France. Powell wrote a book later that year which recorded his experiences in Belgium in early 1914. He titled it Fighting in Flanders. In this book, excerpted below, he records the first use of strategic bombing in history:

“At eleven minutes past one o’clock on the morning of August 25 death came to Antwerp out of the air. Some one had sent a bundle of English and American newspapers to my room in the Hotel St. Antoine and I had spent the evening reading them, so that the bells of the cathedral had already chimed one o’clock when I switched off my light and opened the window. As I did so my attention was attracted by a curious humming overhead, like a million bumblebees. I leaned far out of the window, and as I did so an indistinct mass, which gradually resolved itself into something resembling a gigantic black cigar, became plainly apparent against the purple-velvet sky. I am not good at estimating altitudes, but I should say that when I first caught sight of it it was not more than a thousand feet above my head—and my room was on the top floor of the hotel, remember. As it drew nearer the noise, which had at first reminded me of a swarm of angry bees, grew louder, until it sounded like an automobile with the muffler open. Despite the darkness there was no doubting what it was. It was a German Zeppelin.

Even as I looked something resembling a falling star curved across the sky. An instant later came a rending, shattering crash that shook the hotel to its foundations, the walls of my room rocked and reeled about me, and for a breathless moment I thought that the building was going to collapse. Perhaps thirty seconds later came another splitting explosion, and another, and then another—ten in all—each, thank Heaven, a little farther removed. It was all so sudden, so utterly unexpected, that it must have been quite a minute before I realized that the monstrous thing hovering in the darkness overhead was one of the dirigibles of which we had read and talked so much, and that it was actually raining death upon the sleeping city from the sky. I suppose it was blind instinct that caused me to run to the door and down the corridor with the idea of getting into the street, never stopping to reason, of course, that there was no protection in the street from Zeppelins. But before I had gone a dozen paces I had my nerves once more in hand. “Perhaps it isn’t a Zeppelin, after all,” I argued to myself. “I may have been dreaming. And how perfectly ridiculous I should look if I were to dash downstairs in my pyjamas and find that nothing had happened. At least I’ll go back and put some clothes on.” And I did. No fireman, responding to a night alarm, ever dressed quicker. As I ran through the corridors the doors of bedrooms opened and sleepy-eyed, tousle-headed diplomatists and Government officials called after me to ask if the Germans were bombarding the city.

“They are,” I answered, without stopping. There was no time to explain that for the first time in history a city was being bombarded from the air.

I found the lobby rapidly filling with scantily clad guests, whose teeth were visibly chattering. Guided by the hotel manager and accompanied by half a dozen members of the diplomatic corps in pyjamas, I raced upstairs to a sort of observatory on the hotel roof. I remember that one attaché of the British Legation, ordinarily a most dignified person, had on some sort of a night-robe of purple silk and that when he started to climb the iron ladder of the fire-escape he looked for all the world like a burglarious suffragette.

By the time we reached the roof of the hotel Belgian high-angle and machine-guns were stabbing the darkness with spurts of flame, the troops of the garrison were blazing away with rifles, and the gendarmes in the streets were shooting wildly with their revolvers: the noise was deafening. Oblivious of the consternation and confusion it had caused, the Zeppelin, after letting fall a final bomb, slowly rose and disappeared in the upper darkness.

