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Bart's Comet [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 5-Feb-95
[End of Act Two. Time: 12:40]
Kent Brockman delivers the news.
Kent: And, like Icarus, the rocket foolishly soared too high, and lost control of its servo guidance mechanism, leaving us with some...[checks watch] six hours to live. So, let's go live now to the charred remains of the only bridge out of town with Arnie Pie and Arnie in the Sky!
Arnie: With the bridge gone and the airport unfortunately on the other side of the bridge, a number of citizens are attempting to jump the gorge with their cars. It's a silent testament to the never-give-up and never-think-things-out spirit of our citizens.
Kent: With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal government has snapped into action. We go live now via satellite to the floor of the United States congress.
Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of --
Congressman: Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.
Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill?
[everyone boos]
Speaker: Bill defeated. [bangs gavel]
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - 2017
Remarks on the No Child Left Behind Act
September 23, 2011
Now, it is an undeniable fact that countries who outeducate us today are going to outcompete us tomorrow. But today, students are sliding against their peers around the globe.
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Stargate: Universe - Air - television series premiere episodes 1 & 2 of 3 - Friday 02 October 2009
Episode Summary
A research team studying the Stargate's ninth chevron is forced to flee through the gate when their secret base is attacked by an unknown enemy. They end up stranded on an Ancient ship named Destiny, billions of light years from Earth.
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Shortly afterwards, the U.S.S. George Hammond leaves its orbit of Earth and jumps into hyperspace.
Doctor Daniel Jackson stands in front of Earth's Stargate at Stargate Command and smiles into a camera.
JACKSON: Hello. I am Doctor Daniel Jackson and behind me is a Stargate.
(Eli is sitting at a desk in a room on board the George Hammond and is watching Daniel's video recording on a television screen.)
JACKSON: It was originally built millennia ago by an alien race who we call the Ancients. Over the next few hours we'll be touching on ...
(Time passes and Eli continues to watch the various videos made by Doctor Jackson.)
JACKSON: ... There are thirty-nine symbols representing star constellations as seen from Earth ...
JACKSON: ... when a connection is made between two Stargates an unstable energy vortex emerging from the Gate ...
(Video footage is showing of a Stargate kawhooshing. Eli jumps as he watches it.)
WALLACE: Woah!
JACKSON: ... and settles into the event horizon, or puddle as we like to call it.
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STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
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JENNY
Chevron Six is holding. Chevron Six is locked in place.
CATHERINE
This is as far as we have ever been able to get.
[The computer monitors go crazy with output as the seventh chevron is dialed — the Earth point of origin. The shaking is so hard, someone has to hold the telephone on the desk.]
MITCH
We have to override manually.
JENNY
Chevron Seven is...
FEMALE COMPUTER VOICE
Sequence complete.
JENNY
Chevron Seven is locked in place.
INT—GATE ROOM
[As everyone watches in the control room and briefing room, the Stargate activates with a giant vortex streaming outwards front and back, leaving a vertical wall of water.
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
128 - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington.
May 4, 1974
Richard Nixon: Today, we speak of the environment in terms--as we should---of cleaning up
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Lisa's Wedding [ The Simpsons ]
Otto: [on screen] Quimby, after this fare, get your indicted ass out to the convention center.
Quimby: [to himself] I cut the ribbon at that convention center.
From 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) To 9/23/2011 is 13656 days
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From 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to and arrive at Spokane Valley for the Crossland ) To 9/23/2011 is 2762 days
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From 5/10/1991 ( George Bush - Remarks Upon Receiving an Honorary Degree From Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey ) To 9/23/2011 is 7441 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 3/18/1986 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"Who's Running this War?" ) is 7441 days
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From 2/26/1945 ( US Army Air Forces lieutenant general Millard Harmon is listed as one of the highest rankest officers killed during World War II when the aircraft transporting him disappears during their Pacific Ocean flight ) 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 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 16761 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 9/23/2011 is 16761 days
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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 9/23/2011 is 16761 days
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - 2017
Remarks on the No Child Left Behind Act
September 23, 2011
Thank you so much. Everybody, please have a seat. Well, welcome to the White House, everybody. I see a whole bunch of people who are interested in education, and we are grateful for all the work that you do each and every day.
I want to recognize the person to my right, somebody who I think will end up being considered one of the finest Secretaries of Education we've ever had, Arne Duncan. In addition to his passion, probably the finest basketball player ever in the Cabinet. [Laughter]
I also want to thank Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee for taking the time to be here today and the great work that he's doing in Tennessee. I'm especially appreciative because I found that his daughter is getting married, and he is doing the ceremony tomorrow, so we've got to get him back on time. [Laughter] But we really appreciate his presence. Thank you.
And a good friend, somebody who I had the pleasure of serving with during the time that I was in the United States Senate, he is now the Governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee. It's wonderful to see Lincoln. Thank you all for coming.
And I do want to acknowledge two guys who've just worked tirelessly on behalf of education issues, who happen to be in the front row here: from the House, outstanding Congressman, George Miller, and from the Senate, the pride of Iowa, Tom Harkin.
Now, it is an undeniable fact that countries who outeducate us today are going to outcompete us tomorrow. But today, students are sliding against their peers around the globe. Today, our kids trail too many other countries in math, in science, in reading. And that's true, by the way, not just in inner-city schools, not just among poor kids, even among what are considered our better off suburban schools, we're lagging behind where we need to be. Today, as many as a quarter of our students aren't finishing high school. We have fallen to 16th in the proportion of young people with a college degree, even though we know that 60 percent of new jobs in the coming decade will require more than a high school diploma.
And what this means is if we're serious about building an economy that lasts, an economy in which hard work pays off with the opportunity for solid middle class jobs, we've got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
We're in the midst of an ongoing enormous economic challenge. And I spend a lot of my time thinking immediately about how we can put folks back to work and how we can stabilize the world financial markets. And those things are all important. But the economic challenges we face now are economic challenges that have been building for decades now, and the most important thing we can do is to make sure that our kids are prepared for this new economy. That's the single most important thing we can do. So even as we focus on the near term and what we've got to do to put folks back to work, we've got to be thinking a little bit ahead and start making the tough decisions now to make sure that our schools are working the way that they need to work.
Now, we all know that schools can't do it alone. As parents, the task begins at home. It begins by turning off the TV and helping with homework and encouraging a love of learning from the very start of our children's lives. And I'm speaking from experience now. [Laughter] Malia and Sasha would often rather be watching "American Idol" or "SpongeBob," but Michelle and I know that our first job, our first responsibility, is instilling a sense of learning--a sense of a love of learning in our kids. And so there are no shortcuts there; we have to do that job. And we can't just blame teachers and schools if we're not instilling that commitment, that dedication to learning, in our kids.
But as a nation, we also have an obligation to make sure that all of our children have the resources they need to learn, because they're spending a lot of time outside of the household. They're spending the bulk of their waking hours in school. And that means that we've got to make sure we've got quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks, the right technology. And that, by the way, is something we can do something about right away. That's why I sent the jobs bill to Congress that would put thousands of teachers back to work all across the country and modernize at least 35,000 schools.
Congress should pass that bill right now. We've got too many schools that are underresourced, too many teachers who want to be in the classroom who aren't because of budget constraints, not because they can't do the job.
So parents have a role, and schools need more resources. But money alone won't solve our education problems. I've said this before, I will repeat it: Money alone is not enough. We also need reform. We've got to make sure that every classroom is a place of high expectations and high performance. And that's been our vision since taking office. That's why instead of just pouring money into the system that's not working, we launched a competition called Race to the Top. And to all 50 States, to Governors, to school districts, we said, show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we'll show you the money. We want to provide you more resources, but there's also got to be a commitment on your part to make the changes that are necessary so that we can see actual results.
And for less than 1 percent of what we spend on education each year, Race to the Top, under Arne's leadership, has led States across the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning. And by the way, these standards that we're talking about--these high standards that we're talking about--were not developed here in Washington. They were developed by Republican and Democratic Governors throughout the country. Essentially, you had a peer group, a peer review system, where everybody traded best practices and said, here's what seems to work, and let's hold all of our schools to these high standards. And since that's--Race to the Top has been launched, we've seen what's possible when reform isn't just a top-down mandate, but the work of local teachers and principals and school boards and communities working together to develop better standards.
And this is why, in my State of the Union Address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the principles that have guided Race to the Top.
And I want to say that the goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable, and President Bush deserves credit for that. Higher standards are the right goal. Accountability is the right goal. Closing the achievement gap is the right goal. And we've got to stay focused on those goals. But experience has taught us that in its implementation No Child Left Behind had some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping them. Teachers too often are being forced to teach to the test. Subjects like history and science have been squeezed out. And in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some States, perversely, have actually had to lower their standards in a race to the bottom instead of a race to the top. They don't want to get penalized? Let's make sure that the standards are so low that we're not going to be seen failing to meet them. That makes no sense.
And these problems have been obvious to parents and educators all over the country for years now. Despite the good intentions of some--two of them are sitting right here, Tom and George--Congress has not been able to fix these flaws so far. I've urged Congress for a while now, let's get a bipartisan effort, let's fix this. Congress hasn't been able to do it. So I will. Our kids only get one shot at a decent education. They cannot afford to wait any longer. So given that Congress cannot act, I am acting.
So starting today, we'll be giving States more flexibility to meet high standards. Keep in mind, the change we're making is not lowering standards, we're saying we're going to give you more flexibility to meet high standards. We're going to let States, schools, and teachers come up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future. Because what works in Rhode Island may not be the same thing that works in Tennessee, but every student should have the same opportunity to learn and grow, no matter what State they live in.
Let me repeat: This does not mean that States will be able to lower their standards or escape accountability. In fact, the way we've structured this, if States want more flexibility, they're going to have to set higher standards, more honest standards, that prove they're serious about meeting them.
And already, 44 States, led by some of the people on this stage, have set higher standards and proposed new ways to get there, because that's what's critical. They know what's at stake here.
Ricci Hall is a principal of a charter school in Worcester, Massachusetts. Where's Ricci? Oh, Ricci's not here. [Laughter] He was--there he is. Ricci--I wasn't sure if he was behind me. Good. Thank you. Every single student who graduated from Ricci's school in the last 3 years went on to college. Every single one. His school ranks in the top quarter of all schools in Massachusetts, and as you know, Massachusetts's schools rank very high among the 50 States. But because Ricci's school did not meet all the technical standards of No Child Left Behind, his school was labeled a failure last year. That's not right. That needs to change. What we're doing today will encourage the progress at schools like Ricci's.
Is John Becker here? He is? All right, here's John. [Laughter] I didn't think you were John. [Laughter] John teaches at one of the highest performing middle schools in DC, and now with these changes we're making, he's going to be able to focus on teaching his fourth graders math in a way that improves their performance instead of just teaching to a test.
We have superintendents like David Estrop from Springfield, Ohio. Right here. Dave will be able to focus on improving teaching and learning in his district instead of spending all his time on bureaucratic mandates from Washington that don't actually produce results.
So this isn't just the right thing to do for our kids, it's the right thing to do for our country. We can't afford to wait for an education system that is not doing everything it needs to do for our kids. We can't let another generation of young people fall behind because we didn't have the courage to recognize what doesn't work, admit it, and replace it with something that does. We've got to act now. We've got to act now and harness all the good ideas coming out of our States, out of our schools. We can't be tied up with ideology. We can't be worrying about partisanship. We just have to make sure that we figure out what works and we hold ourselves to those high standards. Because now is the time to give our children the skills that they need to compete in this global economy.
We've got a couple of students up on stage who are doing outstanding work because somebody in their schools is dedicated and committed every single day to making sure that they've got a chance to succeed. But I don't want them to be the exception. I want them to be the rule. Now is the time to make our education system the best in the world, the envy of the world. It used to be. It is going to be again, thanks to the people in this room.
God bless you. God bless the United States of America.
Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 10:24 a.m. in the East Room at the White House.
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969-1974
244 - Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States
August 8, 1974
Richard Nixon: I have never been a quitter.
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
128 - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington.
May 4, 1974
Governor Evans, Secretary Dent, Congressman Foley, Your Excellencies representing the nations from abroad, Your Eminence, all of the distinguished guests and all of those here on this historic occasion for the opening of Expo '74:
I am honored to be here for a number of reasons: First, because the State of Washington, under the leadership of Governor Evans, I think is generally recognized to be the first State in the Nation in terms of trying to protect the environment. We congratulate this State, its Governor, and its legislators.
And then, it is a great privilege to be here on this sparkling, beautiful day to speak about what this particular occasion means, not only for now and the days ahead in this summer--when I hope that hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions, will come to see it but, looking down through the pages of history perhaps to the year 2000, 25 years from now, when we celebrate a new year that comes once in 1,000 years and when we look back to see what we did now to make that a new year that was not only the greatest new year for America but for every nation in the world.
