CBS News's four Bush memos.
"ordered to report... annual physical examination (flight) IAW AFM 35-13.... getting his flight physical situation fixed.... I advised him of our investment in him and his commitment.... suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination (flight) as ordered... fill this critical billet with a more seasoned pilot.... Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges.... Bush's OETR... Staudt is pushing to sugar coat it: Bush wasn't here during rating period and I don't have any feedback from 187th in Alabama. I will not rate.... I'll backdate but won't rate..."
Posted by DeLong at September 8, 2004 08:56 PM | TrackBack
111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
P.O. Box 34567
Houston, Texas 7703404 May 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR 1st Lt. George W. Bush... Houston, Texas 77027
SUBJECT: Annual Physical Examination (Flight)
1. You are ordered to report to commander, 111 F.I.S., Ellington AFB, not later than (NLT) 14 May, 1972, to conduct annual physical examination (flight) IAW AFM 35-13.
Report to 111th F.I.S. administrative officer for schedule of appointment and additional instructions. Examination will be conducted in duty status.
JERRY B. KILLIAN
Lt. Colonel
Commander
19 May 1972
Memo to File
SUBJECT: Discussion with Bush, 1st Lt Bush
1. Phone call from Bush. Discussed options of how Bush can get out of coming to drill from now through November. I told him he could do ET for three months or transfer. Says he wants to transfer to Alabama to any unit he can get in to. Says that he is working on another campaign for his dad.
2. Physical. We talked about him getting his flight physical situation fixed before his date. Says he will do that in Alabama if he stays in flight status. He has this campaign to do and other things that will follow and may not have the time. I advised him of our investment in him and his commitment. He's been working with staff to come up with options and identified a unit that may accept him. I told him I had to have written acceptance before he would be transferred, but think he's also talking to someone upstairs.
111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
P.O. Box 34567
Houston, Texas 7703401 August 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
SUBJECT: Bush, George W. 1st Lt.3244754FG Suspension of Flight status
1. On this date I ordered that 1st Lt. Bush be suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination (flight) as ordered.
2. I conveyed my verbal orders to commander, 147th Ftr. Intrcp Gp with request for orders for suspension and convening of a flight review board IAW AFM 35-13.
I recommended transfer of this officer to the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron in May and forwarded his AF Form 1288 to 147th Ftr Intrcp Gp headquarters. The transfer was not allowed. Officer has made no attempt to meet his training certification or flight physical. Officer expresses desire to transfer out of state including assignment to non-flying billets.
On recommendation of Harris, I also suggested that we fill this critical billet with a more seasoned pilot from the list of qualified Vietnam pilots that have rotated. Recommendations were received but not confirmed.
JERRY B. KILLIAN
Lt. Colonel
18 August 1973
Memo to File
SUBJECT: CYA
1. Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job. Harris gave me a message today from Grp Regarding Bush's OETR and Staudt is pushing to sugar coat it: Bush wasn't here during rating period and I don't have any feedback from 187th in Alabama. I will not rate. Austin is not happy today either.
2. Harris took the call from Grp today. I'll backdate but won't rate. Harris agrees.
I was hearing all this talk on NPR about Bush's record today.
Based on this: "... I ordered that 1st Lt. Bush be suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination (flight) as ordered.", how did he get an "honorable discharge"?
Posted by: question at September 8, 2004 09:03 PMSUBJECT: COVER YOUR ASS
the last memo is very interesting. I wonder about these statements:
—"Austin is not happy today either,"
— "I'm having trouble running interference..."
You know, don't you, that this business will increase pressure for Kerry to release his diaries and military records.
Is that a thing you want to happen?
ronb, where have you been? The GOP demanded -- demanded! -- that Kerry release all his military records. To which the Kerry campaign chuckled and said, "Okay, here you go." I haven't visited myself, but word is the records are vastly more extensive and comprehensive, and can be found on the Kerry website.
Posted by: Dragonchild at September 8, 2004 09:59 PMKerry's military records: http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0422c.html
Posted by: Mike at September 8, 2004 10:12 PM"Gaming the system" (Korb's words) are what modern
Repugs are all about: these documents make W a hero to the true believers... He gamed the system and got away with it, HOHAW!
"question" wrote:
> how did he get an "honorable discharge"?
