Posted on 09/09/2004 7:33:57 AM PDT by TastyManatees
New Questions On Bush Guard Duty
CBS) The military records of the two men running for president have become part of the political arsenal in this campaign – a tool for building up, or blowing up, each candidate’s credibility as America's next commander-in-chief.
While Sen. Kerry has been targeted for what he did in Vietnam, President Bush has been criticized for avoiding Vietnam by landing a spot in the Texas Air National Guard - and then failing to meet some of his obligations.
Did then-Lt. Bush fulfill all of his military obligations? And just how did he land that spot in the National Guard in the first place? Correspondent Dan Rather has new information on the president’s military service – and the first-ever interview with the man who says he pulled strings to get young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard.
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But 60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file. Among them, a never-before-seen memorandum from May 1972, where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."
Lt. Bush tells his commander "he is working on a campaign in Alabama…. and may not have time to take his physical." Killian adds that he thinks Lt. Bush has gone over his head, and is "talking to someone upstairs."
Col. Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Actually IMB Executive typewriters did use proportional fonts, according to people who have used them in the past.
We have gone through the balls and we do not have a "th".
I miss that cent symbol...
Ouch! I would rather see the flare gun placed in reverse so it can launch him to "where abouts unknown!"
I located this on the link shown. So the memos didn't come from an IBM Selectric.
IBM Selectric"> eliminated the jams that affected earlier designs of electric typewriter. The typeball design had many advantages, especially in eliminating of "jams" when more than one key was struck at once, and in the ability to change the typeball, allowing multiple fonts to be used in a single document. Selectric mechanisms were widely incorporated into computer terminals in the 1970s, because the typing mechanism was fast and jam-free; could be initiated by a short, low-force mechanical action; and did not require the movement of a heavy "type basket" in order to shift between lower- and upper-case.
Later models of Selectrics replaced inked fabric ribbons with "carbon film" ribbons that had a dry black or colored powder on a "once-thru" clear plastic tape. These could be used only once but they were in a cartridge that was simple to replace. They also introduced auto-correction, where a sticky tape in front of the print ribbon could remove the black-powdered image of a typed character, and introduced selectable "pitch" so that the typewriter could be switched among pica ("10 pitch"), elite ("12 pitch"), and sometimes agate ("15 pitch"), even in one document. Even so, all Selectrics were monospaced -- each and every character was the same width. Although IBM had produced a successful typebar-based machine, the IBM Executive, with proportional spacing, no proportionally-spaced Selectric office typewriter was ever introduced. There was, however, a much more expensive proportionally-spaced machine called the Selectric Composer which was considered a typesetting machine rather than a typewriter.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/typewriter
I miss it too.
:(
What were "they" thinking?
He would just think is was an overzealous hamster, besides then We couldn't watch the flames come out his nose;)
You can look at the various versions of Times New Roman on the Linotype website. I agree that it was used for Linotype machines.
I also know what a Linotype machine looks like, my mother used to set type for the Louisiana legislature, among others, using a Linotype machine.
It took up a room, set type in melted metal slugs that would cool and be chunked into a pot, then set by hand. The slugs were lines of type, thus the name - "line of type" = linotype.
My mother did the typing, not the hand setting, when she used the Linotype.
Well, maybe Killian was a professional typesetter using his professional typesetting machine at work.
That's what they'll say, no?
Your Nationmaster link is incorrect.
Go to the IBM website for accurate info.
http://www.ibm.com/Search?v=11&lang=en&cc=us&q=selectric&Search.x=0&Search.y=0
You're not up on the facts reported today. The WH, upon request, sent out a copy of the same fax CBS had sent them within the previous 24 hours.
LOL. Yeah, you're right!
Yes, it had a curved apostrophe on most of the fonts.
I have bombarded FOX NEWS with emails - Hannity, OReilly and their general email address as their website FOXnews.com. we should all do the same! The big news is that big news is ignoring this. It may not be resolved yet BUT it is NEWS!
Not exactly.
Later models of Selectrics replaced inked fabric ribbons with "carbon film" ribbons that had a dry black or colored powder on a "once-thru" clear plastic tape. These could be used only once but they were in a cartridge that was simple to replace. They also introduced auto-correction, where a sticky tape in front of the print ribbon could remove the black-powdered image of a typed character, and introduced selectable "pitch" so that the typewriter could be switched among pica ("10 pitch"), elite ("12 pitch"), and sometimes agate ("15 pitch"), even in one document. Even so, all Selectrics were monospaced -- each and every character was the same width. Although IBM had produced a successful typebar-based machine, the IBM Executive, with proportional spacing, no proportionally-spaced Selectric office typewriter was ever introduced. There was, however, a much more expensive proportionally-spaced machine called the Selectric Composer which was considered a typesetting machine rather than a typewriter.
Honestly, if they wanted to forge a document, wouldn't you put a little more thought into it? If this turns out to be forged somebody should be given a ticket for stupidity. There are lots and lots of free "typewriter" fonts on the web designed to look like old monospace typewriters and even to look like old teletype machines, why would you be so foolish as to not use one of those?
Thanks for the ping. As I said on another thread:
I thought one site had a great line:
"It's getting to the point where if it were not for the obvious coordination with the Kerry campaign, the New York Times could probably file papers as a 527."
http://www.etalkinghead.com/archives/ny-times-prints-unverifiable-charges-against-bush-2004-09-09.html
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