Today, we speak of the environment in terms--as we should---of cleaning up the air and water, of a legacy of parks, of all of those other things that have to do with making our cities and our towns and our countryside more beautiful for our children and those that follow us.
The environment means all those things, but environment also means other things to people. It means, for example, for every family in America a job so that he can enjoy the environment around him. And there are those who sometimes say that the two are in conflict, that it is impossible to have a great, productive society like America--the most industrialized nation in the world--and a clean environment.
We have gone through a period in the energy crisis when there have been evidences that these two great interests--one, production which would provide jobs, and two, a clean environment--seem to come in conflict. But let me tell you what the answer is. We can have both, and we shall have both. And the way we can have both is to develop the great resources of this country in a way that they will not pollute the atmosphere, that they will contribute to a clean environment.
And that is why we are going forward in terms of our huge Government programs in research and development for the purpose of seeing that our coal resources can be developed into a clean fuel. That is why we are going forward in our programs for the development of solar energy and nuclear power which, of course, would be clean fuel.
And I can assure all of you here that your Federal Government, working with the States, working with private enterprise, can and will achieve the goal of not only a better and cleaner environment in terms of our water and our air but also the jobs, the opportunity for all Americans that is so important for us to enjoy an environment.
Another aspect of environment that occurs to each of us, of course, is what this magnificent Expo is going to leave as a legacy. It will leave, I trust, some of these beautiful buildings. It will leave a 100-acre park in the heart of the city of Spokane, which was once a blighted area. These will be physical monuments to what you, the citizens of Spokane and the State of Washington, have done in putting on Expo '74.
But beyond those material things, it will leave something else, and that is a new spirit. And what impressed me as I read about how this Expo came about was that the idea did not come from Washington, D.C., it came from Washington State. Those who worked on it, those who conceived it, and most of the money that went into it, came from the people. And to the people of this State we give you the congratulations for a magnificent achievement.
And it is that spirit, that spirit of individual enterprise, that spirit of doing things and not depending upon someone else to do them for you, it is that spirit that developed the West and the Northwest. It is that spirit that will continue to make America a great nation, we trust, in the years ahead.
There is one other aspect of the environment to which I should like to refer, and it is particularly appropriate that I refer to it in the presence of these very distinguished representatives from the other nations who have exhibits here for Expo '74.
We can have good jobs and fine security and good health and clean air and clean water, and it will make no difference unless we find a way for the great nations of the world to settle their differences at the conference table and not on the battlefield. And that is why we have opened, as you know, negotiations with those who might have been our adversaries, negotiations which did not mean that either we or they agreed with each other in terms of philosophy, but negotiations that had one overriding concern, and that is this: World War I was destructive, World War II was destructive; there cannot be world war III, because it will destroy not only the nations that participate in it, it will destroy civilization as we know it, and we cannot let that happen, and we will not let it happen. That is what we must do if we are to have the kind of environment that we want for the future.
And now in the presence of the representative from the Soviet Union--as he knows, I will soon be having another round of talks with Mr. Brezhnev and his colleagues in Moscow. We will not agree on all things, we will have sharp debates, but let me tell you this: Whether it is with him or whether it is with leaders of other countries they are allied with or neutral countries in the world, there is no disagreement with regard to the need for all nations to cooperate, share their knowledge and their brains in cleaning up the environment of the world. We are not just talking about the environment of Spokane or the State of Washington or of the United States but of this whole globe on which we live. And that is a great enterprise that Expo '74 will be remembered for in the years ahead.
Because, as we look at where the great ideas, the great breakthroughs come which deal with the scourges which have afflicted mankind from the beginning of civilization, we find that no one can predict that it will come from one nation or from one continent or from one race, because that spark of genius might be in the Americas, it might be in Asia, it might be in Latin America, it might be in Africa. What we have to realize is that among the 3 billion people that live on this Earth, there are those men and women who have within themselves that genius that will find new answers that will help us to get the clean air and the clean water and all the other things that we want to have a clean environment.
And going further than that, in that whole world we must recognize that that spark of genius that will find the answer to the diseases that plague mankind, it may not be here in America, it may be in some other country. But the important thing for us to remember in this period when we have ended America's longest war and when we are moving through a generation and longer of peace, let us see that not just America but all nations, whatever their differences in philosophy, work together to clean up the environment, work together in the causes of peace, and in that way, we will make the progress that we want to make by the year 2000 which the whole human race can enjoy.
No national pride should be taken in the fact that one nation or another finds the answer to what may cure cancer in its various aspects, what may deal with some aspects of heart disease and many of the others that afflict mankind.
No one nation can take any jingoistic pride in the fact that one of its scientists or one of its technicians found an answer to the problem of a cleaner environment.
What we must do is to recognize that it is together, working together, thinking together, that we will find answers that we would never find if we were not talking to each other, negotiating with each other. And that is why I say to you, my friends gathered here on this magnificent day in the State of Washington, in the city of Spokane, you are dedicated to a great goal, celebrating a new and fresh environment for tomorrow. What will that tomorrow be, and for all those who are young and who will be here to celebrate that new year 25, 26 years from now?
I will tell you what I think it can be, and this is a beginning: It can be a time when the whole world can look back on progress in conquering the scourges of disease that have afflicted all people wherever they may live. We can look back on a period when the whole world enjoyed the benefits of what our scientists and engineers were able to find out in terms of making our air and our water cleaner and better for everybody.
But most important, let us hope and let us pray on this day that we can look back and say that over that 25 years, the peoples of the world, despite their differences in philosophy, lived together in peace. Let this be a day in which we concentrate, and consecrate as well, not only our efforts in America but also working with peoples in other nations toward the goal of a fresh, new environment in terms of peace for all mankind so that we can enjoy the magnificent environment that you see around us here today.
Thank you.
MARVIN MILLER (master of ceremonies). Ladies and gentlemen, as the fair officially opens, we invite you to celebrate with us "Tomorrow's Fresh, New Environment."
Mr. President, will you say the magic words.
THE PRESIDENT. At I e noon on this day, acting in my capacity as President of the United States, it is my high honor and privilege to declare Expo '74 officially open to all the citizens of the world.
Note: The President spoke at 11:46 a.m. at the Washington State Pavilion.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Senator Edmund S. Muskie called today for a national "government in the sunshine" law so that the public will not have to depend on stolen secret papers to tell them what their President is doing.
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Journey's End [ Star Trek: The Next Generation television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Mar 28, 1994
Doctor Beverly CRUSHER: You know that alien from Tau Ceti, the one who could control warp fields with his mind?
WESLEY: The Traveller.
CRUSHER: He told Captain Picard a long time ago that you were very special, like Mozart, and that you were destined for something quite different from the rest of us. Maybe this is the first step.
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 3/28/1994 is 3545 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 7/18/1975 ( the international press conference of the Apollo-Soyuz crews in orbit ) is 3545 days
From 8/1/1964 ( Lyndon Johnon - Remarks Following a Briefing With Space Scientists on the Successful Flight to the Moon ) To 3/28/1994 is 10831 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 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of 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 of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From 7/21/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) To 3/28/1994 is 9016 days
9016 = 4508 + 4508
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 3/7/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Visit of President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony ) is 4508 days
From 12/25/1991 ( on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 3/28/1994 is 824 days
824 = 412 + 412
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/19/1966 ( premiere US film "The Spy with a Cold Nose" ) is 412 days
From 4/2/1936 ( premiere US film "Pride of the Marines" ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 20746 days
20746 = 10373 + 10373
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 3/28/1994 is 10373 days
From 8/24/1962 ( John Kennedy - Executive Order 11046 - Authorizing Award of the Bronze Star Medal ) 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 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 10373 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 3/28/1994 is 10373 days
From 7/11/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Sea Service Deployment Ribbon USS Wainwright (CG-28) 88 Jan 11 - 88 Jul 11 ) To 3/28/1994 is 2086 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 7/20/1971 ( premiere US TV series "Make Your Own Kind of Music!" ) is 2086 days
From 9/30/1932 ( Herbert Hoover - Message to the Fifth Avenue Association of New York City ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 20746 days
20746 = 10373 + 10373
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/28/1994 is 10373 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 3/28/1994 is 1108 days
1108 = 554 + 554
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/10/1967 ( premiere US film "Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!" ) is 554 days
See also: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/09/they-threw-locks-onto-ground.html
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-the-next-generation/journeys-end-19158/
tv.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7 Episode 20
Journey's End
Aired Mar 28, 1994 on CBS
AIRED: 3/28/94
Journey's End [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Original Airdate: Mar 28, 1994
Dr. Beverly CRUSHER: Now you be sure and dress warmly on those other planes of existence.
WESLEY: I will. Bye, Mom.
Dr. Beverly CRUSHER: Goodbye.
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Journey's End [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Original Airdate: Mar 28, 1994
Captain PICARD: I'm not aware of this incident or of the man you named, and this happened seven hundred years ago. I do not see what bearing it can have
ANTHWARA: That is why you have come to us, to erase a stain of blood worn by your family for twenty three generations.
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
Doctor Daniel Jackson: The point is not who built them; the point is when they were built.
https://my.spokanecity.org/about/history/
spokanecity
Spokane Area History
Spokane's first residents were Native American. From the Spokanes, we get our name, which means “Children of the Sun.” Spokane became an incorporated City on Nov. 29, 1881, encompassing 1.56 square miles. Back then, the City was known as Spokan Falls and had 350 residents. The “e” was added to Spokane in 1883, and “Falls” was dropped in 1891. The City suffered, perhaps, its biggest setback in 1889, when a fire ravaged downtown destroying 32 blocks.
A new City Hall was built at the southwest corner of Spokane Falls Boulevard and Wall Street in 1913, serving as the City's main offices until the City's centennial year—1981. The 1920s-era Montgomery Wards building at Spokane Falls Boulevard and Post Street was renovated then to house the City's offices. Old City Hall now is home to restaurants and shops.
In 1974, Spokane hosted a World's Fair. Expo '74's lasting legacy is Riverfront Park—once a highly used rail yard, the property was converted into a park to host the fair.
The City of Spokane incorporated more than 125 years ago; we are the second largest City in the State of Washington.
From 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) To 10/30/1986 is 4562 days
4562 = 2281 + 2281
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 1/31/1972 ( Richard Nixon - Proclamation 4103 - Spokane International Exposition of 1974 ) is 2281 days
From 1/31/1972 ( Richard Nixon - Proclamation 4103 - Spokane International Exposition of 1974 ) To 10/30/1986 is 5386 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 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 5386 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 10/30/1986 is 839 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 2/19/1968 ( premiere US TV series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" ) is 839 days
https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-10301986/
Ronald Reagan
Presidential Foundation & Institute
White House Diaries
Thursday, October 30, 1986
VIEW THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE
Early met with a most remarkable woman—Mrs. Jean Sutherland. Her husband is a hostage in Lebanon. She is a very strong person and wanted me to know she is involved in a move to free her husband—could not tell me details as I could not with regard to our ongoing efforts. As she put it she & her husband have put their lives on the line.
Then I went downstairs & signed a bill—the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act—HR 4350—very important to Colorado. For one thing it marks the 1st Colorado stream to be classed as a wild river & preserved as such.
Then to the World Arena for another rally—this one for Sen. Cand. Ken Kramer. It was the usual enthusiastic reception with interruptions almost every sentence. Back to the suite for a Q&A with major donors. Then a 2 hr. & 20 min. flight to Reno Nev.—flew low over Air Force Acad.—Cadets out on grounds to wave us over.
In Reno the event was at U. of Nevada-Reno for Sen. cand. Jim Santini—a convert to our party—switched while he was a Cong.man. Paul Laxalt introduced him and he introduced me. Again wild enthusiasm, and then it was on to Spokane Wash. for overnight.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=106943
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
Proclamation 4103 - Spokane International Exposition of 1974
January 31, 1972
By the President of the United States Of America
A Proclamation
In May, 1974, a six-month International Exposition on the Environment will open in Spokane, Washington, inviting the nations of the world to think anew of man's relationship to Earth.
This Exposition, whose theme is "Progress Without Pollution", will not only mark the centennial of Spokane but will also provide a splendid setting in which to explore new ways to restore and preserve our natural surroundings.
Because of the opportunities which the Exposition offers for a deeper understanding of environmental issues and for stimulating trade and cultural exchange, this administration is moving to extend the fullest possible recognition to this event in accordance with Public Law 91-269. On October 15, 1971, I advised the Secretaries of State and Commerce that the Exposition warrants Federal recognition as provided by statute. On November 24, 1971, upon request of the United States, the Bureau of International Expositions in Paris officially recognized the event as a Special Category exposition by unanimous vote.
Also, in accordance with law, I shall appoint a United States Commissioner General to exercise the responsibility of the United States Government for fulfillment of the Convention Relating to International Expositions of November 22, 1928, as modified, and to invite the several States of the Union to participate.
Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, in further recognition of this international exposition, do hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to invite, on my behalf, such foreign countries as he may consider appropriate to participate in this event.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth.
