Posted on 11/01/2004 8:41:43 AM PST by mumzie
Do you have any colleagues who live near the Ford library in Michigan? Do they like to go through papers? Since I first wrote to you, I found out that there are there are even more boxes from the Ford Clemency Board. They contain titles such as "Recommendations, Set 1 (Approved 11/29/74); Recommendations, Set 2 (Approved 12/31/74); Recommendations, Set 3 (Approved 5/75 and 6/75) (1)-(3); Presidential Clemency Board Case Summaries (tons of these!!) ; Recommendations for Executive Clemency; Presidential Clemency Board File; Recommendations for Clemency from the Attorney General on Behalf of the Clemency Board, October 1975- January 1976; Recommendations for Clemency from the Attorney General, March 1976-January 1977. See how late it went? As I understand it, there may have been unresolved, holdover cases when Carter took office. (And not everyone was approved, either.) These files are listed on the library site (the titles, not documents)--and may well be public!!--not Kerry's personal Navy files.
I sure could be wrong, but my theory is that he applied earlier than Carter. He didn't know for sure who was going to be elected president in the mid-70's before the campaign. He knew the commission was going to expire. Anyone with common sense would act before the door was shut! So at least those files MAY not have been destroyed....
Thanks!!!
Gerald R. Ford Library 1000 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 205-0555 Fax: (734) 205-0571
I sent this thread to Navy Chief at Swift Vets.
ACLU Foundation Project Files
Funny, didn't Clinton get in trouble because of his discharge.
EEEEEEWWWWWW! I grossed myself out.
The real story is that Kerry won't tell the truth about it, but that's water under the bridge now. It's too late and the American people hate what they perceive as a November surprise. Spend your energies with GOTV.
You need to know that the veteran community will continue with this research no matter who wins this election.
That this is just not about the election, but about convicting Kerry of Treason for which there is No Statute of Limitations.
For further information about this point of view, please visit my website: www.CombatVetsAgainstKerry.com
We will prevail, we will take this guy down. If elected he will not be able to serve.
While he was just the junior senator from the Commonwealth of Mass. he was not a danger to our country. Now that he has decided to run for the presidency he is a clear and present danger to all of us. He has given us the ammunition that we need to take him down with his own actions and lies. All we have to do is connect the dots that he himself has provided us.
So get out there and dig. We must win for our troops and our very future!
Regards,
Buck Silverado
"De Oppresso Liber"
You will find that Vernon Jordan (Kerry's debate negotiator) was appointed to this board in 1974 and remained until the board was dissolved. This information is available through an internet search.
I assume someone has done a West or Lexis-Nexis of all news articles around that time.
Gooooo Michigan!!
Gooooo Michigan!!
Does any one have access to votes with 60% plus in Senate since Kerry's first term. Likely in the 1998-2000 timeframe when DD-215 was filed.
Well, that's interesting. . .Calcowgirl, was Jordan with Akin Gump yet at that time?
No, not until 1981. Per Wilson Current Biography:
"On September 9, 1981 Jordan announced that he was resigning from the Urban League, effective at the end of the year, to join the Washington, D.C., office of the Dallas law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, having been recruited as a managing partner by Robert S. Strauss, the former chairman of the Democratic party. "
Law School Committee knew of Kerry's 'less than honorable' discharge back in 1973
Don't know why they haven't pursued that angle. Too late for tomorrow, but not for later.
Thanks for looking that up. What was he doing at that time, then?
- 1960 (approx), graduated from Howard University law school in Washington, D.C.
- Early 1960s, worked as a clerk for Atlanta civil rights attorney Donald Hollowell
- 1962, became field secretary for the Georgia branch of the NAACP
- 1964, set up law partnership in Arkansas with civil rights lawyer, Wiley A. Barnton
- 1964, assumed directorship from Barnton of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council (credited with registering between 1,500,000 and almost 2,000,000 new black voters)
- 1960s, served on the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service and the 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights (Johnson Administration)
- 1970, appointed executive director of the United Negro College Fund, moved to New York City
- 1971, designated the executive director of the National Urban League
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