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Simpson and Delilah
Homer gains confidence and success after buying a hair growth product with company money.
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria Executive Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, David Mirkin
Original Air Date: Oct 18, 1990
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Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
Lisa's patriotic essay wins the Simpson family a trip to Washington, D.C.
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria Executive Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, David Mirkin
Original Air Date: Sep 26, 1991
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Whacking Day
Bart is suspended from school and must be taught at home; Lisa protests the tradition of snake-bashing.
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria Executive Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, David Mirkin
Original Air Date: Apr 29, 1993
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Rosebud
On his birthday, Mr. Burns longs for his favorite childhood toy.
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria Executive Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, David Mirkin
Original Air Date: Oct 21, 1993
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Bart vs. Australia
Bart tricks an Australian boy into accepting a collect call and the family must fly to Australia to make an apology.
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria Executive Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, David Mirkin
Original Air Date: Feb 19, 1995
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Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington [ The Simpsons ]
Marge and Homer ask Lisa what's gotten into her, and she explains that ``I couldn't think of a nice way to say `America stinks'.'' Homer picks up a newspaper...
Imprisoned Congressman Becomes Born-Again Christian
Lisa is amazed that ``the system works''. Before the awards ceremony, the singing satirist is back.
Faith: Will the winning essay be... Bubble On, O Melting Pot, Lift High Your Lamp, Green Lady, USA A-OK, or Cesspool on the Potomac?
Bart: Cesspool! Cesspool! Cesspool! Cesspool!
Trong wins with `USA A-OK' and is presented with a $10,000 check. Trong points out Lisa, ``whose imflammatory rhetoric reminded us that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.'' Homer yells, ``Give her the check!'' and all chuckle.
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tv.com
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 2
Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Sep 26, 1991 on FOX
Quotes
Homer: Give her the check! (the crowd laughs) Oh, I was serious.
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From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/30/1989 ( George Bush - Remarks Announcing the Proposed Constitutional Amendment on Desecration of the Flag ) is 9481 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 10/18/1991 is 9481 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) To 10/18/1991 is 821 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 2/1/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor to Maj. Merlyn H. Dethlefsen, USAF. ) is 821 days
From 2/1/1965 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. Curtis LeMay ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9481 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 10/18/1991 is 9481 days
From 2/1/1965 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. Curtis LeMay ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9481 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 10/18/1991 is 9481 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 10/18/1991 is 7237 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 8/26/1985 ( Time Magazine - Pitchmen of the Kremlin ) is 7237 days
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Houston Chronicle Archives
Gates wins panel's OK handily/CIA nominee still faces bitter debate before full Senate
ANA PUGA, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau Staff
SAT 10/19/1991
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON -- Robert Gates on Friday easily won the recommendation of the Senate Intelligence Committee to be CIA chief
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TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 115--TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
Sec. 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death
and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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George Bush
Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Supreme Court Designate Clarence Thomas
October 18, 1991
President Bush. Welcome all to the White House. Mr. Vice President and Mrs. Quayle, a warm welcome. And, of course, to the members of the Supreme Court. And may I simply say that Barbara and I join with you and with all the Nation in mourning the loss of Nan Rehnquist, the wife of the Chief Justice.
Let me also welcome the many Members of the United States Congress that are with us today. Single out but a few: Minority Leader Dole and Chairman Biden and ranking member Thurmond of the committee, and so many others; members of our Cabinet over here and so many friends of Clarence Thomas, who have worked with him here in Washington. And, of course, I should especially single out Senator Jack Danforth, a man every American would be proud to call friend.
And of course, those special guests, the many members of Clarence Thomas' family here today: his wife, Ginnie, son Jamal here in the front row, and Clarence's mother, Mrs. Leola Williams; his sister, Emma Mae Martin; his brother, Myers. His cousins, it reminds me of Pinafore, his cousins, sisters, aunts. [Laughter] But that's the way it ought to be. And all of you, some of whom drove all the way up, I see a little advertisement over here from Pin Point, Georgia, to be here this afternoon. That's 600 long miles, but I've got a feeling they might have driven 6,000 miles to be here today.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945.
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Although he initially headed a coalition government, he quickly eliminated his government partners.