RICHARD NIXON
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018, 2:54:31 AM PDT
Subject: Orlando
You sent me that photo of you and me from that day I graduated US Navy basic training in Orlando Florida in July 1984.
Do you have anyway of knowing the precise date that photo of us was taken?
I also want to know if you know the precise date we all were at the Disney park in Orlando.
My official military records tell me I left basic training on July 16th but I don't think that was the date we graduated.
My guess is we were at Disney on the 14th or the 15th. Graduation was a Friday if I remember correctly and that might have been the 13th.
Or graduation was the 6th and we had liberty on the 7th and 8th.
I think it was the former. Graduation on the 13th
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/fullcredits
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/09/sorry-squirt-theres-only-enough-room-up.html
Homeless Veteran Of Microsoft
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2018
"Sorry, squirt. There's only enough room up there"
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Alex Rogan: Someday they're going to say "This is where it all began".
Jane Rogan: What?
Alex Rogan: Mom, I finally broke the Starfighter record.
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 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) is 7668 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 10/31/1986 is 7668 days
From 10/31/1986 To 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 1291 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 5/16/1969 ( Richard Nixon - Letter to Private Dennis Ray Roberts on Serving in the Army ) is 1291 days
From 5/27/1916 ( Woodrow Wilson - Address delivered at the First Annual Assemblage of the League to Enforce Peace: "American Principles" ) To 5/25/1937 ( biologically my maternal grandfather Ronald Reagan was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the cavalry of the United States Army ) is 7668 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 10/31/1986 is 7668 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=36676
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator Slade Gorton in Spokane, Washington
October 31, 1986
The President. Well, thank you all very much. And thank you, Slade, for that most kind and generous introduction. And the—
Audience member. We love you, Ron!
The President. —our master— [applause] —and the—I love all of you. Now, our master of ceremonies, Joel Pritchard, and former Congressman—and I'm sorry that the schedule didn't call for me getting here in time so that I had to miss the Yakima Indian dance. And before I begin let me say thanks to some great bands: the Washington State University Band, the Central Valley High School Band, the Eastern Washington University Collegians, and the Percussionauts. And let me also mention three members of Washington State's A-Team in Washington, DC: Senator Dan Evans and Representatives Sid Morrison and Rod Chandler and, of course, the State chairman of the GOP, Dunn Jennifer. And to those here who might have crossed the line from Idaho, I just want to say that you have a tremendous United States Senator, Steve Symms. And I hope you'll reelect him.
Audience member. You bet we will!
The President. All right. Now, I can't help but see the young people here in this audience. And I have a special message for you from my roommate. She said when it comes to drugs, please—for yourselves, for your families, for your future and your country-just say no.
Well, it's wonderful to be here in the other Washington. And you know, as I often say to my staff when we're taking off in Air Force One, it's great to get out of Washington, DC, and to get back where the real people are, as Slade said. Now, you probably know that I couldn't do this much traveling when Congress was in session, as Slade Gorton will tell you. That's because some of those folks back there need watching. [Laughter] Now, I'm not assailing the institution of the Congress; I respect it mightily. But there are some there that in their approach to business reminds me of the three fellows that came out of a building one day and found they'd locked themselves out of their ear. And one of them said, "Get me a wire coat hanger. I'll straighten it out, and I can fix it so I can trip the latch and we'll get in." And the second one says, "You can't do that. Someone will see us and think we're stealing the ear." And the third one said, "Well, we better think of something pretty quick, because it's starting to rain and the top's down." [Laughter]
But that story says so much about how the tax-and-tax, spend-and-spend policies left our country just a few years ago: negative growth, double-digit inflation, the highest rates since—and get ready—the highest interest rates since the Civil War. And so, as part of the 1980 cleanup crew for the worst economic mess since the Great Depression, Slade Gorton and I headed for Washington. Well, we cut government growth. We slashed regulations, cut income taxes almost 25 percent. And today we're enjoying one of the longest economic expansions in history. The prime interest rate has fallen by two-thirds. Mortgage and auto loan rates are down. Inflation has plummeted from more than 12 percent to 1.8 percent. And we've created in just a little less than 4 years over 11 1/2 million new jobs. That's more new jobs than Western Europe and Japan combined, put together, in the last 10 years. Now, you know when we started that economic program that led to all of this, there were a lot of critics. And some of them were pretty hostile, and some of them were making fun of us and all of that. I really realized that our plan, though, was working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics. [Laughter]
Just days ago, we learned that the figure that represents the country's economic growth—GNP, the gross national product-and some other indicators show our economy gathering momentum for even more growth, higher take-home pay, and more new jobs. And more recently, we learned the trade deficit in September declined for the second month in a row and is down now 30 percent lower than its peak. Now, this is particularly good news for our manufacturing industries. And we also learned that September sales of single-family homes were up over 10 percent. And just this morning, we learned that the Nation's leading economic indicators were up four-tenths of 1 percent in September. Now, there are three more indications that we're headed for more prosperity. And I'm determined to see that those who still are not sharing fully in our nation's prosperity do so. And I give you my pledge: Neither Slade nor I will be satisfied until this expansion reaches every sector of our economy and every home in America and until every American who wants a job has a job.
And to broaden our expansion, I signed into law last week the most sweeping reform of the tax code in our nation's history. For more than 80 percent of Americans, it means a top rate of 15 percent or less. But wouldn't you know it, even before this fair share tax plan reached my desk, the Democratic leadership in Congress was saying they wanted to break faith with the American people and turn the tax reform into a tax increase. You know, the truth is those folks never met a tax they didn't like. [Laughter] And when it comes to spending your hard-earned money, they act like they've got your credit card in their pocket. And believe me, they never leave home without it. But you, the American people, know the truth: We don't have a deficit because we're taxed too little; we have a deficit because the Congress spends too much. Isn't it about time the Congress started protecting the family budget instead of fattening the Federal budget?
You know, when I see what's been happening there, back in our Nation's Capital, it reminds me of a story. You'll find out that when you get to my age, a lot of things remind you of stories. [Laughter] This happened to be a Democratic fundraiser at a downtown hotel. And when the people came out of the hotel, there was a kid selling puppies. He had puppies, and he was saying, "Buy a Democrat puppy. Buy a Democrat puppy." Two weeks later the Republicans held a fundraiser in the same place. When they were coming out, there was the kid with the puppies saying, "Buy a Republican puppy. Buy a Republican puppy." And a newsman remembered him from 2 weeks before, and he said, "Hey, kid, you were here 2 weeks ago selling those pups as Democrat pups. Now you're back here selling them as Republican pups. How come?" The kid says, "Now their eyes are open." [Laughter]
But, ladies and gentlemen, we've come now to an issue that transcends in importance even all the other crucial matters that I've mentioned: my most solemn duty as President, the safety of the American people and the security of these United States.
Audience member. Stay tough, Ron!
The President. And here, too, because of the support of a Senator like Slade Gorton, we've been able to restore America's strength. There is nothing I'm prouder of in this job than the 2 million young men and women who are in our military forces. And you know, the arguments that rage and how many people on the other side, politically, back in Washington, are always trying to whittle down the defense budget—well, let me tell you about those young people in uniform. If we must ever ask them to put their lives on the line for the United States of America, then they deserve to have the finest weapons and equipment that we can produce. And we're going to see they get them.
And by the way, all of you in the Spokane area have a special reason for pride. Just 2 days ago airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base walked away with the trophy at the Strategic Air Command competition. So, as Commander in Chief, I'd like to give them a special salute.
You know, you find out some things about my job. I got to Washington, and then I found those young men, those marines, for example, at the helicopter and everything, would always salute. And I was an officer in World War II. In civilian clothes, I know I'm not supposed to salute, so I'd try to nod and say hello and hope they'd drop their hand. But they wouldn't; they kept it up there. And one night over at the Marine headquarters, I said to General Kelley, the Commandant of the Marines—I told him about this. And I said there ought to be a regulation that even though if I'm the Commander in Chief, even though I'm in civilian clothes, that I can return a salute. He taught me something. He said, "I think if you did it, no one would say anything." [Laughter] So, I salute every time I see a uniform. [Laughter] Well, because of our young men and women in uniform, things have really changed around the world. You know, America used to wear a "Kick Me" sign around its neck. Well, we threw that away, and now it reads, "Don't Tread on Me." And today every nickel-and-dime dictator around the world knows that if he tangles with the United States of America, he'll have a price to pay. One other thing I'm especially proud of: After 6 years of this administration, not 1 square inch of territory in the world has been lost to communism, and one small country, Grenada, has been set free.
And finally, there's another special issue. We remain committed to our decision to move ahead with our Strategic Defense Initiative against ballistic missiles, SDI. Today we're dealing with the Soviet Union from a position of strength, and it was SDI that brought the Soviet Union to the bargaining table. Let me pledge to you: Our goal is to keep America strong, to save the West from mutual nuclear terror, to make ballistic missiles obsolete and, ultimately, to eliminate them from the face of the Earth. And, incidentally, in doing that, so there's no confusion, while SDI is not a protection against anything other than the ballistic missiles, I mean to include ridding all nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. SDI is America's insurance policy to protect us from accidents or some madman who might come along, as Hitler did or a Qadhafi— [laughter] —or just in case the Soviets don't keep their side of a bargain.
The record on Soviet treaty violations is clear. We can either bet on American technology to keep us safe or on Soviet promises. And each has its own track record. I'll bet on American technology any day. Now, I knew there were those who had their doubts, but flying back from Iceland a few weeks ago, I knew the American people would support firmness with the Soviet Union. So, I couldn't come here today without thanking you, each of you, for that support.
Now, in a crowd like this, I know there must be a number of Democrats and—
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Yes, now, wait a minute! Wait! Wait! Going across this country, I've seen millions of fine, patriotic Democrats who have come to realize that their leadership is totally out of step with their beliefs. And since we're outnumbered in the House of Representatives, if it hadn't been for the support of some of those Democrats like those who might be here today, we couldn't have achieved what we've achieved in these programs. Now, as you may know, I used to be a Democrat myself until I learned that the liberal leadership of that party had become completely out of step with the hard-working and patriotic men and women who make up the Democratic Party.
With all these bands here that I recognized, I have to tell you a little personal story because it kind of fits in right here. I was a drum major of the Dixon, Illinois, Boys Band. And we were invited to a neighboring town to lead their Memorial Day parade. Well, we didn't exactly lead it, because in front of us was the parade leader on a big white horse. And we're going down the street. And the band is playing, and I'm pumping the baton. And he turned and rode back down the line of the parade to make sure everything was coming along all right. And pretty soon, I began to think the music was sounding faint— [laughter] —and I glanced over my shoulder. He had come back up and caught up just in time to turn the band to the right down an intersection. I was walking up the street all by myself. [Laughter] And that's what happened to the Democratic Party. The party had turned to the right; the leadership is still walking to the left.
But you know, in this thing of changing parties, though, I know how tough it can be to break with tradition. But remember, there's a great example set for us: the great statesman, Winston Churchill. As a Member of Parliament, Winston Churchill changed parties, and he was criticized for it. But he gave an answer that says it all. He said very simply, "Some men change principle for party, others change party for principle."
And that's what the election here in Washington State is all about this year: principle. Slade Gorton is a man of principle and integrity, a man who is devoted to his State and the people he represents, one of the Nation's most respected and effective Senators. You know, every time Slade walks into the Oval Office, I can't help thinking of another great Senator from your State, Washington; Scoop Jackson. And like Scoop, when Slade sits across a table from you, he has the courage and honesty to tell you what he believes, whether he agrees with you or not. I've seen him in action, making a reality of Scoop's longtime dream of a home port for the Navy at Everett. And, believe me, he's about the most effective fighter any State has on Capitol Hill.
A perfect example is the issue of selecting potential sites for a nuclear waste repository. Slade has told me about his deep concern for the health and safety of Washingtonians, particularly as it relates to this issue. On this point, Slade has gotten the ears of everyone back in the Nation's Capital.
Audience member. Way to go, Slade!
The President. Now, as you know, there were plans to begin work at Hanford this fiscal year. Well, Slade, working with Dan Evans and Mark Hatfield, persuaded the Congress to adopt a provision that stops the drilling of an exploratory shaft for 12 months. And Slade has alerted me that some people have suggested that this administration might intentionally circumvent the law. Well, that's the kind of thing that touches my temperature control. [Laughter] And let me tell you that I will see to it that the law on this issue is followed to the letter, and let no one tell you differently.
I also remember how, for 3 years, Slade and I and Scoop Jackson worked together for a stronger America. Slade's opponent [Brock Adams] has a different goal. He's joined the most liberal elements in the Congress in opposing our strategic defense against nuclear ballistic missiles. Even after I returned from Iceland, he said he was—in his words—"dead against SDI." Well, we're dead set against a weaker America. We're going to keep our insurance policy for peace. With Slade Gorton in the Senate, we're going to negotiate for peace from a position of strength.
