I was thinking several hours ago, Joe.
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PINK FLOYD
"A Great Day For Freedom"
I woke to the sound of drums
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you
And all but the bitter residues slipped away...slipped away
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Springfield! Springfield!
Ides Of March, The (2011)
Who's calling you
at 2:30 in the morning?
I don't know.
Really? Because he asked
for you by name.
- You answered it?
- I thought it was my phone.
Who is it?
I don't know.
Is it one of those interns
drunk-dialing you?
Now, that never happens.
Let me see the number.
- Oh, boy.
- Give me my...
- No. I'm calling him.
- Stephen, stop it.
- It's not funny.
- I'm saying I'm your dad.
Stephen it's not funny.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/09/08 5:28 AM
As I was walking outside a few minute ago, the thought occurred to me that my artificial memory of Racheal Barnett has some kind of bearing, along with many other details, on that notion of the paradox from that series finale episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 09 June 2008 excerpt ends]
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2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD video:
00:54:35
"I need three units to look for a silver Honda near Ochada orchard
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Preacher Season 1 Episode 10
Call and Response
Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Jul 31, 2016 on AMC
AIRED: 7/31/16
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Springfield! Springfield!
Preacher
Call and Response
[ Preacher Jesse Custer: ] But I sent him to Hell!
[Cheers and applause stop]
[ "God:" ] And how did you do that, my son?
[ Preacher Jesse Custer: ] With the power. With Genesis.
[ "God:" ] Uhh uhh Oh. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Of course. And who else has a question?
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STS-82 launch (2-11-97)
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The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 13, 2000 on FOX
Quotes
Pit crew member: Hey, you're not a driver!
Homer: Oh, how rude of me. My name is--
(He drives off quickly)
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Memorable quotes for
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Simon: Simon says, McClane and the Samaritan will go to the subway station at 72nd and Broadway. I will call you in 15 minutes on the payphone outside the station. No Police. Failure to answer will constitute noncompliance. Do you understand me, John?
John McClane: Oh, yes, I understand. I understand that you're a fuckin' wacko who likes to play kids' games. That's what I understand.
Simon: Hardly.
John McClane: [imitating Simon] Hahdly? Well, then, who are you? Somebody I sent up? What'd you do? Shoplifting? Purse-snatching?
[pauses and puts hand over the receiver]
John McClane: Cross-dressing? What?
Simon: You c-c-c-couldn't catch me if I stole your ch-ch-chair with you in it!
John McClane: My ch-ch-ch-chair with me in it? That's very exciting. Let me ask you a question, bonehead. Why are you trying to k-k-k-k-kill me?
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Payback (1999)
Quotes
[first lines]
Porter: That makes it hard for guys in my line to get what I call, quality health care.
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STS-82
Discovery
Launch: Launch February 11, 1997 3:55:17 am.
Landing: KSC 2/21/97 3:32 am EST. Landing at KSC Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) Runway 33. Main gear touchdown at 3:32:26 am EST
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 18, 2006
I have thought again several times about that memory of getting my red Ford stuck in the mud. It was on that underground pipeline near where I shot that 9-point. I can almost picture my pickup sitting there up to the fenders in the mud. That is the time I had to walk out of the woods to find someone to pull me out. It was pitch black that night and I only knew I was on the road by the sound of the gravel crunching under my boots. I had to walk several miles like that. I have been wondering if that actually represents something about the flight back from Osirak in 1981. I'm wondering if I ran out of fuel, landed, found more fuel, and then took off again to return to the Israeli base. I remember how Michael told me that mom thought I was dead out there somewhere. I told them I was going to a different place to hunt so when they decided I was missing, they were searching the wrong area. They had a lot of people out looking for me. I remember mom was crying. I was expecting to be grounded, as that happened a lot, but they let me hunt the next day. I guessed they had really believed I was dead and was too relieved to punish me for being late as they were quite strict about me returning when they wanted me back.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 18 August 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 18, 2006
I've got the feeling several of my kids are in this photo:
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President Reagan attending a White House ceremony for the Young Astronauts Program. 10/17/84
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 18 August 2006 excerpt ends]
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-22/news/mn-31286_1_night-landing
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Lights the Sky in Rare Night Landing
February 22, 1997 From Washington Post
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Putting on a spectacular light show, the shuttle Discovery returned to Earth before dawn Friday like a blazing comet, leaving the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope behind in orbit with a new lease on life.
Leaving a trail of fire as it streaked above Houston at 8,700 mph, Discovery settled to a ghostly nighttime landing at the Kennedy Space Center just 18 minutes later, at 3:32 a.m. EST, to close out a five-spacewalk, $350-million overhaul of the famous telescope.
"You lit up the entire sky with the orbiter and its trail," astronaut Kevin Kregel radioed the crew from mission control in Houston. "It was pretty impressive."
