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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Eddy who wrote (6685)7/18/1999 7:24:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9818
 
Interesting: '....The Defense Department, he says, opposed the four-digit year because it would have meant rewriting all its programs, and all the supporting data. Defense had bigger worries. We were neck deep in Vietnam.. '

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'"Anyone who says the Department of Defense was against the four-digit year is full of crap," Bill Robertson says. "Harry White made that up out of his own imagination, whole cloth." The issue never came up, Robertson said, at least not exactly that way. '

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'In particular, he remembers this fairly universal response:

"It's 30 years in the future. We'll be out of office. Leave it to the civil servants. They'll still be here."
'
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washingtonpost.com



To: David Eddy who wrote (6685)7/18/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Respond to of 9818
 
PS - Did you hear the scoop!? The New Deal was a Communist plot. Honest. JEdgar Himself told me.

He told you THAT!!??

He told me that communists were nothing more than liberals who were in a hurry.....

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