From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 11:19:19 MDT
> > Of course, the Lewis and Clark expedition was certainly the only one where
> > the president of the United States personally trained the expedition leader
> > in a number of scientific disciplines (astronomy, navigation, botany,
> > ethnography) in the White House library and in the Rose Garden, chose the
> > other scientific advisors for the project from among his own personal friends
> > who were the leading scientists of the day and personally designed and
> > selected much of the mission's equipment!
> They dont make presidents like that anymore. {8-[ spike
They make plenty of people like that today--there's just not a chance
in hell one could get elected.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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