"It was a pretty good view from here too," commander Kenneth Bowersox replied. "We almost saw the Astrodome."
It was only the ninth night landing in shuttle history and just the fourth at the Florida spaceport. But Bowersox and pilot Scott "Doc" Horowitz had no problems picking out the shuttle runway's brilliant lights in the darkness.
"You have this yellow brick road right out in front of you," Bowersox said later, referring to new lights embedded in the center of the 3-mile-long runway. "You just keep the orbiter going right down the yellow brick road."
Touchdown came one orbit late because of cloudy weather at the Florida landing site. But by the time Discovery had rounded the planet for another try, the weather had improved and flight director Wayne Hale gave the crew permission to head for home.
Engineers hope to implement permanent repairs to the Hubble during a 1999 servicing mission. That flight also will feature installation of a new central computer, a set of new solar arrays and a state-of-the-art camera.
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The Company You Keep (2012)
Release Info
USA 5 April 2013 (limited)
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Springfield! Springfield!
Company You Keep, The (2012)
Perhaps you're a little more interesting than I initially thought? We're bringing these people down, and I hope I don't find you in my way.
From 3/21/1976 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Charlies Angels" ) To 7/11/2007 is 11434 days
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 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut ) is 11434 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75547
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Statement on the Death of Lady Bird Johnson
July 11, 2007
Laura and I mourn the passing of our good friend and a warm and gracious woman, Lady Bird Johnson. Those who were blessed to know her remember Mrs. Johnson's lively and charming personality, and our Nation will always remember her with affection. Mrs. Johnson became First Lady on a fateful day in November 1963 and was a steady, gentle presence for a mourning nation in the days that followed.
In the White House, Mrs. Johnson shared her love of the environment and nature with our entire country. The native wildflowers that bloom along roadsides today are part of her lasting legacy. She joined President Johnson in the struggle for civil rights, inspiring millions of Americans. Her commitment to early education gave many children a head start in life.
President Johnson once called her a woman of "ideals, principles, intelligence, and refinement." She remained so throughout their life together and in the many years given to her afterward. She was much-loved in our home State of Texas, and the Bush family is fortunate to have known her.
Lady Bird Johnson leaves behind her devoted daughters, Lynda and Luci, their fine families, and a nation that joins them in honoring a good life of kindness and service.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75566
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks at a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the Renovated James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and an Exchange With Reporters
July 11, 2007
The President. Thank you very much. Yes, thanks. I like a good, short introduction. [Laughter]
Q. [Inaudible]
The President. Yes. [Laughter] After all, it is your room. Yes. [Laughter] Welcome back to the West Wing. We missed you— sort of. [Laughter] I can already tell this place has improved. The last time I was in here to hold a press conference, I broke out into a sweat, not because of your questions but because of the climate. The air-conditioner seems to work well. I hope the facility is—suits your needs. I really do.
The relationship between the President and the press is a unique relationship, and it's a necessary relationship. I enjoy it. I hope you do. As I say, sometimes you don't like the decisions I make, and sometimes I don't like the way you write about the decisions. But nevertheless, it's a really important part of our process. And the fact that you were working in substandard conditions just wasn't right. It really wasn't.
And so my White House worked with Steve and Ann, worked with Mark Smith to get it right. And I think it's going to benefit future Presidents and future White House press corps to be working in modern conditions, conditions where a fellow like me will feel comfortable coming in here answering a few questions without losing 20 pounds. [Laughter]
It was really hot in here. As a matter of fact, I can't imagine how Snow could handle it on a regular basis. But now it's modern, and it's going to enable you to do a better job. And I'm glad that's the case.
I want to thank Peter Doherty. Where is he? Yes, Peter, thanks for working hard here. You get a lot of credit for making sure this thing works. And one of these days Laura and I are looking forward to coming and actually see what it's like working here. I've never toured—I've never even been able to get beyond the podium—[laughter]—if you know what I mean. As a matter of fact, I've always felt comfortable behind the podium in front of you, kind of as a shield. [Laughter] But I would like a tour.
Q. Bulletproof——
The President. Well, it's not exactly bulletproof. Some of your bullets are able to— verbal bullets—[laughter]—are able to penetrate. But you've been around a long time, see; you know what it's like to query Presidents. You've been—you're kind of an older fellow. [Laughter]
Q. [Inaudible]
The President. Yes, proudly so. Thanks for the birthday greeting too. I appreciate that thoughtful gesture.
But anyway, we're glad to join you for this ribbon-cutting, and we thank you very much for working with Hagin and the bunch to make sure this thing—deal works. And it's going to. And it's going to make your life better, and frankly, it's going to make the lives of future Presidents better as well. And so it's a good contribution that you all have left behind. And we're glad to have been a part of it. And so——
White House Press Pool
Q. What, do you think I'm going to ask a question?
The President. Yes. I do think you're going to ask me a question, yes. [Laughter]
Q. I am. [Laughter]
The President. Well, maybe some other time.
