http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/career/retirement/OfficerRetirements/Pages/OfficerRetirementLaws.aspx
Navy Personnel Command
United States Navy
10 USC 6323, OPNAVINST 1811.3A Voluntary Retirement for Active Duty Officers (20 years)
For CAPT and CDR
20 years and 1 day of Active Duty Service
https://www.dfas.mil/retiredmilitary/plan/eligibility.html
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Eligibility for Military Retirement Pay
You may be qualified for U.S. Military Retirement if you:
Served on active duty in the U.S Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps for a period of 20 years or more
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12577
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
32 - Statement by the President on the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program.
February 8, 1946
WHEN I CALLED Mr. Wilson Wyatt to Washington, I gave him only one instruction: to "make no little plans."
For five weeks Mr. Wyatt has been hard at work preparing his plans in consultation with all government agencies concerned and with the principal business, labor and veterans groups involved.
He has recommended a Veterans' Emergency Housing Program which is bold, vigorous and eminently practical. It has the complete and unqualified support of the Administration. All agencies of the government are directed to use every resource at their command to fulfill this program. The Budget Director has of course been asked to review the budget recommendations in the light of the new housing proposals.
I urge the Congress to enact promptly the legislation necessary to carry out the program.
I call upon every public-spirited organization to muster its forces behind the program. I ask each community leader, each citizen, to do his utmost to make the plans a reality in his community.
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The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Commencement Address at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, Wisconsin
May 14, 2004
Thank you all very much. Dr. Ferry, members of the faculty, trustees, and families, distinguished guests, most importantly, members of the Class of 2004, I appreciate the warm welcome to this fine university and to this great State. Thank you for such a wonderful welcome. I am honored to be with you on graduation day as you become proud alumni of CUW.
I thank you as well for the honorary degree. I kind of like the sound, "Dr. Bush." [Laughter] I don't think Laura is going to call me that. [Laughter]
My congratulations to my fellow honorees today, especially General Vessey, a fine officer who served our country with distinction and honor.
I'm here today with one of your alumni, the Class of 2000. He can't rise for applause because he's working. But I want his parents to know he's doing a really fine job. And everyone at Concordia can be very proud of Officer Scott Eichstaedt of the United States Secret Service.
I am told that when the name of your commencement speaker was announced on April the 1st—[laughter]—a lot of students thought it might be an April Fool's Day joke. [Laughter] And some of you may still have doubts. I saw a person when I walked in, said, "Is it him, or is it the guy on 'Saturday Night Live'?" [Laughter]
All of you have worked hard and have come far, and you can always be proud of the achievement we mark today. Through it all, you've had a lot of fine people standing with you. This graduating class is a credit to the superb and caring teachers at Concordia. And today we also honor the people who believed in you and prayed for you and paid for you—[laughter]—the parents of the Class of 2004.
Many of today's graduates are on your way to full-time ministry, and that commitment is one of the greatest that a man or woman can make. All of the graduates leave Concordia with a commission and a calling. In the Lutheran tradition, all work—in an office, on a farm, in the home, or in the halls of government—should be done in the glory of God.
From 2/8/1946 ( Harry Truman - Statement by the President on the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program ) To 5/14/2004 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
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 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 10640 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 5/14/2004 is 11829 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 3/23/1998 ( the Microsoft Outlook 98 product announcement ) is 11829 days
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040514-4.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 14, 2004
President Delivers Commencement Address at Concordia University
Remarks by the President at Concordia University Commencement
Concordia University
Mequon, Wisconsin
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/mar98/outrtwpr.mspx
Internet E-Mail Client Distributed via Free Web Download Until June 30
Microsoft Announces Outlook 98 Now Available for Free Download
REDMOND, Wash., March 23, 1998 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that the final shipping version of Microsoft® Outlook ™ 98 messaging and collaboration client is now available for free download from the Web
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/220595
Microsoft Support
Article ID: 220595 - Last Review: March 15, 2006 - Revision: 9.4
How to automate Outlook by using Visual Basic
This article demonstrates how to programmatically control Microsoft Outlook using Automation from Visual Basic. The example demonstrates creating contacts, creating appointments, and sending messages by using Microsoft Outlook's object-model.
