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New Unrest In Algeria
New Unrest In Algeria With Ben Bella, dissident rebel leader, fleeing to Oran where troops support him, huge throngs demonstrate in the capital, Algeria. Some favor the ruling political Bureau, others the leftist Army factions and still others want food and jobs. Angry demonstrators. Men attempt to break gates, pulling them back and forth. Man (Ben Khedda ?) speaking from balcony. Crowd of people clapping.
Johnson On Six Nation Tour
Johnson On Six Nation Tour Vice-President Lyndon Johnson visits Lebanon and Iran on his foreign aid fact finding trip. Lebanon, once recipient of U.S. aid, now supports itself while Iran is on the economic road to recovery. High angle of crowds surrounding motorcade. People along parade route. Johnson seen standing and waving from car, as it travels down street. Vice President Johnson wearing sunglasses, smiles and waves to crowd.
Ireland Fetes O'Eisenhower
Ireland Fetes O'Eisenhower President de Valera and Former President O'Kelley, honor the Former President at Ireland's "White House" before Mr. Eisenhower starts for home after European tour. Irelands White House. Former President Eisenhower with men. Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower standing with Mrs. de Valera and other wives. Photographer looking through camera.
Tennis Match
Tennis Match The same pair from Mexico who beat America for the first time in Davis Cup play, and win the U.S. National Doubles Title. Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox need 64 games and 5 sets to beat Chuck McKinley and Dennis Ralston. Crowd watches match. Funny blooper, when tennis player runs for the ball, and slides under the net. Various plays from match. After game, players congratulate each other, and shake hands with the judge.
Sports: Big League Little League
Sports: Big League Little League San Jose turns back Kankakee, as the California half-pints win the Little League crown from the Illinois nine. It's heads-up baseball all the way and even the losers are champs. White boy shakes hands with African American (black) boy, both in baseball uniforms. Pitcher throws ball, batter hits a pop up, and the outfielder catches the ball. Nice plays from game. Batter is tagged out at first, and runner from third is safe at home. CU crowd shot of people waving to the camera. Blooper - Outfielder runs into wall, narrator says he was out cold for a few minutes. Player is walked off field, with a nurse and coach. California wins, pitcher throws a no-hitter, players run out and congratulate pitcher, celebrate. Great Americana image, team-work, etc.
Forest Inferno: Millions Lost In Coast Blaze
Forest Inferno: Millions Lost In Coast Blaze Raging through California's mountains and foothills, six forest fires ravage 45,000 acres and cause damage estimated at $3,000,000. Homes on fire, smoke, flames, burnt trees. Melody Ranch sign, (narrator says it was the ranch of Gene Autrey). Worker removing movie equipment, film reel. Black smoke billowing from fires. Firemen using water hoses to fight flames. Patients evacuated from sanitarium. Firefighters, walk towards camera wearing hard hats and carrying axes.
New York Bridge Gets Second Span
New York Bridge Gets Second Span A new lower deck to the George Washington Bridge is dedicated, 31 years after the first span was opened. It makes the bridge the only one in the world with 14 lanes of traffic. Nelson Rockefeller ? shaking hands with designer. People pay toll and drive over the Washington bridge. Pan bridge with traffic, various shots of George Washington Bridge, double deck.
