album: "Tommy Tutone 2" (1981)
Tommy Tutone
"867-5309/Jenny"
Hey!
Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me somethin' I can hold on to
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny, I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny, don't change your number
867-5309
867-5309
867-5309
867-5309
Jenny, Jenny, you're the girl for me
Oh, you don't know me, but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before, but I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 01/30/08 11:34 PM
I had some specific thoughts that might have been actual memories of when I was in the hospital in 1987 after I was rescued. I imagined or remembered that Phoebe was there and that she met me at the hospital at a U.S. military base in Germany and she stayed there with me at my side in the hospital. I was delirious for a while, days perhaps or even weeks, but eventually I recognized her. The nurses coming into my room at night would scare the hell out of me. When I was lost in Africa, noises in the pitch black night did not startle me so much because being startled and jumping around would not have helped the situation, especially because I usually slept at night in trees, if there were any around. After I was delirious though, I was in pretty bad shape and really had no idea what was happening.
On Now, MeTV channel Spokane, Friday, 01/14/2022 03:00 AM
Cannon
MAD MAN
"Cannon is hired to investigate when an Army researcher seems to have gone insane for no obvious reason. Another cry for help comes out of Cannon's past. A girl he once knew is concerned about her husband's -he's a research scientist- fits of irrational behavior. they touch on mind-boggling drugs here, a topical subject."
Delirious (1991)
(from internet transcript)
I don't understand what happened.
You don't have to. Goodbye, Mr Gates.
"Goodbye... Mr Gates," he said.
Get me a cab! I've gotta go to the airport.
But you just checked in.
I don't care! I gotta go to...
Cleveland.
Jesus! I hate Cleveland!
You don't belong in Ashford Falls.
You're really a sweet kid.
You'll be a lot happier back in Africa.
Exterior.
Jungle clearing.
Night.
Space: Above and Beyond
"Choice or Chance - Part 2"
Sunday 26 November 1995
Episode 9 Season 1
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not enough power left to transmit.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: I'll bet they heard it.
McQueen: Not even an A.I. would take that bet, Cooper.
Cooper Hawkes: We got to find the others.
T.C. McQueen: A.I.'s are networked through their modems. So when you re-initialize them, they give up their home location. Near the end of the A.I. War I was a P.O.W.
Cooper Hawkes: They do, uh, stuff to you?
T.C. McQueen: It's frightening how much pain an InVitro - a human body can stand. You'd like to believe the body would break before the will. I held out three days. Then - once when they were - doing stuff to me - I heard screaming. Sounded far off, down the hall. I remember thinking "That poor bastard. What must he be going through?" Then when I came to I realized the screams had come from me.
From 10/2/2009 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate Universe"::series premiere episode "Air" ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 4487 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Labor Disputes in the Coal Industry - Remarks on the Stalemate in the Negotiations ) is 4487 days
From 7/15/1956 ( premiere US film "It Conquered the World" ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 23924 days
23924 = 11962 + 11962
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) is 11962 days
From 8/9/1991 ( premiere US film "Delirious" ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 11116 days
11116 = 5558 + 5558
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/20/1981 ( Ronald Reagan in office as the 40th President of the United States of America ) is 5558 days
From 8/9/1991 ( premiere US film "Delirious" ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 11116 days
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From 10/11/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 8/15/1973 ( premiere US film "Jesus Christ Superstar" ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 17684 days
17684 = 8842 + 8842
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA announces the selection of the Group 13 Astronauts ) is 8842 days
From 12/25/1968 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1968 was United States Apollo 8 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut in orbit of the planet Earth's moon ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 19378 days
19378 = 9689 + 9689
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/13/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9689 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 10063 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/22/1993 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"Second Chances" ) is 10063 days
From 5/2/2014 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess - my first day in new-construction Phase II apartment at complex in Spokane Valley I've lived since 09/27/2013 and still reside as of this writing ) To 1/14/2022 ( ) is 2814 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/17/1973 ( from Washington Post newspaper: President Taped Talks, Phone Calls; Principal Offices Secretly Bugged ) is 2814 days
https://twitter.com/MorganTrau/status/1482070497441501188
Morgan Trau
@MorganTrau
Award-winning political reporter for @WEWS • Cleveland native #CLE • @newhouseSU alum • Prev. KREM2, WZZM13 • Political junkie, people person, cat mom • She/her
I’m kicking off 2022 with some incredible news… I’m overjoyed to share I’M COMING HOME‼️
I’m joining @WEWS News 5 Cleveland as the reporter/MMJ covering the Ohio Statehouse. This is a literal dream come true & I can’t wait to return to the Buckeye State!
