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A Sea Service Ribbon is an award of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, the United States Army, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration which recognizes those service members who have performed military duty while stationed on a United States Navy, Coast Guard, Army, or NOAA vessel at sea and/or members of the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard who have been forward-deployed with their home unit.
Sea Service Deployment Ribbon
The Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (SSDR) is a service award of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps which was authorized in May 1980 and retroactively authorized to 15 August 1974, coinciding with a temporary suspension in authority for award of the National Defense Service Medal between that date and 2 August 1990. It was the first type of sea service ribbon established in the U.S. Armed Forces.
The Sea Service Deployment Ribbon is granted to any member of the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps assigned to a deployable unit (e.g., a ship (including submarines), aircraft squadron, air wing or air group, detachment, battalion, Marine Expeditionary Unit, Marine Air Ground Task Force, or other unit type that operates away from its assigned homeport) and is forward-deployed for a period of either 90 consecutive days or two periods of at least 80 days each within a given 12-month period; or 6 months stationed overseas in a forward deployed location.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio
January 11, 1988
Thank you very much. And thank you, Vice President Akers, officers and members of the City Club, Mayor Voinovich. I thank you all very much. And a special hello to Clevelanders Herb and Jody Weinberg, who are the parents of my Assistant Press Secretary, Mark Weinberg. It's great to be in Cleveland today, home of the Browns. And congratulations on your big victory. When I was at Camp David on Saturday, I heard a lot of barking— [laughter] —and it wasn't coming from Nancy's dog. [Laughter]
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at the Dedication Ceremony for the Army and Navy Club
January 12, 1988
Well, reverend clergy, General Hittle, General Dawson, Charles Graham, and ladies and gentlemen: In the old days, I'm told, the Army and Navy Club often invited their neighbor, the President, to all their parties. I've also heard that Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland walked over for a toddy or two. Oh, for the good old days. [Laughter] If I'd known that the club was this beautiful, Nancy and I would have stopped by long ago, and we would even walk, if the Secret Service would let us.
Well, the word for today is: Congratulations! You've put together a beautiful building and an historic treasure. I'm amazed at your outstanding collection of art, particularly the De Welden sculptures. I've always wondered where old generals and admirals went when they "just faded away." And now I know.
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The Washington Post
'Open' Convention Plotted by a Group Of House Democrats
By Bill Peterson, Ward Sinclair, Washington Post Staff Writers; Staff writers T. R. Reid and Kathy Sawyer contributed to this report. July 26, 1980
Something resembling panic swept through Capitol Hill Democrats yesterday as more than three dozen House members, worried about President Carter's floundering reelection chances, met secretly to plot how to obtain an "open" convention.
A statement calling for both Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) to release their delegates at next month's Democratic National Convention was circulated in the group. But, according to several of those present, the discussion quickly turned to how to come up with a Democratic presidential candidate other than Carter or Kennedy.
"There was an unmistakable consensus in the room that we need a non-Kennedy, non-Carter alternative on the ticket," said one congressman, who asked not to be identified. "The names of Fritz Mondale and Ed Muskie were mentioned prominently."
While alarm was spreading among Democrats in Congress, there was no evidence of a similar reaction among about 200 Carter delegates gathered yesterday at the White House. Based on interviews, the delegates are holding firm for President Carter.
"In Congress, they're always worried," laughed delegate Richard Austin, a Democratic leader from Detroit. "They were worried last year, you know. That's what got Kennedy into it. But we don't [worry]. That stuff isn't going to affect the nomnation at all."
The members of Congress included supporters of both Carter and Kennedy who came together because "we are all appalled by the prospect of a Ronald Reagan presidency," said Rep. Michael Barnes of Maryland, selected as a spokesman for the group.
But there was also a strong element of self-preservation involved. "Clearly, if the election were held today, Jimmy Carter would be defeated resoundingly," Barnes said, "and a lot of good people in Congress would go down with him . . . There is the real possibility that we're facing a debacle."
This fear among some congressional Democrats was reinforced by a new Louis Harris survey released yesterday that indicates that Republicans lead Democrats by 47 to 43 percent in the race for control of the House.
In March, Democrats held a 50-to-41 percent lead over Republicans. Harris said the results "raise the distince possibility that in 1980 there may be a decisive shift in base party strengths, and that the GOP now has a real chance to win both the White House and control of the Congress."
