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TAPE 2 06:35:50 Beaver feed on tops of winter food pile
Beaver
TAPE 2 20:11:57 Beaver cuts sapling in half for winter food and takes it to the lodge
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TAPE 2 20:18:51 Beaver slaps tail for danger signal
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TAPE 2 20:22:41 Baby Beaver
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TAPE 2 15:52:28 Beaver go up over dam in rain
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TAPE 2 15:54:07 Beaver's eye C.U.
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TAPE 2 15:55:21 Beaver go up over dam in rain
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TAPE 2 15:57:17 Beaver go up over dam in rain
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TAPE 2 16:02:31 Beaver drags log across road and brings down over dam
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TAPE 2 16:04:32 Beaver drags log to lodge and stores in winter food pile
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TAPE 2 16:08:24 Beaver cuts sapling in half under water and puts it in winter food pile
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TAPE 2 16:09:56 Beaver tows branch and stores in winter food pile
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TAPE 2 16:14:02 Beaver eat leaves C.U.
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TAPE 2 16:15:29 Beaver cuts off branch
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TAPE 2 16:16:34 Beaver drags branch across road to lodge
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TAPE 2 16:20:09 Beaver swim - see feet
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TAPE 2 16:22:32 Beaver swim in heavy rain
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TAPE 2 16:25:10 Beaver's lodge in heavy rain
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TAPE 2 16:28:49 Beaver eats in heavy rain
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TAPE 2 16:38:04 Beaver swims past lodge in rain, splash tail
Test Film For Checking Projector Adjustment
ON PREVIEW CASS. #98722 As the title suggests this is exactly what you'd think it is. There are titles cards, which are listed below, segmenting each excerpt from the next. The excerpts themselves are culled from various films, Hollywood and not. Titles: 1) "These pictures and sound samples are for checking 16mm projector equipment operation and room acoustics." 2) "Set tone control normal and volume control for proper dialogue level. Picture and sound quality should be pleasing and dialogue intelligible. Otherwise equipment or room acoustics require attention." 3) "The following excerpts are variable density recordings." "Sample One": MS of three older men in a dim den discussing politics with a heady helping of raw underhandedness between them. "Sample Two": MS, two shot, of a man and a woman talking about having faith-in-oneself-to-accomlish-what-one-wants-to-do, a familiar speech that ends with the quote, "...with God's help." "Sample Three": CU of a father and his young woman of a daughter talking before saying goodnight. "Sample Four": MS and tight LS of a young couple talkin' about a courtin' one another, a lazy, ill-conceived set behind them. "Sample Five" MS of an old man and another man talking while inspecting a pistol. "Sample Six": MS of a woman singing to an evil looking man, a 19th century Russian setting. She has an annoying soprano. Title: "The following excerpts are variable area recordings." "Piano Music Flutter Test." LS's of a desert plains area, perhaps Nevada or Arizona, certainly the Southwest US. Lots of rock faces of great magnitude, deep recesses. "Sample Seven": MS's of Errol Flynn and his female companion eating a meal under the vocal scrutiny of an old woman. "Sample Eight": MS of John Wayne in naval attire at a formal ball. He sits and talks with a fellow navyman and their love interest. "Sample Nine": MS of a young couple arguing in a living room. He sits in a chair, smoking a cigarette while she hovers above him, leaning on a mantle. Title: "The End"
August 5, 1994 - Part 1
(09:30:12) Whitewater Coverage title screen (09:30:25) Hearing hosts NINA TOTENBERG and KEN BODE introduce day's hearings from tv studio (09:33:12) Excerpt of BERNIE NUSSBAUM'S testimony before the Senate Banking Committee from the night before [see tapes #10096, 100097, 10098] (09:34:52) Further commentary of Totenberg and Bode in tv studio, they also talk to Nussbaum's attorney JAMES FITZPATRICK (09:41:45) Coverage of the House Banking Committee Hearings where several officials from the Resolution Trust Corporation testify
August 5, 1994 - Part 4
(13:59:35)(tape #10102 begins) Opens to discussion between hearings host DON BODE, STEVE ROBERTS and Majority Counsel J. WILLIAM CODINHA in tv studio (14:01:37) Senate Hearing coverage begins: How does this confidential information help the White House deal with press leaks? Were they going to deliver it to reporters? How did this information help shield the President from embarrassment? Did it keep the President away from Governor Tucker? Second, it will not do to say that the recusal decision was a tempest in a teapot. The top officials of the White House and the Treasury spent too much time agonizing over how to keep Roger Altman involved. But for the unexpected congressional extension of the statute of limitations, Mr. Altman would have been the final decisionmaker in Madison. At bottom, the question is why were they so afraid to leave the White House "defenseless" without Altman? Third, we must also decide if, as Mr. Ickes testified, nonpublic information was revealed by Altman to the White House on February 2. Why would he say so if it were not true? Can we accept his efforts to dilute his testimony? Robert Fiske's report said there was insufficient evidence to prove criminal wrongdoing. That conclusion, of course, reflects the extraordinary burden of proof (14:02:55)(tape #10101 ends) which applies in a criminal case. But since the Fiske Report, we've beard testimony from Roger Altman that is clearly in contradiction