The destruction wrought by the German projectiles was almost incredible. The first shell, which I had seen fall, struck a building in the Rue de la Bourse, barely two hundred yards in a straight line from my window. A hole was not merely blown through the roof, as would have been the case with a shell from a field-gun, but the three upper stories simply crumbled, disintegrated, came crashing down in an avalanche of brick and stone and plaster, as though a Titan had hit it with a sledge-hammer. Another shell struck in the middle of the Poids Public, or public weighing-place, which is about the size of Russell Square in London. It blew a hole in the cobblestone- pavement large enough to bury a horse in; one policeman on duty at the far end of the square was instantly killed and another had both legs blown off. But this was not all nor nearly all. Six people sleeping in houses fronting on the square were killed in their beds and a dozen others were more or less seriously wounded. Every building facing on the square was either wholly or partially demolished, the steel splinters of the projectile tearing their way through the thick brick-walls as easily as a lead-pencil is jabbed through a sheet of paper. And, as a result of the terrific concussion, every house within a hundred yards of the square in every direction had its windows broken. On no battlefield have I ever seen so horrible a sight as that which turned me weak and nauseated when I entered one of the shattered houses and made my way, over heaps of fallen debris, to a room where a young woman had been sleeping. She had literally been blown to fragments. The floor, the walls, the ceiling, were splotched with—well, it’s enough to say that that woman’s remains could only have been collected with a shovel. In saying this, I am not speaking flippantly either. I have dwelt upon these details, revolting as they are, because I wish to drive home the fact that the only victims of this air-raid on Antwerp were innocent non-combatants. (1)

The scenes recorded by Powell in August 1914 shocked his sensibilities, as they would anyone’s. However, this event pales in comparison with what is coming. This first air-bombardment of a city—an attack on the morale of a civilian population—proved to be a horrible prelude to the bombing of places like Guernica in 1937, the Blitz of Britain in 1940, the total destruction of Dresden in 1945, and ultimately the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The age of bayonets and cavalry charges was ending in August 1914. A new era of warfare was coming. The bloody 20th century had now begun in earnest.





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The city that turned Germans into 'Huns' marks 100 years since it was set ablaze

Louvain, the Belgian city where First World War atrocities gave Britain a propaganda gift, will mark centenary with music

Bruno Waterfield By Bruno Waterfield, Leuven

7:30AM BST 25 Aug 2014

It was the city that confirmed what British propagandists wanted the world to believe: that the German army that had invaded Belgium in August 1914 was a barbaric fighting machine that showed no respect for any population that stood in its way.

Exactly 100 years after the Kaiser’s troops embarked on the sacking and burning of Louvain, not long after the start of the First World War, the Belgian town will mark today’s solemn anniversary with a concert that will include Mozart’s Requiem. A newly composed oratorio by Piet Swaerts, a Flemish composer, will be played by the Flanders Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Angus, a Briton.

The concert, which has sold out, will be accompanied by the projection of flames on the current university library in Leuven but has a finale with a “message of peace and reconciliation” using classical music symbolising Europe’s shared cultural heritage.

“By the end it is so beautiful. People will go away uplifted,” said Mr Angus, the conductor.

Louvain, now known as Leuven, was set ablaze by German troops on August 25 1914, setting in train a series of atrocities known as the “rape of Belgium” in which 6,000 Belgians would die and 25,000 homes would be destroyed.

The destruction included burning the city’s university library and stunned the world - and helping persuade millions that Germany had descended from being a nation of high culture to one capable of barbarism akin to Attila the Hun.

The nickname, “Hun”, widely adopted after the events in Leuven, was to remain with Germany for decades to come.

The atrocities were carried out by the Kaiser’s army in reprisals for fabricated or real attacks by Belgian guerrilla fighters, known as francs-tireurs.

In Leuven, alleged shots fired by francs-tireurs at German troops became the pretext for the destruction of a historic, medieval city and university associated since Erasmus in the 16th century with humanism, and known as “the Oxford of Belgium”.

German soldiers systematically burned 2,000 houses street-by-street, using phosphor to ensure that the destruction was total.

In a fire that raged for three days, 248 non-combatant victims, including elderly people and children, were killed.

The Catholic University’s renowned library was torched with petrol, in a deliberate blaze that consumed quarter of a million books including priceless works by Andreas Vesalius, the physician, and other medieval, renaissance and enlightenment manuscripts.

Only one building in the city’s historic centre was left unscathed - the town hall, which was serving as the headquarters for the German military. A few days later a senior German officer told Hugh Gibson, a senior American diplomat, that the city had been sacked as a warning “to teach them to think twice before they resist”.