Consolidation of power
The new government quickly installed a totalitarian dictatorship to Germany with legal measures establishing a co-ordinated central government, (see Gleichschaltung). On the night of 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building was set afire, and the Dutch council communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found inside; he was arrested, charged with arson, tried, and then decapitated. The fire immediately provoked the response of thousands of anarchists, socialists, and communists throughout the Reich; describing said free-speech exercises as insurrection, the Nazis imprisoned many to Dachau concentration camp. The public worried that the fire had been a signal meant to initiate communist revolution in Germany, as in 1919, so the Nazis exploited the arson with the Reichstag Fire Decree (27 February 1933), rescinding most German civil liberties, including habeas corpus, to so suppress their opponents.
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George Bush
Presidential Library and Museum
Public Papers - 1991 - October
Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Supreme Court Designate Clarence Thomas
1991-10-18
President Bush. Welcome all to the White House. Mr. Vice President and Mrs. Quayle, a warm welcome. And, of course, to the members of the Supreme Court. And may I simply say that Barbara and I join with you and with all the Nation in mourning the loss of Nan Rehnquist, the wife of the Chief Justice.
Let me also welcome the many Members of the United States Congress that are with us today. Single out but a few: Minority Leader Dole and Chairman Biden and ranking member Thurmond of the committee, and so many others; members of our Cabinet over here and so many friends of Clarence Thomas, who have worked with him here in Washington. And, of course, I should especially single out Senator Jack Danforth, a man every American would be proud to call friend.
And of course, those special guests, the many members of Clarence Thomas' family here today: his wife, Ginnie, son Jamal here in the front row, and Clarence's mother, Mrs. Leola Williams; his sister, Emma Mae Martin; his brother, Myers. His cousins, it reminds me of Pinafore, his cousins, sisters, aunts. [Laughter] But that's the way it ought to be. And all of you, some of whom drove all the way up, I see a little advertisement over here from Pin Point, Georgia, to be here this afternoon. That's 600 long miles, but I've got a feeling they might have driven 6,000 miles to be here today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/19/us/the-thomas-swearing-in-a-festive-mood-at-thomas-swearing-in.html
The New York Times
The Thomas Swearing-In; A Festive Mood at Thomas Swearing-In
By MAUREEN DOWD,
Published: October 19, 1991
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18— In a White House ceremony that was as much a festive political victory rally as a solemn swearing-in, President Bush praised Clarence Thomas today, saying, "America is blessed to have a man of this character serve on its highest court."
"Clarence Thomas has endured America at its worst, and he's answered with America at its best," Mr. Bush said. "He brings that hard-won experience to the High Court, and America will be the better for it."
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
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Houston Chronicle Archives
Thomas takes judicial oath in quiet, private ceremony
Houston Chronicle News Services
THU 10/24/1991
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON -- Clarence Thomas became the nation's 106th Supreme Court justice on Wednesday at a hastily arranged private swearing-in ceremony at the court.
There was no public announcement of the event until after it had taken place. Chief Justice William Rehnquist administered the judicial oath shortly after noon in the justices' conference room, with only three witnesses in attendance: Virginia L. Thomas, the new justice's wife, who held the Bible; Sen. John C. Danforth of Missouri, Thomas' friend, who brought a camera and took pictures; and Robb M. Jones, the chief justice's administrative assistant.
Toni House, the court's public information officer, said the swearing-in had been arranged at the request of Thomas, who wanted to start work immediately and to have his staff on the Supreme Court payroll.
Thomas was confirmed by the Senate last week 52-48. On Friday, the Bush administration staged an elaborate public ceremony for him at the White House. While the tone of that event strongly suggested that Thomas was ascending to the high court, the oath of office he took then was an oath required by the Constitution of "all executive and judicial officers," and did not make him a justice.
The judicial oath he took on Wednesday is set out in the Judiciary Act of 1789 and is required by law of all federal judges.
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Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington [ The Simpsons ]
Page: Senator, there's a problem at the essay contest.
Senator: Please, son, I'm very busy.
Page: A little girl is losing faith in democracy!
Senator: Good Lord!
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TIME
August 26, 1985 Vol. 126 No. 8
NATION
Pitchmen of the Kremlin
The Soviets soft-shoe toward the summit with slick p.r.