And the choice here in Washington State couldn't be clearer. Slade Gorton was a leader on the team that brought America back. Slade's opponent was an all-star player on the team that got us in the mess in the first place, and he hasn't changed his uniform yet. So, please, on election day, keep our team on the field. Go to the polls. Get everyone you know to go there, too. And send Slade Gorton back to the Senate.
Before I leave all this subject of strength and everything, let me just explain, if I could, for some who might not understand—and I've come across many people who don't understand—SDI and what the whole proposal is about. We don't believe that the world should go on with a policy of mutual assured destruction, in which our only defense against nuclear missiles is to have so many on each side that both sides are afraid to start the fight. We believe that if there is a defensive shield that can make those weapons obsolete we should put that in place, but not put it in place while we have our great arsenal of nuclear offensive weapons. In Iceland and since then, my proposal to the Soviet Union was that when we come to the point that we have developed and know we have this defensive shield then they and the United States come together. We agree to eliminate all offensive nuclear weapons, and we, in return, give them the same shield we have so that we can live together with no suspicion that each other might be cheating.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the eyes of America are on you and your great State. Will you choose the Democratic leaders, who in 1980 weakened our nation and nearly brought our economy to its knees, who raised your taxes and announced their plans to pursue—
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Or will you give us a chance to send the cleanup team of 1980 back to finish?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Now, you've gotten ahead of me a little bit here, because I thought I'd conduct an informal poll and you would speak up loudly and let all America hear. For example: Do you want to go back to the days of big spending, high taxes, and runaway inflation?
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Do you want to return to policies that gave us a weak and vacillating America?
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. That's good to hear. [Laughter] Now, would you rather have low taxes, low inflation, and low interest rates?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Would you rather have an America that is strong and proud and free?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Do you want Slade Gorton as your Senator from the great State of Washington?
Audience. Yes!
The President. You just made my day, and you didn't make Slade a bit unhappy, either. [Laughter]
But important as this election will be to me, it'll be even more important to you, and especially to you young people, for this will shape our nation's future. Every poll shows that the age group from 18 to 24 has the highest percentage of any age group in being supportive of what we're doing. But now, I have another poll return, also—so, when you go out of here, I'm going to send you on a mission—that is also the age group that shows the lowest turnout for voting at the polls. So, go out of here not only determined to vote yourselves but buttonhole every friend in your age group that you can and tell them the only way to be a good citizen is to get to those polls and vote. Exercise your sacred right as an American. Participate in shaping history itself by going to the polls. You know, at the beginning of World War II, General George C. Marshall was the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Someone asked him, as we went into that terrible war, if we had a secret weapon and, if so, what it might be? And General Marshall said, very simply, "Yes, we have a secret weapon. It's just the best blanketyblank kids in the world." Now, I've been seeing your generation on campuses all across the country, in high schools that I've visited, those young people in the military and all, and I can assure you ii' George Marshall were here today he would say, your generation—you're the best blankety-blank kids in the world. I had to say blanketyblank and not what he said, but generals are different than Presidents in what they can say. [Laughter]
Well, it's time to go now, but before leaving—
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Yes. I've got to go over and visit Steve Symms in Idaho. But before leaving, I would just like to say that people my age deeply believe that it's our duty to turn over to you young Americans the same freedom and opportunity that our parents and grandparents turned over to us when it was our turn to take charge. And speaking for other generations, those between my generation and yours: All of us feel that same way. Now, there've been times—just a few years ago was one of them—when we have been careless and things have slipped for America. But we've always gotten back on track, as we are now. And so, I pledge to you, that that's what we want to do, and we're going to turn over to you that kind of a free and opportune-offering society here in America. When we look at you and see your openness and your enthusiasm for America and for life itself, believe me, it gives us heart.
So, when you go to the polls, win one for Slade Gorton, win one for your future, and win one for America's future. And I can't resist saying it: Win one for the Gipper! Thank you all, and God bless you.
Note: The President spoke at 10:41 a.m. at the Spokane Coliseum. He was introduced by Senator Gorton. Following his remarks, the President met at the coliseum with major donors to the Washington State Republican Party. He then traveled to Twin Falls, ID.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=36677
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator Steven D. Symms in Twin Falls, Idaho
October 31, 1986
The President. Thank you.-
Audience. We love Ronnie! We love Ronnie! We love Ronnie!
The President. Well, I love all of you. And you know, I really was born too soon, because when I was playing football the cheerleaders were all boys. [Laughter] Well, Steve, thank you for that very generous and kind introduction. And, while I'm doing it, a special thanks to the Burley High School Band, Amy Stukenholtz, the Sawtooth Country Cloggers, and the Madrigals from Twin Falls High School. And of course, thanks also to the Stage Band of the College of Southern Idaho and K.C. and the Sunshine Kids.
I've come here today in support of a champion on the team that put the American economy back on track, rebuilt her military strength, and restored her confidence. He's made a difference for Idaho and our country, and I hope you'll do everything in your power to see that Steve Symms is reelected to the United States Senate. And I'm pleased that coming here gives me a chance to say hello to another great Senator, a strong ally of our administration and a good friend, Jim McClure.
And when you're casting your ballot on Tuesday for Steve, don't forget to vote for Dave Leroy and Butch Otter for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. And I'm very pleased that your State chairman of the Republican Party, Blake Hall, is here with us, too. You know, you've also got a Congressman to be proud of in Larry Craig. And for Pete's sake, please send me Mel Richardson to Congress to work with him. I need a Congressman who will support me, instead of someone who opposes me 60 percent of the time.
Now, you know, I just can't help but see that there are a lot of young people here.
Audience. We love Ronnie! We love Ronnie! We love Ronnie!
The President. All right. Now, I have a special message for all you young people from my roommate. She said to tell you when it comes to drugs, please—for yourselves, for your families, for your future, and for your country—just say no.
You know, it's wonderful to be here in Idaho, and you know, as I often say to my staff when we're getting on Air Force One to take off, it's great to get out of Washington and get back to where the real people are. Now, you probably know I couldn't do this much traveling when Congress was in session, as Steve Symms will tell you. That's because some of those folks up there need watching. [Laughter] Now, I'm not striking a blow at Congress as an institution; I respect it greatly. But there are some people in there that their way of doing government business reminds me of the three fellows that came out of the building and found out they'd locked themselves out of the ear. And one of them said, "Well," he says, "get me a wire coat hanger." And he says, "I can straighten that out, and," he said, "I can flip the latch and get us in." And the second one said, "We can't do that out here. Somebody would think we're stealing the ear." And the third one said, "Well, we better think of something fast, because it's starting to rain and the top's down." [Laughter]
But that story says so much about how the tax-and-tax, spend-and-spend policies left our country just a few short years ago: negative growth, double-digit inflation, the highest rates since—and get ready for this-the highest interest rates since the Civil War. And so, as part of the 1980 cleanup crew for the worst economic mess since the Great Depression, Steve and I headed for Washington. We cut government growth, slashed regulations, and cut income taxes by almost 25 percent. And today we're enjoying one of the longest economic expansions in history. The prime interest rate has fallen by two-thirds, mortgage and auto loan rates are down. Inflation has plummeted from more than 12 percent to only 1.8 percent. And we've created over 11 1/2 million new jobs—that is more than our allies in Western Europe and Japan combined have created in the past 10 years. You know, when we started that economic program to bring us out of the doldrums, oh, there was a lot of criticism. And people were making fun, and then there were some others that were very angry about it. And you know, I could tell that it was really working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics. [Laughter]
Just days ago, we learned that the figure that represents the country's economic growth—GNP, gross national product—and some other indicators show our economy as gathering momentum for even more growth, higher take-home pay, and more new jobs. And more recently, we have learned that the trade deficit in September declined for the second month in a row and is now 30 percent below its peak. This is particularly good news for our manufacturing industries. And we also learned that September sales of single family homes were up over 10 percent. And just this morning, we learned that the Nation's leading economic indicators were up four-tenths of a percent in September. That's three more indications that we're headed for more prosperity. And I'm determined to see that those who still are not sharing fully in our nation's prosperity do so. And I give you my pledge: Neither Steve nor I will be satisfied until this expansion reaches every sector of our economy and every home in America and until every American who wants a job has a job.
Now, to broaden our expansion, I signed into law last week the most sweeping reform of the tax code in our nation's history. For more than 80 percent of Americans, it means a top tax rate of 15 percent or less. But wouldn't you know it, even before this fair share tax plan reached my desk, the Democratic leadership in Congress was saying that they wanted to break faith with the American people and turn tax reform into a tax increase. You know, the truth is those folks never met a tax they didn't like. And when it comes to spending your hard-earned money, they act like they've got your credit card in their pocket. And believe me, they never leave home without it. [Laughter] But the American people know the truth: We don't have a deficit because we're taxed too little; we have a deficit because the Congress spends too much. Isn't it about time that they started protecting the family budget instead of fattening the Federal budget? [Applause]
And the contrast between us and the leaders of the other party is just as apparent widen it comes to judicial appointments. You know the President appoints the Federal judges, but the Senate has to approve them. And the contrast between us and the leaders of the other party, as I say, well, sum it up: Since I began appointing Federal judges to be approved by people like Steve Symms in the Republican Senate, the Federal judiciary has become tougher, much tougher, on criminals. Convicted criminals are going to jail more often, and they're receiving longer sentences. But over and over—and you perhaps saw some of this on television—the Democratic leadership has tried in the Senate to torpedo our choices for judges, and that's where Steve Symms can make all the difference. Without him and the Republican majority in the Senate, we'll find liberals, like a certain fellow from Massachusetts, who will be deciding who our judges are.
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Now, I'll bet you'll agree: I'd rather have a Judiciary Committee headed by Senator Strom Thurmond, as it is, than one run by Teddy Kennedy any day. [Applause]
But you know, this talking about political differences and all reminds me of a story. And you'll find out when you get my age everything reminds you of a story. [Laughter] It was a Democratic fundraiser at a downtown hotel. And when they came out of the fundraiser, there was a kid with some puppies. And he was selling them: "Buy a Democrat puppy. Buy a Democrat puppy." But 2 weeks later the Republicans held a fundraiser at the same place. When they came out, the same kid was there with the pups: "Buy a Republican puppy. Buy a Republican puppy." Well, a newspaperman that had seen him there 2 weeks before said, "Hey, kid, a couple of weeks ago you were selling those puppies as Democrat puppies. Now you're selling them, and they're Republican puppies. Come on—how come?" Kid says, "Now they got their eyes open." [Laughter]
But, ladies and gentlemen, we come now to an issue that transcends in importance even all the other crucial matters that I've mentioned: my most solemn duty as President, the safety of the American people and the security of these United States. Here, too, because of the support of men like Steve Symms, we've been able to restore America's strength. There is nothing in this job that I'm prouder of than the 2 million young men and women who are in the Armed Forces of the United States today. And you've heard, of course, of the contest and how mainly our opponents keep trying to cut back on our defense spending. Well, let me tell you: If we must ever ask those young people to put their lives on the line for the United States of America, then they deserve to have the finest weapons and equipment that we can produce. And with Steve Symms' help, we're going to see they get it. You know, because of these young men and women in uniform, things have really changed around the world. You know, America used to wear a "Kick Me" sign around its neck. Well, we've thrown that one away, and now it reads, "Don't Tread on Me." Today every nickel-and-dime dictator around the world knows that if he tangles with the United States of America, he will have a price to pay. And one other thing I'm especially proud of: After 6 years of this administration, not 1 square inch of territory in the world has been lost to communism, and one small country, Grenada, has been set free.
And finally, there's another special issue. We remain committed to our decision to move ahead with our strategic defense against ballistic missiles, SDI. Now, today we're dealing with the Soviet Union from a position of strength, and it was SDI that brought the Soviet Union to the bargaining table. And let me pledge to you: Our goal is to keep America strong, to save the West from mutual nuclear terror, to make ballistic missiles obsolete and, ultimately, to eliminate them from the face of the Earth. SDI is America's insurance policy to protect us from accidents or some madman, like Hitler, who might come along—or a Qadhafi—or just in the case that the Soviets don't keep their side of a bargain. This is critical, because the same people who announced phony troop pullouts in Afghanistan last month are saying, "Trust us on arms control this month." They didn't pull anyone out. There're just as many there as there always were. Phony bookkeeping won't end the war in Afghanistan. Only one thing can: a Soviet decision to get out. They can't have it both ways. They can't bring troops in one month and announce troop withdrawals the next. They can't talk peace in Reykjavik and wage war in Kabul. So, I have a message for the Soviets: Pull back in Afghanistan, and move forward on arms control. Now, I knew there were those who had their doubts, but flying back from Iceland, I knew the American people would support firmness with the Soviet Union. So, I couldn't come here today without thanking each of you for that support.