Germany’s reputation as a great power dedicated to European civilisation and the embodiment of a high-culture represented by Bach, Goethe or Kant, would never fully recover.

“More than the killings, the damaging moment for the reputation of Germany was the cultural atrocity of burning the library,” said Mark Derez, the Catholic University’s archivist.

“The fact that the library of Louvain was deliberately burned was seen as an attack on the cultural heritage of the whole of Europe. It became the symbol of the barbaric conduct of war by the Germans.”

In Britain, “Louvain shall be our battle cry” quickly became the name of a popular march as Britons were mobilised for the world’s first “total war”.

Girls born in England in the autumn of 1914 were christened Louvain, later often shortened to Lou. Rudyard Kipling’s famous patriotic poem, “For all we have and are”, was written in response to Leuven’s sacking and rallied millions, branding Germans as Huns, an epithet that stuck.

“For all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and meet the war. The Hun is at the gate,” he wrote.

Ravaged, an exhibition currently at Museum Leuven explores the role of art in conflicts throughout the centuries and is organised around stark photographs of the destruction taken by the Arnou brothers, two photographers from the city.

One famous picture of the gutted library became instantly famous in a world that was being transformed by the telegraph, newspaper photography and mass readerships.

Hélène Verreyke, head of exhibitions at the museum said that the photographs were also being displayed around the city to remind people of events that are often forgotten in a Leuven that is now best known as home of Stella Artois lager production.

“People are fascinated and intrigued to find out their city was destroyed 100 years. The younger generation, especially, do not know,” she said. “The burning of the library a century ago horrified the world, today we want to show how culture can heal and unite people who have been divided by war.”

Marieke Vermeulen, a Belgian student who had just visited the exhibition, said: “It still shocks. One hundred years later, it still shocks me.”










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The Trouble With Tribbles

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Date of Birth

28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA

Birth Name

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Melinda Gates (1 January 1994 - present) 3 children


Children: Jennifer Katharine (26 April 1996), son Rory John (23 May 1999), Phoebe Adele (14 September 2002)





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transvestite

a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.

a person who seeks sexual pleasure from wearing clothes that are normally associated with the opposite sex










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Blondie: [taking the note] "Idiots".

[He hand the note back to Tuco]

Blondie: It's for you.










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Tuesday, September 17, 2002

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Gates family adds baby girl

SEATTLE — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are parents for the third time.

Phoebe Adelle Gates was born Saturday at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.










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Jimmy Carter

XXXIX President of the United States: 1977 - 1981

United States Foreign Intelligence Activities Remarks on Signing Executive Order 12036.

January 24, 1978

THE PRESIDENT. This morning, we've gathered to sign an Executive order which makes a major stride forward in better coordination within the Intelligence Community.

One of the pleasant experiences that I've had as President is to see the professionalism and the competence of the collection and analysis and distribution of intelligence information to me and to other consumers in the Federal Government. Under Admiral Turner, this coordination has been superb. And I'm very pleased this morning, after months of work with the NSC—the National Security Council—with the Department of Defense, with Admiral Turner, the CIA, the Congress committees, particularly the Senate Intelligence Committee, to have evolved an Executive order which establishes in clear terms the responsibilities and limitations of the collection of intelligence, of counterintelligence, and also the distribution of material that hasn't been analyzed.

The Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral Turner, will be responsible for tasking or assigning tasks to all those who collect intelligence. He will also have full control of the intelligence budget and will also be responsible for the analysis of information that does come in from all sources in the foreign intelligence field.

This order also gives a great deal of additional responsibility to the Attorney General to make sure that the civil liberties and the privacy of American citizens is adequately protected and that the constitutional provisions and the laws of our Nation are carried out precisely. There's a clear description of the duties and responsibilities of all those that are involved in the collection and distribution of intelligence information.