Outlook version How type library appears in references list
msoutl8.olb "Microsoft Outlook 98 Object Library"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite.
Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also includes a Calendar, Task Manager, Contact Manager, note taking, a journal and web browsing.
It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, Sharepoint lists and meeting time allocation.
Versions
Outlook 97 (version 8.0) included in Office 97 released January 16, 1997
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1389154
chron
Houston Chronicle Archives
New `Office' launch likely to improve Microsoft's outlook
STEVE LOHR New York Times
TUE 01/14/1997
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
NEW YORK - Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, will take the stage of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in Manhattan on Thursday to introduce "Office 97," the new version of the company's software bundle for office computing.
But the real star of the show, analysts say, will probably be a new application, called "Outlook," that has been added to the Office software suite, joining such popular programs as Word and Excel.
Outlook, analysts say, shows the progress Microsoft Corp. has made in linking its traditional products with the Internet, a key element in the company's effort to keep its sales rising rapidly.
And the new application, they add, also represents Microsoft's bid for leadership against rivals such as IBM and Netscape Communications in the fast-growing market for so-called groupware programs, which help employees work in collaborative groups.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/jan97/97avilpr.mspx
Microsoft Announces the Immediate Availability of Office 97
Market Momentum Builds for Innovative New Product Designed for Customers
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 1997 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the immediate availability of Office 97, the new version of the world's best-selling productivity suite, which integrates the ease of intelligent applications with the power of the Web. Microsoft launched Office 97 with a worldwide, 30-city tour and a customer event today in New York that includes a keynote address by Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms268893.aspx
Microsoft Developer Network
Outlook Object Model Overview
To develop add-ins for Microsoft Office Outlook, you can interact with the objects that are provided by the Outlook object model. The Outlook object model provides classes and interfaces that represent items in the user interface. For example, the Application object represents the entire application, the MAPIFolder object represents a folder that contains e-mail messages or other items, and the MailItem object represents an e-mail message.
This topic provides a brief overview of some of the main objects in the Outlook object model. For resources where you can learn more about the entire Outlook object model, see Using the Outlook Object Model Documentation.
VBA Object Model Reference
The VBA object model reference documents the Outlook object model as it is exposed to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. For more information, see Outlook 2010 Object Model Reference.
All of the objects and members in the VBA object model reference correspond to types and members in the Outlook PIA. For example, the Inspector object in the VBA object model reference corresponds to the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Inspector object in the Outlook PIA. Although the VBA object model reference provides code examples for most properties, methods, and events, you must translate the VBA code in this reference to Visual Basic or Visual C# if you want to use them in an Outlook add-in project that you create by using Visual Studio.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff865816.aspx
Office Dev Center
Automating Outlook from a Visual Basic Application
Office 2013
Because Microsoft Outlook supports Automation, you can control Outlook from any program that is written with Microsoft Visual Basic. Automation provides a standard method for one application to access the objects, methods, properties, and events of other applications that support Automation.
The Outlook object model provides all of the functionality necessary to manipulate data that is stored in Outlook folders, and it provides the ability to control many aspects of the Outlook user interface (UI).
To start an Outlook Automation session, you can use either early or late binding. Late binding uses either the Visual Basic GetObject function or the CreateObject function to initialize Outlook. For example, the following code sets an object variable to the Outlook Application object, which is the highest-level object in the Outlook object model. All Automation code must first define an Outlook Application object to be able to access any other Outlook objects.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff864479.aspx
Office Dev Center
Security Behavior of the Outlook Object Model
Office 2013
The Outlook object model includes entry points to access Outlook data, save data to specified locations, and send e-mails. These entry points are available to legitimate and malicious application developers alike. Versions of Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 applied with the Outlook E-mail Security Update, and all subsequent versions starting from Outlook 2000 SP2 use the Object Model Guard to help protect users. The Object Model Guard warns users and prompts users for confirmation when untrusted applications attempt to use the object model to obtain e-mail address information, store data outside of Outlook, execute certain actions, and send e-mail messages. Although the Object Model Guard succeeds in identifying and protecting these entry points, two main issues exist that render the Object Model Guard rather unpractical:
The default circumstances that applications invoke the Object Model Guard in earlier versions of Outlook can result in excessive security prompting for legitimate applications.