I’ll be based in our new WEWS Columbus Bureau. I start Jan. 31.
It is surreal to join the station I grew up watching. Cheers to new beginnings with @EWScrippsCo & to the upcoming midterms!
11:21 AM Jan 14, 2022
‼️I’m kicking off 2022 with some incredible news… I’m overjoyed to share I’M COMING HOME‼️
— Morgan Trau (@MorganTrau) January 14, 2022
I’m joining @WEWS News 5 Cleveland as the reporter/MMJ covering the Ohio Statehouse. This is a literal dream come true & I can’t wait to return to the Buckeye State!❤️🌰 pic.twitter.com/neek7KFvYb
https://www.newsweek.com/expanse-season-6-ending-season-7-steven-strait-dominique-tipper-cara-gee-interview-1666360
Newsweek
1/14/22
The Expanse came to an end on Friday, January 14, with the final episode of its sixth season airing on Amazon Prime Video.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15588252/?ref_=ttep_ep6
IMDb
The Expanse
Babylon's Ashes
Episode aired Jan 14, 2022
S6 E6
Inners and Belters fight side by side with the crew of the Rocinante in a last, massive, desperate battle with Marco and his Free Navy, with the fate of the Solar System, the Ring Gates, and of all humanity hanging in the balance.
Top cast
Steven Strait as James Holden
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/labor-disputes-the-coal-industry-remarks-the-stalemate-the-negotiations
The American Presidency Project
JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States: 1977 ‐ 1981
Labor Disputes in the Coal Industry Remarks on the Stalemate in the Negotiations.
February 14, 1978
The present stalemate in the coal strike inflicts continuing and increasing hardships on this country and also on the miners, both active and retired. It cannot be allowed to continue.
I have just directed the Secretary of Labor to convey to negotiators for management and for the mineworkers my personal and most urgent request that serious negotiations be resumed immediately here in the White House.
I've also instructed the Secretary of Labor to participate personally in these negotiations and to give me a report, at least daily, on progress that is being made in resolving the present stalemate.
I continue to support the collective bargaining process. However, the welfare of this country must be my overriding concern. Renewed negotiations here in the White House must be viewed as a final opportunity for this bargaining process to work. If it does not, then I will have no choice but to resort to stronger measures.
While law enforcement is a primary responsibility of State and local governments, I've also asked the Attorney General to give me a complete assessment of the powers available to ensure protection of life and property in these extraordinary circumstances.
REPORTER. Mr. President, would you invoke the Taft-Hartley Act if they failed to negotiate?
THE PRESIDENT. That's one of the options available to me, yes.
Note: The President spoke at 5 p.m. to reporters assembled in the Briefing Room at the White House.
Jimmy Carter, Labor Disputes in the Coal Industry Remarks on the Stalemate in the Negotiations. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244439
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.
(from internet transcript)
WALLACE: Jeez! We're on a ship?
RUSH (continuing to gaze out of the window): The design is clearly Ancient, in the truest sense of the word –- launched hundreds of thousands of years ago.
SCOTT: Doctor Rush?
RUSH: Faster than light, yet not through hyperspace.
SCOTT: What are you doing?