Now, you know, in a crowd like this, there must be a number of Democrats. No, really, because I want you to know that during these past 6 years as President I've had to rely again and again upon the support of Democrats like those who might be here today, and I want to thank each and every one of you for that. You know, I used to be a Democrat myself until I learned that the liberal leadership of that party had become completely out of step with the hard-working and patriotic men and women who make up the Democratic Party. Going back and forth across the country, I have found there are many of them that know that there is a difference between what they believe and what the leadership of their party now believes.
If you don't mind a little personal story: When I was a kid in Dixon, Illinois, I was a drum major of the Dixon Boys Band. And one day we were asked to lead the Memorial Day parade at a nearby town. And the parade marshal on a big white horse was out in front, and then it was us—me with the baton and the band and the parade. Well, we started down the street. And the band was playing, and I was pumping the baton. And suddenly, the marshal rode back down the line of the parade to see that everything was coming along all right. And pretty soon, I thought the music was beginning to sound faint, and I sneaked a look back. The marshal had caught up with the parade just in time to turn the whole band to the right down an intersection, where they were supposed to go, and I was going up the street all by myself. [Laughter]
Now, I tell that because that's really what has happened to the Democratic Party: The rank-and-file members have turned to the right, and the leadership is still going up that trail that they've been on for so many years. Now, maybe some are ex-Democrats, as I am, but maybe some haven't reregistered. It's tough to break with tradition, but remember what Winston Churchill, that great British statesman, said. He was in Parliament, and he changed parties. And he was roundly criticized for doing so. And then he answered with a simple sentence. He said, "Some men change principle for party, and others change party for principle."
Here in Idaho the choice couldn't be any clearer this year. Steve's opponent is a world-class big taxer, who has proposed increasing State taxes and, at a Governors' conference, called for raising Federal taxes. Steve does not see costly new Federal programs and high taxes as solutions. He's been working with me to help the lumber industry and to see to it that the Japanese don't dump computer chips on the market. He's also been championing the plight of the farmer. By the way, we have produced more assistance—or provided more assistance to America's farmers than the last five administrations combined—826 billion this last year alone. But Steve and I see this only as a stopgap. In the long haul, we've got to put the profit back in farming and get the Federal bureaucrats out.
Ladies and gentlemen, the eyes of America are on you and your great State. Will you choose the Democratic leaders, who in 1980 weakened our nation and nearly brought our economy to its knees, who raised your taxes and have announced their plans to do so again, who oppose our efforts to pursue a defense to protect us from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles? Do you want to send to Washington someone who will cancel out the vote of your other great Senator, Jim McClure?
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Or will you choose to give the cleanup crew of 1980 a chance to finish the job?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Now, just to be sure where you stand, I thought I'd conduct an informal poll. Speak up loudly and let all America hear. Do you want to go back to the days of big spending, high taxes, and runaway inflation?
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Do you want Ted Kennedy controlling the confirmation of Federal judges?
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. Do you want to return to policies that gave us a weak and vacillating America?
Audience. No-o-o!
The President. That's good to hear. [Laughter] Now, would you rather have low taxes, low inflation, and low interest rates?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Would you rather have an America that is strong and proud and free?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Do you want Steve Symms as your Senator from the great State of Idaho?
Audience. Yes!
The President. Thank you. You just made my day, and you didn't hurt Steve a bit. [Laughter]
You know, my name will never appear on a ballot again, but if you'd like to vote for me one more time—
Audience. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
The President. There's a little matter of the Constitution. If you mean you hope I'll live 4 more years, I'm for that. [Laughter] And what you can do, short of the other there—give me 2 more years of a Republican Senate. You just vote for Steve.
But important as this election will be to me, it'll be even more important to you, and especially to you young people, for this election could really play a part in shaping our nation's future. Every poll shows that the age group 18 to 24—that age group has the highest percentage in giving us support for what we're doing. [Applause] But, wait a minute. Every poll shows just as clearly that that age group has the lowest voter turnout. So, you young people exercise your sacred right as an American. Participate in shaping history itself by going to the polls and casting your vote. But then, more than that, go out of here as missionaries, remembering what I said about that age group, and buttonhole your friends and tell them, if they are between 18 and 24, to get to the polls and vote.
But, you know, I've seen your counterparts, members of your generation all across this country. I've been on campuses, been in high schools, seen them there in the military and all. And I can't help but think that back when we went into World War II, General George C. Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, was asked if the United States had a secret weapon and, if so, what it might be? And General Marshall answered very crisply. He said, "Yes, we have a secret weapon. It's just the best blankety-blank kids in the world." From what I've seen—going around the country-of this generation, if George Marshall were here, he'd say you are the best blankety-blank kids in the world. He didn't really say "blankety-blank," but President's can't talk like generals. [Laughter]
Well, it's time to go now. But before leaving, I'd just like to say that people my age believe that it's our duty to turn over to you young Americans the same freedom and opportunity that our parents and grandparents handed to us when it was our turn. And not only my generation but all those in here between my generation and yours, I think, feel the same way. There've been times—in fact just a few years ago-when it's looked like we have failed someplace along the line and things have slipped. But we've always gotten it back on track, as we have it now, and it will be there when it's your turn to take over. When we look at you, when we see your openness and your enthusiasm for America, for life itself, it gives us heart. So, when you go to the polls, win one for Steve Symms, win one for your future and America's future—and I just can't resist—I don't care if you win one for the Gipper!
Thank you all very much. Thank you, and God bless you all.
Note: The President spoke at S:09 p.m. at the Exposition Center on the College of Southern Idaho campus. He was introduced by Senator Symms. Following his remarks, the President met at the Harrett Museum with major donors to the Idaho State Republican Party. He then traveled to Los Angeles, CA.
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
199 - Letter to Private Dennis Ray Roberts on Serving in the Army.
May 16, 1969
Dear Private Roberts:
It was gratifying to receive your recent letter regarding your sense of pride and dignity as a soldier in the United States Armed Forces particularly since our nation honors our Armed Forces this week.
Letters such as yours are most reassuring that there are young men throughout our nation and the Armed Forces who stand ready in our quest for peace for all mankind. As President and Commander-in-Chief, I appreciate your expression of dedication and willingness to share in the responsibilities of maintaining our freedom and security as a nation.
My best wishes for your success.
Sincerely,
RICHARD NIXON
[Private Dennis R. Roberts, B-7-2, United States Army Training Center, Fourth Platoon, Fort Benning, Georgia]
Note: Private Roberts' letter, dated May 4, 1969, and released by the White House Press Office along with the President's letter on May 16, 1969, read as follows:
Dear Mr. President:
I'm writing this letter to you to let you know just how I feel about the two years I'll be in The United States Army.
Mr. President, I know you will never see this letter nor will you read it, but I'm sure there must be many guys like myself who just want you to know their feelings toward you and the United States. Mr. President, I'm proud to serve my country in the best way possible--that by being in the Armed Forces of the United States, and Mr. President, I'm very proud to be under your leadership and guidance. I know there is a lot more hardships to face than what our country has faced in the past but I will do whatever I can for my country and for you, Mr. President. You don't have to answer this letter. I know there is a lot more work that's more important than answering a letter from a soldier, so do that work and maybe, I pray, we won't need all the soldiers we have now in the United States Armed Forces.
So, Mr. President, do your work because that's the only answer I want.
Cordially yours,
PVT. DENNIS RAY ROBERTS
P.S. Maybe, Mr. President, one day I can meet you and tell these words to you and not send them to you on paper.
Citation: Richard Nixon: "Letter to Private Dennis Ray Roberts on Serving in the Army.," May 16, 1969.
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April 13, 1981
OBITUARY
Joe Louis, 66, Heavyweight King Who Reigned 12 Years, Is Dead
By DEANE McGOWEN
Joe Louis, who held the heavyweight boxing championship of the world for almost 12 years and the affection of the American public for most of his adult life, died yesterday
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April 13, 1981, Monday
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Following are the scheduled times and events for the mission of the space shuttle Columbia on Monday and Tuesday. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Monday 3:50 A.M. Astronauts awaken after 7-hour 50-minute scheduled sleep period that began at 8 P.M. Sunday. 5:20 A.M. Astronauts test-fire Columbia's control rockets.
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ASTRONAUTS' FAMILIES GATHERED FOR LIFTOFF
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April 13, 1981, Monday
Late City Final Edition, Section A, Page 10, Column 6, 386 words
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The families of the shuttle astronauts, John W. Young and Capt. Robert L. Crippen, flew home to Houston from Florida today after watching the fiery launching of the space shuttle Columbia. Today's liftoff was as spectacular as it was flawless, with rockets spewing smoke and flames onto the launching
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April 13, 1981, Monday
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The space shuttle Columbia lost more than a dozen of its heat-protection tiles today, but space agency officials here said they were quite confident that there was no danger to the space shuttle or its two astronauts. The loss, discovered by the astronauts in the first couple hours of ...
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April 13, 1981
OBITUARY
Joe Louis, 66, Heavyweight King Who Reigned 12 Years, Is Dead
By DEANE McGOWEN
Before Louis retired undefeated as champion on March 1, 1949, his last title defense had been against Jersey Joe Walcott. Louis knocked him out on June 25, 1948, in New York.
As the titleholder, his fights had grossed more than $4.6 million, of which he received about $800,000.
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Metamorphosis [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
Captain KIRK: What were you doing in space at the age of eighty seven?
Zefram COCHRANE: I was tired, Captain. I was going to die, and I wanted to die in space. That's all.
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Joe Louis
AMERICAN BOXER
Joe Louis, byname of Joseph Louis Barrow, also called the Brown Bomber, (born May 13, 1914, Lafayette, Alabama, U.S.—died April 12, 1981, Las Vegas, Nevada), American boxer who was world heavyweight champion from June 22, 1937, when he knocked out James J. Braddock in eight rounds in Chicago, until March 1, 1949, when he briefly retired. During his reign, the longest in the history of any weight division, he successfully defended his title 25 times, more than any other champion in any division, scoring 21 knockouts (his service in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945 no doubt prevented him from defending his title many more times). He was known as an extremely accurate and economical knockout puncher.
Louis’s father, a sharecropper, was committed to a state mental hospital when Louis was about two years old. After his mother remarried, the family, which included eight children, moved to Detroit, Michigan, where Louis took up amateur boxing. He won the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union 175-pound championship in 1934 and also was a Golden Gloves titleholder; of 54 amateur fights, Louis won 50 and lost 4. His first professional fight took place on July 4, 1934, and within 12 months he had knocked out Primo Carnera, the first of six previous or subsequent heavyweight champions who would become his victims; the others were Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Braddock, the German champion Max Schmeling, and Jersey Joe Walcott. Louis sustained his first professional loss in 1936 at the hands of Schmeling. In 1938, after having beaten Braddock and taken the title, Louis met Schmeling in a rematch that the American media portrayed as a battle between Nazism and democracy (though Schmeling himself was not a Nazi). Louis’s dramatic knockout victory in the first round made him a national hero. He was perhaps the first black American to be widely admired by whites, a fact attributable not only to his extraordinary pugilistic skills but also to his sportsmanlike behaviour in the ring (he did not gloat over his white opponents), his perceived humility and soft-spoken demeanour, and his discretion in his private life.
Louis was at his peak in the period 1939–42. From December 1940 through June 1941 he defended the championship seven times. After enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942, he served in a segregated unit with Jackie Robinson, who later became the first African American to play major league baseball. Louis did not see combat but fought in 96 exhibition matches before some two million troops; he also donated more than $100,000 to Army and Navy relief funds. After the war he was less active, and in 1949 he retired as the undefeated champion long enough to allow Ezzard Charles to earn recognition as his successor.
Although Louis earned nearly $5 million as a fighter, he spent or gave away nearly all of it. When the Internal Revenue Service demanded more than $1 million in back taxes and penalties, he was forced to return to the ring to pay off his debts. He fought Charles for the championship on September 27, 1950, but lost a 15-round decision. In his last fight of consequence, against future champion Rocky Marciano on October 26, 1951, he was knocked out in eight rounds. From 1934 to 1951, Louis had 71 bouts, winning 68, 54 by knockouts. A Hollywood movie about his life, The Joe Louis Story, was made in 1953.
After his second retirement Louis continued to be plagued by money problems, and he was briefly forced to work as a professional wrestler. Later he became a greeter for Caesar’s Palace, a resort and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Upon his death in 1981 he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery
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Joe Louis
Boxer (1914–1981)
African-American boxer Joe Louis, who reigned as world heavyweight champion from 1937 until 1949, is regarded as one of his sport's all-time greats.
After reigning as heavyweight champion for 11 years and eight months, a record, Louis retired on March 1, 1949.
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
Quotes
Centauri: [voice in video game] Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
Star Trek - Metamorphosis - television series Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
Captain KIRK: Cochrane got it off of us, but I don't know whether he did us a favour or not.
Doctor MCCOY: What kind of talk is that?
KIRK: How do you fight a thing like that? I've got a ship up there somewhere, responsibility for four lives here, one of them dying because of me.
