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Just an update. I just got called by Brig. General Turnipseed. I had sent him an email telling him what I had been up to and also directing him to this thread.

He came here and read the thread and said I did good. (Which is a relief.) I am trying to induce him to sign up and post. Hopefully he will.

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Gen. Turnipseed mentioned a couple of new points of information to me in this last telephone call.

One, was that it was 60 Minutes who first contacted him (during the primaries in 2000) about Bush's Guard service. He said a woman called him, saying that she was in Texas looking at Bush's record and looking at Lt. Col. Lott's letter to Bush.

Gen. Turnipseed says that he said the same thing to her that he later said to the reporter for the Boston Globe. That he couldn't remember whether Bush had shown up or not. I'm not sure whether he said this to her, but he said he felt at the time that it was a non-story. He said that 60 Minutes must have felt the same way since they didn't do a story on it.

Gen. Turnipseed said that the Boston Globe may have gotten the story from 60 Minutes. But in any case they didn't contact him until later, after the primaries were over and it was clear that Bush would get the GOP nomination.