Q. Oh, but do you think you open——
The President. See what I'm saying? [Laughter]
Q. You can't come to the press room, especially a modern press room——
The President. Wait a minute, let's do this—let me cut the ribbon and——
Q. You think anything has changed?
The President. Let me cut the ribbon— are you going to cut it with me, Steve— and then why don't you all yell simultaneously? [Laughter] Like, really loudly— [laughter]—and that way you might get noticed.
Q. It doesn't sound like you're going to answer——
The President. No, I will. I'll, like, listen——
Q. And leave?
The President. ——internalize, play like I'm going to answer the question, and then smile at you and just say, gosh—[laughter]—thanks, thanks for such a solid, sound question.
Okay, here we go. Ready? I'm going to cut the ribbon. [Laughter] Then, would you—no, then you yell. I cogitate—and then smile and wave. [Laughter]
Ready? Are you going to come, Laura? Here we go.
[At this point, the President cut the ribbon.]
Q. [Inaudible]
The President. Brilliant question.
Q. [Inaudible]—cogitating that, right?
The President. Thank you all. See you soon.
Q. We look forward to seeing you come and do a little Q & A——
The President. I will see you soon. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 8:05 a.m.
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Payback (1999)
Quotes
Carter: Do you understand your value to the organization, Resnick?
[pause]
Carter: You're a sadist. You lack compunction. That comes in handy.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Chad Trammell
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:37 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: When I drove that slow you know it's hard to steer
Kerry — Amazing to hear from you.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 October 2012 excerpt ends]
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Quotes
Milo: Hey, motherfucker.
Joe Hallenbeck: Hey, Milo. Where ya callin' from, the bottom of the pool?
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Mary Maxwell Gates dies on June 10, 1994.
On June 10, 1994, Mary Maxwell Gates, mother of Microsoft co-founder William H. Gates III and a woman widely admired for her civic activism, dies
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Gladiator (2000)
Quotes
Marcus Aurelius: Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?
Commodus: Yes, father.
Marcus Aurelius: You will not be emperor.
Commodus: Which wiser, older man is to take my place?
Marcus Aurelius: My powers will pass to Maximus, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be a republic again.
Commodus: Maximus?
Marcus Aurelius: Yes. My decision disappoints you?
Commodus: You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but... there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son.
Marcus Aurelius: Oh, Commodus. You go too far.
Commodus: I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to make you proud. One kind word, one full hug... where you pressed me to your chest and held me tight. Would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years.
What is it in me that you hate so much?
Marcus Aurelius: Shh, Commodus.
Commodus: All I've ever wanted was to live up to you, Caesar. Father.
Marcus Aurelius: [Marcus Aurelius gets down on his knees] Commodus. Your faults as a son is my failure as a father. Come
[Gives Commodus a hug]
Commodus: [Commodus hugs Marcus and cries] Father. I would have butcher the whole world... if you would only love me!
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Quotes
Jimmy Dix: I figure you gotta be the dumbest guy in the world, Joe. You're trying the save the life of the man who ruined your career
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Route 66 Season 3 Episode 4
Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma
Aired Friday 8:30 PM Oct 12, 1962 on CBS
AIRED: 10/12/62
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Biography on CNBC - Bill Gates: Sultan of Software
CNBC
Aired on Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 (11/17/2009) at 09:02 PM
"You go on home.
"But, please, slow down a " so, he was-he was very deeply affected by his mother's death, as we all were, of course.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Payback (1999)
Hicks. Leary.
We're Holland and Van Owen.
Internal Affairs.
Back off.
We're on a stakeout.
Step out of the car.
What for?
Step out of the car, detectives.
What the hell's going on?
I don't know.
Is this your badge?
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Bird-Johnson
Encyclopædia Britannica
Lady Bird Johnson
First lady of the United States
Lady Bird Johnson, née Claudia Alta Taylor (born Dec. 22, 1912, Karnack, Texas, U.S.—died July 11, 2007, Austin, Texas) American first lady (1963–69), the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States, and an environmentalist noted for her emphasis on beautification.
The daughter of Thomas Jefferson Taylor, a prosperous businessman, and Minnie Patillo Taylor, Claudia Alta Taylor was nicknamed “Lady Bird” on the suggestion of a family nursemaid. After her mother’s death in 1918, Lady Bird was raised by an aunt who came to live with the family. Her childhood was very lonely, and she later noted that it was during these years that she developed her love of reading and her respect for the tranquillity of nature. Unusually bright, she attended local schools and graduated from high school at age 15; later she attended St. Mary’s Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas, Texas, where she pursued her interest in writing.
At the University of Texas at Austin, which she entered in 1930, she enjoyed many luxuries that most other students could not afford, such as her own car and charge account, but she had already developed the very careful spending habits that would characterize her later in life. After finishing a bachelor’s degree in history in 1933, she remained an additional year to take a degree in journalism. Her training in this field helped her to develop skills that she would later use in her relations with the press.