RUSH: Who knows how far it's travelled?
SCOTT: Doctor Rush, I've got a lot of wounded. We need to get home.
(In the Gateroom, Lieutenant Johansen and others are assisting the injured. A scientist, Jeremy Franklin, while not badly injured, sits with his back against the wall struggling a little to breathe. He opens the top button of his shirt. Nearby, people look up as something electronic groans and shuts down. Johansen reports over her radio.)
JOHANSEN: Lieutenant Scott, come in?
SCOTT (into radio): Go ahead.
JOHANSEN: We've got a problem. One of the air vents just shut down in here.
SCOTT: Copy that.
WALLACE: Yeah, the air's gettin' pretty thin in here too.
SCOTT: What does that mean?
RUSH: That the life support system is failing ... (he turns away from the window and heads toward the door) ... and we should probably do something about that.
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Six-Tom-Clancy/dp/0399143904
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Rainbow Six Hardcover – August 3, 1998
by Tom Clancy (Author)
Product details
Hardcover: 738 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (August 3, 1998)
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980802&slug=2764257
The Seattle Times
Sunday, August 2, 1998
An Action-Packed Summer Read -- Tom Clancy's Latest Storms The Shores
By Melinda Bargreen
Seattle Times Staff Critic
Rumblings in the distance are growing louder, as a phalanx of trucks approaches local bookstores. There is a diesel storm rising.
Tom Clancy is back.
Yes, fans, the latest humongous Clancy doorstop of a book - at 752 pages, a veritable Cortez Kennedy among action-thrillers - officially hits stores tomorrow. From there, it will undoubtedly commence liftoff for The New York Times' best-seller list and eventually a theater near you.
"Rainbow Six," a new techno-thriller about an elite international antiterrorist squad, has all the usual Clancy paraphernalia: action galore, taut plotting, state-of-the art weapons and heroic guys about whose safety the reader need entertain no serious fears.
The main hero here is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL who went ballistic in an earlier Clancy novel, "Without Remorse," and whom Clancy has called "the dark side" of his primary hero, Jack Ryan. (Ryan, of course, first surfaced in "The Hunt for Red October" and has since escalated into the most heroic American president since Lincoln).
Clark is quite a fellow, too. He has more decorations than the White House Christmas tree: Navy Cross, Silver Star with a repeat cluster, Bronze Star with Combat-V and three repeats, three Purple Hearts, et al. He's the hero of many covert international missions in which the Free World's bacon was definitively saved.
He may be pushing 60, but Clark can still run with the big dogs, and he still gets that dangerous look on his face that makes smart people not want to mess with him.
There are many stupid people in the world, however, and Clancy has a field day with a bunch of environmental extremists who are the chief (though not only) villains of "Rainbow Six." These wackos have concocted a biological blowout more deadly than anything Saddam Hussein could ever contrive, an apocalypse that will heal Mother Nature and get the buffaloes roaming again on the prairie.
The extremists of "the Project" first manifest themselves in a puzzling series of terrorist strikes, which conveniently begin just as Clark's tautly trained Rainbow squadron is ready for action. But why, they wonder, are they being called upon to counter such incidents as a hostage scenario at a Swiss bank, a high-level kidnapping at a German Schloss and a raid on a Spanish amusement park in which innocent children - two of them in wheelchairs - are held at gunpoint?
Could these incidents be related? That's the question John Clark ponders, but all Clancy fans know the answer: You bet your nuke-launching sub they're related.
The Expanse
"The Seventh Man"
(from internet transcript)
Dr. Cortazar, they changed your brain with that procedure.
That's forever, right?
It was temporary at first.
Dresden never coerced any of us.
When did you decide to make it permanent?
That first day, within five minutes.
I knew I'd never go back.
Why?
The calm I felt.
It was like a terrible storm had lifted.
It was painless, you know?
The procedure.
If you are interested...
I didn't say that.
Today there was this boy that looked at me like I was a monster.
