Just when we thought we had got the last of of the 2016 election scraped off our shoes, some other craziness comes up. Latest is the excerpt from former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile’s new book that looks a lot like someone is being thrown under the wheels of the Scoopy Van.
We will see who else is going to speak outagainst the Clintons- there has been nothing like this since the people from Arkansas swept into the capital playing in 1992 playing “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” the anthem from Fleetwood Mac.
Well, here is what I have working on- section one of three in the unconventional biography of a Great American. When I compiled some of these into the 25th Anniversary edition of Mac’s War Years in the Pacific, I had the quaint notion that I would order them in chronologic order- that is, in the order in which they were actually captured in an interview.
At the time, Mac and I agreed that the whimsy and juxtaposition of events would capture what the whole project actually was like. Mac often wanted to talk about what he was interested at the moment, and amid the organized chaos of the Willow bar, it felt right. We are going to be a little more linear in this outing.
The second and third parts- the Cold War and his time as a caregiver, respectively, were essentially in the order in which the history was compiled. That made for some cutting-and-pasting to put the war back in order.
I m in a three piece suit and outré classic 1970’s bow tie. as I write. My Colleague’s daughter is getting married at a venue out in Leesburg this afternoon, open bar, no expense spared. Private coach from hotel to the venue, so no impaired driving to spoil the fun, and a hotel in which to sleep it off.
I hope to be both sober and able to get to work on compiling part two and three tomorrow, convert the manuscript to portable Document File and then actually read the thing for continuity and completeness. I do get the feeling that things are lurching to some sort of conclusion. More on that tomorrow, I hope.
Cheers,
Vic
Table of Contents
Part One: War in the Pacific
The Day After
Written Approval
Dumb Luck
Welcome Aboard
Pacific Winds
Up Periscope
Foxing the Sun
With the Golden Pelicans at Midway
None Dare Call It…
The War in the Navy
Branches and Sequels
Gag Rule
Fronts
Jasper, Mush and Mac
Sitting under a tree
First to the Blackboard
Pear Pie
Under construction
Rendezvous
Iron Pants and Cherry Pie
Operation Starvation
Ernie (and Mac’s) War
Heresy
You Have No Idea
Potsdam and Monkfish
Cagey Five
Put Up Your Dukes
Staff Work
R-Day
Fish and Chips
Willow History
Three Feathers and a Flag