Answer here:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200409080010
> In February, an article (subscription required) in The New Republic
> debunked the Bush claim that an honorable discharge means he
> fulfilled his duty:
>
> Far from being a mark of exemplar service, the honorable discharge
> is better thought of as a standard severance, something every soldier
> receives unless there's significant evidence of misconduct and a
> commanding officer eager to brave the paperwork, panels, and
> disciplinary hearings required to send the soldier home with anything
> less. Like any number of other officers, Bush could have ducked out
> of his service for months and still received an honorable discharge.
>
> Going missing from military service and then squeaking out with an
> honorable discharge has a rich history among politicians.
>
> [...]
>
> A few years ago, a guest columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
> ruminated on going AWOL from his unit routinely with a "case of beer"
> to drink himself "into oblivion." "I don't know how, but I did manage
> to get an honorable discharge."
>
> [...]
>
> Perhaps more striking is how often serious questions of misconduct
> have been flat-out ignored. John Allen Muhammad, convicted
> last November for his participation in the D.C. sniper shootings,
> served in the Louisiana National Guard from 1978-1985, where he
> faced two summary courts-martial. In 1983, he was charged with
> striking an officer, stealing a tape measure, and going AWOL.
> Sentenced to seven days in the brig, he received an honorable
> discharge in 1985.
>
> [...]
Iow, not something you'd necessary go around bragging a whole lot about.
tim
Bush the First was the sounder politician of the two: in the 1992 campaign, his people wanted to make a federal case out of Clinton's career as a womanizer, but then word came back from the Clinton camp that they could, and would, paint Bush with the same brush if invited to do so. Both sides then forbore to fire away. Not so with Bush the Second: his handlers just couldnt refrain from unleashing those Swift Boat dogs. And now they pay, and seem a bit discomposed by the whole process, not to say a bit surprised. I hold their boss responsible for this: he dumbs down every single person who comes near him--his hit men as well as his household.
Posted by: alabama at September 9, 2004 12:39 AM
The Dems won't get enough traction just focusing on Bush's service.
It's *crucial* that they link Bush's dereliction of duty in 1972 to his dereliction of duty in August 2001 - his decision to take his full vacation after being presented with the August 6 PDB warning about Al Qaeda.
Connecting the service record and his lackadaisical performance as president establishes a lifetime character flaw, and makes the Guard service highly relevant to today's events.
If this isn't done, the GOP can just paint it as ancient history, a non-issue because Bush grew up and changed his ways. I think most people will accept that.
The GOP would have a harder time making a substantive defense against an argument that connected his guard performance to his August 01 vacation.
Bush shirked his duty in 1972, and he shirked in August of 2001. This connection *must* be made for the public, and pounded on again and again.
The Dems aren't going to get this chance again before the election. If they don't capitalize on it now, to best effect, the opportunity is lost.
Brad, if you can, could you pass this comment on to anyone you think would be able to act on it?
Two more tidbits:
(1) The Houston Chronicle reports that Buck Staudt is also now refusing to talk to the Boston Globe, as well as to CBS.
(2) Mark Kleiman speculates that Bush just might be legally open now to a delayed military court-martial and jail time:
http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/the_bush_awol_issue_/2004/09/disobdience_of_a_direct_order.php
I have to confess that I find this all enormously amusing. As my mother said back during Watergate, "To hell with all that nonsense about this being a 'great national tragedy'. We've already had our share of great national tragedies. This is the cartoon." But then, I'm a Democrat. I doubt that Republicans find it as funny.
OT:
http://www.andrewtobias.com/
DRAFT RESPONSE AD ON IRAQ WAR SPENDING (60 seconds):
[Kerry speaking directly to the camera:]
My fellow Americans, George Bush has had a lot of fun attacking me over how I voted on his 87 billion dollar spending request for the Iraq War. He thinks it's a big laugh line. But he's laughing all the way to the bank, with YOUR grandchildren's money.
My position has been perfectly clear all along:
No. 1: I support spending whatever it takes to get the job done in Iraq.
No. 2: I DEMAND that we pay for it honestly by asking the wealthiest Americans to give back just SOME of the enormous tax breaks Bush gave them.
That's why I voted the way I did. Bush, by contrast, just ran up the deficit another 87 billion dollars. Instead of asking his wealthiest supporters to make ANY sacrifice at all, he favored dumping the debt burden on all of our grandchildren.
I support spending what we need, but I OPPOSE Bush's refusal to pay for it honestly. He calls that a flip-flop. I call it common sense. You be the judge.
END
More good stuff on the page itself.
Posted by: MattB at September 9, 2004 05:33 AMCompletely agree with Jon H. (elaborations below are mine, not his!)