The limitations of COM and Windows in identifying the specific application that is invoking the Object Model Guard have made it difficult for users to respond to the security prompts with certainty.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818529
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Microsoft Support
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If you are running a version of Windows or of Internet Explorer that is in the extended phase of the product life cycle and you have an Extended Support Contract, contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) or Applications Development Consultant (ADC)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes
IMDb
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Quotes
Willard: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.
From 4/18/1955 ( Albert Einstein dead ) To 12/8/2003 is 17766 days
17766 = 8883 + 8883
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 2/27/1990 ( from my official United States Navy documents as Kerry Burgess: while inport Monaco my permanent transfer from US Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 to Naval Station Charleston South Carolina for active duty separation processing ) is 8883 days
From 11/21/1952 ( Harry Truman - Remarks at a Meeting of an Orientation Course Conducted by the CIA ) To 12/8/2003 is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
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 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix as the unpublished Formual One driver and the financial partner of McLaren Honda and the legitmate agent of Interpol ) is 9322 days
From 5/1/1949 ( the discovery of the planet Neptune moon Nereid by Gerard Kuiper ) To 12/8/2003 is 19944 days
19944 = 9972 + 9972
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 2/20/1993 ( Ferruccio Lamborghini dead ) is 9972 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 12/8/2003 is 4650 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 7/27/1978 ( premiere US film "Animal House" ) is 4650 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 12/8/2003 is 4650 days
4650 = 2325 + 2325
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 3/15/1972 ( premiere US film "Slaughterhouse-Five" ) is 2325 days
From 6/29/2003 ( I was an unsuccessful participant athlete in the inaugural Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) To 12/8/2003 is 162 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 4/13/1966 ( the Uniform Time Act of 1966 was enacted by Lyndon Johnson as a United States federal law to "promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones" ) is 162 days
From 11/20/1985 ( from the official United States Navy documents of Kerry Burgess: "CO,NEPTDCEN ADV LTR 1-86" ) To 12/8/2003 is 6592 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 11/20/1983 ( premiere US TV movie "The Day After" ) is 6592 days
From 11/20/1985 ( Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) To 12/8/2003 is 6592 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 11/20/1983 ( premiere US TV movie "The Day After" ) is 6592 days
From 10/21/1974 ( premiere US TV series episode "Gunsmoke"::"The Iron Men" ) To 12/8/2003 is 10640 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 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 10640 days
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 12/8/2003 is 10018 days
10018 = 5009 + 5009
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 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) is 5009 days
From 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 ) To 12/8/2003 is 4708 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 9/23/1978 ( premiere US TV series "The American Girls" ) is 4708 days
From 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 ) To 12/8/2003 is 4708 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 9/23/1978 ( premiere US TV series "The American Girls" ) is 4708 days
From 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 ) To 12/8/2003 is 4708 days
4708 = 2354 + 2354
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 4/13/1972 ( the date of record of the 2nd United States Navy Medal of Honor for my biological brother Thomas Reagan circa 1972 the United States Navy Commander ) is 2354 days
From 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 ) To 12/8/2003 is 4708 days
4708 = 2354 + 2354
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 4/13/1972 ( the date of record of the 2nd United States Navy Medal of Honor for my biological brother Thomas Reagan circa 1972 the United States Navy Commander ) is 2354 days
From 7/9/1953 ( the United States Treasury designation of the Internal Revenue Service ) To 12/8/2003 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 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 9207 days
From 7/9/1953 ( the United States Treasury designation of the Internal Revenue Service ) To 12/8/2003 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 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 9207 days
From 12/8/2003 To 5/14/2004 is 158 days
158 = 79 + 79
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 1/20/1966 ( premiere US TV series "The Baron" ) is 79 days
From 7/13/1940 ( Patrick Stewart ) To 12/8/2003 is 23158 days
23158 = 11579 + 11579
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 7/16/1997 ( Bill Clinton - Remarks Announcing Steps To Make the Internet Family-Friendly ) is 11579 days
From 4/9/1946 ( Joseph Wayne Burgess - the foster father of Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/14/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my travel to and arrival at United States Navy basic training Orlando Florida to begin official enlistment induction the following day ) is 13915 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 12/8/2003 is 13915 days
From 8/7/1944 ( Robert Swan Mueller ) To 12/8/2003 is 21672 days
21672 = 10836 + 10836
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 7/4/1995 ( the undocking Mir space station docking and the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10836 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
Adama: Why don't you talk to me, Lee?