I think I scared his mother.
I didn't mean to.
It made me remember when I was that boy.
Hmm. So, somebody hurt your mother.
I lost her a long time ago.
And then there was Lydia.
Who?
Just someone that looked after me.
And you loved them.
I think I did.
I loved my mother, too.
It was the residue of guilt, shame...
Need.
Love kept me at her bedside until she died.
Nearly caused me to miss out on the greatest work humanity has ever undertaken.
The protomolecule devours old constructs and recreates them.
It only moves forward.
As we must.
Move forward?
What do you mean?
You want to be that real boy again.
To feel how you felt before the world broke you.
The safety of your mother's embrace.
But you cauterized all that in order to survive.
You don't want that back again.
Stomp out those last embers and you'll be free of it.
We are about to rewrite that entire story of humanity.
And, if you like, you can be a part of that, too.
I can help you.
I know how.
From 3/3/1976 ( premiere US TV series episode "Cannon"::series finale episode "Madman" ) To 3/8/2017 ( ) is 14980 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/7/2006 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital documents, the final appointment with the psychiatrist ) is 14980 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 4/3/2016 ( posted by me, Kerry Burgess ) is 18754 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/2017 ( ) is 18754 days
From 3/7/1973 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) To 3/8/2017 ( ) is 16072 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/3/2009 ( premiere US TV series "V" ) is 16072 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5812224/
IMDb
The Expanse (2015– )
The Seventh Man
Episode aired 8 March 2017
Season 2 Episode 7
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 6:31 AM, April 03, 2016
I just can't figure out
Am I sensing this. Is someone telling me this through my mind. The thoughts that form in my mind.
The Expanse
"The Seventh Man"
(from internet transcript)
Gunny, you're the only one who survived, our only eyes and ears on what happened down there.
Now, you said that you were under attack.
You reported shots fired along the UN line.
Six Blues.
They were coming right at us.
Then we got jammed, I...
I grabbed Travis and we made a line.
Six Blues charging you?
No.
No, wait, there was a seventh.
"The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974)
Oscar Goldman: Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
http://www.tv.com/shows/v-abc/pilot-1288159/
tv . com
V
Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
Aired Nov 03, 2009 on ABC
AIRED: 11/3/09
Second Chances [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Original Airdate: 24 May, 1993
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: Jean-Luc Picard.
RIKER 2: Lieutenant Will Riker.
PICARD: I hope you understand our need to verify your claim.
RIKER 2: Yes, sir.
CRUSHER: Genetically, he's indistinguishable from Commander Riker.
PICARD: Could there be some sort of cloning involved here?
CRUSHER: I don't think so. There's no genetic drift.
PICARD: But it's not conclusive.
CRUSHER: That's why I compared their brain scans. Brain organisation patterns are as unique as fingerprints. Except for minor, minor differences, theirs are identical.
PICARD: But can't brain patterns be cloned?
CRUSHER: No. They're determined by experience, mostly from early childhood.
PICARD: How can two grown men share the same childhood experiences? It just doesn't make any sense.
RIKER 2: I am Will Riker. I don't know who or what made it back to the Potemkin that day, but it wasn't me.
