text:
Talk:Meigs Field

"In Popular Culture"
I personally loath the the "in popular culture" sections on Wikipedia since they tend tend to be both wrong and dominated by anime, scifi, and fantasy references. ("Harry Potter uses a wand made of wood", as xkcd aptly put it.)   Meigs Field was where you took off in subLOGIC (now Microsoft)'s Flight Simulator  20:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Merrill C Meigs
Does anyone have information on who Merrill C. Meigs was?

Slathering 02:31 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Info on Meigs added, along with a bio of him on separate page.

shsilver

Someone added 'illegaly' to the statement that the mayor bulldozed X's in the runway. Is that true? Can someone provide supporting evidence? If no evidence turns up, I'll delete the word. -- Ansible

It was against Federal Aviation Rules (FAR's). The city paid a fine as noted in the article. I don't believe they'd have been fined if everything was above board and legal. This wasn't exactly some minor pesky technicality. The city is very lucky someone didn't make an insturment approach to a fog shrouded Meigs airport early in the morning before the tower was scheduled to open. Chicago Approach controllers do not appear to have been informed the airport was closed until someone tried to land there. Thankfully they could see the damage done and didn't plow into equipment or cartwheel on the trenches cut into the runway. Use of the word illegal therefore is neither POV or inappropriate. Skywayman 22:02, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

I would speculate if the City of Chicago is being fined by the FAA for the premature shutdown of the airport, the actions were indeed "illegal". -- mstyne

Dis-heartening...but this page should be nominated for feature if it already hasn't been. -- Hard Raspy Sci 06:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

If anything this article should be noted as a prime example of POV issues. Written entirely by the 200 people who benefited from an airport in Chicago's front yard, and continually re-edited once one of the remaining 99.99% resident of Chicago tried to NPOV the article.

J. Crocker 19:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

The comment Written entirely ]by the 200 people who benefited from an airport in Chicago's front yard contains its own POV bias. Meigs Field contributed to the economy of Chicago in many ways far far beyond the pilots based there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rkaplan (talk • contribs) 20:02, August 21, 2006 (UTC)

I don't even know where to begin with such an ill informed statement that only 200 people benefited. I am NOT one of the 200, I've never used the airport and obviously can't now. A small amount of research, let alone common sense, should tell you if these "200" can't use Meigs where they would go. Midway is the next closest airport to the loop. I'm sure people who fly the airlines from Midway might appreciate it if some of that private traffic went elsewhere while their plane patiently waits to takeoff. From that standpoint alone the other 99.9% of Chicago residents should have some concerns. I also think they'd be concerned if their place of business was bulldozed in the middle of the night, but like you say if it only affects 200 people without warning then we shouldn't be concerned. One point I'm not sure how to work into the article that should be mentioned though is Mayor Daley stated this action was needed to prevent a terrorist attack in downtown Chicago. The airspace around downtown Chicago was controlled from Meigs Field. No airport equals no controlled airpspace around all those tall buildings now. Still think this only affects 200 people? Skywayman 22:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

move?
Since Meigs is gone, should this article be moved to Northerly Island, which currently redirects to Meigs Field? — goethean ॐ 02:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I disagree with moving it under Northerly Island, Meigs has great landmark/historical value on its own and deserves its own entry. By the way, I disagree with Northerly Island being redirected here too since it is a sepparate object (though I wonder wether the island deserves its entry). -Gary
 * Nope. In the event that the current (and seemingly eternal - 27 years!) Mayor finally leaves office, Meigs Airport could be rebuilt and put back in operation. --AVM 16:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Section on closing is disputed
There are too many fact tags in the Closing of Meigs Field section. There doesn't need to be a reference for every sentence about the closing.

 * then please reference the statements. it's wikipedia policy to reference your sources. anything that is disputed and not backed up can be removed at any time... so it's really just a courtesy to flag the statements and give people a chance to back em up. Randella 02:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

If you disagree with most of an article or section it's counterproductive to put a fact tag after every sentence, especially when they are so closely related as they are here. It makes it look like you have an ax to grind. I'm putting a disputed tag in the section to draw attention to it. BTW, you could do a quick Google search and see that there are countless newspaper articles confirming practically everything in the section. Rsduhamel 20:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