August 4, 1994 - Part 8
(16:55:39) Mr. ICKES. I'm not sure of your question, Senator. Are you saying did he read from his talking points? Senator KERRY. No; I'm asking you whether or not you may have misinterpreted or may have not heard him or that your testimony may be incorrect. That's what you testified to, but in fact what you testified to may not be correct. I don't know. Mr. ICKES. Senator, all I can do is say I have testified to the best of my memory. Senator KERRY. Well, then, I guess the rest of the evidence will stand and we'll have to sift through it. You say you believe that's what the testimony was; is that correct? Mr. ICKES. Senator, all I can say, I've testified to the best of my memory with respect to that meeting. I do not recall word for word what people said. I can only-but I've testified to the gist of it. Senator KERRY. Is it possible you didn't hear it or had a problem hearing it or anything? Mr. ICKES. It is possible. I'm completely deaf in my right ear. I don't remember the positions that we were sitting in so is it possible? It is possible. Senator KERRY. I'm just trying to sort this out. This is a very, very important contradiction and choosing on how people choose to interpret what the Senator has put forth is a very legitimate line of questioning based on what's in front of the Committee. It is a really central issue that we have to try to determine. I think it is one of the only sort of remaining ones to try to sort through this. Let me shift for a moment. On the recusal issue, I think all of us are still wrestling with this question of a de facto recusal. I understand, Mr. Stephanopoulos, your opinion as of several weeks earlier was that you thought he ought to recuse? Mr. STEPHANOPOULOS. I wasn't really involved in this, Senator. Senator KERRY. I realize that, but you had an opinion he ought to recuse, Mr. STEPHANOPOULOS. Since it's something I wasn't really involved in, I usually look to try to reduce controversy; anything that would distract from the President's major work, to do away with it. So if anybody asked me at the time, just recuse yourself, don't worry about it. Senator KERRY. Mr. Podesta, after Mr. Altman testified you were surely given the immediate sense that something was wrong, because a White House aid picked up a cellular phone right out Of the hearing and called to say this testimony is incorrect. Then you folks had the foresight and I might say the sense of difference between right and wrong to call Mr. Altman and say, hey, you've got a problem with your testimony, Accordingly, I would assume that when you saw the letter, you would have known that his attempt to clarify to the Committee was still lacking in the very point that you had first been notified about and were concerned about? Mr. PODESTA. Senator, I'm sure we're going to pursue this, but I didn't see that letter for some time after that, after it had occasion to be sent here, so I wasn't sure what was in that letter. Senator KERRY. When did you see it, just out of interest? Mr. PODESTA. I think in April or May. Senator KERRY. Fair enough. I appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you. Senator Bond. Senator BOND, Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Podesta, you testified you were involved in the preparation of Roger Altman for the February 24 hearings; is that correct? Mr. PODESTA. No, that's the opposite of what I testified to. I testified that I was not involved in the preparation of Roger Altman for the preparation-for those hearings. Senator BOND. You were involved only in the follow-up after the hearings? Is that the extent of your activity with Mr. Altman as respects Mr. PODESTA. That's the only time I spoke with Mr. Altman and I did not-I was not involved in his preparation or, as it were, I testified to the two things I did that might be responsive to your question. One was I did have a conversation the week of the 14th with Mr, Levy saying Mr. Altman needed to be prepared to answer a question on recusal. I think that was in light of the fact that Ricki Tigert had been pressured the week before on that in this Committee. And second, I believe I said to Mr. Steiner, Mr. Altman had to be able to answer a question about whether he had contacts with the White House on Madison, and that he had to be able to answer a question with reference to that February 2 meeting. Senator BOND, Did you do any preparation or did you make any inquiries about the Madison matter prior to your discussions or in the course of your discussions with Mr. Levy or Mr. Steiner? Mr. PODESTA. No, Senator. About the Madison matter? No.
August 4, 1994 - Part 8
(17:00:33) Senator BOND. Or the entire Whitewater matter, Had you been involved in discussions that led you to ask that question? Mr. PODESTA. No. Senator BOND. To propose that question. Mr. PODESTA. No. I think that my opening statement really speaks to this, which is that my first involvement in this was around February 14, when I was asked to look at these hearings, what was coming up, and try to suggest ways that we could make sure that they were, as I said, fair and broad and dealt with. I mean, frankly, to give this some context, what we wanted to have happen, I suppose, was that Madison be kept in some perspective, that it be only a small part of the hearings that were coming up on February 24, but I didn't-I didn't know much about Whitewater. I had read a couple newspaper articles. And I knew nothing much about Madison before I talked to Mr. Levy. Senator BOND. You said we wanted to keep it in perspective. Was that the editorial "we" or was this a sense you were communicating Mr. PODESTA. I think that's the editorial "we," but that's what I 377 378 Senator BOND. If you set out on that course yourself. Mr. PODESTA. If I set out on that course myself. Senator BOND. Without any prompting from others? Mr. PODESTA. Mr. McLarty and Mr. Griffin asked me to work on