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A Postal Employee just told me that they will be closed Tues for a National Day of Mourning for Pres. Ford.
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Yes, the President declared Tuesday a National Day of Mourning, closing all Federal offices.
Yea, I get a four day weekend, although my office falls under Section 2 and may not be closed. Waiting for a call.
Executive Order: Providing for the Closing of Government Departments and Agencies on January 2, 2007
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments, independent establishments, and other governmental agencies shall be closed on January 2, 2007, as a mark of respect for Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States. That day shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of this order shall not apply to those offices and installations, or parts thereof, in the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or other departments, independent establishments, and governmental agencies that the heads thereof determine should remain open for reasons of national security or defense or other essential public business.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 28, 2006.
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He played for Michigan State and was drafted by two NFL teams - but back then they only paid 200$ per game - BB was a way better gig than FB.
Instead he elected to attend law school - ugggh - another lawyer!
Just messin' with ya lawyers.
Mr. Ford was much better coordinated and smarter than he was given credit - but I think he had a sense of humor and took it well.
Does anyone remember his big mental faux pas? I wanna say it was omitting a big country from NATO in a speech? I know he also pardoned Nixon - that definitely hurt him for reelection.
Happy New Year
mike
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<< <i>I was watching a piece on ESPN and they said that Ford was the most athletic president of all time.
He played for Michigan State and was drafted by two NFL teams - but back then they only paid 200$ per game - BB was a way better gig than FB.
Instead he elected to attend law school - ugggh - another lawyer!
Just messin' with ya lawyers.
Mr. Ford was much better coordinated and smarter than he was given credit - but I think he had a sense of humor and took it well.
Does anyone remember his big mental faux pas? I wanna say it was omitting a big country from NATO in a speech? I know he also pardoned Nixon - that definitely hurt him for reelection.
Happy New Year
mike >>
I think during the Presidential Debate with Carter he said that Poland was not behind the Iron Curtain or was not under Communist rule.
He was also said to tell the City of New York to "drop dead" when they asked for a federal financial bail out, but he never said it.
Stock markets closed.
NEW YORK (AFX) - The New York Stock Exchange said Friday it will close on Tuesday as part of a national day of mourning to mark the funeral of President Gerald R. Ford. (Nachrichten/Aktienkurs) The NYSE joined the Nasdaq Stock Market, which made a similar announcement on Thursday.
It had been expected that the stock exchanges would close out of respect for the 38th president. Financial markets have traditionally closed for presidential funerals, the last time being the burial of President Ronald Reagan in June 2004.
Wall Street's closing on the day of a national funeral dates back to the burial of President Ulysses S. Grant in 1885. However, the NYSE has sometimes traded on a shortened schedule during a presidential funeral -- the last time, for Herbert Hoover's funeral in 1964.
There was some speculation the exchanges, uneasy about closing for four straight days including the weekend, would try to have at least some stock trading on Tuesday. The last time Wall Street was closed this long was following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, when there was no trading for six days including a weekend.
One of the concerns is that U.S. investors would be unable to execute trades following market-moving political events in other countries.
due to the incredible medical attention they get they do tend to live longer. i am sure they get check-ups a lot more often than the general public and they never have to worry about being in the wrong HMO! if a hint of cancer is detected is acted on immeadiately.
i didn't vote for all of the following but here is to you president ford, carter, ghw bush, clinton and gw bush. the power of the presidency should be respected. you will never see a day when a former u.s. president is hanged by his own people for his actions.
<< <i>Banks aren't closed - they can't be closed 4 days in a row by regulation. >>
Most banks are open on Saturdays though.
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He played for Michigan State and was drafted by two NFL teams - but back then they only paid 200$ per game - BB was a way better gig than FB.
Actually Stone, he played for the skunkbears of Michigan, but you did make my day, as that is the first time EVER that someone referred to MSU when they meant to say u of m. I hear it the other way around almost daily.
"Ford also made what most observers considered to be an important blunder. In response to a question asked by Max Frankel of the New York Times concerning the Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, Ford said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration." Frankel responded, "I'm sorry ... did I understand you to say, sir, that the Soviets are not using Eastern Europe as their own sphere of influence in occupying most of the countries there?" Ford responded, "I don't believe ... that the Yugoslavians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don't believe that the Romanians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don't believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. Each of these countries is independent, autonomous, it has its own territorial integrity, and the United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union."
In response Carter said he'd like to see Ford "convince the Polish-Americans and the Czech-Americans and the Hungarian-Americans in this country that those countries don't live under the domination and supervision of the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain."
News reports about the debate were dominated by Ford's statement and its potential effect on the race. Most observers felt the debate proved to be a turning point and the key to Carter's narrow electoral victory. A post-debate Gallup poll on October 15 showed Carter six percentage points ahead of Ford, 48 percent to 42 percent."
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Years later, Ford explained that his controversial comment was meant to
acknowledge the "free and independent will" of those subjugated by
communist thugs.
It is fair to believe that his words were meant to encourage the people
of Eastern Europe to continue to "resist." To assume that the "domination"
ended solely as a result of outside influences/events is to misunderstand
why the WALL really came down. The mental and emotional attitudes of
the captives prevailed, not solely because their captors went broke and
threw in the towel, but also because, as Ford should have said: "As long
as the hearts and minds of men yearn for freedom - they shall not forever
be without it, for no form of domination can prevail against it."
When the WALL came down, we saw millions of free-people who had
ALWAYS believed what Ford implied in the famous flub: "We do not CONSIDER
ourselves dominated, and those who seek to break our spirit should not be
surprised when we waltz out of here."
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Is it kind of silly that the post office has to be closed on Sunday anyway? Has anyone considered this is in a while?
Wouldn't it be much more efficient for all concerned? Surely the employees could still work five day weeks..
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