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By Jeralyn, Section Elections
Posted on Fri Sep 10, 2004 at 04:47:24 PM EST
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This comes from a lawyer who serves on a military law task force.

The charge is that the memos implicating Bush, written in 1973 are in "Times New Roman", and are proportionately spaced, therefore some liberal must have forged them on a computer. They assert a military unit would not have had top of the line equipment, so the documents are forged.
I clearly remember sitting in the HQ of the 70th Training Division in Livonia, Michigan, preparing similar documents on an IBM typewriter in Times New Roman, proportionately spaced, around 1979. [Fortunately, W wasn't in this unit. Or was he? If so, I never saw him.] At that time the Army wouldn't give us electronic typewriters at all, so we brought in our own for weekend drill. As an aspiring young lawyer I brought in my IBM ballprinter, which I had purchased used. The Bush documents could have been typed on my used typewriter. That typewriter is seared in my memory.

Checking the 'Net, I discovered IBM invented Times New Roman and proportional spacing and started marketing it in 1972 to 1973. Since W's commanders would have taken forever to produce the documents on an official issue manual Underwood, like me they commandeered typewriters available from civilian work. Being an ANG officer was a part-time job. Most of them worked for the airlines as flight officers, and that gave them access to top of the line IBM equipment by 1973. The authenticity of the documents is possible, plausible, and likely.
AHHGGG! Doesn't it hurt you to hear the lies machine at work, and like Winston Smith in the novel "1984" your memory betrays you? Of course, the Republicans know all about typewriter forgeries. They used them to send Alger Hiss to prison when I was a baby.

If someone knows a journalist, pass the word.

Kurt Thornbladh
ex-Capt, USAR, Veteran for Peace, opponent of the Iraq War, unreformed believer in the innocence of Alger Hiss, and experienced litigator in forgery cases.

I have Mr. Thornbladh's email address if any journalists care to write and ask me for it.

Also, go here for a link to an IBM article from 1968 discussing how the
Selectric had a simulated proportional spacing mechanism. You'll have
to download the PDF from the webpage to see the full article.

[hat tip to Peter Goldberger and Mark P.]

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