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And just to rub it in... here's the link and quote!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/11/MNGO68NEKR1.DTL

Boy, you must feel foolish. (I hate to be like this, but know you're right before stating it).

" But such characters were common features on electric typewriters of that era, the Globe determined through interviews with specialists and examination of documents from the period. In fact, one such raised "th," used to describe a Guard unit, the 187th, appears in a document in Bush's official record the White House made public this year."

"Bouffard, the Ohio document specialist, said that he had first dismissed the Bush documents because the letters and formatting of the memos did not match any of the 4,000 samples in his database. But Friday, Bouffard said that he had not considered the IBM Selectric Composer. Once he compared the memos to Selectric Composer samples, Bouffard said, his view shifted.

In the Times interview, Bouffard had also questioned whether the military would have used the Composer, a large machine. But Friday he provided a document indicating that as early as April 1969 the Air Force had completed service testing for the Composer, possibly in preparation for purchasing the typewriters.

As for the raised "th" that appears in the Bush memos, Bouffard said that custom characters on the Composer's metal typehead ball were available in the 1970s. "
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Here's my research  Nigel Johnstone | 09/10/04
totally wrong  zijiang | 09/10/04
No I did it correctly  Nigel Johnstone | 09/10/04
Irrelevant  frgough@... | 09/10/04
It I had an original memo, I could tell you if it was computer generated  CobraA1 | 09/10/04
You're not omnipresent  Nigel Johnstone | 09/11/04
Denial of reality  frgough@... | 09/11/04
Hey, BB...  bchesmer | 09/11/04
Disagree  Nigel Johnstone | 09/12/04
Here's another illustration  Nigel Johnstone | 09/12/04
Just asked the secretary  voska | 09/13/04
whether or not they are forgeries...  ryusen | 09/13/04
Zzzzzzz......Wake up!  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
really?  ryusen | 09/13/04
Absolutes?  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
yeah well,  ryusen | 09/13/04
I'll bet you a donut...  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
you could be right, but  ryusen | 09/13/04
Dead wrong...do you work for the bush campaign?!  el1jones | 09/11/04
And just to rub it in... here's the link and quote!  el1jones | 09/11/04
I dont see the logic bridge between  zijiang | 09/11/04
Republicans planted phony memo  Frank D'Angeli | 09/10/04
Prove Karl did it  Nigel Johnstone | 09/12/04
All within the realm of possibility  Eggs Ackley_z | 09/13/04
whilte there is no proof....  ryusen | 09/13/04
Who, Nixon?  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
ok...  ryusen | 09/13/04
More info  KTLA | 09/10/04
Anti Bush  Alan Gold | 09/11/04
What a joke!  Joe Blow_z | 09/11/04
I just hope people can count next election  V Sanders | 09/11/04
Shouldn't that be...  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
are you kidding  V Sanders | 09/12/04
Amazing coincidence of timing  Chad_z | 09/12/04
That's easy!  WhoIsDaMan | 09/13/04
Uhhh, yeah real amazing  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
Yep  Bob1234 | 09/13/04
Notice that the administration has not questioned veracity of the documents  K B | 09/13/04
More info please  Spoon Jabber | 09/13/04
Wow, and only four years into his current term  FilledOut | 09/13/04
The Informational Cascades Problem  mfeldstein | 09/14/04

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