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Posted 2/10/2004 1:02 PM Updated 2/11/2004 12:15 AM
Timeline of the president's National Guard service
By the Associated Press
Major events in President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard, according to National Guard Bureau records:
Jan. 19, 1968: Bush completes Air Force officer qualifications test in New Haven, Conn., while attending Yale University.
May 27, 1968: Walter B. Staudt, commander of the Texas National Guard, interviews Bush and recommends he be accepted for pilot training. Bush's application for enlistment in the Guard is approved.
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Cambridge Five
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cambridge Five were a ring of spies, recruited in part by Soviet scout Arnold Deutsch in the United Kingdom, who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and at least into the early 1950s. Four members of the ring have been identified: Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean (cryptonym: Homer), Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks) and Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson); jointly they are known as the Cambridge Four.
The term "Cambridge" in the name Cambridge Five refers to the recruitment of the group during their education at Cambridge University in the 1930s. The four known members all attended the university, as did the alleged fifth man. Debate surrounds the exact timing of their recruitment by Soviet intelligence; Anthony Blunt claimed that they were not recruited as agents until they had graduated. Blunt, a Fellow of Trinity College, was several years older than Burgess, Maclean, and Philby; he acted as a talent-spotter and recruiter for most of the group save Burgess.
Several people have been suspected of being the "fifth man" of the group; John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt) was identified as such by Oleg Gordievsky, though many others have also been accused of membership in the Cambridge ring. Both Blunt and Burgess were members of the Apostles, an exclusive and prestigious society based at Trinity and King's Colleges. Cairncross was also an Apostle. Other Apostles accused of having been the "fifth man" or otherwise spied for the Soviets include Michael Whitney Straight, Victor Rothschild and Guy Liddell.
Maclean and Burgess
All four were active during World War II, to various degrees of success. Philby, when he was posted in the British embassy in Washington, DC, after the war, learned that US and British intelligence were searching for a British embassy mole (cryptonym Homer) who was passing information to the Soviet Union, relying on material uncovered by VENONA.
Philby learned one of the suspects was Maclean. Realizing he had to act fast, he ordered Burgess, who was also on the embassy staff and living with Philby, to warn Maclean in England, where he was serving in the Foreign Office headquarters. Burgess was recalled from the United States due to "bad behaviour" and upon reaching London, warned Maclean.
In early summer 1951, Burgess and Maclean made international headlines by disappearing. Their whereabouts were unclear for some time and the suspicion that they had defected to the Soviet Union turned out to be correct, but was not made public until 1956 when the two appeared at a press conference in Moscow.
It was obvious they had been tipped off and Philby quickly became the prime suspect, due to his close relations with Burgess. Though Burgess was not supposed to defect at the same time as Maclean, he went along. It has been claimed that the KGB ordered Burgess to go to Moscow. This move damaged Philby's reputation, with many speculating that had it not occurred, Philby could have climbed even higher in the Secret Intelligence Service.
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William J. Clinton
Biography -- William J. Clinton
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile accident. In high school, he took the name of his step father, Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. He received a law degree from Yale in 1973.
In 1975, Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham, whom he had met while a law student at Yale.
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The Washington Post
At Height of Vietnam, Bush Picks Guard
By George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 28, 1999; Page A1
Fourth of seven articles
Two weeks before he was to graduate from Yale, George Walker Bush stepped into the offices of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Field outside Houston and announced that he wanted to sign up for pilot training.
It was May 27, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. Bush was 12 days away from losing his student deferment from the draft at a time when Americans were dying in combat at the rate of 350 a week. The unit Bush wanted to join offered him the chance to fulfill his military commitment at a base in Texas. It was seen as an escape route from Vietnam by many men his age, and usually had a long waiting list.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-19/news/mn-505_1_senate-panel-votes
Los Angeles Times
Senate Panel Votes 11-4 for Gates Confirmation : The CIA: Democrats are sharply divided over the nominee. Backers predict swift victory on floor vote.
October 19, 1991 MICHAEL ROSS TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee--its Democrats sharply divided over testimony about intelligence slanting, low morale and political turmoil inside the CIA--voted 11 to 4 Friday to recommend the confirmation of Robert M. Gates as the next director of central intelligence.