From 1/22/1987 ( Robert Budd Dwyer dead by self-inflicted gunshot ) to 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) is 2713 days
2713 = 1356 + 1357
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/20/1969 ( 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 ) is 1356 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 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 ) is 1357 days
http://www.orbital.com/SpaceLaunch/Pegasus/pegasus_history.shtml
Orbital
Pegasus
Pegasus Mission History
Flight #: 6
Launch Date: June 27, 1994
Vehicle: Pegasus XL
Payload: STEP-1
Result: Failure
album: "Short Bus" (1995)
Filter
"Hey Man Nice Shot"
I wish I would've met you
Now it's a little late
What you could've taught me
I could've saved some face
They think that your early ending
Was all wrong
For the most part they're right
But look how they all got strong
That's why I say hey man, nice shot
What a good shot man
A man
Has gun
Hey man
Have fun
Nice shot
Now that the smoke's gone
And the air is all clear
Those who were right there
Got a new kind of fear
You'd fight and you were right
But they were just too strong
They'd stick it in your face
And let you smell what they consider wrong
That's why I say hey man nice, nice shot
What a good shot man
A man
Has gun
Hey man
Have fun
Nice shot
I wish I would've met you
I wish I would've met you
I'd say
Nice shot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/071773-1.htm
Washington Post
President Taped Talks, Phone Calls; Lawyer Ties Ehrlichman to Payments
Principal Offices Secretly Bugged Since Spring 1971
Michael Darden for The Washington Post
By Lawrence Meyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 17, 1973; Page A01
President Nixon has been routinely taping all his conversations and meetings in the Oval Office and cabinet room of the White House, in his Executive Office Building office and on four of his personal telephones, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield told the Senate select Watergate committee yesterday.
Butterfield, now the Federal Aviation Administration administrator, said the tape recording began in the spring of 1971 and was intended "to record things for posterity, for the Nixon library." Most participants in conversations with the President did not know they were being taped, Butterfield said, because only a few members of the White House inner circle were told about the several hidden recording devices.
Butterfield's testimony, acknowledged to be correct by the White House, indicates that the White House may have in its possession the means to prove that President Nixon knew nothing about the cover-up of the Watergate affair until March 21, 1973, as he has maintained, or that former White House counsel John W. Dean III was correct in testifying that President Nixon knew about the cover-up well before March 21.
Samuel Dash, chief counsel of the Senate committee, said yesterday that the committee will request White House tapes for specific dates. Dash said there should be "no obstacle to giving us the actual recordings . . . It's late in the day for anybody to raise withholding that information."
Deputy White House press secretary Gerald L. Warren declined to comment yesterday when asked if the White House would make the tapes available to the Senate committee.
Sources inside the White House said, however, that the President was expected to stand by his most recent statement, a letter to committee chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. (DD-N.C.) saying that Mr. Nixon would neither testify before the committee nor release presidential papers to it. The sources included the tapes and any transcripts of the tapes as falling within the category of presidential papers.
Since July 7, the committee has been searching for a means to obtain information from President Nixon about the Watergate affair. Before his hospitalization on July 12, Mr. Nixon had agreed to meet with Ervin, who has repeatedly said that only the President and Presidential papers involving Dean could show finally whether Dean's testimony about the President was correct.
Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox also declined to comment yesterday on whether his office will seek any or all of the taped White House conversations. However, it is expected that he also will ask for tapes of conversations between Mr. Nixon and Dean, and for certain other tapes, including one of a talk that Dean said former domestic adviser John D. Ehrlichman had with the President concerning executive clemency for convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
According to Butterfield's testimony yesterday, all conversations were automatically taped in the White House Oval office where the President customarily receives official visitors ranging from personal friends and American business, political and labor leaders to foreign dignitaries.
Butterfield said Mr. Nixon's Executive Office Building office also is wired so that the sound of a voice automatically activates a recorder. President Nixon is said to enjoy the solitude of the Executive Office Building office but he has staff meetings there occasionally as well as in the White House Oval Office.
Butterfield said that meetings attended by the President in the cabinet room in the west wing of the White House also were taped by a manually operated recorder.
Four telephones -- in the Oval Office, the Executive Office Building office, the Lincoln sitting room in the residential quarters of the White House and on President Nixon's desk in his study in Aspen cabin at Camp David -- also are wired to tape all conversations held over them.
Butterfield said that he believed that when foreign dignitaries used Aspen Cabin, "the device was removed prior to occupancy."
Asked to explain why the extensive recording apparatus was installed, Butterfield said: "There was no doubt in my mind they were installed to record things for posterity, for the Nixon library. The President was very conscious of that kind of thing. We had quite an elaborate set-up at the White House for the collection and preservation of documents, and of things which transpired in the way of business of state."