She met Lyndon Baines Johnson in the summer of 1934, and he proposed almost immediately. They were married at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov. 17, 1934. After several miscarriages, Lady Bird gave birth to two daughters, Lynda Bird in 1944 and Luci Baines in 1947.
In 1937 Lady Bird used $10,000 of her inheritance to support Lyndon’s first congressional campaign. After his election, she assisted constituents visiting the capital by showing them the main tourist attractions of the city. In 1941–42, while Lyndon was serving in the military (Lyndon was the first congressman to volunteer for active duty in World War II), she ran his congressional office and further developed her skills at handling his constituents.
In 1943, with more of Lady Bird’s inherited money, the Johnsons purchased a radio station in Austin, and Lady Bird took over as manager. Although it was never clear how much of her ensuing success was due to her own decisions and how much to Lyndon’s political connections or to sheer luck, her interest and expertise were genuine, and she continued to be active in managerial decisions long after the station became profitable.
As her husband’s political career advanced and he became a powerful figure in Washington, D.C., Lady Bird participated in his campaigns but shied away from giving speeches, preferring to shake hands and write letters instead. After taking a course in public speaking in 1959, however, she became an excellent extemporaneous speaker. In 1960, when Lyndon was nominated for vice president on the Democratic ticket with John F. Kennedy, she actively campaigned throughout the South, and Robert Kennedy later said that she had carried Texas for the Democrats.
Lady Bird used the three years of her husband’s vice presidency to hire an expert staff, including Liz Carpenter, a seasoned reporter, who served as both staff director and press secretary. Carpenter helped to portray Lady Bird in the best possible light when, after the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, she faced unfavourable comparisons with her stunning predecessor, Jacqueline Kennedy.
In the election of 1964, Lady Bird campaigned vigorously. Although Lyndon’s strong stand on civil rights had made him a pariah in many parts of the South, she insisted that no state be written off. From her campaign train, dubbed the “Lady Bird Special,” she rode through seven Southern states, urging voters to support her husband.
Following his election, she moved to establish her own record as first lady. She concentrated on Head Start, a program aimed at helping preschool children from disadvantaged backgrounds. But she became most closely identified with an environmental program, called “beautification,” that sought to encourage people to make their surroundings more attractive, whether they were wide-open spaces or crowded urban neighbourhoods. To encourage private donations, she formed the First Lady’s Committee for a More Beautiful Capital.
In an attempt to improve the appearance of the nation’s highways, she urged Congress to pass the Highway Beautification Bill, which was strenuously opposed by billboard advertisers. Her involvement in the legislation was highly unusual, and, though she received some criticism, the bill (in diluted form) passed Congress and became law in October 1965.
After Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection in 1968, Lady Bird continued a busy round of official activities but also prepared for retirement in Texas. There she continued the interests that had long sustained her, especially her family and environmental concerns, including the National Wildflower Research Center (now the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center). Although she occasionally made political appearances for her son-in-law, Virginia governor (and later senator) Charles Robb, she dedicated most of her time to the family business and her grandchildren.
Early in her White House tenure, she began to record her impressions in daily tape recordings. A fraction of the thousands of hours she taped became the basis of her book, A White House Diary (1970), which was one of the most complete and revealing accounts ever left by a president’s wife.
Following her husband’s death in 1973 she divided her time between the LBJ ranch and her home in Austin. She could take satisfaction in the fact that Americans typically ranked her in the top half dozen of all first ladies.
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/03/lyndon-johnson-pop-culture-all-the-way-lbj
The Guardian
Noah Gittell
Friday 3 June 2016 13.15 EDT Last modified on Friday 3 June 2016 16.52 EDT
Most historical films reveal more about the time they were made than the eras they depict, so when a single historical figure has a sudden cultural renaissance, it’s got to mean something important. Consider the case of LBJ. In the last few years, Lyndon B Johnson has been ubiquitous in our culture: on the stage, the silver screen, and even on TV. He popped up in The Butler and Selma, and received a small but important mention in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Look of Silence. Most famously, Bryan Cranston won a Tony award for playing LBJ in Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way. The Broadway play, now an HBO movie that premiered last month, holds the key to understanding why the 36th president has suddenly become relevant again. It’s an effort to reclaim Johnson’s legacy from that of a cold-hearted politician who escalated the Vietnam war to a master negotiator who, through Washington insider-ism and sheer ingenuity, willed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into existence.
And yet any time you try to pigeonhole Johnson, he slips out of your grasp. All the Way captures him in all of his frustrating complexity, and his contradictory nature allows his meaning to ebb and flow with time. Even in the last few years – since he has enjoyed this newfound cultural relevancy – he has become a political football. His legacy, so integral to our understanding of today’s racial politics, has once again become a matter of debate, and several film-makers have sought to understand our era by exploring his.