Dismissing parallels to the bitter brawl over Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, supporters of Gates predicted that the comfortable margin of victory will translate into a swift confirmation when his nomination goes to the Senate floor later this month.
Gates' backers based much of their optimism on the decision by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the most influential member of the intelligence panel, to join Chairman David L. Boren (D-Okla.) and two other previously undecided Democrats in siding with the seven Republicans who voted for confirmation.
"He (Nunn) certainly will influence votes on the floor. No question about it," said Sen. Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.), one of Gates' strongest supporters on the committee.
Nunn, however, said that he voted for Gates only with "serious reservations," and that he still might oppose the nominee on the floor if the CIA is not forthcoming with responses to questions for which it has yet to give him "satisfactory answers."
He did not elaborate and aides would say only that Nunn's questions referred to still-classified material that was not disclosed during the three weeks of public confirmation hearings that ended Oct. 4.
CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said that the agency "will do our very best to address" his request for more information. But an Administration official added he thinks that Nunn was engaging "in a little chest-beating" and that his concerns will not cause him to oppose Gates.
Noting that current and former CIA officials are still approaching the committee with information about Gates, some members and staff aides suggested that more problems could crop up for President Bush's controversial nominee before the full Senate casts its vote--probably not before the last week of October.
One committee member who opposed Gates, Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), said that he is troubled by new, so far undisclosed allegations concerning Gates and South African black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela. "This week it was new allegations regarding South Africa and Nelson Mandela," DeConcini said. "Will next week bring something more?"
Boren expressed the consensus of the committee, which received sharply conflicting testimony both about Gates' knowledge of the Iran-Contra scandal and about whether he had slanted intelligence reports on the Soviet Union to suit his own ideological biases and those of his superiors.
As a career intelligence officer who served in top management positions at the CIA until moving to the White House as deputy national security adviser in 1988, Gates brought a lot of "baggage" to the confirmation hearings, Boren acknowledged.
But while troubled by the allegations of intelligence slanting and Gates' lack of recall about events related to Iran-Contra, the committee found no "smoking gun" to disqualify the nominee, no undisputed evidence to support "second-hand" allegations that he "systematically attempted to politicize or slant" intelligence, Boren said.
Committee vice chairman Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) said the principal accusations against Gates were made by Mel Goodman, a former CIA analyst who charged that the nominee suppressed or rewrote intelligence estimates to exaggerate Soviet influence in the Third World during the 1980s, when he served first as deputy director for intelligence and later as deputy CIA director under the late William J. Casey.
But Goodman's often emotional criticism of Gates was based largely on hearsay evidence and was flawed by "factual inaccuracies" that "vastly overstated" the case against Gates, Murkowski said.
While conceding that Gates' abrasive personality, his rapid rise in the CIA and his often caustic criticism of other analysts' work had "engendered more hard feelings than was necessary," Murkowski said it was clear that the nominee, now 49, had matured and improved his management style in the years he has been outside the CIA.
The question now, his supporters said, is whether Gates is the right person to lead the agency into the post-Cold War era. The new director must preside over the inevitable budget cuts and reallocation of resources needed to shift the CIA's focus away from the receding Soviet military threat and toward such problems as economic intelligence gathering and the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the Third World, they said.
"The next director will immediately have to plunge into the process of radically changing the intelligence community to coincide with all the changes in the world," Boren said. "This is no time to bring in a new director from the outside lacking in experience."
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-19/news/mn-505_1_senate-panel-votes/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Senate Panel Votes 11-4 for Gates Confirmation : The CIA: Democrats are sharply divided over the nominee. Backers predict swift victory on floor vote.
October 19, 1991 MICHAEL ROSS TIMES STAFF WRITER
Critics such as Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) countered that--for just those reasons--Gates is "the wrong man for the job." The CIA, said Metzenbaum, "is in disarray," and Gates, who as Casey's deputy helped to engender many of the bad feelings that persist at the agency, "is not a leader who can galvanize a cohesive team out of the angry and demoralized agency he will inherit."
Although not nearly as bitter as the Thomas confirmation hearings, the Intelligence Committee's often heated deliberations bore similarities: the hard feelings created among members, the questions posed about the integrity of the confirmation process and the doubts raised about the motivation of people who leak confidential information.
