John Poindexter - John Poindexter John M. Poindexter was an Admiral in the United States Navy and the National Security Advisor during the Ronald Reagan presidency. Oliver North worked closely with him as an aide, and Poindexter is regarded as the chief architect of the Iran-Contra Affair. Poindexter was convicted on multiple felony counts on April 7, 1990 for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair. The conviction was overturned in 1991 on the grounds that he had been granted immunity from prosecution as a result of his testimony before Congress. On February 13, 2002, the media learned that Poindexter had become the Director of The Pentagon's Information Awareness Office, a secretive intelligence bureau.
January 9 - 1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business. 1989 - The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California. 1991 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. 1995 - Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record. 1997 - A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro. Airport killing 29 1996 - Sun Microsystems announced the formation of JavaSoft. 2002 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron. Births 1554 - Gregory XV, Pope (†1623) 1574 - Christoph Buel, composer 1620 - Johann Weichmann, composer 1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (†1766) 1695 -.
July 2003 - The law is thought necessary to maintain the Jewish character of the state of Israel, today inhabited by 20% Arabs.[1] It is reported that the United States is secretly negotiating with Iran to trade members of Mujahadeen al-Khalq captured by the U.S. in Iraq for members of al-Qaida being held by Iran. Admiral John Poindexter, former United States National Security Advisor, is rumored to be planning his resignation from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency following Congressional objections to DARPA's proposed plan to create a futures market on terrorist activities. Poindexter was convicted on multiple counts for his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair. [1] The Vatican releases a document entitled Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons, in which it rejects same-sex marriage and urges Catholic.
Information Awareness Office - Movies Critical of Total Information Awareness 5 See also 6 External Links Introduction The IAO's mission was originally Total Information Awareness; this was amended in May of 2003 to Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA). The IAO was once headed by John Poindexter, former National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and chief architect of the Iran-Contra Affair. The IAO, and its stated mission, are a gift to conspiracy theorists and paranoiacs everywhere, particularly with its use of the pseudo-Masonic eye-in-pyramid symbol in their logo. The IAO's Illuminati-esque logo features the all-seeing eye of God from the Great Seal of the United States replaced with the all-seeing eye of the Information Awareness Office gazing at the Earth, and the Latin motto "scientia est potentia," meaning "knowledge is power". On approximately December 19, 2002,.
Iran-Contra Affair - sent an initial shipment of 18 missiles to Iran in late November, but the Iranians didn't approve of the missiles, and further shipments were halted. Negotiations continued with the Israelis and Iranians over the next few months. In January of 1986, Reagan allegedly approved a plan whereby an American intermediary, rather than Israel, would sell arms to Iran in exchange for the release of the hostages, with profits funnelled to the Contras. In February, 1,000 TOW missiles were shipped to Iran. From May to November, there were additional shipments of miscellaneous weapons and parts. The proceeds from the arms sales were diverted, via Colonel Oliver North, aide to the U.S. National Security Advisor John Poindexter, to provide arms for the Contras (from Spanish contrarevolucionario, "counter-revolutionary"). The Sandinistas' eventual loss of power.
History of the United States National Security Council 1981-1989 - of Central Intelligence. Over the next 5 years, the Reagan administration established an additional 22 SIGs and 55 IGs within the NSC system. Some committees met only once. Observers pointed out the overuse of SIGs and the increasing snarl of responsibilities that led to enterprising NSC officials like Colonel Oliver North developing their own sub-domains within the policy-making system. Zbigniew Brzezinski described the NSC as entering its "Mid Life Crisis" during the Reagan years. Clark took a very active role in coordination of policy among the agencies in such areas as intelligence and the protection of classified security information. He replaced a number of senior NSC staff members and reorganized his office to create three "clusters" to deal with political, military, and intelligence matters. Clark emerged as a major spokesman for.