The relevance of all this paper-wrangling is not in the specific details, but that these separate incidents of 30 yrs ago show just how these two people--I am loathe to refer to "Bush" as a "man" but I will begrudgingly admit him to the species--developed their distinctly different characters and personalities which have led them through life to this (and future) days.
John Kerry, opposed to the war, nevertheless signed on and fought honorably and in dangerous situations. He accepted the responsibilities of an American citizen, even though he was a child of privilege.
George Wrong Bush, opposed to having his worthless ass shot off, apparently unaware of all the good drugs he could have scored in 'Nam, finagled a position into the NG, purportedly achieved the lowest possible score to enable him to become a pilot like his father (what are the chances he could achieve precisely the lowest possible score? I'd say they are much higher that he DID NOT achieve this score, but was graded on the 'curve' weighted by Daddy's influence), then deserted his duty to my country (and yes, I'm old enough that I paid taxes which paid for his training). This blatant desertion makes him a traitor during time of war, for which crime he should be given a fair trial then hanged as soon as possible.
Posted by: bushwahd at September 9, 2004 05:47 AMWhat amazes me is that it took 5 years for the media to unearth these memos. How did CBS do it?
Posted by: Ed A at September 9, 2004 06:06 AMHow did CBS do it? With a lot of prodding from the Kerry campaign. Kerry is a fighter, and I'm sure his staff worked hard to unearth documents and point media outlets towards them.
Posted by: Jon at September 9, 2004 06:21 AMWas Nixon A Jerk?
Public Enquiry Project ^ | 9/9/04 | Bewildered Bonnie
Posted on 09/09/2004 9:29:30 AM EDT by AdrianSpidle
THIS IS THE FIRST POST OF BONNIE ROSE WHO I HOPE WILL BE A REGULAR POSTER HERE ON THE PUBLIC ENQUIRY PROJECT. AS YOU CAN TELL, BONNIE IS EXTREMELY BRIGHT, KNOWLEDGEABLE AND TALENTED AND MORE THAN CAPABLE OF COUNTER BALANCING MY OWN RIGHT WING RANTINGS.
I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE OTHER THOUGHTFUL AND RESPECTFUL RIGHTIES AND LEFTIES TO BE GUEST AUTHORS. SIMPLY COMMENT A FEW TIMES ON OUR POSTS HERE AND YOU CAN THEN REQUEST AUTHORSHIP PRIVILEGES.
TO MY KERRY SUPPORTING FRIENDS, BONNIE IS PRETTY FAR LEFT AND THINKS KERRY IS "IN THE POCKET" OF THE CORPORATIONS, WOULD RATHER VOTE FOR A REAL SOCIALIST AND MIGHT NOT VOTE FOR HIM. SINCE THE PURPOSE OF THIS SITE IS TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR LEFTIES AND RIGHTIES TO CONVINCE UNDECIDEDS, I INVITE YOU TO TRY AND CONVINCE BONNIE TO VOTE FOR YOUR CANDIDATE.
See the nasty things Bonnie has to say about Nixon in her first post:
http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/09/_nbsp_1971_quot.html
The New Republic's appraisal of the Killian memos makes Bush's conduct look even more nauseating than it appeared before.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=lizza090904 :
"The second part of CBS's story is where there was actual news. CBS obtained four documents from the personal papers of Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, Bush's Texas National Guard squadron commander. These memos tell a fascinating story about the struggle of a by-the-book commander caught between a self-important young pilot trying to cut corners and wiggle out of the rest of his Guard commitment, and superiors who seem all to willing to let the privileged son of a Texas VIP bend the rules.
"In the first memo, Bush is ordered to report for his annual physical within ten days. He doesn't show up, and a few days after the deadline passes Bush calls Killian. According to Killian's notes, they '[d]iscussed options of how Bush can get out of coming to drill from now through November.' They discussed the possibility of Bush transferring to Alabama. And what about taking that physical? Maybe Bush will get to it after he transfers. 'He has this campaign to do,' Killian writes, 'and other things that will follow and may not have the time.'
"To me, the most overlooked and most important new detail in these memos comes next. Killian writes, 'I advised him of our investment in him and his commitment.' It's often forgotten that even if Bush had gone off to Alabama and served honorably by showing up for all his drills, he was still walking out on a sworn commitment he made to the Guard. The government spent a vast sum of money training Bush to become a Texas Air National Guard pilot, a highly coveted position in 1968 that saved Bush from Vietnam, and in return Bush promised he would fly for the Guard for as long as possible. Don't believe it? Here's the sworn statement Bush signed when he started his service:
" 'I, George Walker Bush, upon successful completion of pilot training plan to return to my unit and fulfill my obligation to the utmost of my ability. I have applied for pilot training with the goal of making flying a lifetime pursuit and I believe I can best accomplish this to my own satisfaction by serving as a member of the Air National Guard for as long as possible.'