The issue of leaks was of particular concern to the security-conscious Intelligence Committee, which was shocked to find Goodman's originally classified testimony summarized in newspaper accounts. Rudman suggested that he knew who had leaked the documents and said that he was preparing an affidavit against the person responsible.
Rudman also denounced what he said was a "covert attempt" by CIA officials to influence the outcome of the hearings through "artful disinformation."
While early skeptics such as Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) said they were won over by Gates' forceful rebuttal of Goodman's charges, the hearings failed to resolve a number of inconsistencies and allegations in the testimony of other witnesses who accused Gates of slanting intelligence.
DeConcini heatedly ticked off several examples, including an allegation by former CIA analyst Jennifer Glaudemans that Gates killed a 1983 memorandum about Libya and angrily berated its author, in front of witnesses, for reaching conclusions "inconsistent with Administration policy." Gates never addressed the charge during the hearings.
In the aftermath of the Thomas debacle, the degree to which these and other allegations will be revisited on the Senate floor was not clear.
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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Remarks Announcing the Proposed Constitutional Amendment on Desecration of the Flag
June 30, 1989
Senator Dole, thank you, sir, and Senator Dixon, appreciate your coming all this way to join us on such short notice. To Congressmen Michel and Montgomery, my sincere thanks, and all the Members of the Senate and House that are here, Secretary of Defense and other distinguished civilians, the Defense Department, and of course I salute the members of the Joint Chiefs who have joined us here. I might say I'm delighted to see Admiral Crowe back from his very successful visit to the Soviet Union -- welcome back to the U.S. of A., Bill. And also our fellow citizens, citizens of this, the freest, most generous nation on God's Earth -- thank you for joining us.
And we stand today before a symbol of hope and of triumph. All across America -- above farmhouses and statehouses, schools and courts and capitols -- our flag is borne on the breeze of freedom. And it reminds Americans how much they've been given and how much they have to give. Our flag represents freedom and the unity of our nation. And our flag flies in peace, thanks to the sacrifices of so many Americans.
A woman in Florida recently shared with me a letter written by her cousin, a young soldier named Wayne Thomas. On December 16, 1966, he wrote: "Every time we go out on patrol, it gets a little scarier. The only thing that gives us a sense of security is when we walk back into camp and our flag is still flying high." She told me that Wayne stepped on a landmine 11 days later and was killed. He was 18 years old. He understood this banner of freedom and ultimately gave his life for the flag to give others the freedom that it represents.
You know, she also pointed out to me, parenthetically, that she was a registered Democrat. And to me that simply states that patriotism is not a partisan issue; it's not a political issue. Our purpose today transcends politics and partisanship.
And we feel in our hearts, and we know from our experience, that the surest way to preserve liberty is to protect the spirit that sustains it. And this flag sustains that spirit, and it's one of our most powerful ideas. And like all powerful ideas, if it is not defended, it is defamed. To the touch, this flag is merely fabric. But to the heart, the flag represents and reflects the fabric of our nation -- our dreams, our destiny, our very fiber as a people.
And when we consider the importance of the colors to this nation, we do not question the right of men to speak freely. For it is this very symbol, with its stripes and stars, that has guaranteed and nurtured those precious rights -- for those who've championed the cause of civil rights here at home, to those who fought for democracy abroad.
Free speech is a right that is dear and close to all. It is in defense of that right, and the others enshrined in our Constitution, that so many have sacrificed. But before we accept dishonor to our flag, we must ask ourselves how many have died following the order to "Save the Colors!" We must ask how many have fought for the ideals it represents. And we must honor those who have been handed the folded flag from the casket at Arlington.
If the debate here is about liberty, then we cannot turn our backs on those who fought to win it for us. We can't forget the importance of the flag to the ideals of liberty and honor and freedom. To burn the flag, to dishonor it, is simply wrong.
And today we remember one of the most vivid images of our flag -- the one you see behind me -- Joe Rosenthal's stunning photograph immortalized in bronze. As you view this memorial, think of its flag and of these men and of how they honor the living and the dead. Remember their heroism and their sacrifice, giving of themselves and others of their lives, fighting bravely, daring greatly, so that freedom could survive.