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Title dialog: Lyndon B. Johnson: With American sons in the fields far away, I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party
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Los Angeles Times
An activist first lady who succeeded on her own terms
July 12, 2007 Elaine Woo Times Staff Writer
LADY Bird Johnson, the widow of Lyndon B. Johnson, whose tumultuous presidency often overshadowed her considerable achievements as an activist first lady, environmentalist and founder of a multimillion-dollar media business, died Wednesday at her home in Austin. She was 94.
Johnson had been in failing health for several years, weakened by a series of strokes and other ailments, including a low-grade fever that kept her in the hospital for a week last month. A family spokeswoman said the former first lady's daughters, Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, were by her side when she died at 2:18 p.m. PDT.
As the wife of the 36th president, Johnson was often portrayed by contemporaries and some historians as a meek woman who silently endured her husband's volcanic outbursts and infidelities. Yet she, perhaps more than any presidential wife since Eleanor Roosevelt, expanded the terrain of the first lady by taking a visible role in her husband's administration, most memorably in her national beautification efforts.
Her love of nature was enshrined in law when her husband signed the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. Conceived primarily to restrict junkyards and unsightly signs along the nation's highways, it was the first major legislative campaign launched by a first lady.
Although often eclipsed by protests over the Vietnam War and civil rights -- the dominant issues of President Johnson's tenure from 1963 to 1969 -- her effort to replace urban blight with flowers and trees prepared the way for the environmental movement of the 1970s.
"I think there is no legacy she would more treasure than to have helped people recognize the value in preserving and promoting our native land," Luci Baines Johnson said in a statement shortly before her mother's death.
Johnson also broke new ground by campaigning independently of her husband. During the 1964 presidential campaign, she undertook a courageous whistle-stop tour of the South, where his civil rights agenda was widely reviled. Two months later, President Johnson won one of the largest landslides in U.S. history. She held the Bible at his swearing-in, a precedent followed by all her successors.
As her husband's key personal advisor throughout his career, she championed Head Start, the early childhood education program that was a major component of his War on Poverty, and was its first national chair.
She was deeply involved in his decision to run for his first full term in 1964, as well as in his dramatic announcement four years later that he would forgo a second term. His famous words -- "I will not seek, nor will I accept, the nomination of my party" -- were written by his wife.
Johnson often was compared unfavorably with her predecessor, Jacqueline Kennedy, who captivated Americans with an elegant style. Johnson did not wear designer clothes or introduce French chefs to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but she was the most active first lady since Roosevelt, her declared role model.
"Among first ladies of the 20th century, Lady Bird Johnson deserves to rank with Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the significant innovators in the history of the institution," presidential historian Lewis L. Gould once wrote.
Gould noted that Johnson assembled her own East Wing staff, which included the first officially designated press secretary for a first lady; participated in legislative strategy sessions; and personally lobbied for environmental programs.
As a businesswoman, Johnson had the foresight early in her husband's career to buy a debt-ridden Austin, Texas, radio station and parlay it into a broadcast empire eventually worth millions. She was, according to biographer Jan Jarboe Russell, the only first lady to have built and sustained a fortune with her own money.
Despite these accomplishments, Johnson was humble in her self-assessment. She told People magazine in 2000 that her greatest feat was "anything I did to keep Lyndon in good health and a good frame of mind to work as he did."
He was a moody man prone to depression who led the nation during a period bracketed by violence -- including the assassination of President Kennedy, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the slayings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. She defined herself as her husband's "balm, sustainer and sometimes critic" who soothed tensions in a besieged White House by relying on her keen instincts and sense of what was right.
It was she who made the conciliatory phone call or offered a dinner invitation after her husband had severely bruised a staffer's ego. It was she who set the tone after a top White House aide was arrested for a homosexual act by publicly expressing concern for the man's health and praising him as a dedicated public servant.
"If President Johnson was the long arm," her press secretary, Liz Carpenter, later wrote, "Lady Bird Johnson's was the gentle hand."
Lonely, shy child
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Springfield! Springfield!
Sphere (1998)
These guys offer a federal grant to
study the effects of an alien invasion.
I told all this to Harry.
You made up the report?
No, not all of it. I mean,
I did research on half of it.
Who did the other half?
I borrowed from, you know,
good writers.
Isaac Asimov, Rod Serling...
Rod Serling?
Who would've thought anyone even reads
those government reports. You know?
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South Carolina Free Public Records Directory
South Carolina Public Records > Spartanburg County > Recorded Document Search
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06/29/1995
Party 1
BURGESS KERRY WAYNE
Party 2
HOWITT FOSTER MARK
HOWITT SHARON MARIE
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VA loan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A VA loan is a mortgage loan in the United States guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The loan may be issued by qualified lenders.