Butterfield's testimony about the elaborate, secret taping system employed by President Nixon provided an ironic twist to the Watergate hearings, which were themselves precipitated by a bugging incident.
Previous witnesses at the hearings have described how White House aides, less elaborately than President Nixon and on their own taped conversations either in their offices or on their telephones. White House aides Charles W. Colson, Dean, John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman all have been mentioned in testimony as having taped conversations without informing the person to whom they were speaking that a recording was being made.
Butterfield testified before Herbert W. Kalmbach, Mr. Nixon's personal attorney, and after special White House counsel Richard A. Moore yesterday. Moore who testified for a total of 2 1/2 days, was pressed yesterday to explain why President Nixon failed to inform any law enforcement agency about violations of law after being informed of them by Dean.
Despite being read notes from official White House logs indicating that on March 13,17 and 21 Dean told President Nixon about possibly illegal acts that had been committed. Moore asserted that "there is nothing here that I can find on which to predicate a question to the television audience that the President knew of criminal activity that he did not report. I do not find it here."
Moore's testimony, under questioning by Sen. Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M.) and assistant chief counsel Terry Lenzner, illustrated apparent gaps in the version of events put out by the White House concerning President Nixon's knowledge of the cover-up and steps he took to disclose it publicly.
Lenzner, as Ervin has previously in questioning witnesses, used Moore's testimony to demonstrate the necessity of President Nixon providing some means of clearing up the contradiction between Dean -- who says President Nixon had known of the cover-up since Sept. 15, 1972 -- and the President himself, who denies knowledge of the cover-up before last March.
Butterfield, following Moore, provided the committee with a potential solution to the impasse.
Butterfield was first interviewed by the committee staff Friday afternoon in what was described as a "routine" session. At one point in the interview Dash told reporters Butterfield was asked if he knew whether an April 15 meeting between Dean and Mr. Nixon in the Executive Office Building office was taped as Dean had testified he suspected. Dash said that Butterfield answered, "'Yes, it's possible and this is the reason.'"
Dash said Butterfield then described the recording apparatus installed by the Secret Service at the request of President Nixon through White House chief of staff H.R. (Bob) Haldeman. Ironically, Butterfield testified that Dean was one of the many White House staff members who was never informed of the President's recording devices.
Butterfield testified initially that the system had been installed in the spring or summer of 1970 but corrected his testimony to say it was the spring of 1971 after Ervin read a letter from special counsel to the President J. Fred Buzhardt dating the system's first use by the President to 1971.
According to Butterfield, part of the recording system is linked to an electronic "locator" device run by security personnel, that shows President Nixon's whereabouts in the White House by lights for each of seven locations. Butterfield said that whenever Mr. Nixon is in the Oval Office or in his Executive Office Building office, and the light for that location is flashed, it automatically turns on tape recorders that begin taping when a person's voice is heard. Butterfield said the recorders "picked up all conversations or all noise" when the President is in the Oval Office and the Executive Office Building office.
The device in the cabinet room, which Butterfield said is manually activated by buttons in that room and another office, did not work as well. The conversations that Dean has testified he had with Mr. Nixon occurred in the Oval office and in the Executive Office Building office.
The telephone tapes, Butterfield said, are activated simply by picking up the phone to make or receive a call. Dash said under recent Supreme Court rulings, which permit taping of conversations if there is "one partly consent," no law is violated by the taping of conversations on the phone or in the various offices so long as President Nixon is aware of the recordings.
Butterfield said he was describing the system in order to be truthful in his testimony but that he was reluctant to discuss the matter. "It is very obvious that this could be -- I cannot say that any longer -- is embarrassing to our government," Butterfield said. "And also because I felt it could be something the President would like to present at a later time in defense of his own position."