Reps. Anthony Toby Moffett (Conn.), a Kennedy supporter and Thomas J. Downey (N.Y.), a Carter supporter, organized the two meetings of concerned Democrats. About 15 attended the first early morning session at the Capitol Hill home of Rep. Fortney H. (Pete) Stark Jr. (Calif.). aBy 1 p.m., when the second session was held in the Rayburn House Ofice Building, the group had grown to 35 to 40, according to various sources.
Among those in attendance were Reps. Don Edwards of California, Timothy E. Wirth of Colorado, Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, Jim Weaver of Oregon, Shirley Chisholm of New York, John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerome A. Ambro of New York, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland and Ronald V. Dellums of California.
A split developed in the group over the call for an "open convention" after Carter supporters and others who do not favor Kennedy complained that the statement would sound like a pro-Kennedy move. Another meeting is scheduled for Monday to pursue the issue.
"It would be unfortunate if this were perceived as a hidden way to nominate Teddy Kennedy," spokesman Barnes said. "What we want is someone who can unite the party and that everyone could rally around.
"The name we kept hearing was Ed Muskie," he added. "Vice President Mondale came up, and I also heard talk of a Muskie-Scoop [Sen. Henry M.] Jackson ticket, which has a great deal of appeal to me."
The uneasiness over Democratic prospects in November has been growing all week. Some of the concern is linked directly to the Billy Carter affair, but a Harris poll earlier this week also showed Carter trailing the Republican nominee by 28 percentage points.
Northern Virginia Rep. Herbert E. Harris II said he and others are "outraged at the whole Billy Carter thing, at the process by which he gets involved in foreign policy. Some of us react very adversely to this and it raises questions that have to be answered in a public forum. I see potential fallout unless it is met head-on. Those who feel the convention should have more than one choice have been spurred on by this.
"All of us want as strong a presidential ticket as possible," Harris added, "and it isn't very strong right now."
Illinois Rep. Paul Simon, who faces the additional burden this fall of an opponent named John Anderson (not the presidential candidate), said the Billy Carter revelations hastened the mounting alarm in the House.
"I hear it from everyone, and there is no question about it," Simon said. "But a lot can happen between now and November, remember."
Another Democrat with local home-district political problems, Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indianapolis, said his fate is tied to Carter's because of a straight-party lever on voting machines in Indiana.
"My ankle is chained to him by that lever," Jacobs said, "and the process for casting other than straight-party votes is difficult."
An open convention with delegates free to vote for any candidate has long been the center of Kennedy's longshot strategy to capture the Democratic nomination. The first and most important Carter-Kennedy fight at the convention will be over a party rule that requires committed delegates to vote for the candidate they were elected to support.
A CBS poll of delegates found a majority for the closed rule, but enough of them are wavering that they might change their minds. This would give Kennedy an outside chance to win the rules fight.
But there is no evidence to date to indicate that Carter's 700-vote delegate lead is evaporating.More than 200 Carter delegates from coast to coast were in Washington yesterday for briefings from various Carter aides and a White House reception with the president and Mrs. Carter.
Carter, in a brief pep talk to the delegates, made no reference to the rumors of a "dump-Carter" effort. The president portrayed the Democratic contest as a race between himself and Kennedy, and held out an olive branch to Kennedy supporters.
"We have strong and good and sincere Democrats who are supporting Sen. Kennedy," he told his backers. "Give them respect and a hand of friendship."
Interviews with many delegates present indicated they are firm in their support of the president, and will vote with Carter forces at the convention, not only for the nomination but also on rules and platform questions.
"Many of these delegates were elected when the president was in tough political shape. They've been with him through thick and thin," said Larry Conrad, Carter's Indiana delegate chairman. "Why should they leave him now?"
Conrad, a former candidate for governor, said every Carter delegate from Indiana was screened in advance. "When you've played political games as long as I have you know your people, Conrad said. "I know my people are solid. If I tell them you've got to topple a church steeple, all they say is, 'what's the best way to do it?' They'll be the same way with Carter."
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Holding Firm for Jimmy
By Donnie Radcliffe July 26, 1980
If the White House was the store and the Carters were minding it, their guests, the convention delegates, were like shoppers on a spree last night -- buying everything in sight.
"Thrilling," said Diane Campbell of Sacramento, Calif., standing out on the North Portico gazing across Pennsylvania Avenue to Lafayette Park while a Marine combo played lively tunes inside. Several hundred others milled around the state rooms. They were the second batch of Carter delegates to be courted by Jimmy Carter in less than a week, and a third and final group is destined to get the presidential treatment on Aug. 1.