The VA loan was designed to offer long-term financing to eligible American veterans or their surviving spouses (provided they do not remarry). The basic intention of the VA direct home loan program is to supply home financing to eligible veterans in areas where private financing is not generally available and to help veterans purchase properties with no down payment.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=sphere
Springfield! Springfield!
Sphere (1998)
Isaac Asimov, Rod Serling...
Rod Serling?
Who would've thought anyone even reads
those government reports. You know?
I show up here,
half the Pacific fleet is here.
I just didn't know what to do.
I wanted to tell you, that's all.
Is this in the same category as,
"Beth, I thought you knew I was married"?
I don't think we have enough oxygen...
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=sphere
Springfield! Springfield!
Sphere (1998)
Wait, I just want to apologize
for putting your name on the list.
Why?
When I made the report a few years ago,
I picked names of people I knew.
And?
I know Ted because of his father.
- Yeah, so what?
- Beth was a patient.
It's a bogus report.
What? Did you tell Barnes?
You can't do that.
That's fraud.
They came to me, new administration,
right? Political agenda.
They said, in case of an alien invasion,
do's and don'ts.
Why didn't you just say no?
$35,000.
It paid the down payment
on my house.
New administration wanted to prove
they're doing something new.
How'd you come up with this team...
...of a biologist, an astrophysicist
and a mathematician?
Right.
- How?
- I don't know.
It sounded good, right?
Made them come to me.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/12/nation/na-johnson12/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 4)
The Nation Lady Bird Johnson: 1912-2007
An activist first lady who succeeded on her own terms
July 12, 2007 Elaine Woo Times Staff Writer
SHE was born Claudia Alta Taylor on Dec. 22, 1912, to Minnie Lee Patillo and Thomas Jefferson Taylor. Her father was the prosperous owner of a general store in Karnack, Texas, a small, predominantly black town near the Louisiana border. Her mother was a well-read woman who believed in a woman's right to vote and promoted the welfare of the black population. Most of Lady Bird's playmates were black.
One of three children and the only daughter, she received her nickname from a nurse who thought she was as "purty as a lady bird." She was raised by her Aunt Effie after her mother died in an accident when Lady Bird was 5.
A lonely and shy child, she found solace in the pine trees, muddy bayous and rolling hills that surrounded Karnack. Many years later, she said she chose beautification as her primary White House project because "what has given me the most joy, what surfaces when I think back over the last 50 years [are] things like walking through the piney woods of East Texas listening to the wind sighing, or along the banks of Caddo Lake with gnarled cypress trees heavy with moss."
A lover of the classics and an excellent student, she graduated from high school at 15, then attended St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas for two years. In 1933, when she was 20, she graduated in the top 10 of her class at the University of Texas in Austin. Not wanting to return to Karnack, she stayed another year to earn a degree in journalism and considered being a drama critic.
In 1934, a friend introduced her to Lyndon Johnson, then a 26-year-old congressional aide. True to his blunt and domineering nature, he asked Lady Bird to marry him the day after they met. She was both repelled by and attracted to this ambitious man who was five years her elder and who gave her a "queer moth-in-the-flame feeling."
A few months later, on Nov. 17, 1934, she yielded to his considerable pressure and married him in a hastily arranged ceremony in San Antonio. Then Lady Bird, who had never cooked a meal or swept a floor, quickly learned to become a Washington hostess.
"Lady Bird Johnson's remarkable ability to make anyone feel at home was ... to give her husband's career the biggest boost it had yet received," Lyndon Johnson biographer Robert A. Caro wrote in his 1982 book "The Path to Power." One of the Johnsons' regular guests was Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas, the longtime House speaker, who later told Lyndon that marrying Lady Bird was the wisest decision he had ever made.
Rayburn persuaded Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to name Johnson the national youth administrator for Texas. Two years later, a death created a vacancy in the Texas congressional delegation. With crucial support from Lady Bird, who lent his campaign $10,000 from her mother's estate, Johnson won the seat.
The young congressman lost a Senate bid in 1941. Later that year, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor sent the country into World War II, he fulfilled a campaign pledge by joining the Navy. He put Lady Bird in charge of his congressional office, which she managed efficiently. She overcame her shyness to lobby Cabinet members and other Washington officials on behalf of constituents.
With her husband away at war, Lady Bird began to consider other ways to ensure a steady family income. In 1943, using $41,000 of her inheritance, she bought KTBC, a small Austin radio station that was thousands of dollars in debt. Within two years, she turned the red ink to black through diligent, tight-fisted management. With her husband's connections in Washington, she won federal approval to double the station's transmitting power and increase its air time.
In 1952, she obtained permission to open a television station. It soon had contracts with all three major networks, and other acquisitions followed. The Johnson family would remain in the broadcast business until 2003, when it sold its last six stations for $105 million.
