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The Spokesman-Review
SPOKANE
Then and Now: U.S. Pavilion at Expo
Mon., Dec. 11, 2017
The foundation is poured around what will be the U.S. Pavilion in the center of Expo ’74, which kicked off in May of 1974. The cables, canopy and frame of the Pavilion have become a visual icon of the Spokane skyline. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
By Jesse Tinsley
Getting the money and various approvals needed for Expo ’74, the world’s fair that was to be held in the relatively tiny city of Spokane, seemed too big a hurdle to overcome.
Spokane business leaders needed the railroads to move their tracks away from the river’s edge. They needed to pass a local B&O tax to raise almost $6 million. They needed several million more from local business leaders. Organizers traveled to the Bureau International des Expositions, or BIE, in Paris, seeking approval for Spokane’s fair.
Even if all these efforts were successful, the largest piece of the puzzle was the federal money needed to build the U.S. Pavilion. In 1972, there were many other spending priorities before Congress.
Washington state’s U.S. Senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, were a powerful pair, but funding for Spokane’s world’s fair was not a sure thing in the Senate. And it would be argued on the House side by the state’s junior Representative, Tom Foley.
On Oct. 4, 1972, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements, Foley gave his pitch for $11.5 million for the Pavilion. It was late in the 92nd Congress and if the funding proposal got shelved, it might doom Expo for good. Many asked if federal funding of fairs was appropriate at all. Spokane was already busy extending invitations to countries and corporations to provide exhibits and pavilions. This displeased some of the committee that Spokane was pressing ahead, without a guarantee of federal funds. What if Spokane got the money, but failed anyway?
Expo historian Bill Youngs wrote of Foley’s response to these questions: “Tom Foley then all but brought his hometown into room 2200 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Spokane had taxed itself to the tune of $5.7 million; the local business community had committed another $6.8 million; the railroads were donating millions more in property.” The committee was impressed with what Spokane had accomplished.
The full house passed the $11.5 million funding bill by unanimous consent Oct. 13, 1972. It had passed the Senate a few days before.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=62592
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Tom Ridge as Director of the Office of Homeland Security
October 8, 2001
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.
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
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/03/news/mn-46389
Los Angeles Times
Bush's 1976 Arrest in Maine Is Revealed
November 03, 2000 MARK Z. BARABAK TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
Responding to reports Thursday
Bush repeatedly questioned the timing of the Maine news reports. "I think that's an interesting question," he told reporters. "Why now? . . . I've got my suspicions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/8.02_%22New_Order_Part_2%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate SG-1
8.02 "New Order Part 2"
O'NEILL
You…going somewhere?
WEIR
As a matter of fact, the President has asked me to supervise the research of the Ancient Outpost. It's going to be a bit of a delicate situation, given all the various international claims already being made on the site.
O'NEILL
Sounds right up your alley.
WEIR
Yeah, well, much more so than this job.
O'NEILL
Does that mean Hammond will be coming back?
WEIR
No, General Hammond is being promoted. He'll be overseeing all things relating to Earth's defence on behalf of the Pentagon and Washington—the SGC, the 303 program, the Antartic site. Unofficially, it's being called, 'Homeworld Security'.
O'NEILL
Any idea who we're going to be stuck with?
WEIR
The Pentagon has convinced the President that there is one man who could run the SGC and make it politically viable, from an international perspective, despite the fact that he is part of the American military establishment.
O'NEILL
Do we know this…shrub?
WEIR
Well you know him rather well. Brigadier General Jack O'Neill.
O'NEILL
Me?
WEIR
Yeah, you.
O'NEILL
Brigadier. It's on my list.
WEIR
Congratulations.
O'NEILL
I should be clear.
[O'Neill stands.]
O'NEILL
I like the promotion, the paycheck and the parking spot. But I don't really wanna be in charge of anything. No.
WEIR
Well, sadly, all those things kind of go together. So I guess you have some thinking to do.
O'NEILL
I hate that.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 08:26 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 11 December 2017