United States National Security Advisor - former National Security Advisors include: Robert Cutler 1953-55 Dillon Anderson 1955-56 Robert Cutler 1957-58 Gordon Gray 1958-61 McGeorge Bundy 1961-66 Walt Rostow 1966-69 Henry Kissinger 1969-75 Brent Scowcroft 1975-77 Zbigniew Brzezinski 1977-81 Richard V. Allen 1981-82 William Clark 1982-83 Robert McFarlane 1983-85 John Poindexter 1985-86 Frank Carlucci 1986-87 Colin Powell 1987-89 Brent Scowcroft 1989-93 Anthony Lake 1993-97 Sandy Berger 1997-01 Condoleezza Rice 2001-.
Felix the Cat - 1919 immediately after the end of World War I. This early Felix was blockier and longer-snouted than today's version of the character, but his familiar black body was already established (Messmer found solid shapes easier to animate). The film was a success, and Paramount ordered more. Paramount producer John King named the character "Felix", after the Latin words felis (cat) and felix (good luck). Fellow animator Bill Nolan and Otto Messmer redesigned the cat to make him rounder and cuter in 1922. Felix's handsome looks coupled with Messmer's masterful character animation (learned largely from his work on the Chaplin pictures) skyrocketed the character into the international consciousness. At the height of Felix's fame in 1925, an estimated three-quarters of the world's population could recognize the character. Pat Sullivan marketed Felix relentlessly,.
Fifteenth United States Congress - Republican, NJ Joseph Bloomfield (Representative), Republican, NJ William Grainger Blount (Representative), Republican, TN Andrew Boden (Representative), Republican, PA John Linscom Boss, Jr (Representative), Federalist, RI Joseph Hunter Bryan (Representative), Republican, NC James Burrill, Jr (Senator), Federalist, RI William Armisted Burwell (Representative), Republican, VA Josiah Butler (Representative), Republican, NH Thomas Butler (Representative), Republican, LA John Caldwell Calhoun (Representative), Republican, SC George Washington Campbell (Senator), Republican, TN John Wilson Campbell (Representative), Republican, OH Dudley Chase (Senator), Republican, VT Clifton Clagett (Representative), Republican, NH Thomas Claiborne (Representative), Republican, TN William Charles Cole Claiborne (Senator), Democrat, LA Henry Clay (Representative), Republican, KY Thomas Willis Cobb (Representative), -, GA Edward Colston (Representative), Federalist, VA Oliver Cromwell Comstock (Representative), Republican, NY Zadock Cook (Representative), Republican, GA Samuel Chandler Crafts (Representative), -, VT Joel Crawford (Representative), Republican, GA.
Eleventh United States Congress - Bradley (Senator), Anti-Administration, VT James Breckinridge (Representative), Federalist, VA Richard Brent (Senator), Republican, VA John Brown (Representative), Republican, MD Robert Brown (Representative), Republican, PA William Armisted Burwell (Representative), Republican, VA William Butler (Representative), Republican, SC Joseph Calhoun (Representative), Republican, SC Alexander Campbell (Senator), Republican, OH John Campbell (Representative), Federalist, MD John Curtis Chamberlain (Representative), Federalist, NH William Chamberlain (Representative), Federalist, VT Epaphroditus Champion (Representative), Federalist, CT Christopher Grant Champlin (Senator), Federalist, RI Langdon Cheves (Representative), Republican, SC Martin Chittenden (Representative), Federalist, VT Henry Clay (Senator), Republican, KY Matthew Clay (Representative), Republican, VA John Clopton (Representative), Republican, VA Howell Cobb (Representative), Republican, GA James Cochran (Representative), Republican, NC John Condit (Senator), Republican, NJ Orchard Cook (Representative), Republican, MA James Cox (Representative), Republican, NJ William Crawford (Representative), Republican, PA William Harris Crawford (Senator),.