The Battle of Iwo Jima wrote one of the greatest chapters in the story of America. And even now, it humbles us, inspires us, reminds us of how Henry Ward Beecher said, "A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only but the nation itself."
The Nation itself was ennobled by the Battle of Iwo Jima. It was fought in early 1945, fought on 8 square miles of sand, caves, and volcanic rubble. And it cost our Armed Forces almost 7,000 killed and more than 19,000 wounded -- almost a third of the landing force. But like Tarawa and Guadalcanal and the Philippines before, it had to be won. For victory at Iwo would be yet another step towards bringing that ghastly war to a close.
These marines wrote a profile in courage, enduring a torrent of shells, pushing their way up that extinct volcano. And they stormed Mount Suribachi. And when they reached the top, the five men behind me raised a piece of pipe upright, and from one end flew a flag. And in the most famous image of World War II, a photograph was taken of these men and that flag. And what that flag embodies is too sacred to be abused.
As Justice Stevens stated so eloquently in his dissenting opinion in the recent Supreme Court case: "The ideas of liberty and equality have been an irresistible force in motivating leaders like Patrick Henry, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln; schoolteachers like Nathan Hale and Booker T. Washington; the Philippine Scouts who fought at Bataan; and the soldiers who scaled the bluff at Omaha Beach. If those ideas are worth fighting for -- and our history demonstrates that they are -- it cannot be true," he says, "that the flag that uniquely symbolizes their power is not itself worthy of protection from unnecessary desecration." The Justice is right.
And today I am grateful to the leaders here and the leaders of the Congress with us in this audience who have proposed a constitutional amendment to protect the flag. Its language is stark, and it's simple and to the point: "The Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." Simple and to the point, this amendment preserves the widest conceivable range of options for free expression. It applies only to the flag, the unique symbol of our nation.
Senator Dole, Senator Dixon, Congressmen Michel and Montgomery, I know that you have already taken the lead, but please take the lead, working with others here today, in moving this bill forward. With the help of you Members of the Senate and House here today, and with the help of the many more of your colleagues who couldn't be with us today, I am confident that we will succeed. I've seen predictions that this will take a long time; it need not. It is simple, to the point, direct; and it addresses itself to only one thing: Our flag will not be desecrated.
Let me close with a letter from a man named Augusto Moreno. Born in Argentina, now a naturalized citizen, he likes to say that he's more proud to be an American than most of those born in this country. I'm not sure he's right about that, but that's what he likes to say, anyway. He's very serious when he states: "I am proud to say that my blood is represented on our flag. I was wounded while fighting for democracy with the United State Marine Corps in Vietnam. I am now a disabled veteran. I am sure that there is not one day that goes by without you seeing the faces of those who were not so fortunate to return as you and I." And he says: "We must continue our struggle to protect the flag now, as when we were in uniform -- if not for us, then for those fallen veterans. We've been entrusted by those who have fought for freedom before us to protect our flag. I cannot allow anyone to desecrate the only symbol of freedom in the world." And he ends saying, "Sir, I realize that you're a Navy veteran, but Semper Fi anyway." [Laughter] Those darn marines, I'll tell you.
Well, Mr. Moreno, you have our word on it: For the sake of the fallen, for the men behind the guns, for every American, we will defend the flag of the United States of America.
Thank you. God bless this flag, and God bless the United States of America.
Note: The President spoke at 9:23 a.m. in front of the Iwo Jima Memorial
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Well, how about a few pictures? Tot shot always plays in the sticks.
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Phoebe Cates
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Date of Birth 16 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name Phoebe Belle Cates
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Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Sep 26, 1991 on FOX
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
48 - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor to Maj. Merlyn H. Dethlefsen, USAF.
February 1, 1968
Major and Mrs. Dethlefsen and children, Secretary of the Air Force Brown, General McConnell, distinguished and honored Members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen:
This is an afternoon when it is good to stand beside a man in uniform. He is a brave man, who has come to claim the honor that his courage has earned. He is also a spokesman for the courage of thousands like him who are protecting you and serving us in Vietnam at this hour.
This is also a very special afternoon for all of them. They are not thinking of medals or ceremonies in the East Room, in face of a desperate enemy offensive. They are thinking of you and of us, and they will not fail us. They will not fail us even if it means dying before another morning comes.
