My wife and I had a very simple and inexpensive wedding on January 2,1971. Our love for each other has endured for 55 years. I hope Taylor and Travis can say the same. Until then I’m not too impressed. https://t.co/Bhbyyh04z8
I want to thank the Supreme Court for yesterday’s determination that a vote can be counted after the election. I never did get my ballot mailed in the 2020 election and I want it counted!
BUZZ’S BEDTIME STORIES: BILL BEHAVING BADLY
Seems like a good time to replay a Buzz’s Bedtime Story: “Bill Clinton Behaving Badly.”
Hey kids, gather around while Uncle Buzz tells you another “Bedtime Story.” Grab some hot chocolate, get comfy, and I’ll put another log on the fire.
This one is a scary one! It’s all about “Bill Clinton and the AF-1 Flight Attendant.” This one truly illustrates the “Dereliction of Duty” of President Bill Clinton.
When I was the Air Force Military Aide to President Clinton, I traveled with him everywhere. One night, we were returning to D.C. late after a long trip to Europe on AF-1. We landed at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, like we always do. We helicoptered on Marine One to the White House. We were all tired. It was around midnight when we landed on the South Lawn.
After deplaning with the “Nuclear Football” and a few of the president’s bags, I followed him to the residence elevator and ensured he was good before sending him up to bed. The presidential valets were ready to receive him. I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. I was bushed.
I showered and crawled into my bed to fall asleep to the TV.
The Military Aide’s bedroom was “austere,” to be polite.
Shortly thereafter, my phone rang, and it was the AF-1 presidential pilot. “Buzz, we have a problem,” he said. “Oh s**t,” I thought.
Apparently, Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her. She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with children. I knew her, liked her, and she was super sweet. Now, she was in tears and sitting in front of the AF-1 pilot and commander.
I asked the pilot, a really good guy, what she wanted. He told me that she didn’t want to be another “bimbo”; she wanted to remain in the Air Force and be promotable. She was married with young children. All she wanted was an apology. She just wanted it to go away.
In the time of Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey, this wasn’t surprising to me. It was, however, terribly disappointing and sad. I knew inherently that if I, or anybody else in the military, had done something similar, we’d be at Fort Leavenworth breaking big rocks into little rocks. Yet here was the “commander in chief,” and all he was facing was the prospect of an apology. I was appalled.
So, that morning, a few hours later, and as a young major, I had to walk to the Oval Office and tell the President of the United States that he needed to apologize to the young lady for his assault. Over my years as a combat pilot, I’ve been shot at with hot metal by men who really wanted to kill me, but this was the toughest day in my life. I remember on my way to talk with him thinking, “I didn’t sign up for this sh*t.”
I approached Clinton in the Oval Office. I’d arranged for his personal aide to be there too. He was nonplussed. Quiet. But he didn’t seem ashamed or embarrassed.
Two weeks later, on our next trip, we got the two together on board AF-1 in the president’s office, and he offered a very uncontrite “half apology.” He didn’t care. He was filling a square and covering his tracks. It was stunningly disappointing.
If anybody in the military had done that, it would’ve been jail, expulsion, or both. It would’ve been Fort Leavenworth. But not for this president, not for this man. It was just another day.
Yet another in my experiences working for a man with absolutely no integrity and no moral fiber. Character matters in people, especially our leaders, and in Bill Clinton, there was none.
Jesus said to turn the other cheek when someone hits you. I’ve felt like this is misinterpreted. To some non Christians and even some Christians, this misinterpreted scripture leads them to believe they have been given a license to beat, threaten, even kill the believer with no expectation of the believer fighting back. This is incorrect.
Funny thing. I’ve been insulting Dems for a long time calling them Socialists/Communists. Turns out it’s not an insult, in fact they want to be called what they are which indeed is Socialist/Communists. Guess I’ll have to come up with a better insult.