Lady Bird Johnson kept a steady hand on the business as company president while struggling through a difficult pregnancy. After 10 years of marriage and four miscarriages, she gave birth to Lynda Bird on March 19, 1944. Luci Baines was born July 2, 1947.
In addition to her daughters, she is survived by seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Another great-grandchild is expected in August.
Turning a blind eye
IN 1948, Lyndon Johnson realized his Senate dream, winning a disputed election by 87 votes. He rose rapidly through the ranks, from minority whip in 1951 to majority leader in 1955. In 1960, after losing his party's nomination for president, he accepted the No. 2 slot and became vice president in one of the closest presidential elections in history.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/12/nation/na-johnson12/3
Los Angeles Times
(Page 3 of 4)
The Nation Lady Bird Johnson: 1912-2007
An activist first lady who succeeded on her own terms
July 12, 2007 Elaine Woo Times Staff Writer
During the early years of the Johnsons' marriage, he was the dominant force. He told Lady Bird what to wear, insisting on slim skirts and good hosiery. He expected her to entertain a dozen people for dinner at a moment's notice, and at parties he barked orders to her in a manner that made others flinch. In an oft-quoted line, he acknowledged that he sometimes asked her for political advice, but "I have a ... maid, and I talk my problems over with her too." Lady Bird seemed to take the slights in stride.
Her devotion to her husband included turning a blind eye to his lengthy affair with Alice Glass, the mistress and later wife of Charles Marsh, a wealthy Austin newspaper publisher and patron of Lyndon's since the 1930s. According to biographers, Lyndon's friendship with Glass ended in the 1960s over the Vietnam War, which Glass strongly opposed.
As other infidelities surfaced over the years, Lady Bird was often asked for comment. According to Caro, she developed a stock reply. "Lyndon loved people," she would say. "It would be unnatural for him to withhold love from half the people." This reply, Caro wrote, "was always delivered with a smile." She apparently never considered leaving him.
Lyndon Johnson suffered a major heart attack in 1955, an event that deepened their bond. Gradually, he began to treat his wife with more respect in public and to rely on her counsel. Wrote Caro: "Once, not seeing her at a public function, he demanded, with something of his old snarl, 'Where's Lady Bird?' and she replied, 'Right behind you, darling. Where I've always been.' "
In 1960, she campaigned in 11 Southern states for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. More visible in the campaign than Jacqueline Kennedy, who was pregnant at the time, she recruited two other Kennedy women, Ethel and Eunice, to join her in "Flying Tea Parties" in Texas to win over voters perplexed by the possibility of a Catholic president. When Kennedy carried Texas in the tight race, campaign manager Robert Kennedy gave the credit to Lady Bird.
She was a passenger in the presidential motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, when President Kennedy, riding two cars ahead of her, was shot.
At Parkland Hospital, after the president was declared dead, she told his wife, "Oh, Mrs. Kennedy, you know we never even wanted to become vice president, and now, dear God, it's come to this."
Later she confided to a friend, "I feel like I am onstage for a part I never rehearsed."
As first lady, she gave her husband crucial support when he suffered doubts before the 1964 Democratic National Convention about running for his first full term. "You are as brave a man as Harry Truman or FDR or Lincoln," she wrote in a letter. "To step out now would be wrong for your country, and I can see nothing but a lonely wasteland for your future."
Her own campaigns
THAT fall, she moved into the limelight as no presidential wife had before.
She organized a 1,628-mile whistle-stop tour through eight Southern states, where the hostility among whites toward Lyndon Johnson's civil rights goals was so strong that the president was advised to stay away. A few months earlier, he had signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far-reaching law that protected African Americans' right to vote and guaranteed access to public accommodations. Lady Bird undertook the tour despite the opposition of senior campaign aides and Southern governors, who feared that her trip might push segregationists deeper into the corner of the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater.
Focusing on small towns where bigotry was most entrenched, she charmed local politicians, inviting them on board the "Lady Bird Special" to shake hands and pose for photographs. Although booed and heckled for her forthright support of racial equality, she maintained her calm. At one stop in South Carolina, she responded to the raucous insults of Goldwater supporters with a plea for tolerance, noting that the jeers were coming "not from the good people of South Carolina but from the state of confusion."
After a bomb threat in Florida, the train safely arrived in New Orleans, the final stop. She was greeted by a multiracial crowd and President Johnson, who publicly thanked her for the gutsy campaigning that had reached half a million Southerners. Reflecting on the headline-making event, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham later concluded that Lady Bird's high visibility had been vital: "She talked with authority," Graham said, "because she belonged there."
Emboldened by this success, Lady Bird launched an ambitious program of tree and flower plantings in the nation's capital. She saw conservation and beautification as part of her husband's Great Society agenda to improve the quality of life in America's crumbling cities.