"That's what Killian meant when he advised Bush of 'our investment and his commitment.' But Killian, the memos show, starts to realize that his moral suasion is useless. Bush has already started maneuvering around him and Killian knows he's getting rolled. 'I told him I had to have written acceptance before he would be transferred,' he writes, 'but think he's also talking to someone upstairs.'
"In the next memo Bush is 'suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination (flight) as ordered.' This is the first time any official document has reported that Bush was suspended for any reason other than simply missing his physical. It's also clear in this memo that Bush has completely abandoned the idea of ever flying again. 'Officer has made no attempt to meet his training certification or flight physical,' the memo says. Bush even asked for a non-flying assignment. Incredibly, Killian recommends that the Texas spot abandoned by Bush -- the one that with Barnes's help Bush had won by leapfrogging ahead of hundreds of other applicants -- be filled by a pilot returning from combat in Vietnam. Not only did someone else get shipped off to Vietnam when Bush landed his Guard duty, but once Bush was bored with flying and abandoned his spot, a pilot returning from Vietnam was forced to replace him.
"In the final Killian memo, the one with the subject line 'CYA' (cover your ass), the commander makes cryptic references to a struggle with his superiors over how much slack to cut Bush, who hadn't been observed in Texas for a year. 'Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job,' Killian writes. According to the Associated Press, Staudt and Hodges are Waleter B. Staudt, the commander of the Texas National Guard at the time, and Lieutenant Colonel Bobby Hodges, one of Bush's superiors. Staudt, Killian wrote, was 'pushing to sugar-coat' the evaluation. Killian complains that Bush wasn't around and there's no word from Alabama about what he's been doing. He makes a small concession to the pressure he's feeling from his bosses but refuses a full coverup for Bush. 'I'll backdate,' he writes, 'but won't rate.' "
__________________
Note also Mark Kleiman's comment on the failure of Bush's Alabama superiors to ever provide Killian with that appraisal of Bush's performance there ( http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/_/2004/09/the_missing_performance_review.php ):
"Now we see why First Lt. Bush's performance review from 1973 states: 'unable to rate.' The outfit he'd supposedly been reporting to in Alabama wouldn't say anything to the commander of his home unit in Texas, and that commander, standing up to pressure from his superiors, refused to (in his words) 'sugar-coat' matters. So he simply refused to rate.
"This is very strong evidence that Bush didn't actually report for duty in Alabama. Otherwise, why wouldn't his superiors there simply fill out the paperwork to allow him to get a satisfactory Officer Efficiency Report?"
Every new piece of information obtained supports the claim that Bush used influence to get into the guard and then went AWOL.
Every new piece of information obtained contradicts the claims made by the Swift Boat veterans for Bush.
It is now abundantly clear that the Bush campaign set up the swift boat veterans as a way to neutralize the AWOL allegations. They knew that worse would come out.
Character matters, people who lie about little things are certain to lie when it comes to big things. The coverup of Bush's service in the national guard is merely a smaller scale version of the coverup over Bush's actions on 9-11 and the lies he told to start the war with Iraq.
Posted by: Phill at September 9, 2004 07:04 AMSo the question I want to hear at the daily press gaggle--repeatedly, until it's answered satisfactorily--is, "Why did the President fail to follow a direct order?"
Posted by: TTop at September 9, 2004 07:51 AMThese memos may well be forgeries.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007760.php
Posted by: Blue at September 9, 2004 09:52 AMRegarding forgeries -- you need to consider what the imaging process in Adobe (converting an old document to a PDF file) does to the detail of the document. OCR is wonderful and all that, but ... you can't look at a PDF and react as if you've got a real document, or even a photograph of the document. The curly quotes, the "thorn" (th) character, and all -- are you SURE that Adobe didn't modify the original type?
That said...
Bush joined the Reserves, served in CONUS, and was discharged ahead of time.
Kerry joined the Reserves, was sent O'CONUS, and was discharged ... strangely belatedly. He was in the "Standby Reserves" while conducting unauthorized treaty negotiations with the Vietnamese in Paris in 1971. He was a Navy Officer while testifying before Congress about wartime atrocities. He was transferred to the inactive "Ready Reserves" two years AFTER returning from Vietnam and was not honorably discharged to civilian life until 1978. It's almost as if the Navy had been withholding the paperwork for some squirrelly reason.
