The director of the White House Military Office submitted his resignation on Friday, less than two weeks after he authorized a flyover by an Air Force One backup of the Statue of Liberty that terrified thousands of people in New York City.
Posted on 05/08/2009 9:51:12 PM PDT by Dallas59
The director of the White House Military Office submitted his resignation on Friday, less than two weeks after he authorized a flyover by an Air Force One backup of the Statue of Liberty that terrified thousands of people in New York City.
Louis Caldera, who served as the secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, apologized for the “distraction” that approving the flyover caused. He said in a brief letter to President Obama on Friday that it “has made it impossible for me to effectively lead the White House Military Office.”
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of panicked New Yorkers for this?
He's taking the fall for O.
He authorized it. . .who proposed it?
At least we know that AF1 or a 747 can fly.
One picture is worth $138,000?
Late Friday news dump. They don’t want this talked about any more.
Poor composition from a photographic standpoint.
They’re going to have to get a bigger bus.
Bums away!
What snapped the photo - an F-16?
all traumatized New York3ers should file the biggest class action lawsuit in history
Yes.
That’s what I was thinking. What a bad photo. Poorly laid out. Poorly balanced.
Not to mention the symbolic message is that the presidency is being used as a vehicle of power to lord over our liberty.
I thot I read that Caldera was a civilian guy, not a military man?
Actually...if you start reading the whole report and other media notes....I’d say that the Director is undergoing a mental breakdown. This was way beyond his abilities in assuming this job and like so many people over the past thirty years...he was not up to the situation.
This guy will disappear for a period of six months....sitting in some rehab center...and try to get his life back to normal.
Actually not a bad photo considering that it was probably taken by the fighter jet pilot for his own personal album.
Brown clown was desperate for a photo and got lucky that the
pilot had taken a photo during the joyride over Manhattan.
That is correct. He comes from some college in new Mexico
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