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...Tuskegee airmen began in 1939, when black leadersstarted to pressure President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to desegregate the armed forces. But among the military brass "there was a general consensus that colored units are inferior to the performance of white troops, except for service duties,'' according to a 1942 memo to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. And the idea of blacks flying planes was preposterous to many white officers. Williams, who had learned to fly in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa, before the war, recalls applying for military service when he was 20 and being told by the white recruiter...
...sinking S&L, Madison Guaranty, he increasingly turned to Clinton--friend, business partner and Governor of Arkansas--with requests. Once, McDougal complained to a Clinton aide about a state health inspector who was causing him problems with a land development--and who was later reassigned. In a March 1986 memo from the aide, McDougal is quoted as saying "he hadn't spent $60,000" on Bill Clinton over the years only to lose a battle with a state health inspector. In late 1984, when McDougal was seeking changes in Arkansas law to allow him to build a brewery and sell...
According to a draft memo, UHS may add other enrollment periods that will be more flexible...
...terms of the substance of Governor Weld's remarks, I would have to say that not only are they without foundation, but extremely disobliging, both to the recipients themselves and to the institutions of higher learning in which these women are enrolled," Greene wrote in a memo to colleagues at Radcliffe...
...interagency review unanimously advised recognition. But it was a congressional election year, and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who handles the emotional MIA issue, vetoed the idea. On this go-round, still well before the 1996 presidential primaries, Lake signed on. Clinton simply checked a box on a decision memo and the deal was made. A senior Administration official says, "I don't have a sense that the President agonized over this...