After that, they'll come to the convention," said a Carter aide, adding somewhat tentatively, "I certainly hope they all come."
"If anybody is wavering, you sure couldn't tell from this crowd," said David C. Garcia of the University of Washington in Seattle. "Everybody's been very very positive ever since I got there."
Positive might have been something of an understatement from the sound of the cheers, whistles and applause in the East Room a short while earlier when Carter, accompanied by Mrs. Carter, stepped onto the platform to address the throng.
"I want to ask you one question," the president began. "How many of you are convinced we're going to whip the Republicans?"
Their answer must have sounded like music to the ears of Cabinet officers and White House aides scattered around the room from the looks of the large grins that spread across the faces of Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt, Education Secretary Shirley Hufstedler and congressional liaison Frank Moore.
"I think," continued Carter, outgrinning them all, "that you've got the political situation sized up very accurately."
Not that the situation was all that great politically for Carter yesterday, what with Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti's revelation that he met with the president on June 17 and briefly discussed the failure by his brother, Billy, to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Evansville, Ill., Major Michael Vandeveer said he hailed from solid Carter country, and while the president is "doing fine" there, it remains to be seen, of course, what will happen "with the investigation under the way. But I don't think it'll have the same effect as with Watergate, the two are not comparable. Plus, you have Billy Carter. And you have to take that into account."
Taking Billy Carter and his Libyan connections into account didn't seem to faze Don Sonntag of Atlantic, Iowa. "Most people have a certain sympathy for the president," Sonntag said.
Some delegates, like Diane Campbell and fellow Californian Al Murray, pooh-poohed talk about erosion in support for Carter. "No second thoughts," said Murray, an analyst for Californian's state welfare department.
David C. Garcia of Seattle noted that the reason he was there in the first place was that "I was elected by the people back in Washington as a Carter delegate."
He said some of the delegates sounded him and others out yesterday on whether they would support native sons -- "you know, Sen. [Henry] Jackson's name has been memtioned" -- but it was nothing organized, "nothing official."
Phil Davitt of St. Charles, Iowa, minority leader in the Iowa House of Representatives, said rising corn prices and increased hog sales have given Carter's candidacy there a sizable boost in recent days.
"The mailman told me just the other day that there's been a tremendous change in attitudes the past month and that people he talks to are coming back to Carter. A month ago they were really angry."
Davitt got the VIP treatment Thursday when he arrived in town from Iowa. He told of telephoning the presidential assistant Stu Eizenstat's office from Iowa asking help in setting up meetings with top officials in the departments of agriculture, transportation and the treasury in order to discuss what the federal government can do to help two bankrupt Iowa railroads.
"I think we may have some railroad aid coming -- certainly, I got the impression they were considering it," said Davitt, who thought it unlikely that "they'd let me fly to Washington, talk to three departments and then do nothing."
Jimmy Carter was also looking for a little help, and he told the delegates:
"I trust I will be making an acceptance speech to you in New York. In preparation for that moment, please remember we have strong Democratic Americans who support Senator Kennedy for president. . . Remember that after the campaign, if things go the way we want them and expect them to go, they will be political allies fighting the same battle."