to testimony he gave to this Committee months ago. And there have been evasions and contradictory statements made by other witnesses in an attempt to justify Altman's failure, and the failure of others, to live up to ethical standards. I believe it's incumbent upon Robert Fiske to review the facts, as revealed by this investigative panel, and determine, once again, if criminal charges should be brought. In particular, given the fact that some of the testimony here seems to have changed after wit- nesses have had an opportunity to consider the testimony of their colleagues, we specifically suggest that Mr. Fiske take the testi- mony in our depositions and in this hearing and lay it side by side with the Grand Jury testimony. Let him see whether further action should be taken. Let me say something else. We have not et bad an opportunity to explore the White House document handling phase of the Whitewater matter. Even so, new revelations have emerged in the last week that suggest that the White House has not been forthright about the handling of the Foster documents. The White House originally suggested that the documents were removed and sent to a private lawyer. Now, incredibly, we bear that they may have been stored in a closet in the White House residence for some period of time. The same pattern of changing stories and misleading statements that occurred regarding the White House-Treasury contacts may be occurring again with respect to the White House document handling. We will have many of the same witnesses back. Their stories about the document handling will be subjected to the same exacting scrutiny that occurred here. I think these hearings prove that the attempt to narrow the focus of this investigation was a mistake. All of the facts needed to be aired for the American public. They need to be aired and, eventually, they will be. 795 I congratulate, again, Chairman Riegle and my colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle for making this, truly, a bipartisan investigative Committee. Now we continue to go forward, not as Republicans and Democrats, but as United States Senators, with an oversight responsibility in order to get to the bottom of this matter.
August 5, 1994 - Part 4
(14:05:39) Let me turn to Roger Altman. Public office is a high privilege and responsibility, Those who hold the principle offices of state have obligations to be forthright and candid. They must have the courage to act with independent judgment. Roger Altman has fallen far short of this standard. The evidence is overwhelming yet, even at this late date, Mr. Altman continues to temporize, excuse, dodge, and shift blame in a desperate effort to cling to his public office. Mr. Altman's apology rings hollow. He should behave honorably and leave. Of course, we are the legislative branch, we cannot simply remove Mr. Altman. We can say that, from this day forward, we will be unable and unwilling to accept or rely upon any statement, action, or judgment of Roger Altman. Let me conclude by saying, Mr. Chairman, that we did not come to this conclusion lightly. There's a very, very strong feeling that goes beyond the Members of this Committee that Mr. Altman, at this point, will have no credibility and we would find it difficult to rely upon any of his statements, actions, or judgments. The CHAIRMAN. Senator Domenici or Senator Mack, are either of you seeking recognition? I'm going to then--Senator Sarbanes. Senator SARBANES. No, Mr. Chairman. I made my statement earlier. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you. I'm going to just try to make a few wrap-up comments here. It's been a long week, certainly for everyone associated with this effort here on the Committee. If there is anybody left out in television-land who's been following this, it's been a long week for them as well. I just passed a Senator-not on our Committee-in the elevator who said he went to bed with us last night because he was home watching us on television and when he got up this morning we were still there. Senator SARBANES. Mr. Chairman, I said to Senator Bennett after we broke for lunch, "Tomorrow I guess I'll go through withdrawal, not being here with everybody." He looked and smiled and then said, "I think I can handle it." The CHAIRMAN. I think it's important, too, for people who have followed this from the beginning, to try to understand why it is that, when we go into session on a given day, we stay so long, go until 11 p.m. or 2 a.m. as we did last night. There are important facts as to why that was necessary. I just want to lay them out so people can understand the need to do that. When the Senate passed its Resolution 229 authorizing us to do is investigative effort, in that resolution, which was passed only 6 weeks ago, they told us that we had to start our first bearing on July 29, and that that was our fixed starting date. So, in the space 5 weeks we bad to start from ground zero. We had to go great Independent Counsels and ask them if they would me and do this work. They had to leave their families, come down here, and, literally, go to work and work 7 days a week for 5 solid lid weeks to got ready to start those hearings on time. 796 We did start them on time and, of course, that was the pressure on the front end in getting started. The pressure on the back end is that we start next week with the Health Care Reform legislation on the Senate Floor. That is going to be a full-time task of great importance to the country. We all have our own views thoughts on that, but when that starts we can't be here working on this. We've got to be on the Senate Floor working on Health Care issues debating it, casting votes, and so forth. During this week, while we we've been having these hearings , as people who have been watching could see, we've been interrupted by votes as we were, again, just now. There's a whole pattern of ongoing business in the Senate that requires us to come and go, to deal with it in different ways, not just to vote. Many of us have had legislative items on the floor to have to handle at the same time we've had to keep these hearings in process.