the hearings. I'm a self starter. I suppose I called Mr. Levy, thought that was the appropriate course of action. Senator BOND. Did they give you any instructions on what to do about Madison or any of the Whitewater matters, Mr. McLarty? Mr. PODESTA. No. Senator BOND. Let me ask, did you send Mr. Eggleston to monitor the hearing? Mr. PODESTA. No. I knew he was going. I was working on other matters, in fact, other legislative matters that day. I didn't pay attention to the hearing through the course of that day. I had a meeting-I had several meetings during the course of the day. The one thing that Senator Kerry referenced was a cellular telephone call to me. I don't believe that was to me. It could have been to Mr. Stern, my deputy who helped me some on this matter, but I don't remember speaking to Mr. Eggleston at all during the course of the day and I checked my calendar and I was busy working on other matters. Senator BOND. Did you, thereafter, become the point man in the White House to ensure that the incomplete or inaccurate testimony of Mr. Altman was remedied? Did you have that responsibility? Mr. PODESTA. Mr. Eggleston did raise the issue with me that he said that he's testified to, that Mr. Altman in describing this meeting had not mentioned recusal. I think at that point, there was a shared responsibility between myself and the Counsel's Office. I thought we had to follow up on this, as a result of the meeting on March 1, to use a term that's been coined in these hearings, I was asked to in the course of that meeting, to make the call to Mr. Altman and raise the three concerns that I've testified to. Senator BOND. So the meeting on March 1 was with you, Mr. Eggleston, Mr. Sloan. Who else was in that? Mr. PODESTA. Mr. Mein, Mr. Nussbaum, Mr. Lindsey. Senator BOND. As a result of that meeting, were you the one who called Mr. Altman? Mr. PODESTA. I was. Senator BOND. And what did you advise Mr. Altman in that telephone call? Mr. PODESTA. I raised the three concerns we had identified. I think that is fair to say that at the conclusion of our brief discus- sion on the question of who set up the meeting, we both concluded that-the record did not need to be supplemented on that point. On recusal, the group at the White House thought it was a judgment call. It was better to do it, I think that was left with Mr. Altman thinking about it and trying to decide on the best course of judgment, With regard to the meetings in the fall that were responsive particularly to your questions, I think the group in the White House felt strongly that the record had to be supplemented on that point. Mr. Altman and I had a somewhat truncated conversation, which I testified to in my deposition, and at the conclusion of which he 379 agreed to review the questions that you had posed with Ms. Hanson.
The March On Washington
Beginning of clip is damaged. It cannot be improved when mastering. The March On Washington. Just one hundred years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves, 200,000 march in Washington to rally for civil rights. In an orderly gathering at the Lincoln Memorial they hear the 10 top leaders of the movement urge Congress to pass the Civil Rights Bill to end racial inequity. They call for "Action Now" - the theme of the monstrous rally. None of the disorder that authorities feared developed - it seemed partly like an outing, partly Sunday school picnic, partly political - it was a serious gathering that was tinged with good-humor as if the demonstrators had finally found strength in each other. As a pictorial record of history nothing more compelling has ever been filmed. Washington DC Lincoln Memorial. MCUS - Train pulling into the train station, two railroad men climbing down off the train. MCUS - People getting off the train, mostly African-American and Whites. CUS - People walking peacefully and it looks like their singing. MCUS - A long row of buses driving down a Washington DC street, throngs standing road side. CUS - Bus driving by and in the background the Capitol Building. MCUS - People disembarking from the busses. MLS - Throngs of people gathering and in the background is the Washington Monument. MCUS - Someone is holding up a banner reading ; Pennsylvania Marches for Jobs & Freedom. CUS - Many faces in the crowd all creeds. Aerial; shot - Washington Monument, people looking like tiny ants. MLS - Camera panning the crowd. MS - Marchers holding many signs. MCUS - Roy Wilkins on the left and A. Phillip Randolph. CUS - Rev. Martin Luther King. MCUS - Walter Reuther, head of the auto workers. MCUS - Camera focuses on the feet of the marchers. MLS - Washington Monument. Aerial shot - Mass of people. CUS - Demonstrators marching into the camera singing: "We Shall Overcome". MS - Demonstrators gathering in front of the Lincoln Memorial, a sign reading; Full Equality ... Human Dignity ... All Americans ... Now. Low Aerial - People, thousands around the pond of the Washington Monument. An overview shot - Lincoln Memorial steps, thousands of people. Back shot - People facing the Lincoln Memorial. LS - The mass of people and camera zooms in on a young guy who perched himself on the top of a tree holding a sign. Back shot - Thongs gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial. MCUS - Rev. Martin Luther King standing at the podium. MS - Looking through the trees you see the White House. Inside White House - President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King and other dignitaries posing for the camera. OHV - From the Lincoln Memorial overlooking the reflecting pond with the Washington Monument in the background. A shot from the top steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King famous speech; "I Have A Dream" over looking the throngs. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up live out the true meanings of it's creed, We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream."