I'm very proud of this Executive order. It will be a basis for congressional action on a charter to be written for the Intelligence Community, and I think later on, we'll have one for the FBI, as well.

Under this order, though, under counterintelligence, the duties of the FBI are also spelled out. So, this is a fairly concise, clear delineation of how the Intelligence Community will be operating in the months ahead.

I want to express my thanks to all those that have been involved in the process. And after I sign the Executive order this morning, there will be a complete briefing for the press by the members of the NSC, the Department of Defense, the Attorney General's office, and Admiral Turner, representing the Intelligence Community.

So, I want to thank all of you standing behind me, and I will now sign the Executive order which, I think, is a major stride forward. Thank you very much.

[At this point the President signed the Executive order.]

Fritz, if you would come over and say a word?

VICE PRESIDENT MONDALE. I have some notes.

THE PRESIDENT. Very good. [Laughter]

VICE PRESIDENT MONDALE. Mr. President, members of the Senate and House intelligence committee:

When I served in the Senate, it was our task for some time to explore and investigate abuses by our intelligence agencies. It was not a happy job, and it disclosed not only many abuses of the civil liberties of our people but, in many ways, decisions and actions that were counterproductive to the interests of our country.

In my opinion, the most important principle that this Executive order stands for is that it demonstrates that we can fully protect our Nation and do so within the law, and not only do it within the law but do it better than under a circumstance which permits us to resort to illegality.

Underlying the abuses that we uncovered was an unexpressed but clearly evident conclusion on the part of some that we could not defend our country against her real enemies except through illegality. Once you examine that, it's true that the only way you can effectively protect against our enemies is through legal process.

And that's what this Executive order stands for. It's a historic document. It's the first time, I think, any major nation has tried to rationalize in writing, through legislative charters, the protection of their nation from enemies, and to do so within the law.

We need the best intelligence community in the world, and we have it. And under this Executive order, it will be even better. I think what it really stands for is that the framers of our Constitution were pretty wise men after all.

THE PRESIDENT. Thank you. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee this past year has been Senator Danny Inouye, who had worked very closely with us. He has done a superb job. One of the facets of this Executive order is it directs those who are involved in the Intelligence Community to share information, sometimes of a highly confidential or secret nature, with the Members of the Congress, so that there can be a joint sharing of responsibility for the collection and dissemination of intelligence information in a legal way.

Danny, I'd like to call on you to say a word.

SENATOR INOUYE. Mr. President, on behalf of the committee, I wish to thank you and commend you for giving us an opportunity to participate in the drafting of this extraordinary Executive order. We concur with you that statutory charters are important. And accordingly, I'm pleased to advise you that next week, a draft charter brought about by the work of Senators Huddleston and Mathias will be introduced in the Senate, and we look forward to working with you, sir. Thank you.

THE PRESIDENT. Very fine. The new chairman of the Intelligence Committee and one who's served long and well on the committee is Senator Birch Bayh. Birch, would you like to say just a word?

SENATOR BAYH. Mr. President, I'm looking forward to having a chance to continue the strong leadership that Senator Inouye has provided for the committee. I would like to add my commendation. This is the first time in history that the Congress has had this kind of cooperation with the executive branch. And this is the second step—I would like to remind those who are here—in which you, as President, have undertaken a landmark initiative. We met in the Rose Garden in the spring, where for the first time in history you were willing to waive your inherent authority to get involved in electronic surveillance.

So, as we move forward with the charters, I think it is important to understand that this is critical. Presidents and Congresses are mortal. We have been reminded of that rather tragically in the last few days. And it's important to put these basic protections in the bedrock law of our land.

THE PRESIDENT. Thank you. A new committee that's just been formed in the Congress this past year, certainly with my strong approval and support, has been the House Intelligence, Committee. Eddie Boland is the chairman. Eddie, perhaps you'd like to say a word.

