No typist would type two copies of a letter one at a time. Where is the notation about “cc: file” that would describe the distribution of the Carbon Copies to file and any one else who got a copy. Only an experienced and trained typist, who could make good use of an expensive machine, would ever be allowed to touch it.Īnother thing is also missing, at least on the first memo addressed to Bush. Finally, why would a boss ever have access to a fancy, adjustable font, typewriter. And I understand that Jerry Killian was a poor typist, and could not have produced these memo’s by himself. The only time that typed letters and memo’s don’t have initials was when the author typed it. But must have noticed that those initials are not at the bottom of the page, and know that she always put those initials down there. How else could Killian’s typist/secretary KNOW that she did not type these 30 year old memos with just a glance at the copies? She certainly cannot remember every single page that she ever typed. In a typing pool, the initials let the boss find who had done the work, while a personal secretary got to sign her work at the bottom. In case you don’t remember, the upper case letters were the initials of the author while the lower case initials would be the typist’s initials. Even my copies of letters typed in the typing pool, have a “DCM:abc” at the bottom. Something was missing that no typist worth her salt would ever leave off.įirst, where was no little string of upper and lower case letters down at the bottom of almost every typed letter and memo that I’ve ever seen? I checked my old files, and those old typewritten letters from the bosses always have a “PDQ/dcm” or “XYZ:abc” down at the bottom. Having been around from the days of typewriters (and long enough to laugh at your 8.0 MHz turbot joke) I noticed that something else seemed to be wrong with CBS’s “Bush memos”. However, I also wanted to point out a couple of thing that seem to be missing in the “Bush Memos” to add to your already extensive analysis. As you would expect, the word wraps and vertical letter alignments become impossible to recreate.That may be an easy way to show someone what happens when the font changes, and help them understand that the memo’s are typed in MS’s TrueType font. Just for the fun of it, I also tried changing the font on my versions of the memos to see the effect. It is easy to see that these documents have to be modern. I’ve recreated them in Word, as you suggested. Thanks for your clear analysis of CBS’s so-called Bush memos.
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