August 4, 1994 - Part 8
(17:05:22) At that time, when I raised it with him, he said to me that-and I don't know whether I read from the transcript or I paraphrased it, but it was pretty specific with regard to your questions, When he answered that he had no knowledge, he said to me that's correct, I have no knowledge. And I said you may have a duty as an agency witness to supplement the record. He agreed to sit with Ms. Hanson, look at the record and to take appropriate action. Senator BOND. Did you at that time know of the September and October meetings? Mr. PODESTA. I had learned about them earlier that afternoon in the March 1st meeting. Senator BOND. Did you have any responsibility, or did you exercise any responsibility to pursue that point, which you raised, the review of the testimony and the correcting of the record, if necessary? Mr. PODESTA. I did take some further action. I said I never talked to anyone further in my opening statement at Treasury. The next day, on March 2, 1 did call to find out whether he had followed up on this point, and I was informed, although I think this was a series of back and forth phone calls, I don't think I ever spoke to anyone at Treasury, but I was informed that evening that Mr. Altman had talked to the Chairman and that a letter had been sent on the point of the fall meetings. I don't believe I knew he talked to you until the course of these hearings. Senator BOND. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Senator Bond. Senator Bryan. Senator BRYAN. Mr. Chairman, I'm always happy to defer to the-to the heir apparent to the Chair, The CHAIRMAN. He's prepared to have you go next if you're ready. Senator BRYAN. Thank you. Mr. Stephanopoulos, I can understand your reaction to the selection of Mr. Stephens. I think that's understandable. I mean, he was an adversary, a critic, and a partisan who actually contemplated a candidacy for the United States Senate from Virginia on the Republican ticket, so I can understand why you would be concerned. And I think any citizen would be concerned to have his or her conduct judged by an individual who had that kind of bias going into the process. So I can understand that. Whether or not you should have made the phone call or not, I think in retrospect, you would agree that probably that wasn't the prudent course of action. But certainly the emotion that was involved, I believe, was entirely understandable and anybody would have reacted in a similar fashion to you. The thrust of my question goes to the line of questioning between Senator Bond. I am deeply disturbed about Mr. Altman's testimony before this Committee on the 24th and the series of letters that follow. My understanding of the facts are that Mr. Eggleston, prior to the hearing, made a call to Treasury, spoke with Ms. Hanson about this issue and specifically discussed the recusal. Ms. Hanson's briefing notes that Mr. Altman had, preparatory to his testi- 380 mony before this Committee on the 24th, included, among other things, recusal; that immediately after the hearing, I believe the Chair has indicated that he gave Mr. Altman the opportunity not just to supplement the record, but you had called the Committee back into session to give him an opportunity to supplement the record; that during the course of that hearing, I think the instincts by the White House staff were excellent. Mr. Eggleston leaves the hearing, makes the phone call on the cellular, which we've heard testimony on, that you thought that there was a problem, and then you yourself on the 1st of March indicate in a conversation to Mr. Altman that you think that there may be a problem with his testimony. Short of hitting somebody between the eyes with a 2-by-4, I don't know how much more clearly it could be imparted to an individual that there's a problem with the testimony and something ought to be done. I think the followup letters of the 2nd of March and the 3rd of March do not in any way address what I consider forthright and complete testimony of the Committee. Let me ask you again more specifically, you had a meeting on the 1st with, as I understand it, Mr. Nussbaum, Mr. Klein, Mr. Lindsey, Mr. Eggleston and Mr. Sloan where this was the subject of discussion. Am I correct, Mr. Podesta? Mr. PODESTA. That's correct. Senator BRYAN. Again, without going through the entire thing, give me the essence of it and what the consensus was in terms of what should be done. Mr. PODESTA. It was different with regard to the issue of the fall meetings and the issue of recusal. Let me be clear. With regard to recusal, I think we tried to decide whether there was a duty to the Committee and a duty to the public to supplement the record.
NACA/NASA: X-1 Through X-31
NACA/MASA footage: This video presents clips of almost everything from X-1 through X-31. This includes footage taken in-flight, ground crews, pilots, etc... Mostly early jet footage and test flights by Nasa.
Astronauts Number 2
The story of Alan Shepard's May 1961 suborbital flight is presented. This is a re-release of 'The Flight of Freedom 7".
Astronauts Number 3
John Glenn's flight into space is reviewed. This is a re-release of 'The Flight of Friendship 7".
Astronauts Number 3, Part 2
This video reviews John Glenn's flight into space. It is a re-release of 'The Flight of Friendship 7'.
Astro Smile
This is a humorous look at life aboard the Space Shuttle, Astronauts having fun in space, zero gravity goofiness.