That is as sure as this brave man is standing here. It is he who says the enemy will fail--again--and again--for as long as he threatens the freedom and the peace we Americans will never yield.
So as this Nation waits, let it take heart from the story of one who was there.
Major Dethlefsen had a most vital mission last March. His mission was to knock out a critical missile site in North Vietnam.
On the first pass, his flight leader was disabled and his own aircraft was badly damaged. Still, he made another pass, and pass after pass, at the site, under constant attack by enemy fighters, missiles, and antiaircraft fire combined.
He knocked out that site--he knocked it out maybe on a wing and a prayer--but he knocked it out and he did his job. He cleared the way for a bomber flight that was to follow without deadly fire from the enemy missiles.
This great courage demonstrated by this fearless man spared many American lives. He had plenty of time to think about the danger to himself, to figure the odds, and actually plenty of excuses to even turn away. But his courage was calculated. It came not from desperation, but it came from dedication. He answered a call that was far beyond duty, as others of his comrades are answering for you at this hour.
I stood before some of them at midnight at an air base in Thailand just a few weeks ago. I wanted so much that night to give medals to all of them. Instead, I gave them something just as meaningful--I gave them this Nation's pride in their unequaled bravery and their unexcelled record.
These are the men who have rewritten the rule book and the flight book of aerial warfare. These men are comparatively few in number, but each day they are pinning down from 500,000 to 700,000 North Vietnamese, and they number only a few hundred.
These same men are matching courage with a careful and with a very precise restraint.
We are using our greatest resources--of industry, of technology, of skilled and courageous men--to conduct a limited war at the lowest possible cost in human life.
Let those who would stop the bombing answer this question: "What would the North Vietnamese be doing if we stopped the bombing and let them alone?"
The answer, I think, is clear. The enemy force in the South would be larger. It would be better equipped. The war would be harder. The losses would be greater. The difficulties would be longer. And of one thing you can be sure: It would cost many more American lives.
The men who have met and who have matched the enemy on the ground these past few hours--in I Corps, in the II Corps, in the III Corps, in Saigon, the cities along the entire countryside--have a very special understanding and a very special appreciation, I assure you, of what air power really means. It cannot keep the enemy from ultimately moving into battle position. It cannot keep the sniper from climbing a roof. But it can and it does reduce their momentum. And it can keep many of the enemy's men off the backs of our men who are defending our lives.
Until we have some better signs than what we have had these last few days--that I hope any American can see and read loud and clear--that he will not step up his terrorism; and unless we have some sign that he will not accelerate his aggression if we halt bombing, then we shall continue to give our American men the protection America ought to give them, and that is the best America affords.
Major, as we honor you here in the East Room today, we think of so many who share your burden and who share our pride.
--The men on the ships like the Pueblo, who are not with us, but who perform the most perilous missions for their country's sake.
--The men who gave their lives to protect our Saigon Embassy yesterday, and to protect that staff from terrorism during a supposedly truce period.
--The men who will throw back the enemy in the hills of Khe Sanh.
They are the bravest and they are the best of the men that we can produce. And none, sir, will do better service to their courage or do better service to our cause, our cause of liberty, our cause of freedom, our cause of compassion and understanding--none will do better service to that cause than you, sir.
The distinguished Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown, will now read the citation.
[Text of citation read by Secretary Brown]
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1896, has awarded in the name of The Congress, the Medal of Honor to
MAYOR MERLYN H. DETHLEFSEN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:
On 10 March 1967, Major Dethlefsen (then Captain) was one of a flight of F-105 aircraft engaged in a fire suppression mission designed to destroy a key antiaircraft defensive complex containing surface-to-air missiles (SAM), an exceptionally heavy concentration of antiaircraft artillery, and other automatic weapons. The defensive network was situated to dominate the approach and provide protection to an important North Vietnam industrial center that was scheduled to be attacked by fighter bombers immediately after the strike by Major Dethlefsen's flight. In the initial attack on the defensive complex the lead aircraft was crippled, and Major Dethlefsen's aircraft was extensively damaged by the intense enemy fire. Realizing that the success of the impending fighter bomber attack on the center now depended on his ability to effectively suppress the defensive fire, Major Dethlefsen ignored the enemy's overwhelming firepower and the damage to his aircraft and pressed his attack. Despite a continuing hail of antiaircraft fire, deadly surface-to-air missiles, and counterattacks by MIG interceptors, Major Dethlefsen flew repeated close range strikes to silence the enemy defensive positions with bombs and cannon fire. His action in rendering ineffective the defensive SAM and antiaircraft artillery sites enabled the ensuing fighter bombers to strike successfully the important industrial target without loss or damage to their aircraft, thereby appreciably reducing the enemy's ability to provide essential war material. Major Dethlefsen's conspicuous gallantry, consummate skill and selfless dedication to this significant mission were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself and the armed forces of his country.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
[At this point the President resumed speaking.]