Apollo: What do you want to talk about?
Adama: About anything. You've been here for an hour.
Apollo: Well, I don't have anything to say. My orders said, report here and participate in the ceremony, so I'm, I'm here. And I'm gonna participate in the ceremony. There wasn't, wasn't anything in my orders about having any heart-to-heart chats with the old man.
Adama: Accidents happen, in the service.
Apollo: Dad, listen, I-
Adama: You know, all the things you talked to me about the last time we were together-
Apollo: I really don't want to do this.
Adama: -at the funeral, they still ring in my ears after two years.
Apollo: Good! Good. Cause you know what? They were meant to.
Adama: Zack had a choice. You both did.
Apollo: "A man isn't a man until he wears the wings of a Viper pilot." Doesn't that sound at all familiar to you?
Adama: That's not fair, son.
Apollo: No, it's not fair. Because one of us wasn't cut out to wear the uniform.
Adama: He earned his wings, just like we all do.
Apollo: One of us wasn't cut out to be a pilot, one of us wouldn't have even made it into flight school if his old man, his daddy, hadn't have pulled some strings.
Adama: That's an exaggeration. I did nothing for him that I wouldn't have done for anyone else.
Apollo: You're not even listening to me. Why can't you get this through your head? Zack did not belong in that plane. He shouldn't have been there. He was only doing it for you. Face it, you killed him.
Adama: That'll be all, Captain.
(Apollo leaves)
(Back to Baltar's house)
Baltar: So now you're telling me, umm- Now you're telling me that you're a machine?
Six: I'm a woman.
Baltar: You're a machine. You're a synthetic woman. A robot.
Six: I've said it three times now.
Baltar: Well, forgive me, I'm having the tiniest bit of trouble believing that, because the last time anybody saw the Cylons, they looked more like walking chrome toasters.
Six: Those models are still around. They have their uses.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519163/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Baron (TV Series)
Diplomatic Immunity (1966)
Release Info
USA 20 January 1966
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519163/
IMDb
The Baron (1966– )
Diplomatic Immunity
49min Crime, Drama Episode aired 20 January 1966
Season 1 Episode 1
Release Date: 20 January 1966 (USA)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14345
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
335 - Remarks at a Meeting of an Orientation Course Conducted by the CIA.
November 21, 1952
I AM appreciative of the privilege that General Smith has offered me, to come over here and make a few remarks to this organization. I am, naturally, very much interested in it.
When I became President--if you don't mind me reminiscing a little bit--there was no concentration of information for the benefit of the President. Each department and each organization had its own information service, and that information service was walled off from every other service in such a manner that whenever it was necessary for the President to have information, he had to send to two or three departments to get it, and then he would have to have somebody do a little digging to get it.
The affairs of the Presidential Office, so far as information was concerned, were in such shape that it was necessary for me, when I took over the Office, to read a stack of documents that high, and it took me 3 months to get caught up.
Only two people around the White House really knew what was going on in the military affairs department, and they were Admiral Leahy and Admiral Brown. I would talk to them every morning and try to get all the information I could. And finally one morning I had a conversation with Admiral Leahy, and suggested to him that there should be a Central Intelligence Agency, for the benefit of the whole Government as well as for the benefit of the President, so he could be informed.