REPRESENTATIVE BOLAND. Mr. President, first of all I want to express, on behalf of all my colleagues on the House side, our appreciation at the invitation that brings us to this very significant and very meaningful occasion. I only have a couple of observations. I'm delighted to come, first of all, to find out whether or not the signatures on the letters that I get from you are genuine. [Laughter] I've seen you sign here; I know they are. [Laughter]

Then I'm delighted to see that behind us—and I think the press will recognize this—there is no dispute within the Intelligence Community over what we're doing, either what Admiral Turner is doing or what the President is doing. Everybody is here, and everybody is happy with it.

I'm also conscious of the fact that the Senators are way ahead of us in this area and have been for some time. It's the only area in which the Senate is ahead of us, incidentally. [Laughter] We hope to catch up. It's going to be a difficult job. But frankly, they have led the way, and I think, perhaps, they have taken the Congress through the thickest of what this particular activity within the Congress means and its significance.

And as the Vice President has so well said and you have so well said, this Executive order is historical. It does indicate that we can operate an intelligence community within the framework of our Constitution, to protect the rights and ensure the rights of the people of our Nation. And that's exactly why we are in business.

So, Mr. President, with this Executive order, with the charter legislation that is coming out of the Senate, with the foreign surveillance intelligence legislation that has been considered by the House, is being considered by Chairman Murphy of our committee, why, we can assure you that you will find the House in cooperation with you, with the administration, and with the Senate committee.
Thank you very much for inviting us.

THE PRESIDENT. Thank you very much, Eddie. Dee Huddleston has been the chairman of the subcommittee responsible for the drafting of legislation precedent to the actual evolution of the charter which will be part of our Nation's laws.

Senator Huddleston has worked very closely with me and others in the basic premises included in the Executive order. This is a good basis. We all recognized that the Intelligence Community has to have some degree of flexibility. And there are a few directives that will not be included in this Executive order because of their highly confidential nature, but all those are being shared and will be shared with the Senate and the House committees. We are very proud of the relationship that we have.

SENATOR HUDDLESTON. Well, thank you, Mr. President. I certainly want to express my appreciation and that of our subcommittee to you and your entire staff for the cooperation and help you've given. I doubt if there has been an Executive order in recent years, maybe never, that has had as much congressional input as this particular one.

And I have to say that Bill Miller and Elliott Maxwell on our committee staff have done a tremendous job in providing us with the input that we've been able to make. I think this certainly is an appropriate interim step between where we have been in our intelligence operations and the control and accountability and authority that's been exercised there and where we all know that we want to go; and that is, with legislative, statutory charters setting out the missions, the accountability, the authorities of all of our intelligence agencies.

Uppermost in our mind, Mr. President-and I, too, along with Vice President Mondale, went through the so-called Church committee's investigative period in spite of the abuses that we saw revealed, I think our major objective still, as we protect the rights and privileges of our citizens, is to provide the machinery under which the United States of America can have the best, most efficient, most effective intelligence apparatus in the world. That's what we are going to work toward. As our chairman has indicated, we're prepared now, and certainly will be by the end of next week, to introduce legislation, our first piece of legislation relating to the charters. We see that as a starting point.

The long period of time it took to bring this into being, I think, demonstrates the very complex and difficult problems that we are faced with. So, I'm sure we're going to have the same kind of cooperation between the Intelligence Community and the executive that we've had previously. And I believe that we can develop the kind of charters that will bring about the assurances that all of us want. Thank you, sir, very much.

THE PRESIDENT. Thank you. Senator Huddleston said that never before in history has an Executive order by the President had so much congressional input. I doubt if ever before in history an Executive order has had so much input from the President. [Laughter] I have sent it back three or four times to be redrafted so I could understand it. [Laughter] I think now it's in very good shape.

I'd like to call on Congressman Murphy. He has the same responsibility in the House as Dee Huddleston does in the Senate, the drafting of a new charter.

