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Calling all FReepers in and around the Ford Library in Michigan - RESEARCH KERRY'S DISCHARGE!!!
11/1/04
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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....
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: napalminthemorning
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To: calcowgirl
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11/01/2004 7:46:37 PM PST
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Fedora
To: Fedora
Oops, here's a few I missed:
- 1969 (approx), worked as attorney for the Office of Economic Opportunity in Atlanta
- 1969-70, fellow at the Institute for Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
- 1970s, sat on many boards of directors: joined Bankers Trust of New York, J. C. Penney, Xerox, and American Express.
- 1980s, also served on board of Dow Jones and Company, Corning, Union Carbide, RJR Nabisco, Ryder Systems, and Sara Lee.
- 1980, shot in the back and seriously wounded by a would-be assassin shortly after addressing the Fort Wayne, Indiana branch of the Urban League; fully recovered within 4 months (crime unsolved).
- 1981-82, resigned from the Urban League to join Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld
- 1992, key adviser to Bill Clinton presidential campaign whom he had known for two decades; helped to select Al Gore for vice-president. After win, became head transition team with Warren M. Christopher. Took leave of absence from Akin, Gump and all corporate boards after concerns of possible conflict of interest arose.
To: calcowgirl
Thanks for the follow-up!
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11/01/2004 8:52:07 PM PST
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Fedora
To: stockpirate
Placemarker.
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11/01/2004 8:53:58 PM PST
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Fatalis
(The Libertarian Party is to politics as Esperanto is to linguistics.)
To: GBA_001
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11/02/2004 2:25:51 AM PST
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GBA_001
(GBA - God Bless America!!)
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