MCCOY: It isn't your fault.
KIRK: I'm in command, Bones. It makes it my fault. How do you fight a thing like that?
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/metamorphosis-24923/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 2 Episode 9
Metamorphosis
Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
AIRED: 11/10/67
Star Trek - Metamorphosis - television series Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
[Outside Cochrane's home]
KIRK: How do you do it?
COCHRANE: I just sort of clear my mind and it comes.
(He walks to the edge of the garden then stands with his eyes closed. The Companion appears, then moves to envelope him.)
KIRK: Bones, what do you make of that?
MCCOY: Almost a symbiosis of some kind, a sort of joining.
KIRK: Exactly what I think. Not exactly like a pet owner speaking to a beloved animal, would you say?
MCCOY: No, it's more than that.
KIRK: Agreed. More like love.
(The Companion vanishes, so Kirk and McCoy go over to Cochrane.)
MCCOY: Are you all right?
COCHRANE: Yes. It kind of drains me a little, but I'm all right.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Quotes
Brad Hamilton: Jeez. Doesn't anyone fucking knock any more?
Star Trek - Metamorphosis - television series Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
(from internet transcript)
[Cochrane's home]
KIRK: You seem to think this Companion of yours can do almost anything.
COCHRANE: I said it was very powerful.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Quotes
Linda Barrett: Hi Brad, you know how cute I always thought you were.
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1966/mulliken/facts/
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966
Robert S. Mulliken
Facts
Robert S. Mulliken
Born: 7 June 1896, Newburyport, MA, USA
Died: 31 October 1986, Arlington, VA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Prize motivation: "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method."
Prize share: 1/1
Work
The world around us consists of molecules that are composed of atoms. In Niels Bohr's atomic model, which is based on principles of quantum physics, electrons circle the atomic nucleus in different shells that contain a fixed number of electrons. The assumption was that attractive forces between the atoms in a molecule are the result of atoms sharing electrons to fill the electron shells. Beginning in the mid-1920s, Robert Mulliken applied quantum mechanics to the development of sophisticated models for the movement of electrons within a molecule, so-called molecular orbitals.
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/05/it-appears-to-be-multi-phasic-temporal.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
"It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum."
After waking today I started to wonder if there is a pattern to the days I have the recurring dreams about hallways and corridors and passageways and elevators and stairwells. I wrote a brief description without going to a lot of detail I can still visualize and after waking and then just now late this afternoon I thought to check the date for the pattern.
from my journal as Kerry Burgess
November 8, 2017
From 12/20/1994 to 3/1/2004 is 3359 days
From 5/5/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Spokane, Washington Remarks at Dedication Ceremonies for Riverfront Park ) To 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to Spokane Valley and the Crossland ) is 9432 days
9432 = 4716 + 4716
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 10/1/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Kennedy Space Center, Florida Remarks at the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Awards Ceremony ) is 4716 days
From 6/21/1955 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Executive Order 10616 - Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as Amended, Which Relates to Officers of the Marine Corps of the Grade of Brigadier General ) To 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 13999 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 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to Spokane Valley and the Crossland ) is 13999 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 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to and arrive at Spokane Valley for the Crossland ) is 10102 days
10102 = 5051 + 5051
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 9/1/1979 ( the closest approach of the United States Pioneer 11 spacecraft to the planet Saturn ) is 5051 days
From 1/28/1942 ( United States Navy enlisted pilot Donald Francis Mason sends the message "Sighted Sub, Sank Same" after attacking enemy German submarine that escaped his attack ) To 3/1/2004 is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
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 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 3/1/2004 is 7171 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 6/21/1985 ( premiere US film "Cocoon" ) is 7171 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_in_aviation
Wikipedia
1942 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1942:
January 28 - Piloting a PBO-1 Hudson patrol bomber over the North Atlantic, U.S. Navy Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Donald Francis Mason attacks a German submarine, which submerges and escapes. Thinking he had sunk it, he signals "SIGHTED SUB, SANK SAME." It becomes one of the most famous signals of World War II.
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HighBeam RESEARCH
ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
November 23, 1995
Q. Who was the Navy Commander who coined the phrase "sighted sub sank same"? P.L., Hampton
A. That was Donald Francis Mason, a 28-year-old ensign from Rochester, Minn., who joined the Navy in 1935 and became a pilot in 1938. On Jan. 28, 1942, while flying his plane on patrol duty, he saw the wake of an enemy submarine proceeding at periscope depth. He immediately turned, dived to a low altitude and dropped two ...
http://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia02.htm
Naval History & Heritage Command
Famous Navy Quotes: Who Said Them and When
"Sighted Sub, Sank Same."
Message sent by an enlisted pilot, AMM 1/c Donald Francis Mason, on 28 January 1942. Mason believed that he had sunk a German U-boat off Argentia, Newfoundland.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,766470,00.html
TIME
World: Under The Sea In Ships
Monday, Apr. 13, 1942
The horror story of the Axis submarine campaign off the Atlantic coast was still being told last week by pallid, bearded men who had come through the prolonged agonies of thirst and sickness in open boats. The progress of the fight against the subs was told in a summary that was not so impressive.
The Navy announced that 28 Axis subs had been sunk and that 21 of them had gone down in the Atlantic. Knocking out such a fleet and its highly trained crews was a good performance. Yet it was not enough.
U.S. and Allied ships were being sunk at a disastrous rate, probably equal to the rate at which new ones were being commissioned (but far short of the rate the U.S. should reach this summer). Submarines had to be sunk faster than Adolf Hitler could turn them out, complete with trained crews.
The subs prowled daringly. One crew, drifting in a lifeboat, told of being followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway.
The subs worked close to shore. Off the southeastern coast, a U-boat slipped in shore and sank two barges and a tug with gunfire. She stood so close by that the barge crews could hear the commands of the officers on her deck.
Another sinking proved to the Navy's satisfaction that fifth columnists ashore were keeping in touch with U-boat crews. After the sinking of their small merchant ship; two crew members were picked up by a submarine, later released. The sailors found that the sub's commander knew about their port of departure, cargo and destination.
The most notable individual submarine foe was tight-lipped Donald Francis Mason, 28-year-old Navy enlisted pilot, who two months ago sent the now-famed message: "Sighted sub, sank same" (TIME, Feb. 9).
Upped to chief petty officer and decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Donald Mason repeated the performance: a neat straddle on a surfaced sub that blew it to bits. Last week he got a Silver Star, equivalent of another D.F.C. He also made the biggest leap in a Navy man's career. He was commissioned an ensign, went out to prowl for more subs, more promotion.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
DATA: She brought me closer to humanity than I could have thought possible. And for a time I was tempted by her offer.
Captain PICARD: How long a time?
DATA: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android ...that is nearly an eternity.
Captain's log, April 5th 2063. The voyage of the Phoenix
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Cocoon (1985)
Release Info
USA 21 June 1985
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
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IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
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Cocoon (1985)
Quotes
Ben Luckett: Anyone having second thoughts?
Art Selwyn: I'm a citizen too. I was in the navy. I don't see anything wrong with it.
Ben Luckett: Then you drive. I got no license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Space_Medal_of_Honor
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First awarded October 1, 1978
album: "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" (2007)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/florida.html
AZ
MODEST MOUSE
"Florida"
Although we often wondered
It was no thing of wonder
The shit that flew from our minds
Grass stains and fresh fruit
Reminds our shoes of horse glue
On this ridiculous climb
With great tunnel vision
We built ourselves a mission
To ride out motives decide
Oh, with vague description
Of what we have been missing
So why would anyone try?
It was always worth it
That's the part I seem to hide
And the busy ant empire
Put all your clothes inside
I wasn't always cargo
I was once kind of my own
I guess I'll pack up my mind
It took so much effort
Not to make an effort
Oh, what a flawless design
It was always worth it
That's the part I seem to hide
And the busy ant empire
Put all your clothes inside
Even as I left Florida
(yee-ha)
It was always worth it
That's the part I seem to hide
And the busy ant empire
Put all your clothes inside
Even as I left Florida
Far enough, far enough
Wasn't far enough
Couldn't quite seem to escape myself
Far enough, far enough
http://www.tv.com/shows/frontline/whos-running-this-war-569183/
tv.com
Frontline Season 4 Episode 7
Who's Running this War?
Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM Mar 18, 1986 on PBS
Episode Summary
Frontline investigated the contras, the legality of private aid, and asked questions about the role of the White House and Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal.
AIRED: 3/18/86
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 5/10/1991 is 2492 days
2492 = 1246 + 1246
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 4/1/1969 ( NASA director of engineering and development at the Manned Spacecraft Center Maxime Faget proposes design of the space shuttle ) is 1246 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 5/10/1991 is 8582 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 5/2/1989 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"Extraordinary People" ) is 8582 days
From 4/25/1987 ( James Chandler assumes command of USS Wainwright CG 28 from his predecessor ) To 5/10/1991 is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
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 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 4/19/1942 ( my biological maternal grandfather Ronald Reagan the US Army Reserve officer began US Army active duty ) To 5/10/1991 is 17918 days
17918 = 8959 + 8959
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 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
From 9/8/1965 ( premiere US film "Operation C.I.A." ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 9320 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 5/10/1991 is 9320 days
From 12/8/1943 ( Jim Morrison ) To 5/10/1991 is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
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 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 8660 days
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 5/10/1991 is 6474 days
6474 = 3237 + 3237
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 9/13/1974 ( premiere US TV series "Police Woman" & premiere US TV series "The Rockford Files" ) is 3237 days
From 6/19/1946 ( Harry Truman - Executive Order 9738—Restricting Competition in Examination for the Position of Correctional Officer Under the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice ) To 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 ) is 9320 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 5/10/1991 is 9320 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19572
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Remarks Upon Receiving an Honorary Degree From Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
May 10, 1991
Thank you all very much. This is indeed for me an honor. And the last time, save one, that I was on this campus, I was not treated quite so hospitably. [Laughter] It was out at the baseball diamond, I think in 1948. Crowded along the first baseline -- it was very hostile, the way it worked in Princeton -- were a bunch of hyperventilating, celebrating alumni.
And I remember standing there at first base, and a gigantic tiger -- I think his name was Neil Zundel -- came to the plate. He lofted an easy fly towards Yale's first baseman, me. And as I reached for the ball, the guy just sheer bowled me over -- [laughter] -- to the cheers of the Princeton alumni. [Laughter]
I was hurt, my pride was hurt. But P.S., Yale won the ball game. [Laughter]
So, how lovely today it is, though. And I view this degree as a very high honor from an institution for which I have unlimited respect. It is a great privilege for Barbara and me to be up with you today. I hear the rites of spring over my shoulder out there, but it wouldn't be normal in my job if we didn't hear those rites chanting out there. But I hope I bring peace and tranquility to your campus because you bring great joy to our heart, my formerly fibrillating heart.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 10:35 a.m. in the faculty room of Nassau Hall.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19573
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Remarks at Dedication Ceremony of the Social Sciences Complex at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
May 10, 1991
Thank you all very much. Thank you. Please be seated. It's a great pleasure to be here. President Shapiro, your words were so kind that my heart almost went back into fibrillation. [Laughter] I salute you, sir, and I thank you for the honor bestowed on me.
To Governor Florio; and to the Members of the United States Congress that are here today; to Mrs. Shapiro, and the board of trustees; to Chairman Henderson; Dean Williamson; Associate Dean Morrow. And I'd also like to salute Princeton's former Presidents Goheen and Bowen. And I'm delighted to help dedicate this impressive complex.
Though I must say that I'm glad that this is May and not the first snowfall. I don't think Barbara would let me take place in your special brand of Olympics. [Laughter]
Seriously, I'm honored to receive an honorary degree from Princeton. Imagine: a son of Yale getting a Princeton degree. "Son of Yale" -- you can snicker, but you ought to hear what they call me in Washington. [Laughter]
Governor Florio's comments brought back JFK's words when he said, "How lucky I was to have a Princeton degree." And I agree with him. You remember what JFK said, and I'll paraphrase it -- I have the best of all worlds: a Princeton degree and a Yale education. [Laughter] I knew that would not thrill the band, but you did a great job on "Hail To The Chief." Thank you. [Laughter]
Well, Princeton is a great place. You know, Washington said, "No college has turned out better scholars or more estimable characters." That includes, of course, our last two Secretaries of State. Both have been outstanding public servants. Both love this university. But only one has a tattoo to prove it. [Laughter]
I'll always remember the time that I saw the globe inside the Woodrow Wilson School lobby. Anywhere you touch it, you set off vibrations across the rest of its surface. I can't think of a more appropriate symbol for this nation's role in the world. When we act, we do set off tremors across the globe. And Princeton is blessed with real expertise in the study of the Presidency.
And I salute Professor Fred Greenstein, and it is with some temerity, therefore, that I give this talk that will touch on the Presidency.
