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 candidates 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 presidents 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 ...
You are correct.
One would have frozen margins that froze the carriage at the end of the line.
If, however, you wanted to sneak one or two characters passed the frozen margins, you could press the "margin release" button and do it.
The style was thick even paragraphs and uniform.
Good catch.
Nice work. Give that man a cigar!
Absolutely!
I called ... today their are sending messages to an answering machine. I told them their sponsors will be contacted and told about the rather kerry conection and their biased views... they are pathetic.
It looks like the forger typed it out in Word, then xeroxed it once, then faxed the xerox a few times, then xeroxed the fax.
(Gotta love office games..)
YIKES!!
Rush is now mentioning possible forgery.
"Why didn't this come out 4 years ago, or back in Texas?"
LOL! :)
"Since it is a PDF doc, enlarge the doc and look at the letter "y" in the word obviously (line1) and compare that "y" in the word today (line 5)"
Hmm. Looking at a lot of the letters, I see lots of discrepancies in appearance on different lines. Could be an artifact of the copying process. I don't know how many times this thing was photocopied. Again, I'd really like to see a type sample from an Executive with this particlar font. According to the ad in a message above, there were 6 fonts offered in 1953. By 1971, I'd guess there were more, plus the foreign language and specialized ones.
For those who are talking about Times Roman, the fonts used on PCs were often derived from existing fonts used in business. You see very similar fonts all over the place. Every typewriter had some variation of a serif font like that and offered a san serif font. No big deal.
lily..can you respond to 537...?
I fear this is probably by design. I think the Clintonites knew Kerry was ripe for a train wreck.
Perhaps, but I just checked it again at 150% enlargement and I think I also see differences in the "e" & "h" in the word either.
See if you can see these differences.
Congratulations to all Freepers on this thread for grabbing onto this and not letting up.
500 replies and I just logged on to see what's going on today! This is fascinating!
---Do I think it is possible that the National Guard had this "professional typewriter" in '72? It had been available for at least 3 years, and if you were accurate, it was easy to use.---
But the type writer used mechanical means for it's proportional spacing, something like 5 micro-spaces for an m and 2 for an i. What are the chances that an electronically spaced font like Times New Roman would give the exact same spacing?
CBS= Complete Bull S---
Obviously, I think from the ad, it was not a pain to use, although it might have been a pain to make corrections. Note too, post #137 or thereabout pointed to IBM's website, history of the year 1941 when the proportially spaced Executive model typewriter was introduced.
The "pain to use" aspect has been pointed out to you on several occasions, as being related to full justification (lining up both left and right margins). If there is no concern about lining up the right margin, just type away.
Thanks! See my #529.
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