STS-31 Onboard 16 MM Photography Quick Release
This video features scenes shot by the crew of onboard activities including Hubble Space Telescope deploy, remote manipulator system (RMS) checkout, flight deck and middeck experiments, and Earth and payload bay views. (playing time 30 minutes, May 1990)
United States/Russia Space Cooperation
This video documents the initiative to develop a multinational permanent space research laboratory. Historical background on the U.S. and Soviet manned space flight program as well as joint efforts such as the Apollo-Soyuz link up is shown. The current initiative will begin with collaborative missions involving NASA's space shuttle and Russia's Mir Space Station, and culminate in a permanently manned space station involving the U.S., Russia, Japan, Canada, and ESA. Shown are computer simulations of the proposed space station. Commentary is provided by the NASA administrator, former astronauts, cosmonauts, and Russian and American space experts.
August 4, 1994 - Part 8
(17:10:34) Senator BRYAN. Are we talking about a legal duty? Mr. PODESTA. A legal duty. Senator BRYAN. We're at a legal standard now. Mr. PODESTA. A legal duty and we tried to decide what the best course of action was. I think with regard to recusal, we thought that from a legal perspective, and I was sitting with four members of the White House Counsel's staff-this is the best of my recollection-that the context of recusal with regard to it being approached in the tolling agreement could be fairly described in his testimony. But that the better course of action was to have disclosed that as his talking points with regard to the answer had done-I'm sorry. That it would have been better to just stick to the talking points and to have said recusal, so I think we all regretted that he didn't do it. But I think we thought at that point it was a judgment call about whether he should-whether he needed to do it, and that was best left with him. That it was his judgment. He was the witness. With regard to the fall meetings and Specifically with regard to the questions Senator Bond posed, how did the White House learn of the criminal referrals, we thought we had a duty, and that he had a duty to supplement the record on that point, a legal duty. Senator BRYAN. I must say I think the good judgment that was apparent immediately concurrent with the testimony on the 24th 381 deserted you because it seems to me there was, in fact, an obligation to correct the record. Now, did you yourself follow up or designate someone? As I understood your testimony in response to Senator Bond, you indicated, or perhaps in response to Senator Kerry, some period of time before you actually saw the March 2nd and the March 3rd letters sent by Mr. Altman to the Chairman. Mr. PODESTA, I believe I saw the March 3rd letter, which was faxed over to the White House from Treasury sometime probably over the following weekend, 4th or the 5th. I never saw the March 2nd letter until sometime quite a bit down the road into the future. Senator BRYAN. What was your reaction to the March 3rd letter? Mr. PODESTA. The March 3rd letter I viewed as largely putting on the record the point that the Deputy Counsel, the Ethics Officer, whose name is now escaping me, who testified before the Committee, had been Senator BRYAN. Ms. Nolan, I believe. Mr. PODESTA. Foreman. Senator BRYAN. Oh, Mr. Foreman, Mr. PODESTA. Had been consulted in advance of the February 2nd meeting and had essentially cleared it. I think that's the import of that letter. Senator BRYAN. I think what I find a bit surprising here, that we have all of these initial reactions which I think are absolutely right on. There's a high level staff meeting in which some of the superstars in the White House are gathering to strategize and it seems to me that the ball was dropped. Was there anybody charged with following up to see what was going to be done or did you view at that point that everything had been done? Mr. PODESTA. No. I think in the normal course of events, he would have continued to follow up. I think this wasn't a normal week. I called Mr. Altman on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we called back, I was informed that a letter had been sent. On Thursday, The Washington Post reported in detail on the two meetings, specifically with regard to Senator Bond's question, that the two meetings had occurred in the fall, that the criminal referrals had been mentioned, that the people who were at the meetings were identified. That's all information the White House provided. I thought that matter had been taken care of. I assumed his letter went through those details, and that the letter had been-as I say, I've been told that the Chairman had received the letter. On Friday, Mr. Fiske issued subpoenas to the White House and to a number of individuals in the White House. I'll take one step backwards. On Thursday, at that point, Mr. McLarty went to the lengths of issuing a memo putting up a Chinese Wall between the White House and Treasury. There was tremendous criticism of any contact between Treasury and the White House. Under those circumstances, and especially after Friday, when Mr. Fiske had issued the subpoena, I don't think we wanted to do anything to further complicate the record or that could be essentially criticized for our trying to intervene in testimony that was now being looked into by Mr. Fiske. senator BRYAN. Let me just say in fairness--and my time is up understand we have the benefit of hindsight. I must say, I find 382 it somewhat extraordinary after one attempt is made to correct the record, and then a decision is made to send a second letter, that there wouldn't be the sense, hey, let's get it right the second time
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