I'd like to talk today about an American achievement that has inspired men and women worldwide, most recently, in Eastern Europe. I'm speaking of our Constitution. In the interest of brevity, I will focus on the roles of the two branches of Government in which I have had the honor to serve, the legislative -- Congress -- and the executive departments.
Consider the President's role. Thomas Jefferson once noted that a President commands a view of the whole ground, while Congress necessarily adopts the views of its constituents. The President and Vice President are the only officials elected to serve the entire Nation. It is the President who is responsible for guiding and directing the Nation's foreign policy. The executive branch alone may conduct international negotiations, appoint ambassadors, and conduct foreign policy. Our founders noted the necessity of performing this duty with "secrecy and dispatch," when necessary. The President also serves as Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, as it was my role to do in the Persian Gulf.
This does not mean that the Executive may conduct foreign business in a vacuum. I have a great respect for Congress, and I prefer to work cooperatively with it wherever possible. Though I felt after studying the question that I had the inherent power to commit our forces to battle after the U.N. resolution, I solicited congressional support before committing our forces to the Gulf war. So, while a President bears special foreign policy obligations, those obligations do not imply any liberty to keep Congress unnecessarily in the dark.
The President's view of the whole ground includes a second responsibility: shaping the Nation's domestic agenda. Presidents do this by submitting annual budgets to Congress, along with a comprehensive legislative program.
We've had our share of legislative successes. They include a budget agreement that reduces our borrowing requirements by nearly $500 billion over the next 5 years, a Clean Air Act that invokes the power of the marketplace to help America breathe cleaner air, an Americans with Disabilities Act -- landmark civil rights legislation that enhances the dignity of those with disabilities, a child care bill that puts more power and choice in the hands of parents when it comes to the care of their own children.
But Presidents may encourage change through means other than legislation. Our Points of Light campaign encourages the traditional American virtue of private service. Our America 2000 education strategy, which has been well-received across the land, involves dramatic reforms that don't make dramatic new claims on taxpayers' earnings. It draws on people's common frustration with an educational system that simply must do better. It encourages people to use their common sense and good old American ingenuity in creating better, revolutionary new schools. It won't help build a new office building in Washington, but it very well may inspire people to build a better future for themselves and their children, school by school, community by community.
Elsewhere, we've proposed turning programs back to States and localities. This enables people to craft the most appropriate solution for the problems that they confront in this diverse land of ours.
The point is simple: You don't always need to propose a new program to pursue a national goal. Often a President can lead by encouraging the values of service, by helping foster a national spirit of commitment and responsibility.
For too long, pundits and special interests have equated vision with bureaucracy. I hope one of the hallmarks of our administration will be its ability to encourage not just good government but also a good society, one that draws upon and encourages the best instincts and ambitions and values of the American people.
The common thread of commitment, individual commitment, runs through all successful efforts to solve our most intractable problems. The individual who cares, who is determined to change things for the better, can make a difference. And all of us Americans ought to dedicate ourselves to making a difference.
While a President must take on today's problems and tomorrow's challenges, he also has an obligation to "preserve, protect, and defend" a 200-year-old system of constitutional government. The most common challenge to Presidential powers comes from a predictable source, represented here by several able Members of the United States Congress.
Although our founders never envisioned a Congress that would churn out hundreds of thousands of pages worth of reports and hearings and documents and laws every year, they did understand that legislators would try to accumulate power. James Madison, your son -- Princeton's son -- warned that "The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex." That was Mr. Madison speaking, not President Bush speaking.
Sometimes this sort of competition falls entirely within the bounds of the Constitution. But consider the unnecessary requests and requirements that can waste the time and energy of the Executive.
Thirty years ago, we devoted nearly 9.5 percent of our gross national product to defense expenditures. And today, defense spending accounts for only 5.3 percent of our GNP. But congressional oversight has grown exponentially. One hundred and seven committees and subcommittees -- 107 -- oversee defense programs and spending. For fiscal year 1989, the Pentagon devoted 500 man-years and over $50 million just to write reports responding to congressional queries on such items as plans for manning tugboats and accounting for the number of bands.
Defense staff has to respond yearly to more than 750,000 congressional staff inquiries. Other executive agencies exhaust their time and energy, often giving identical testimony to a whole battery of subcommittees and committees.
Oversight, when properly exercised, helps keep the Executive accountable. But when it proliferates wildly, it can confuse the public and make it more difficult for Congress and the President to do their jobs properly.
The Chief Executive also preserves, protects, and defends the Constitution through the use of the veto power. Six times in my Presidency, I have vetoed bills that would have weakened Presidential powers. In one case, for instance, Congress wanted to make the President disclose a wide variety of sensitive diplomatic contacts and discussions -- as well as private discussions with the executive branch -- and would have threatened to impose criminal sanctions on a wide range of normal diplomatic activities. I noted in my veto message that: "The result would be a dangerous timidity and disarray in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Such a result is wholly contrary to the allocation of powers under the Constitution."
Elsewhere, Congress has also taken aggressive action against specific Presidential powers, including the power to appoint or remove employees who serve at the President's pleasure. It sometimes tries to manage executive branch -- micromanage the executive branch -- by writing too-specific directions for carrying out a particular law. And when this happens, the President has a constitutional obligation to protect his Office and to veto the legislation. In addition, on many occasions during my Presidency, I have stated that statutory provisions that violate the Constitution have no binding legal force.
But there's another, often overlooked side of the veto power. Often vetoes encourage the Legislature to reconsider its actions. When I vetoed a minimum wage bill -- and it wasn't an easy thing to do -- I sought to persuade Congress that a slightly lower rate would best serve the public interest. And in time Congress agreed. And when Congress bundles up a series of unrelated measures and calls it a single bill, it frustrates the President's constitutional role in resisting the influence of special interests. It is often impractical to veto a tremendous bill, a major bill, especially an appropriations bill because of unrelated riders that would never stand a chance on their own.
Bills of this sort can pose as much of a threat to Congress as to the President. And it has become an annual sport for reporters to pull peculiarities out of the vast spending bills, such as a Federal grant to study cow belches, or a Lawrence Welk Museum, and ask Congress to defend them. Quite often because of the added riders and the complexity of the whole bill, Members don't even know what they've voted for. They're so complex; things are added in the dark of the night.
I have sought, and will continue to seek, a line-item veto to prevent such embarrassments and protect the American people from injudicious appropriation. Right now 43 Governors have such a power. It works. The President ought to have that power, too. Some believe that I already have that power under the Constitution.
In closing, let me try to summarize my view of the Presidency. Presidents define themselves through their exercise of Presidential power. They must use their special authority to serve the whole Nation in matters of foreign and domestic policy. They must set a tone for governance, at once leading the people, yet following their desires. They must preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. And they must encourage deliberative behavior on the part of Congress.
But the real power of the Presidency lies in a President's ability to frame, through action, through example, through encouragement, what we as a nation must do, what is required of communities and institutions, large and small, in schools and factories and the hundreds of daily acts of individuals.
The great joy and challenge of the Office I occupy -- and believe me, I am honored every single day I walk into that Oval Office by the privilege of being President -- the great joy is that the President serves not just as the unitary Executive but hopefully as a unifying Executive.
As President, I feel honor-bound to strengthen the marvelous system of government bequeathed to us so that we may remain the freest, the most decent, the most prosperous, caring nation in the history of the world.
Thank you, and may God bless each and every one of you. And thank you for the honor you've bestowed on me.
Note: The President spoke at 11:25 a.m.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59299
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
Executive Order 9738—Restricting Competition in Examination for the Position of Correctional Officer Under the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice
June 19, 1946
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the statutes, including section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403), the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944, approved June 27, 1944 (58 Stat. 387), and section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 631), it is hereby ordered as follows:
In civil-service examinations for the position of Correctional Officer under the Bureau of Prisons, Department o Justice, competition shall be restricted during the present war and for five years following the termination thereof to persons entitled to preference under the said Veterans' Preference Act of 1944, as long as persons entitled to preference are available: Provided, however, That for purpose of classification application for examination may be accepted by the Civil Service Commission from any person serving in such position in the classified service under an appointment not limited to one year or less, and the Commission is authorized to confer a classified (competitive) civil-service status or a probational status upon any such employee who qualifies in the examination for classification; And provided further, That in no event shall any person not entitled to preference under the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 be granted a classified status under this order (1) unless he is recommended for this purpose by the Director of the Bureau of Prisons for outstandingly courageous or meritorious service and (2) until all preference eligibles who have the same or a higher rating in the examination have been appointed or have been given consideration in accordance with the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944.
Incumbents of positions to which this order is applicable who do not have a classified status and who fail to qualify for classification under this order shall be replaced by selection from the competitive register in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Civil Service Commission.
This order supersedes Executive Order No. 9662 of November 29, 1945.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 19, 1946
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059548/releaseinfo
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Operation C.I.A. (1965)
Release Info
USA 8 September 1965
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album: "The Doors" (1967)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/doors/breakonthroughtotheotherside.html
AZ
THE DOORS
"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah
We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Yeah!
C'mon, yeah
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get(s high)
She get(s high)
She get(s high)
She get(s high)
I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chained us
Eyes that lied
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww!
Oh, yeah!
Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1969
April 1969
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in April 1969:
April 1, 1969 (Tuesday)
At Houston, NASA Engineer Max Faget showed 20 colleagues a small balsa wood and paper model with "straight, stubby wings and a shark-like nose" and told them. "We're going to build America's next spacecraft. It’s going to launch like a spacecraft; it’s going to land like a plane." Faget, the director of engineering and development at the Manned Space Center, was introducing the assembled group to a planned reusable spacecraft, the American Space Shuttle.
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/536821main_Wings-ch1-2.pdf
NASA official website
Wings In Orbit
Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle
1971-2010
page 13
On April 1, 1969, Maxime Faget, director of engineering and development at the Manned Spacecraft Center, asked 20 people to report to the third floor of a building that most thought did not have a third floor. Because of that, many believed it was an April Fool’s prank but went anyway. Once there, they spotted a test bay, which had three floors, and that was where they met. Faget then walked through the door with a balsa wood model of a plane, which he glided toward the engineers. “We’re going to build America’s next spacecraft. And it’s going to launch like a spacecraft, it’s going to land like a plane,” he told the team. America had not yet landed on the moon, but NASA’s engineers moved ahead with plans to create a new space vehicle. As the contractors and civil servants explored various configurations for the next generation of spacecraft, the Space Task Group, appointed by President Richard Nixon, issued its report for future space programs. The committee submitted three options: the first and most ambitious featured a manned Mars landing as early as 1983, a lunar and Earth-orbiting station, and a lunar surface base; the second supported a mission to Mars in 1986; and the third deferred the Mars landing, providing no scheduled date for its completion. Included in the committee’s post-Apollo plans were a Space Shuttle, referred to as the Space Transportation System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Faget
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from my journal as Kerry Burgess
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 04:32 am (Pacific Time USA)
I wonder if that's the same day I remember graduating from United States Navy basic training in Orlando.
Must have been.
The uncertainty in my mind is because of vague memories I still have about those last days before we left.
I can still visualize that last day, had my seabag and sunglasses on and the company commander sending us off and I can visualize myself walking for the last time out the door of that barracks we had been in for 8 weeks.
I went across base to begin Basic Electricity and Electronics School for the Electronics Technician occupation rating, a rating I chose because it was one of only two ratings in the Advanced Electronics Field, along with Fire Controlman, and the ET rating required several more weeks of electronics training than FC and I found that appealing to me. Several weeks later, being completely unprepared for unhindered access to cheap alcohol, having been sheltered from alcohol and then on my own with no old woman screeching at me, with no closed door in her house I could ever escape to away from her, I let myself get kicked out of school and sent out to the fleet to work in the deck department as a non-rated sailor. Working my butt off, as since 14 years old, from my own personal initiative and with no personal role models in my past experience, I had become accustomed to regular employment, I was allowed to select a rating to aspire for and I chose the gun/missile Fire Controlman (FC) (in the last days of the Fire Control Technician Missiles (FTM) rating) and worked my way back up and my next fleet assignment was with a bunch of push-button technicians whose career track had been the same as my original aspirations with the ET rating. They went to school for several courses of instruction and were advanced to Petty Officer Third Class (E-4 paygrade after entering recruit training as E-3 paygrade) without ever working a day in the fleet. I had spent over a year - a total of 419 days to be exact - on a shakedown period for the USS Taylor FFG-50 where I had many responsibilities including being responsible for the boatswain locker, helmsman, lookout, repair locker personnel, damage control, others.
All I know for certain is my official military records tell me I was transferred from basic training by the United States Navy on Monday, July 16, 1984.
The previous Friday was the 13th.