Posted by: pouncer at September 9, 2004 11:37 AMI agree with Jon H, but would also say that my own legal dealings with at least one federal agencies regarding FOI Act requests is that they often do dribble out documents. If in fact a FOI Act request(s) was/were the means used to obtain some or all of these documents, then there's an administrative process to go through, and if the requester believes the agency has not fully responded to the request for docs then the requester can file suit in federal court. One favorite ploy of one agency (back in the '80's and early 90's anyway) was to release a load of documents immediately after a complaint was filed in federal court--that was so the agency could argue that no attorney fees were due to the requestor under the FOI Act "fee shifting" provision or EAJA (Equal Access to Justice Act) because both require that the requester meet certain standards (basically that the suit was required to obtain the docs and that the agency didn't have have a good rational basis to believe its complete or partial "denial" of the request was had a reasonable basis in the FOI Act regs). Perhaps for CBS or whomever, getting attorney fees awarded is not a big deal, but it can be for non-profits, individuals or organizations without ample funds for litigation.
I agree that Bush (or his cronies/advisors) have succeeded in showing a pattern of irresponsibility, callous disregard for the cost to the taxpayer of Bush actions (i.e., how much it cost to train Bush, the invasion of Iraq, etc.) and willingness to lie and smear others. It's interesting that in spite of all this evidence, a variety of news articles I've read have quoted people as saying they think Bush is "honest."
I have wondered about one aspect of this: given that Bush is known to have been a very heavy drinker during this time, with abuse of other substances very likely, how did he manage to learn how to fly? Supposedly he did well on various tests, etc. I've read that some part of the military (Air Force?) reportedly just about forced its pilots to take amphetamines so they could continue flying--I believe there was an accident in the US some years ago during some practice/patrol flights several years ago that were thought to be partly caused by overtired/drug using pilots--and that's how the forced drug use policy came out. But aren't at least commercial pilots banned having alcohol so many hours before flying? And alcohol is known to rapidly impair reflexes/response time. So could it be that Bush's good scores were a lie as well? Or is it possible that he managed to control his drinking enough to learn how to fly well? I know I've seen posts from at least one person who says he/she has an Air Force background--perhaps he/she would be able to answer this question?
Posted by: azurite at September 9, 2004 01:38 PMHmmm, Bush failing standards then and failing standards now. Sounds like a pattern to me.
Posted by: Mushinronsha at September 9, 2004 02:23 PMHoo Boy...what a bunch of suckers. Forget all that stuff about proportional typewriters. We only had selectrics.
But even more obvious: "PO Box 34567"? See the pdf and I swear that stuff looks _kerned_.
Ah well, back to the mud slinging:))
Jody Dorsett writes:
>
> Hoo Boy...what a bunch of suckers. Forget all that stuff
> about proportional typewriters. We only had selectrics.
>
> But even more obvious: "PO Box 34567"? See the pdf and
> I swear that stuff looks _kerned_.
But it isn't kerned. Also, I think before I posted something like this, I would have done the easy Google Search for "selectric proportional type". If one had done so, an obvious and screamingly useful link would have surfaced:
http://www.ibmcomposer.org/SelComposer/description.htm
That came out in 1966. Yeah, a bit fancy for those days, but then again, there was also the IBM Executive series introduced in the 1940s, which also had proportional spacing. (But note that it wasn't a Selectric; just an electric typewriter.) For more info, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Executive_series_typewriter
And check out the groovy old advertisements for these, which are linked to the bottom of the page. So if you ask me whether a backwater National Guard Unit could have had an IBM typewriter from the 1940s-1970s era, I would have said "You bet".
Posted by: Jonathan King at September 9, 2004 07:31 PMYou're being a tad bit hasty Jonathan.
First, it turns out that the PO box really _is_ 34567. I looked at the released documents here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/bushdocs/9-Miscellaneous.pdf
But looking at the released documents those which use the superscript "th" are not proportional. So only Killian had the right typewriter?
Again, Jonathan, I was in the Reserves in the late 70's and I don't remember anything but the old model C(?) Selectric. Why google? Google doesn't know my memories...yet.
Are you saying that the _Guard_ would be given Composers? Whose use, per your cite, says "The basic task of the IBM Composer was to produce justified camera ready copy using proportional fonts" and "Since it has no memory, the user was required to type everything twice. While typing the text the first time, the machine would measure the length of the line and count the number of spaces."