And the Admiral and I proceeded to try to work out a program. It has worked very successfully. We have an intelligence information service now that I think is not inferior to any in the world.
We have the Central Intelligence Agency, and all the intelligence information agencies in all the rest of the departments of the Government, coordinated by that Central Intelligence Agency. This agency puts the information of vital importance to the President in his hands. He has to know what is going on everywhere at home and abroad, so that he can intelligently make the decisions that are necessary to keep the Government running.
I don't think anyone realizes the immensity of the problems that face a President of the United States.
It was my privilege a few days ago to brief the General who is going to take over the Office on the 20th day of January, and he was rather appalled at all that the President needs to know in order to reach decisions-even domestic decisions.
He must know exactly what is implied by what he does. The President makes a decision every day that can affect anywhere from 100 million to a billion and a half people. It is a tremendous responsibility.
And I don't think many of you realize the position in which this great country is, in this day and age.
We are at the top, and the leader of the free world--something that we did not anticipate, something that we did not want, but something that has been forced on us. It is a responsibility which we should have assumed in 1920. We did not assume it then. We have to assume it now, because it has again been thrust on us. It is our duty, under Heaven, to continue that leadership in the manner that will prevent a third world war-which would mean the end of civilization. The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war. It would then bring into the war not only the fighting men--the people who are trained as fighters-but the whole civilian population of every country involved would be more thoroughly exposed to death and destruction than would the men at the front.
That is what we have to think about carefully. You are the organization, you are the intelligence arm that keeps the Executive informed so he can make decisions that always will be in the public interest for his own country, hoping always that it will save the free world from involvement with the totalitarian countries in an all-out war--a terrible thing to contemplate.
Those of you who are deep in the Central Intelligence Agency know what goes on around the world--know what is necessary for the President to know every morning. I am briefed every day on all the world, on everything that takes place from one end of the world to the other, all the way around-by both the poles and the other way. It is necessary that you make that contribution for the welfare and benefit of your Government.
I came over here to tell you how appreciative I am of the service which I received as the Chief Executive of the greatest nation in the history of the world. You may not know it, but the Presidential Office is the most powerful office that has ever existed in the history of this great world of ours. Genghis Khan, Augustus Caesar, great Napoleon Bonaparte, or Louis XIV---or any other of the great leaders and executives of the world--can't even compare with what the President of the United States himself is responsible for, when he makes a decision. It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
That is the principal reason why I am so anxious that it be a continuing proposition, and that the successor to me, and the successor to him, can carry on as if no election had ever taken place.
That is the prospect that we are faced with now. I am giving this President--this new President--more information than any other President ever had when he went into office.
You gentlemen--and ladies--are contributing to that ability of mine to be able to do that. I am extremely thankful to you. I think it is good that some of you have found out just exactly what a tremendous organization intelligence has to be in this day and age. You can't run the Government without it.
Keep up the good work. And when my successor takes over, I want you to give him just the same loyal service that you have given me, and then the country will go forward as it should.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 12:27 p.m. in the Department of Agriculture Auditorium in Washington, to the final session of the Central Intelligence Agency's eighth training orientation course for representatives of various Government agencies.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
Baltar: Prove it. If you're a Cylon, prove it to me right now.
Six: I don't have to. You know I'm telling the truth.
Baltar: See, stating something as the truth doesn't necessarily make it so, because the truth of the matter is, I don't believe a word of it.
Six: You believe me, because deep down you've always known there was something different about me. Something that didn't quite add up in the usual way. And you believe me because it flatters your ego, to believe that alone among all the billions of people of the Twelve Colonies, you were chosen for my mission.
Baltar: Your mission? What mission?
Six: You knew I wanted access to the defense mainframe.
Baltar: (stunned) Def- Wait a minute, the defense mainframe? What exactly are you saying?
Six: Come on, Gaius. The communications frequencies, deployment schedules, unlimited access to every database.
Baltar: Oh my god. (Thinks for a moment.) I had nothing to do with this. You know I had nothing to do with this.