The details I vaguely recall are about how my company, C155, finished the course of instruction several days before the other company's finished. The reason, I vaguely recall, is that several companies began the course of instruction during the same week but on different days of the week. So we started on a day before the others started and we finished a few days before the last company finished. If we started on a Monday then others started on Friday. So we finished on a Monday and they finished on a Friday. But we all graduated on the same day, which I believe was a Friday and I have reason to believe was the 13th. I can't imagine we were goofing off for over a week waiting for the other company to finish the course. K076 was the female company I remember starting with us on the same day and I think they were in the same large classroom with us for classroom instruction. I remember a vast number of sailors being on the field for graduation ceremony and my company was a large group of sailors.
The answer might be out there somewhere on the internet but I can't find it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/fullcredits
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/2F04.html
Bart's Girlfriend [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 6-Nov-94
Jessica scrubs the church steps as Bart skateboards up to her.
Bart: Hi Jessica.
Jessica: Hi Bart. Come to watch me suffer?
Bart: I just wanted to let you know that even though this was a difficult experience, I really learned a lot. I'm a little wiser, and a little less naive.
Jessica: [coquettish] Well, I learned that I can make men do whatever I want.
Bart: Well...don't you see, Jessica, then you really haven't learned --
Jessica: Um, would you finish scrubbing these steps with me?
Bart: [enthusiastic] _Will_ I?
Boy: [riding up on bike] Hey, Jessica!
Jessica: Coming! [runs over to him; they ride off]
Bart: Poor sucker. It's amazing what some guys will do for a pretty face! Not me, though. [sly] Wait till she sees the second-rate job I do on these stairs. [laughs to himself]
http://www.crimetv.com/page/people/conman/joseph-weil/26
Crime TV
Joseph Weil
Born July 1, 1875 Chicago, Illinois
Died February 26, 1976 Chicago
Other names Yellow Kid
Occupation Confidence man
Known for Notorious con artist
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57925496/
Newspapers.com
Publication: The Times Record i Location: Troy, New York Issue Date: Friday, February 27, 1976 Page: Page 8
Page 8 article text (OCR)
8 - The Times Record, Friday, February 27
Joseph Weil CHICAGO (AP) - "If 1 had to do It all over again, I'd be foolish If I didn't," said Joseph "Yellow Kid" Well, Ihe king of film flam in the 1920s
died T h u r s d a y
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45449386/joseph-weil
Find A Grave
Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil
BIRTH 1 Jul 1875 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
DEATH 26 Feb 1976
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weil
Joseph Weil
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil (July 1, 1875 – February 26, 1976) was one of the best known American con men of his era. Weil's biographer, W. T. Brannon, wrote of Weil's "uncanny knowledge of human nature". During the course of his career, Weil is reputed to have stolen more than $8 million.[citation needed]
"Each of my victims had larceny in his heart", quipped Weil.
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 7/19/1992 ( Allen Newell dead ) is 10596 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 11/6/1994 is 10596 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 11/6/1994 is 3768 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 2/26/1976 ( Joseph Weil dead ) is 3768 days
From 7/28/1982 ( premiere US film "An Officer and a Gentleman" ) To 11/6/1994 is 4484 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 2/11/1978 ( premiere US TV series episode "In Search of..."::"Reincarnation" ) is 4484 days
From 9/3/1951 ( premiere US TV series "Search for Tomorrow" ) To 11/6/1994 is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
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 6/5/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 7885 days
From 1/1/1992 ( Grace Hopper dead ) To 11/6/1994 is 1040 days
1040 = 520 + 520
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 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days
From 4/30/1945 ( Adolph Hitler dead by suicide ) To 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) is 10596 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 11/6/1994 is 10596 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/barts-girlfriend-1395/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 7
Bart's Girlfriend
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 06, 1994 on FOX
AIRED: 11/6/94
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
[Room]
SPOCK: This is how history went after McCoy changed it. Here, in the late 1930s. A growing pacifist movement whose influence delayed the United States' entry into the Second World War. While peace negotiations dragged on, Germany had time to complete its heavy-water experiments.
KIRK: Germany. Fascism. Hitler. They won the Second World War.
SPOCK: Because all this lets them develop the A-bomb first. There's no mistake, Captain. Let me run it again. Edith Keeler. Founder of the peace movement.
KIRK: But she was right. Peace was the way.
SPOCK: She was right, but at the wrong time. With the A-bomb, and with their V2 rockets to carry them, Germany captured the world.
KIRK: No.
SPOCK: And all this because McCoy came back and somehow kept her from dying in a street accident as she was meant to. We must stop him, Jim.
KIRK: How did she die? What day?
SPOCK: We can estimate general happenings from these images, but I can't trace down precise actions at exact moments, Captain. I'm sorry.
KIRK: Spock, I believe I'm in love with Edith Keeler.
SPOCK: Jim, Edith Keeler must die.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-city-on-the-edge-of-forever-24913/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 1 Episode 29
The City on the Edge of Forever
AIRED: 4/6/67
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grace-Hopper
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Grace Hopper
UNITED STATES NAVAL OFFICER AND MATHEMATICIAN
Grace Hopper, in full Grace Murray Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray, (born December 9, 1906, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 1, 1992, Arlington, Virginia), American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL (common-business-oriented language).
The Last Starfighter (1984)
(from internet transcript)
Gonna be a sparklin' day.
:03:15
Sparklin'.
:03:17
Makes me crazy! Clara!
:03:21
Clara!
:03:23
My electric's gone out again, Clara!
I'm gonna miss my soaps!
:03:27
- Oh, stop your yakkin'.
- Bill?
:03:29
Bill, Elvira's blacked out again! Pass the word.
:03:32
- Have a nice day, honey.
- Thanks, Mrs. Boone. You too.
:03:35
Elvira's got no electric.
:03:37
She can't see her soaps, she'll hyperventilate.
http://www.tv.com/shows/search-for-tomorrow/1-219822/
tv.com
Search for Tomorrow Season 1 Episode 1
Aired Weekdays 12:30 PM Sep 03, 1951 on CBS
AIRED: 9/3/51
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
SPOCK: Frustrating. Locked in here is the place and moment of his arrival, even the images of what he did. If only I could tie this tricorder in with the ship's computers for just a few moments.
KIRK: Couldn't you build some form of computer aid here?
SPOCK: In this zinc-plated vacuum-tubed culture?
KIRK: Yes, well, it would pose an extremely complex problem in logic, Mister Spock. Excuse me. I sometimes expect too much of you.
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
Quotes
Grig: [watching Alex struggling with the gunnery chair] Steady. Don't fight the chair. Take your time. Watch your gun sight. Lead your targets. And above all, relax!
Alex Rogan: [stops to take off his gloves, then continues] Terrific. I'm about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Allen-Newell
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Allen Newell
AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST
Allen Newell, (born March 19, 1927, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died July 19, 1992, Pittsburgh, Pa.), American computer scientist and one of the pioneers of the science of artificial intelligence (AI). Newell and his longtime collaborator Herbert A. Simon won the 1975 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.”
Following two years of service during World War II in the U.S. Navy, Newell received a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1949 from Stanford University in California. In 1950, after spending a year studying mathematics at Princeton University, Newell joined the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif. At RAND he applied mathematical techniques from operations research and game theory to the study of administrative organizations and worked with the U.S. Air Force to simulate an early-warning radar monitoring station with its crew. In 1952 Newell’s work at RAND led to the creation of the Systems Research Laboratory and the beginning of his long-term association with Simon, a RAND consultant in the area of organizational analysis. Simon and Newell soon discussed how computers could be used to examine human problem-solving techniques, and by 1955 Newell’s enthusiasm for the subject had convinced RAND to support him while he studied under Simon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh. In 1957 Newell earned the institute’s first AI-based doctoral degree.
In 1956 Newell and Simon, together with another RAND colleague, Clifford Shaw, unveiled one of the first AI programs, the Logic Theorist. Funded primarily by the air force and run on Johnniac (a computer named for John von Neumann, one of the inventors of the digital computer), the Logic Theorist was capable of solving general logic problems, such as those found in the Principia Mathematica (1910–13) of mathematician-philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. They also invented the Information Processing Language (IPL) for programming this and other AI programs. Their next project was the General Problem Solver (GPS), which first ran in 1957. Given a problem, GPS would repeatedly apply heuristic techniques (modifiable “rules of thumb”) and then perform a “means-ends” analysis after each step to verify whether it was closer to the desired solution.
In 1961 Newell left RAND to join the faculty at Carnegie, where he participated in the creation of one of the country’s first computer science departments. Newell’s main research area lay in understanding how humans think, and he dedicated his research to building systems that would solve concrete, real-world problems. In 1972, together with Simon, Newell asserted that the essence of human cognition is the recursive generation of thoughts from goals to subgoals until a solution is finally reached. During the 1980s Newell began work (unfinished) on applying this concept to another, more sophisticated, general problem-solving program that he named Soar.
Newell was the founding president (1979–80) of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/2F04.html
Bart's Girlfriend [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 6-Nov-94
Bart sits on the sidewalk, dejected.
Jessica: [walking up] You're _bad_, Bart Simpson.
Bart: [plaintive] No I'm not! I'm really --
Jessica: Yes you are. You're bad...and I like it.
Bart: [suave] I'm bad to the bone, honey.
Jessica: Let's go find some fun.
Bart: But your father said --
Jessica: [scoffs] I told the _Rev_ I was going to my room to say my prayers.
Bart: Smart, beautiful..._and_ a liar!
1982 film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" DVD video:
Linda Barrett: He's no high school boy.
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/2F04.html
Bart's Girlfriend [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 6-Nov-94
Bart walks outside, only to be booed by everyone. People driving by yell, "Crook!" "Thief!" "Steal the money from the church collection plate!"
Jessica, meanwhile, plays with a baton.
Bart: We gotta talk.
Jessica: Listen, thanks for not turning me in. That was sweet.
Bart: Well, it seems like if you really care for me, you should come forward.
Jessica: Oh, don't you see? It's because I care for you that I _can't_ come forward.
Bart: [thinks] That doesn't make any sense.
Jessica: [petulant] All right, then I just don't feel like it, OK?
Bart: Jessica, you're really beautiful, but _you_ are not very nice.
Jessica: [sighs contemptulously] Duh.
Bart: You know, with the way you're treating me, why _should_ I protect you?
Jessica: Because, if you tell, no one will believe you. Remember I'm the sweet, perfect minister's daughter...and you're just yellow trash.
20161116_131220.jpg - Kerry Burgess circa 1975
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http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
SPOCK: Theft, Captain?
KIRK: Well, we'll steal from the rich and give back to the poor later. I think I'm going to like this century. Simple, easier to manage. We're not going to have any difficulty explaining
(Then he sees the policeman.)
POLICEMAN: Well?
KIRK: You're a police officer. I recognise the traditional accoutrements.
SPOCK: You were saying you'll have no trouble explaining it.
KIRK: My friend is obviously Chinese. I see you've noticed the ears. They're actually easy to explain.
(A crowd is gathering.)
SPOCK: Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child.
KIRK: The unfortunate accident he had as a child. He caught his head in a mechanical rice picker. But fortunately, there was an American missionary living close by who was actually a skilled plastic surgeon in civilian life.
POLICEMAN: All right, all right. Drop those bundles and put your hands on that wall there! Come on!
KIRK: Oh, how careless of your wife to let you go out that way.
POLICEMAN: What? Where?
SPOCK: Oh, yes, it's quite untidy. Here, let me help you.
(And a quick neck pinch in front of witnesses, then they grab the clothes and run off. With whistles blowing, they duck down the alley beside the 21st Street Mission and down the stairs to the cellar.)
[Cellar]
KIRK: You were actually enjoying my predicament back there. At times, you seem quite human.
SPOCK: Captain, I hardly believe that insults are within your prerogative as my commanding officer.
KIRK: Sorry.
(They get changed into jeans and shirts.)
KIRK: Time we faced the unpleasant facts.
SPOCK: First, I believe we have about a week before McCoy arrives, but we can't be certain.
KIRK: Arrives where? Honolulu, Boise, San Diego? Why not Outer Mongolia, for that matter?
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4195
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
128 - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington.
May 4, 1974
Governor Evans, Secretary Dent, Congressman Foley, Your Excellencies representing the nations from abroad, Your Eminence, all of the distinguished guests and all of those here on this historic occasion for the opening of Expo '74:
I am honored to be here for a number of reasons: First, because the State of Washington, under the leadership of Governor Evans, I think is generally recognized to be the first State in the Nation in terms of trying to protect the environment. We congratulate this State, its Governor, and its legislators.
And then, it is a great privilege to be here on this sparkling, beautiful day to speak about what this particular occasion means
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000121/bio
IMDb
Phoebe Cates
Biography
Date of Birth 16 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name Phoebe Belle Cates
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Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:24 AM Thursday, November 20, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastroenterologist
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. Etymologically, the name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gastros (stomach), enteron (intestine), and logos (reason).
Physicians practicing in this field of medicine are called gastroenterologists.
album: "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About" (1996)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/spacetravelisboring.html
AZ
MODEST MOUSE
"Space Travel Is Boring"
Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time
She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time
Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try try
Man shot to the moon
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:47 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 04 September 2018