Dash said after yesterday's sessions that Haldeman and White House aide Lawrence Higby also had been asked by the Senate Committee about taping of conversations in the White House. Dash indicated, however, that Butterfield's testimony was the first acknowledgment that such tapings took place.
Whether the tape, which Butterfield said are maintained by date by the White House, fall under the doctrine of executive privilege described by President Nixon is an unanswered question.
In his May 22 statement, president Nixon said, "Executive privilege will not be invoked as to any testimony concerning possible criminal conduct or discussions of possible criminal conduct, in the matters presently under investigation, including the Watergate affair, and the alleged cover-up." It was under this interpretation that Dean testified before the Senate committee about his conversations with the President.
President Nixon's statement of July 7, however, denied the committee access to presidential papers.
Ervin on July 11, while questioning former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, gave his own definition of executive privilege: "I think a President is entitled to have kept secret confidential communications had between him and an aide or had among his aides which were had for the purpose of assisting the president to perform in a lawful manner one of his constitutional or legal duties."
Ervin continued, "And I think also that is the full scope and effect of executive privilege. Since . . .there is nothing in the Constitution requiring the President to run for re-election, I don't think that executive privilege covers any political activities whatsoever. They are not official and have no relation to his office.
"I also take the position that executive privilege does not entitle a president to have kept secret information concerning criminal activities of his aides or anybody else because there is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a President to have anything to do with criminal activities," Ervin said.
Dash said following yesterday's hearing that the committee would consider a request to the White House for tapes of specific dates mentioned in testimony when it meets in executive session Wednesday.
Reliable government sources said yesterday that Alfred Wong, the former head of the technical services division for the Secret Service at the White House, was in charge of installing the listening devices. Wong had recommended James W. McCord Jr., who was later convicted in the Watergate case, for McCord's position as head of security at the President's re-election committee.
Secret Service agents Louis B. Sims and Raymond C. Zumwalt, both presently assigned to the technical services division at the White House were in charge of maintaining the elaborate eavesdropping operation at the White House and changing the tapes, according to the sources.
There was some question yesterday whether the White House would let the agents testify before the Senate Watergate committee, the sources said.
Moore, who preceded Butterfield at the witness table and who holds the title of special counsel to the President, has testified that it is his "firm conviction" that President Nixon was not aware of the cover-up until March 21.
Moore on Friday recounted a conversation with President Nixon on April 19 in which Mr. Nixon acknowledged that Dean had told him about the Watergate cover-up on March 21, including the demands of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt Jr. For cash payments to remain silent about his involvement in the break-in at the offices of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Under questioning by assistant chief committee counsel Lenzner, who read from White House log summaries made by minority counsel Fred Thompson that were verified by the White House to be accurate. Moore consistently resisted acknowledging that the log summaries accurately reflected conversations held by President Nixon.
Moore, under questioning by Lenzner, agreed that he had concluded on March 20 that "the President could not be aware of the things that Mr. Dean was worried about." Dean's concerns, according to Moore, included the cover-up and the increasing possibility that it would be unraveled publicly.
"Mr. Moore," Lenzner asked, "do you agree now that your understanding of the President's information and knowledge was basically incorrect That he did, in fact, have information at that meeting . . . on March 20 concerning Mr. Strachan (Gordon Strachan, an aide to Haldeman) and also possible involvement in Watergate and also involving the Ellsberg break-in?. . ."
"You have heard my statement on that, of course, that he (Nixon) did not, that it was my judgment that he did not," Moore replied. "I know of nothing to change that."
Lenzner then read Moore a portion of the White House log summaries stating that Dean had told President Nixon "Strachan could be involved" on March 13 and that on March 17 "Dean told the President of the Ellsberg break-in but that it had nothing to do with the Watergate."
Does not that information, Lenzner asked Moore, "indicate that in fact your perception was wrong and Mr. Nixon, the President, did know about both Strachan's possible involvement and the Ellsberg break-in?"
