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that time,” Major said. “The objective was to free Kuwait. It was freed.”
t- Bush described the tough decisions he had to make during the ordeal.
“When you commit someone else’s son or daughter, that’s the tough
est decision you can make,” Bush said.
i Schwarzkopf said, “What helped tremendously was that we knew we
were right.”
i Schwarzkopf praised Bush for his leadership during the war.
i He said that, during the Vietnam War, there were 80 news correspon
dents in Vietnam. During the Gulf War, there were 2,060, and the U.S.
armed forces worked more closely with the media by providing military
resources, and assistance.
I “The press pools were provided with ammunition, I mean, trans
portation,” Schwarzkopf said with a laugh.
m Bush took a moment during the discussion to show a clip from the Feb.
16,1991 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” in which the military refused
to answer questions regarding the location or strategy of coalition forces.
1 Although the satirical portrayal of the war and of then-Secretary of De
fense Dick Cheney drew a laugh from the audience and the five panel
members, it was a real-world situation for the coalition leaders because
the Gulf War was the first war fought in the age of real-time satellite com
munications.
i Fitzwater said it was a challenge to rally the American people in favor
of the war.
I “It was by no means a sure thing that we were going to get Congres
sional support,” Fitzwater said.
I Gates said once the American people were ready, their support was ob
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| Bush said America’s swift victory in Iraq healed many wounds from
the Vietnam War.
| Major said Britain had less trouble than the United States when it be
gan to look for support.
I “There is a tendency among the British that, when there is trouble, the
place for the British is alongside the
United States,” he said.
| Schwarzkopf said during the peak
of the war, American troops were re
ceiving 82,000 pounds of mail every
day. He had to create 195 post offi
cers just to distribute mail. He de
scribed the amount of equipment,
ammunition, provisions and millions
of gallons of fuel necessary to wage
the offensive in Iraq,
t; One particular number drew a
“whoop” from the Aggies in the au
dience. Schwarzkopf said the U.S.
med forces brought 199 million
ers to the Middle East when it mo
bilized.
| “We sent the (Iraqi) national
guard running with its tail between
their legs, and we did it all in 100
hours,” Schwarzkopf said.
Bush said it is possible that, in the
future, the United States will have
good relations with Iraq, and Major
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possible. ‘If’ is, perhaps, the biggest
word in the English language.”
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the crowd about the Gulf War.
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William Bassichis, Dept, of Physics
Judy Been, Dept, of Student Activities
George Bush, Former US President
Heather Carielli, Dept, of Statistics
Amy Chapman, Dept, of Nutrition
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Dr. Finnic Coleman, Dept, of English
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Rick Larson, Dept, of Management
Monica Latham, Dept, of Student Activities
Cathy McWhorter, A AM Foundation
Dr. Clair Nixon, College of Business
Dr. Kurt Ritter, Dept, of Speech Communication
Dr. Peter Rodriguez, Dept, of Management
Rose Schmitz, Dept, of Health & Kinesiology
Danny Shaha, Student Judicial Services
Laura Sigle, Dept, of Student Activities
Dr. Jerry Smith, Dept, of Residence Life
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Dr. Donald Sweeney, Dept, of Landscape Architecture
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form of censorship.
“Texas A&M will rape the Consti
tution and rape the people who dis
agree with them,” Bates said.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, deputy chancellor
of the System, said although he did not
know who was offended by the portrait
and approached Richardson, he said he
had heard it was a student and that
Richardson then had the portrait taken
down.
Richardson said the portrait was
taken down after TTI officials received
some complaints from students, staff
and others.
“We decided this was not some
thing to be in the main lobby when we
are trying to show a friendly and com
fortable face to minority students,”
Richardson said.
After the removal of the portrait,
Bates said the A&M administration
sent a delegation to apologize to Hen
ry Gilchrist, son of Gibb Gilchrist, who
“told them to get out.”
At a meeting between Gaston and
Bates on Feb. 14, Bates said Gaston of
fered him a compromise regarding the
portrait.
“They are not going to do anything
to correct this because they are not
leaders,” Bates said. “They don’t have
the backbone to lead. Taking it down
was wrong, and they know it. Jerry
Gaston admitted to me they were
wrong.
“[Gaston] did want to run a com
promise by me,” Bates said. “I told
him T don’t think so.’ He offered the
compromise in the past tense. He said
he had commissioned a portrait to be
painted of Gibb Gilchrist, to have in
the lobby, without Robert E. Lee in it.
They’re going to hang the old portrait
in a small conference room in TTI
[Gibb Gilchrist building] where it will
hardly ever be seen.”
However, Gaston said he offered no
compromise.
“I’m in no position to offer him
anything,” Gaston said. “Somewhere
along the line, he characterized what
I had described to him as a compro
mise. I told him what I understood
was that there is, in process, a new
piece of artwork celebrating Gilchrist
that was going to be hung where the
painting used to be, and the painting is
to be hung in the conference room of
TTL”
Richardson confirmed that a new
piece of art will be created, but he
would not comment on what the art
will be.
“We are working on something like
that [new artwork],” Richardson said.
“We’re not ready to publish what
we’re going to do. We haven’t decid
ed what to do with the portrait. We’ve
been having continuing discussions
and evaluations including the best way
to honor Gilchrist in that building.”
Bates said anything less than re
turning the portrait to its original place
would be unacceptable. He said he has
called Gov. Rick Perry to resolve the
conflict, and if Perry does not respbhd,
Bates said he will hold a news confer
ence on campus.
“If the governor does not get more
involved, I’ll call a conference on the
polo fields, at which point we’ll dis
cuss what’ll happen to the state of
Texas and Texas A&M becausfe of
continued violations of the Constitu
tion,” Bates said. I’m sure it’ll end up
in the Supreme Court of the United
States of America. I’m not going to sit
around and do nothing.”
Bates and the other members of
Justice Action Movement United vs.
Texas A&M University (JAMU
TAMU), an organization he founded
to fight censorship at A&M, will invite
50 to 60 constitutional groups to
A&M, Bates said, to “take on the state
of Texas.”
Richardson dismissed Bates’ threat.
When Bates held a press conference
last year in front of the Gilchrist build
ing, Richardson said, “it kind of fell
flat. There were no people there.”
Regarding Bates’ statement that
this case may go to the Supreme Court,
Richardson said, “I don’t think there’s
any grounds for anything like that.”
Gaston said he agrees with Bates
that free speech is important.
“He referenced people supporting
free speech and the First Amendment,”
Gaston said. “ I subscribe to that 100
percent. I said, ‘Dan, you’ve got to do
what you’ve got to do.’ I didn’t try to
dissuade him, but I did agree that free
speech is essential.”
Robertson agrees that free speech is
essential, but is also important where
and how it is endorsed.
He said he takes full responsibility
for starting the sequence of events that
led to students thinking about an issue
and to the removal of the portrait.
“I started the discussion which
started the sequence of events,”
Robertson said. “In the end, a teacher
had an experiment in which students
learned something.”
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