REPRESENTATIVE MURPHY. Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of the committee, I'd like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on keeping your promise that you made during your campaign that you would bring the intelligence agencies into some meaningful order under this Executive order. I'd also like to thank Attorney General Bell and his staff.

We have already begun our work on the national surveillance act. And as my chairman, Mr. Boland, has reminded us, we are behind. I think that's an admonishment to me. We will catch up.

Thank you, sir.

THE PRESIDENT. Thank you. I wanted to call on, also, Senator Mathias, who's been a great help to us. Senator Goldwater has been the vice chairman of the committee for a long time. He's not here today.

SENATOR MATHIAS. Mr. President, as I stood here this morning, I thought a little bit about the advice of Speaker Reed, who defined the duties of the minority as to draw your pay and help make a quorum. [Laughter] I want to assure you that the minority in this case is going to do more than that, that we're going to work very hard on this statutory charter and to try to develop in the spirit in which you have started us out this morning.

I think it needs to be said that we want it to be not only an effective instrument which provides us with the best intelligence and that we Want it to provide the kind of restraints which ensure the rule of law in our country, but we also want it to be a shield for the men and women who devote their lives to the intelligence services and to give them the kind of guidance within which they can develop their own careers.
Thank you very much, Mr. President.

REPRESENTATIVE WILSON. I'm again the minority on our side, but we are very much interested in this Executive order. I commend you for having taken all of the different intelligence responsibilities from various agencies and putting them under one executive head, which has been one of the problems we have seen in the past. And I predict that we'll come along and support you continuously in the future.

Thank you very much.

THE PRESIDENT. I want to say I won't call anyone else from the executive branch, because you will be getting a briefing in detail from the National Security Council, Department of Defense, the DCI, which is the Director of Central Intelligence, and also the Attorney General.

But in closing, let me remind the group once again of what I said at the beginning: One of the most professional and competent organizations with which I have ever dealt has been the Intelligence Community. It consists of several thousand highly professional, dedicated American people whose knowledge and experience stands as a bulwark in protecting the security of our Nation.

And although there have been problems in the past, probably because of an absence of a clear directive about delineations of responsibility, I think that this has quite often obscured the sacrificial work that these good men and women have done.

Again, I want to express my complete appreciation and confidence in Admiral Stan Turner, whose responsibilities under this Executive order will be greatly magnified. He's worked very closely with the Attorney General and with the Secretary of Defense. During normal peacetime, which I hope will prevail throughout all of our lifetime, he will have the responsibilities that I outlined.

In case of a conflict or extreme national emergency, under the Executive order, the President has the authority to shift part of that responsibility to the Secretary of Defense to defend our Nation in time of war. But that will be done in a very careful, preplanned way. And the present interrelationship that exists today, to be enhanced by the Executive order, between Defense, Justice, and intelligence, is very clearly defined and is a harmonious working relationship.

This could not have been possible without a great deal of consultation and a close cooperation and, I think, a mutual purpose that was recognized by everyone.

I think this is a major step forward. I'm very deeply grateful to all of you.

Thank you very much.

Note: The President spoke at 11:45 a.m. at the signing ceremony in the Cabinet Room at the White House.










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Macbeth

William Shakespeare


Act 1. Scene II

SCENE II. A camp near Forres.

Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant

DUNCAN
What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.

MALCOLM
This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.

Sergeant
Doubtful it stood;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.

DUNCAN
O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!

Sergeant
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.

DUNCAN
Dismay'd not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

Sergeant
Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

DUNCAN
So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.

Exit Sergeant, attended

Who comes here?

Enter ROSS

MALCOLM
The worthy thane of Ross.

LENNOX
What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
That seems to speak things strange.

ROSS
God save the king!

DUNCAN
Whence camest thou, worthy thane?

ROSS
From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.

DUNCAN
Great happiness!

ROSS
That now
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

DUNCAN
No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.

ROSS
I'll see it done.

DUNCAN
What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.

Exeunt



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