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at a Luncheon Hosted by the Heritage Foundation
November 30, 1987
Thank you for those very kind words, and thank all of you very much. It's always a great pleasure to speak to the Heritage Foundation and have a chance to see so many old friends and supporters and advisers. As many of you know, Ed Feulner joined the administration for a short while at the beginning of the year and his help and advice were invaluable, but he wanted to get back to Heritage. He knows where the real power center in Washington is. [Laughter]
In the last 10 years, with Ed at the helm and with the constant support and vision of Joe Coors
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Alexandria Journal of Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 3, September 2016, Pages 201–208
The death of an emperor – Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his political cancer
Ardavan Khoshnooda
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajme.2015.11.002
3. All the secrecy – A matter of national security
The Shah’s health was kept a well-guarded secret, and considered a matter of national security. This was, however, quite a challenge, and even today it is unclear exactly who knew about the Shah’s disease. According to Flandrin, only seven people were initially aware of the Shah’s condition: Flandrin himself, Bernard, Ayadi, Alam, Milliez, Safavian, who had been included after Flandrin’s second visit, and the Shah.8 Furthermore, because of the secrecy, the examination of the Shah, as well as any analysis of his blood samples, could not be conducted in a hospital. Therefore, the Shah’s private office at the Niavaran palace was used as a clinic. The Shah’s disease was also kept a secret from both the Queen, who was first informed by the French physicians in spring of 1977 without the Shah‘s knowledge,8 and the Shah’s twin sister, Princess Ashraf, who was informed while in exile.19 To further keep the secret intact, the word Chlorambucil was substituted with Quinercil in the Shah’s medical journals.8
All this secrecy goes beyond just the Shah, since it directly also affected, among others, the Shah‘s physicians. Dr. Flandrin, who met the Shah over 30 times in Tehran, would, each time, secretly fly from his St. Louis Hospital in Paris to Tehran, not only withholding the information from his friends and colleagues, but also his own spouse. Every time, Flandrin, alone or with colleagues, would stay in a house in the Shemiran quarter in the northern part of Tehran, not leaving the house, except to visit the Shah, as it could jeopardize the secret.8
Several publications assert that the international intelligence community had no information about the Shah’s disease; otherwise they would react differently to the turmoil in Iran.10, 13, 20 and 21 CIA officer William Daugherty13 believes, in conjunction with official document,20 that no American officials had information about the Shah’s illness, writing that, in the Shah’s meetings with the former CIA director and US ambassador to Tehran, Richard Helms, the Shah always insisted on his good health. The claim by Daugherty is, however, contradicted by Andrew Cooper,18 who states that Richard Helms was well aware of the Shah’s cancer, telling his senior embassy staff that the Shah was being treated by French physicians and had written his will. Cooper18 also observes that, in the summer of 1975, diplomats had been aware of rumors of the Shah’s ill health. Babak Ganji,22 a specialist in Middle Eastern politics, asserts that the Shah’s health was well-known to both the CIA and US officials. Charles Cogan, former head of the CIA’s Near East and South Asia Division, claims that French intelligence knew about the Shah’s cancer as early as 1972,16 and that US officials had become aware of this in 1976 since, and according to David Long from the State Department, US officials were well-informed about the Shah’s condition.14 Professor Zonis23 writes that British intelligence was being informed regarding the Shah’s cancer since 1974. Whatever the truth, there were enough rumors to make the New York Times,24 in September 1975, publish an article on the Shah’s health because of “… persistent rumors in Tehran’s diplomatic community that the reason the Shah sometimes appears drawn, worn and thin is that he is suffering from a lingering and increasingly grave malady.” Safavian17 contradicts this stating that the Shah was always feeling well, never complaining, and that was the reason for why he never understood he had cancer.
The Iranian scholar, Abbas Milani, interviewed the former Iranian ambassador to the US, Ardeshir Zahedi, who claims that there was a possibility that the Americans intercepted confidential telegrams sent between the Iranian embassy in Washington and Tehran. Zahedi recollects how an American official had asked him about the Shah’s physical and mental health, which was indeed noticeable since, as Milani writes, there were no discussions in Iran or the West about the Shah’s disease.21
It is consequently unclear if and how much the international intelligence community knew about the Shah‘s cancer. However, because of the cold war and the important role Iran and the Shah had in that era as an ally of the West standing against Soviet expansion, all the above would be enough to make the international intelligence community more than interested and curious in the health of the Shah, thus increasing their activities in order to understand the extent of the Shah’s potential disease. It is thus difficult, with respect to the above, to state that the international intelligence community were fully blinded for the fact that the Shah’s health was not optimal, and were probably aware of the Shah’s disease.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090506815000822
ScienceDirect
Alexandria Journal of Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 3, September 2016, Pages 201–208
The death of an emperor – Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his political cancer
Ardavan Khoshnooda
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajme.2015.11.002
6. The king’s death
On the night of July 26, 1980, the Shah’s condition deteriorated and he slipped into a coma. Flandrin and Fagniez diagnosed a massive internal hemorrhage and resuscitation was started. It was Ramadan; consequently, the Egyptian physicians had left to break their fast. They were all called back. The Queen was in chock, and wanted Flandrin to make a call to Alexandria in order to let their children know about the Shah’s deterioration and return to Cairo.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Address at Commencement Exercises at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey
May 21, 1983
And I was fortunate. A man who had survived the Great Depression until then, and was doing well out in the business world, gave me some advice. He said, "Look, I could tell you that maybe I could speak to someone and they might give you a job. But," he said, "they'd only do it because of me."
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