Doonesbury - going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury - not necessarily in that order." Trudeau also delighted and intrigued readers by showing fluency with the jargons of many fields of American speech, including real estate agents, flight attendants, computer nerds, journalists, and presidential aides. The cartoon has also taken the form of a stage show and an animated special. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Characters 2 More characters, and their inspirations 3 Milestones 4 Typical strip 5 External Link Characters Mike Doonesbury - ex-advertising man and co-founder of a software start-up Mark Slackmeyer - former campus revolutionary turned radio commentator Joanie Caucus - ex-housewife and "libbie" who met Mike and Mark on the road, went to law school, and worked with Mike on the John Anderson campaign.
1990 - he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord. March 10 - 18 months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti. March 11 - Lithuania becomes independent from the Soviet Union. March 11 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected Chilean president since 1973. March 15 - Gulf War: Iraqis hang British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. March 15 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union. March 15 - The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid. March 18 - 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, are stolen by two thieves posing as police officers from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art.
1988 - magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation. March 7- The SAS shoot dead three Irish Republican Army terrorists in Gibraltar. March 8 - Two United States Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky killing 17 servicemen. March 9 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a Deaf university president. March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. March 16 - California v. Greenwood: In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage. April 25 - In Israel John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war.
1950 in music - Shoe Shine Boy" w.m. Harry Stone & Jack Stapp "Choo'n Gum" w. Mann Curtis m. Vic Mizzy "Cold, Cold Heart" w.m. Hank Williams "The Cry Of The Wild Goose" w.m. Terry Gilkyson "Dearie" w.m. Bob Hilliard & David Mann "Freight Train" w. Paul James & Fred Williams m. trad arr. Elizabeth Cotton "The French Can-Can Polka" w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Jacques Offenbach "From This Moment On" w.m. Cole Porter "Frosty The Snowman" w.m. Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins "Fugue For Tinhorns" w.m. Frank Loesser "Get Out Those Old Records" w.m. Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb "Gone Fishin"' w.m. Nick Kenny & Charles Kenny "Guys And Dolls" w.m. Frank Loesser "Home Cookin"' w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans "Hoop-Dee-Doo" w. Frank Loesser m. Milton De Lugg "The Hostess With The Mostes' On The Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin "I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" w.m. Edward Pola.
April 7 - and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life. 1964 - IBM announces the System/360 1967 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s. 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. 1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979. 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes). 1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway after a fire. 42 sailors died. 1990 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal but the convictions were later reversed after an appeal..
Tenth United States Congress - Wikipedia:WikiProject US Congress. 1807-1808 Major Political Events Members of the Tenth United States Congress John Quincy Adams (Senator), Federalist, MA Evan Shelby Alexander (Representative), Republican, NC Lemuel James Alston (Representative), Republican, SC Willis Alston (Representative), Republican, NC Joseph Anderson (Senator), Republican, TN Ezekiel Bacon (Representative), Republican, MA Abraham Baldwin (Senator), Republican, GA David Bard (Representative), Republican, PA Joseph Barker (Representative), Republican, MA Burwell Bassett (Representative), Republican, VA James Asheton Bayard, Sr (Senator), Federalist, DE William Wyatt Bibb (Representative), Republican, GA Barnabas Bidwell (Representative), Republican, MA William Blackledge (Representative), Republican, NC John Blake, Jr (Representative), Republican, NY Thomas Blount (Representative), Republican, NC Adam Boyd (Representative), Republican, NJ John Boyle (Representative), Republican, KY Stephen Row Bradley (Senator), Anti-Administration, VT James Madison Broom (Representative), Federalist, DE Robert Brown (Representative), Republican, PA William Armisted Burwell.
Boland Amendment - of rebels opposed to the then Marxist elected government of Nicaragua, the Boland Amendment sought to block Reagan administration support for the Contra rebels. The amendment, however, was narrowly interpreted by the Reagan administration only to apply to U. S. intelligence agencies, allowing the National Security Agency, not so labeled, to channel funds to the Contra rebels. In spite of the Boland Amendment, Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter and his deputy, Colonel Oliver North, possibly without informing the president, secretly diverted to the Nicaraguan contras millions of dollars in funds received from another secret deal which had had explicit presidential approval -- the secret sales of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Iran in spite of Reagan's public pledge not to deal with "terrorist" nations. In November, 1986, a pro-Syrian newspaper in.