"It seems to me," Moore replied, "the answer to that question can only be given to you by someone who was at the meeting and when you speak of the White House report, and you use the word White House as a building rather loosely, anything done in the White House is done by a person, and when you speak of this as a White House report, Mr. Thompson very candidly and properly has said this is his summary of a telephone conversation . . . All I know is what I saw and heard . . . It doesn't change my opinion one bit and I think if you want to get at that, you should ask someone who was at the meeting."
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-announcing-decision-resign-the-office-president-the-united-states
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969-1974
Address to the Nation
August 8, 1974
Richard Nixon: I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interests of America first.
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Morgan Trau | KREM
@MorganTrau
Reporter for @KREM2
Day 1 at @KREM2
I cannot wait to get to know everyone in @SpokaneCity and @CDAgov and tell your stories!
I’m a newbie, so if you have any recommendations on places to visit - let me know!
5:59 PM Jul 6, 2020
Day 1 at @KREM2 ✅
— Morgan Trau (@MorganTrau) July 7, 2020
I cannot wait to get to know everyone in @SpokaneCity and @CDAgov and tell your stories!
I’m a newbie, so if you have any recommendations on places to visit - let me know! pic.twitter.com/mmGqhgRde8
Imdb (dot) com
The Untouchables (1987)
Quotes
Ness: [to his men while he rides on a snow plow truck] All right now, let's do some good!
Me at the zoo
From Wikipedia
"Me at the zoo" is the first video that was uploaded to YouTube, on April 23 2005, 8:31:52 p.m. PDT, which is April 24, 2005 at 3:31:52 a.m. UTC.
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@MorganTrau
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Trau household!
This is my new baby. His name is Jinx and I adopted him three days ago from Priest River Animal Rescue in Idaho.
I love him more than words can say [images: Red heart Black cat Crescent moon]
2:24 PM Dec 25, 2020 from Spokane, WA
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Trau household!
— Morgan Trau (@MorganTrau) December 25, 2020
This is my new baby. His name is Jinx and I adopted him three days ago from Priest River Animal Rescue in Idaho.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_13
NASA Astronaut Group 13
From Wikipedia
NASA Astronaut Group 13 (the Hairballs) was a group of 23 astronauts announced by NASA on 17 January 1990.
album: "Space Oddity (1969)
David Bowie
"Space Oddity"
(from internet transcript)
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten)
Ground Control
(Nine)
To Major Tom
(Eight, seven, six)
Commencing countdown
(Five)
Engines on
(Four, three, two)
Check ignition
(One)
And may God's love
(Lift-off)
Be with you
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
She knows
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you he—
Here am I floating 'round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)
(from internet transcript)
Standing there alone, the ship is waiting
All systems are go, are you sure?
Control is not convinced
But the computer has the evidence
No need to abort
The countdown starts
Watching in a trance, the crew is certain
Nothing left to chance, all is working
Trying to relax, up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink", jokes Major Tom
The count goes on
4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
Drifting falling
Floating weightless
Calling calling home
Second stage is cut, we’re now in orbit
Stabilizers up, running perfect
Starting to collect, requested data
What will it effect, when all is done
Thinks Major Tom
Back at ground control, there is a problem
Go to rockets full, not responding
Hello Major Tom, are you receiving
Turn the thrusters on, we’re standing by
There’s no reply
4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating, weightless
Calling, calling, home
Across the stratosphere
A final message, "Give my wife my love"
Then nothing more
Far beneath the ship, the world is mourning
They don’t realize, he’s alive
No one understands but Major Tom sees
Now the light commands, this is my home
I’m coming home
Earth below us
Drifting falling
Floating weightless
Coming home
Earth below us
Drifting falling
Floating weightless
Coming home
Earth below us
Drifting falling
Floating weightless
Coming coming home
Home
Home
Home
Home
Home
Home
Home
Home
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 04:32 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 01/17/2022
