[SpinyNorman]

But the following month, he won permission to move to Alabama for several months to work on the US Senate campaign of Winton Blount, a Republican. In Montgomery, Bush was supposed to do periodic drills with another Guard unit. But its commander has said Bush never appeared. Bush has said he did, but does not recall what duties he performed.

If that commander was William Turnipseed, the Globe's crack (cocaine) reporters have it wrong again.

I am sure it was an "oversight" as Dukakis and Kerry like to say.

[Hon]

>>But the following month, he won permission to move to Alabama for several months to work on the US Senate campaign of Winton Blount, a Republican. In Montgomery, Bush was supposed to do periodic drills with another Guard unit. But its commander has said Bush never appeared. Bush has said he did, but does not recall what duties he performed.<<

"If that commander was William Turnipseed, the Globe's crack (cocaine) reporters have it wrong again."

Yeah, that is yet another mispresentation of Brig Gen Turnipseed, who says that he can't remember one way or the other, and he might not have even been around the base during that time--since during that period he was doing a lot of work, checking out planes, etc., that kept him away from the base a lot of the time.

And, once again, Bush was not "supposed" to report. It was up to him to report. There was no directive, no order. (Notice that Robinson is backpedaling on his language about that, though he still can't quite bring himself to tell the truth.)