I know you are curious about what Mrs. Dethlefsen said to me. She is glad to have him back.
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Pilot: And this control stick is like the handlebars on your tricycle. Now, would you like to see where we hang our coats?
Bart: No thank you. I'd rather push this button. [leans over and pushes a button]
Pilot: No! [in the main cabin, oxygen masks descend from the overhead compartments]
Homer: Aagh! We're all going to die! [screams from the passengers]
From 5/23/1987 to 7/19/1989 is 788 days
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Proclamation 5662—National Day of Mourning for the Victims of United States Ship Stark
May 23, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Every year, in the beautiful springtime, the American people pause on a special day to pay the heartfelt tribute of love and remembrance to all the sons and daughters of our land who have laid down their lives on the altar of liberty. This year, our Memorial Day remembrance is tinged with fresh sorrow as we honor and mourn the brave men taken from us a short week ago.
No words of ours can pay them the full tribute that is their due: their service, sacrifice, and love of country crown their memory on this day of grief and will do so as long as there is an America that defends freedom and honors its heroic champions. Let us pay tribute, then, to the dead and injured of United States Ship STARK by making their faithfulness and courage and love our own, ever and always. Without Americans like them, there would be no land of the free and no home of the brave; because of Americans like them, the lamp of liberty burns on undimmed, unvanquished, and unquenchable.
In solemn recognition of the valiant crew members of United States Ship STARK who lost their lives or were injured, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 290, has designated May 25, 1987, as "National Day of Mourning for the Victims of the U.S.S. STARK" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Monday, May 25, 1987, as National Day of Mourning for the Victims of United States Ship STARK. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightyseven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.
RONALD REAGAN
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Translator: Please to repeat again and I will translating for the el presidente.
Translator: [slowly] Which way does the water turn in your toilet?
Translator: [in Spanish] He says the tide is turning!
El Presidente: [in Spanish] Ay, caramba! Then the rebels will soon take the capital. I must flee!
El Presidente: [dives out window]
Bart Simpson: I can't get a straight answer out of this crazy hemisphere.
[tries another number]
Hitler: [as his car-phone's ringing] Eine minuten, eine minuten!
[ringing stops]
Hitler: Ach! Das wagen phone ist ein... nuisance phone!
Man on Pennyfarthing: Buenos notches, mein fuehrer.
Hitler: Ja, ja.
From 4/22/1945 ( Adolph Hitler admits defeat ) To 8/9/1974 ( Richard Nixon surrenders and abandons his illegal presence in the United States of America federal White House ) is 10701 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 2/19/1995 is 10701 days
From 9/2/1965 ( the first day of my biological brother Thomas Reagan as a university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University Princeton New Jersey United States where he earned a doctor of medicine degree as Dr. Thomas Reagan MD ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10701 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 2/19/1995 is 10701 days
From 9/27/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) To 2/19/1995 is 3797 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 3/26/1976 ( my [ when I was still a natural { human being cloned from another } human being ] paternal biological grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom while at Royal Signals and Radar Establishment Malvern sends the first royal e-mail ) is 3797 days
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The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 16
Bart vs. Australia
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 19, 1995 on FOX
AIRED: 2/19/95
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Bart vs. Australia
Hey, are you, like, one of those English guards who can't laugh or smile or anything?
No, sir! U.S. Marine Corps, sir!
Oh, yeah. This is the life.
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The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 16
Bart vs. Australia
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 19, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
(In the Australian Embassy)
Homer: Boy, do think next year you could get indicted in Orlando, Florida?
Bart: Way ahead of you.
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