"A little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony, which will lessen tensions," she once said.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/12/nation/na-johnson12/4
Los Angeles Times
(Page 4 of 4)
The Nation Lady Bird Johnson: 1912-2007
An activist first lady who succeeded on her own terms
July 12, 2007 Elaine Woo Times Staff Writer
The president called his entire Cabinet and top staff together to fight the billboard industry lobby and persuade Congress to pass the Highway Beautification Act. Nicknamed "Lady Bird's Bill," it was the product of the first open political partnership between an American president and first lady.
Her legislative triumph was a bright note in an increasingly grim White House. As American casualties in Vietnam mounted, protesters burned Lyndon Johnson in effigy. Lady Bird found she was rarely out of earshot of the demonstrators, who brought their anger to the White House gates, chanting "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many boys did you kill today?"
At a January 1968 luncheon of 50 influential women invited to a White House forum on street crime, singer Eartha Kitt raged at the first lady. "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," the entertainer said to a stunned audience. "They will take pot, and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam."
Although prominent leaders, including King, would take Kitt's side in the ensuing controversy, Lady Bird won praise for her response. "I am sorry I cannot understand as much as I should because I have not lived the background you have. Nor can I speak as passionately or as well. But I think we must keep our eyes and our hearts fixed on constructive aims. Violence," she said, "will not help it."
Over the next few months, Lyndon Johnson agonized over whether to run for reelection. Another term meant the prospect of more civil unrest and more American soldiers killed in Vietnam. The answer came to him on March 31, 1968, when his daughter Lynda returned to the White House after saying goodbye to her husband, a Marine officer who was going to Vietnam on a 13-month tour of duty. Lynda, who was pregnant with their first child, looked her father in the eye and asked, "Why do we have to go to Vietnam?"
That night, in a scheduled speech to the nation, the president announced the curtailment of American bombing in most of North Vietnam. In a conclusion that shocked listeners, including many on his own staff, he announced that he would not run again.
After Richard M. Nixon was sworn in as the 37th president, the Johnsons retired to their ranch on the Pedernales River west of Austin. Lady Bird published her diary in 1970 and accepted a seat on the University of Texas' board of regents. She also helped her husband plan the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, which opened on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin in 1972.
A month later, Lyndon Johnson suffered a massive heart attack. It was a prelude to the one that took his life on Jan. 22, 1973. He was 64.
'A compelling love'
AFTER his death, his widow traveled widely and collected awards, including the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, in 1977 and a Congressional Gold Medal in 1988.
On her 70th birthday, in 1982, she created, with actress Helen Hayes, the National Wildflower Center with a donation of $125,000 and 60 acres near Austin. (It now encompasses nearly 280 acres and is part of the University of Texas.) Later renamed the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, it is devoted to preserving and researching native American flora and, Johnson said, "to pay the rent on the space I've taken up in this world."
In her late 80s she swam 32 laps a day in the pool at the LBJ Ranch, where she continued to live after turning the ranch over to the public years earlier. In her last years, the colors and shapes of the wildflowers she loved would be blurred by macular degeneration, which left her legally blind. She was crippled by arthritis, and a series of strokes stole her speech.
She remained doggedly loyal to her husband's memory.
"Ours was a compelling love," she told biographer Russell. "Lyndon pushed me, he drove me, at times he even humiliated me, but he made me become someone bigger and better than I would have been."
The public will be allowed to pay final respects to Johnson from 1:15 p.m. Friday until 11 a.m. Saturday at the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin. A private funeral service will be later that day. On Sunday, a ceremonial cortege beginning at the state Capitol will carry her body to the Johnson family cemetery in Stonewall, Texas, where she will be buried next to her husband.
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Rayleigh scattering
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Rayleigh scattering, named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the (dominantly) elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. Rayleigh scattering does not change the state of material, hence it is a parametric process. The particles may be individual atoms or molecules. It can occur when light travels through transparent solids and liquids, but is most prominently seen in gases. Rayleigh scattering results from the electric polarizability of the particles. The oscillating electric field of a light wave acts on the charges within a particle, causing them to move at the same frequency. The particle therefore becomes a small radiating dipole whose radiation we see as scattered light.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 15, 2006
Apollo 11 launched on July 16.
That is the date I was wondering about a few times before.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 August 2006 excerpt ends]
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AZ
THE KILLERS
album: "Sam's Town" (2006)
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AZ
THE KILLERS
"For Reasons Unknown"
I pack my case. I check my face.
I look a little bit older.
I look a little bit colder.
With one deep breath, and one big step, I move a little bit closer.
I move a little bit closer.
For reasons unknown.
I caught my stride.
I flew and flied.
I know if destiny’s kind, I’ve got the rest of my mind. [rest on my mind (sounds to me)]
But my heart, it don’t beat, it don’t beat the way it used to.
And my eyes, they don’t see you no more.
And my lips, they don’t kiss, they don’t kiss the way they used to, and my eyes don’t recognize you no more.
For reasons unknown; for reasons unknown.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 01:00 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 12 August 2016