You'd have bet wrong. They certainly had electric typewriters. But Executive, probably not; and Composers? Come on!
I'm betting at least _two_ are faked.
Posted by: Jody Dorsett at September 9, 2004 10:44 PMLas piezas de mi adversario se mueven muy lentamente por el tablero preparando un ataque que, cuando llegue, será tan irresistible como repentino
Posted by: Butalbital at September 9, 2004 11:25 PMJody Dorsett writes:
>
> You're being a tad bit hasty Jonathan.
Uh, yes and no. IBM really did make a (very nice) proportional font typewriter, but these documents are forgeries. (See below.)
> First, it turns out that the PO box really _is_ 34567. I looked at
> the released documents here:
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/bushdocs/9-
> Miscellaneous.pdf
I hadn't noticed the fake looking number. My objection to the "this is kerned" argument is that it's not very well-kerned; check out the ugly spacing betwen Y and o in "You" on the first memo.
> But looking at the released documents those which use the
> superscript "th" are not proportional. So only Killian had the
> right typewriter?
Actually, in that real document the "th" is small but not very super; not nearly as super as the fakes, and I've seen nothing else from that place or era that used proportional fonts of any kind, and this font is certainly Times Roman.
> Again, Jonathan, I was in the Reserves in the late 70's and I
> don't remember anything but the old model C(?) Selectric. Why
> google? Google doesn't know my memories...yet.
Ah, but they'll index this page, so consider your memories now to be partially on the web. :-) More seriously, I thought that by posting the link to this, somebody might have said "Oh yeah, we got some of those in surplus". The IBM Electric Executive actually pre-dates the Selectric in at least some of its versions. But that's all academic.
> Are you saying that the _Guard_ would be given Composers?
No, but I thought maybe with a little more search I could find some variety the guard could have had. Uh...nope. If it wasn't the Executive, it couldn't have happened.
> Whose use, per your cite, says "The basic task of the IBM
> Composer was to produce justified camera ready copy using
> proportional fonts" and "Since it has no memory, the user was
> required to type everything twice. While typing the text the
> first time, the machine would measure the length of the line
> and count the number of spaces."
Yes, but the real problem was that even if some better and later and cheaper Composer had come out, you wouldn't expect a guy who was *not* a typist to be typing private memos on the thing.
> You'd have bet wrong. They certainly had electric typewriters.
> But Executive, probably not; and Composers? Come on!
Indeed.
> I'm betting at least _two_ are faked.
I think they all are fake.
The font is very unlikely, the typerwriters required are pretty unlikely, the existence of a superscript "th" key, while not impossible, is unlikely itself and therefore *very* unlikely to be on the rare typewriter. But it gets worse. Now, I'm ignoring the stuff about "ooh, MS Word has the same margins and tab stops" because it would surprise me if it didn't. What is the truly and completely bizarre thing is the space that occurs between the number and the non-superscript "th" in several of these letters. That is just too weird; it looks wrong, I've never seen it in real typing, I wouldn't expect a bad typist to do it.. But you *do* see things like this nowadays due to the wonders of MS Word's obnoxious habit of converting stuff to superscript when it thinks it knows what you really meant. A cheesy work-around for that is to...yup, put a space in. So now it's all bad.
These are fakes, and we'll get to see Brad do his patented "strike through type" style retraction in a day or two. So now the real question is: who would do such a lame job of forging this? How could CBS not find somebody to point out the problems here? And why did the White House seem to accept the fact that they were real, but explain it away? The explanation given was really weak, and almost suggests that they were really expecting something like this to come out.
But anyway, yeah, you were right. I was hasty about this. The longer I looked at these, the clearer it became that these really and truly weren't 70s documents. I learned to type in the 70s. I even think I got to type on an IBM Executive typewriter once. But nothing I did back then looked anything like something you would pull of a laser printer these days...and that's what this sure looks like. Unless somebody pulls an IBM Executive with a very Times-Roman looking font out of storage somewhere and it has a supescript "th" key on it and something like "PROP. NATL GUARD" stenciled on the back, I'm disbelieving this in a big way.
Man, I would *not* want to be the people at 60 Minutes right around now.
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Posted by: 0190er- telefonsex at September 13, 2004 03:07 AMProportional type in a 1970 memo from the 101st Airborne:
http://currahee.hispeed.com/officialDocuments/images/101st/operational/073170/1.gif
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