Are memos about Bush's service clumsy forgeries?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: George Sadowsky <George.Sadowsky () internews org>
Date: September 9, 2004 8:35:26 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Are memos about Bush's service clumsy forgeries?

I've seem claims that the memos must be forgeries because of the 
proportional spacing used, and that word processors did not begin to 
use proportional spacing until the 1980's at the earliest.

Those not old enough to know (but clearly old enough to criticize 
without appropriate knowledge)  can now learn that the IBM Executive 
typewriters, widely sold and used in the 1950's and the 1960's before 
even the advent of the Selectric ball and later daisy wheel printing 
technologies, employed proportional spacing.  By the 1970's, when the 
memos were written, they could well have been retained in National 
Guard offices.

George Sadowsky

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