Six: You have an amazing capacity for self-deception. How do you do that?
Baltar: How many people know? About me? Specifically, that I'm involved?
Six: Even now, as the fate of your entire world hangs in the balance, all you can think about is how this affects you.
Baltar: Do you have any idea what they'll do to me if they find out?
Six: They'd probably charge you with treason.
Baltar: Treason is punishable by the death penalty. This is unbelievable.
Six: What are you doing?
Baltar: I'm phoning my attorney.
Six: That won't be necessary.
Baltar: Yeah, he'll know what to do, he'll sort this out. He's the best in the business.
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Conscientious objector
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A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience
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Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
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(Cut to the pilots' briefing room)
CAG: Morning.
Pilots: Morning, sir.
CAG: All right. Now today's the main event. We have a formation demonstration, fly-by maneuvers in conjunction with the decommissioning ceremony. I've got a few changes to the flight plan. Lt. Thrace is being replaced in the slot by Lt. Anders. Also, we have, uh, Captain Lee Adama joining us, and he's going to be flying lead during the fly-by, so please, welcome, Captain.
(Clapping, scattered welcomes. Apollo nods at Helo and Boomer.)
CAG: Now thanks to Chief Tyrol and his deck gang, Captain, you're gonna have the honor of flying the actual Viper that your father flew almost forty years ago.
Apollo: (after a long pause) Great. That's... quite an honor.
CAG: Yes it is, Captain. And personally, I can't think of a better way to send this ship into retirement.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
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(And we're back out in space.)
Intercom: Viper 450, this is Galactica. Approach port landing bay hands-on, speed 105. Checker's red. Call the ball. (?)
Apollo: Galactica, this is Viper 450. Check that, did you say hands-on approach?
Intercom: Viper 450, that's affirmative. Hands-on approach.
Apollo: Copy that, Galactica. Port landing bay, hands-on approach, speed 105, I have the ball.
(The Viper flies in and lands.)
Intercom/Captain McCallie: It's a good stow, neg-lock secure. On behalf of Galactica, I'd like to welcome you aboard, Apollo. It's an honor to have you with us.
(The Viper slides into the frame. Nameplates read: Cpt. Lee Adama, "Apollo")
(Apollo takes his helmet off, gets out of his ship. Chief Tyrol is standing there and they both salute.)
Chief: Morning, sir. Chief Tyrol. I'll be your crew chief while you're aboard.
Apollo: Morning, Chief. Captain Lee Adama.
Chief: It's a pleasure to... (He holds out his hand; Apollo walks past him) ...meet you sir. I'm sure you've heard this before; I'm a great admirer of your father's. Service is gonna miss him when he retires.
Apollo: Well, I'm sure someone will.
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Birth Name Patrick Hewes Stewart
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks Announcing Steps To Make the Internet Family-Friendly
July 16, 1997
Thank you very much, Lois Jean, and thank you, Steve Case. Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for all the work you've done on this issue. And to Secretary Daley, Commissioner Varney, Deputy Attorney General Waxman, and the Members of Congress who had to go for a vote, I thank all of you for your interest. And thank you, all of you, who come here from the various companies, who were part of the Vice President's meeting this morning, and from other interested groups.
I think it's fair to say that history will evaluate the Internet as having sparked a revolution in information perhaps every bit as profound as the printing press. For today, at the click of a mouse, children can tap into the resources of the Library of Congress, to a great museum, communicate with classrooms around the world. I am particularly proud to point out that the Internet allows us now to journey beyond the Earth. Just since July 4, NASA's Mars Pathfinder website has received more than 27 million visits. And we are very proud of that and proud of NASA.
But we all know and we've heard the horror stories about the inappropriate material for children that can be found on the Internet. We know children can be victimized over the Internet. After the Supreme Court struck down the portion of the Communications Decency Act last month affecting this as an abridgement of free speech, we brought together industry leaders and groups representing teachers, parents, librarians to discuss where to go next.
This morning there was a discussion that I believe can fairly be said to have reached a consensus about how to pave the way to a family-friendly Internet without paving over the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free expression. The plan has three components: new technologies, enforcement of existing laws, more active participation of parents.