Thirtieth United States Congress - Thirtieth United States Congress Amos Abbott (Representative), Whig, MA Green Adams (Representative), Whig, KY John Quincy Adams (Representative), Whig, MA William Allen (Senator), Democrat, OH Chester Ashley (Senator), Democrat, AR George Ashmun (Representative), Whig, MA David Rice Atchison (Senator), Democrat, MO Charles Gordon Atherton (Senator), Democrat, NH Archibald Atkinson (Representative), Democrat, VA George Edmund Badger (Senator), Whig, NC Arthur Pendleton Bagby (Senator), Democrat, AL Roger Sherman Baldwin (Senator), Whig, CT Daniel Moreau Barringer (Representative), Whig, NC Washington Barrow (Representative), Whig, TN Thomas Henry Bayly (Representative), Democrat, VA Richard Lee Turberville Beale (Representative), Democrat, VA Henry Bedinger (Representative), Democrat, VA Hiram Belcher (Representative), Whig, ME John Bell (Senator), Whig, TN Thomas Hart Benton (Senator), Democrat, MO John Macpherson Berrien (Senator), Whig, GA Kinsley Scott Bingham (Representative), Democrat, MI Ausburn Birdsall (Representative), Democrat,.
Twelfth United States Congress - Archer (Representative), Republican, MD Daniel Avery (Representative), Republican, NY Ezekiel Bacon (Representative), Republican, MA John Baker (Representative), Federalist, VA David Bard (Representative), Republican, PA William Barnett (Representative), Republican, GA Josiah Bartlett, Jr (Representative), Republican, NH Burwell Bassett (Representative), Republican, VA James Asheton Bayard, Sr (Senator), Federalist, DE George Mortimer Bibb (Senator), Republican, KY William Wyatt Bibb (Representative), Republican, GA Abijah Bigelow (Representative), Federalist, MA William Blackledge (Representative), Republican, NC Harmanus Bleecker (Representative), Federalist, NY Thomas Blount (Representative), Republican, NC Shadrack Bond (Delegate), -, IL Adam Boyd (Representative), Republican, NJ Stephen Row Bradley (Senator), Anti-Administration, VT James Breckinridge (Representative), Federalist, VA Richard Brent (Senator), Republican, VA Elijah Brigham (Representative), Federalist, MA James Brown (Senator), Republican, LA Robert Brown (Representative), Republican, PA William Armisted Burwell (Representative), Republican, VA William Butler (Representative), Republican, SC.
Twenty-first United States Congress - VA Robert Allen (Representative), Jacksonian, VA Willis Alston (Representative), Jacksonian, NC John Anderson (Representative), Jacksonian, ME William G. Angel (Representative), Jacksonian, NY William Segar Archer (Representative), Whig, VA William Armstrong (Representative), -, VA Benedict Arnold (Politician) (Representative), -, NY John Bailey (Representative), -, MA David Jewett Baker (Senator), Democrat, IL Noyes Barber (Representative), -, CT John Strode Barbour (Representative), Jacksonian, VA Philip Pendleton Barbour (Representative), Jacksonian, VA Isaac Dutton Barnard (Senator), Jacksonian, PA Robert Woodward Barnwell (Representative), -, SC Daniel Laurens Barringer (Representative), -, NC Mordecai Bartley (Representative), -, OH David Barton (Senator), Anti-Jackson, MO Isaac Chapman Bates (Representative), Whig, MA Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor (Representative), Jacksonian, AL Thomas Beekman (Representative), -, NY John Bell (Representative), Whig, TN Samuel Bell (Senator), Anti-Jackson, NH Thomas Hart Benton (Senator), Jacksonian, MO John Macpherson.