As you have heard already, with regard to technology, the computer industry is developing a whole toolbox full of technologies that can do for the Internet what the V-chip will do for television. Some of the tools are already widely in use, as Steve said. They give parents the power to unlock and to lock the digital doors to objectionable content. Now we have to make these tools more readily available to all parents and all teachers in America. And as new tools come on-line, we have to distribute them quickly, and we have to make sure that parents are trained to use them.
In an extremely adroit use of language in our meeting earlier, one of the leaders said, "Well, Mr. President, you've talked about how technologically inept you are; perhaps you would be our guinea pig as each new thing comes along, and then we could certainly certify that if you can figure out how to use it, anybody can." [Laughter] And so I sort of volunteered. Having been damned with faint praise, I enjoyed that.
[Laughter] But I think it is important—it is important to know not only that things exist but that they are being used and that they can be used. So we had a little laugh about what is a very serious element of this whole endeavor.
Today several industry leaders are taking major steps in this direction. I'm pleased to announce first that Netscape Communications has committed to add family-friendly controls to the next release of its popular Internet browser. Parents who use the Netscape browser to explore the Internet will be able to tell the browser precisely what types of materials they do not wish their children to see. Microsoft, which also offers a popular Internet browser, has already incorporated this technology. Therefore, with Netscape's pledge today, we now have assurance that 90 percent of all software used to explore the Internet will have family-friendly controls built right in. It's also important to note that all of the major companies that offer Internet service now provide some form of family-friendly controls. And I commend all of them for that.
For these controls to work to their full potential, we also need to encourage every Internet site, whether or not it has material harmful for young people, to label its own content, as the Vice President described just a few moments ago. To help to speed the labeling process along, several Internet search engines—the Yellow Pages of cyberspace, if you will—will begin to ask that all websites label content when applying for a spot in their directories. I want to thank Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos for this important commitment. You're helping greatly to assure that self-labeling will become the standard practice. And that must be our objective.
Beyond technology, we must have strict enforcement of existing laws, the antistalking, child pornography, and obscenity laws as they apply to cyberspace. In the past 3 months alone, the FBI has expanded by 50 percent the staff committed to investigating computer-related exploitation of minors and established a task force to target computer child pornography and solicitation. In the past 6 months, the Department of Justice has increased the number of lawyers working in its Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section by 50 percent. We simply must not allow pornographers and pedophiles to exploit a wonderful medium to abuse our children.
And finally, we must recognize that in the end, the responsibility for our children's safety will rest largely with their parents. Cutting-edge technology and criminal prosecutions cannot substitute for responsible mothers and fathers. Parents must make the commitment to sit down with their children and learn together about the benefits and challenges of the Internet. And parents, now that the tools are available, will have to take upon themselves the responsibility of figuring out how to use them. I think it's fair to say that all parents will likely lag behind their children in facility on the Internet, but at least if we understand the tools that are available, it will be possible to do the responsible and correct thing.
Thanks to the talents, to the creativity, to the commitments of so many of you assembled today, we have now, therefore, a roadmap toward constructive steps for a family-friendly Internet. There is still a lot to do. Parent groups and educators must work to help hone our labeling systems so that they will actually screen out materials we don't want our children to see and, as others have said today, with equal energy help to highlight the materials that serve our children best. That is very, very important.
The Internet community must work to make these labels as common as food safety labels are today, to continue to expand access to family-friendly tools, including software to protect children's privacy from unscrupulous vendors. With a combination of technology, law enforcement, and parental responsibilities, we have the best chance to ensure that the Internet will be both safe for our children and the greatest educational resource we have ever known. And that is our common commitment, and for that, I thank you all very much.
NOTE: The President spoke at 12:45 p.m. in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
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Apollo: Well, I'm sure someone will. Is your auto-landing system down? I was hands-on for the whole approach.
Chief: It's all hands-on here, Captain. There are no auto-landings on the Galactica. *Commander* Adama's orders.
Apollo: Is that right?
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