 * then knock yourself out. the fact tags are actually very helpful in highlighting exactly what might be disputed or otherwise needs to be backed up. this article is already controversial and needs more sources. Randella 01:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I can find the information, but I do not know where the direct quotes are coming from. Can somebody find those? —Dmbrown00 20:05, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

"The stranded aircraft were later allowed to depart from Meigs' 3,000-foot (910 m) taxiway." - To my knowledge this is false. I lived in Chicago at the time and I vividly remember small aircraft being loaded onto flatbed trucks and transported from Meigs Field to Midway Airport. The aircraft were then allowed to take-off from Midway and the City of Chicago footed the bill for the ground transportation of the aircraft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.68.189 (talk) 11:57, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

The statement in the Meigs Field article that " In February 2006, the city announced plans to open a heliport on the island.[19]" is factually incorrect. The city announced plans for a heliport near Navy Pier, not Northerly Island. See Chicago Tribune, February 10, 2006. The citation for the claim is a broken link. I will delete that sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbhunt (talk • contribs) 23:03, 3 September 2012 (UTC) Dbhunt (talk) 23:06, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Overstated
The importance of Meigs to the medical professional is overstated in the article. Most major hospitals in Chicago have helipads. This article reads as though it were authored by a member of "Friends of Meigs Field". A reference is needed for the statement: "The Chicago lakefront flight corridor has a history of near-misses and mid-air collisions.". You may also want to add the number of crashes that occurred around Meigs by planes leaving Meigs, if only for completeness. -mktnc

 * We need to find a secondary source either way, but note that hospital helipads are useful only in good, clear weather and fairly calm winds, and that they're higher risk, since the helicopters have to operate so close to buildings and people — you need an airport for 24/7 medevac service, even if the patient is in a helicopter. David 21:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Construction Section
Who is Daniel Burnham? This is a fragment of a thought that should be fleshed out or deleted — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andyberks (talk • contribs) 02:04, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Meigs Field. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20100513181742/http://www.diversityinbusiness.com:80/dib2003/dib20305/Av_Meigs.htm to http://www.diversityinbusiness.com/dib2003/dib20305/Av_Meigs.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers. —cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 22:47, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Meigs Field. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080515203501/http://iidbs.com/ozark/ozhist70.htm to http://www.iidbs.com/ozark/ozhist70.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 21:28, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Meigs Field. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090723/http://www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/summer2003/news/midnightrun.html to http://www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/summer2003/news/midnightrun.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120211074238/http://www.eaa.org/news/2006/2006-09-19_meigs.asp to http://www.eaa.org/news/2006/2006-09-19_meigs.asp

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 06:13, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Meigs Field. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110509031035/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0505-20110505,0,3260675,full.column to http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0505-20110505,0,3260675,full.column
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110402043447/http://www.meigsfield.com/articles/meigs-software.php to http://meigsfield.com/articles/meigs-software.php

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 23:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Why?
Does anyone know whether the reason why Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley forced the closing of Meigs in 2003 by ordering the overnight bulldozing of its runway and converting the airport into another sort of park without notice, in violation of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, because of aircraft noise restrictions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey (talk • contribs) 00:18, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Talk:Meigs Field


text:
Talk:Air National Guard

George G. Finch
George G. Finch was Director, Air National Guard at Brigadier General. 37.166.244.82 (talk) 13:36, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source to support that? - w o lf  15:28, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Danny Bautista brain surgery authorized by someone I wasn't married to and was paid by L3
National security I have had a brain surgery that was not deemed by me and that was paid off and now I have to be they have to provide me dead of course but my head so he could study it my name is Danny Batista I have asked everybody for help and not been helped at all I am at now at Newark hospital probably won't come out alive Danny Bautista I will had brain surgery not authorized by me and was illegally authorized by someone I wasn't married to and they were paid by l3 technology for the study of my brain please my family is in trouble as well all my civil rights have been not applied just removed I am looking for asliam Asap help I will disappear from this hospital this is my last location available 2600:1001:B126:A307:FA2B:2F64:785A:8C19 (talk) 04:31, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Help illegally perform brain surgery without consent and I didn't know I was married I didnt
Newark hospital university 150 Bergman street all people are at risk with a huge coverup where they cont to induce me into a manic State and to achieve power of attorney and make my word not worth anything so I taped them force ING me into a manic state to prove that it was intentional and not an act of my self to show that it's not me they recieved funds and I wasn't apart of it or involved Ihad brain surgery in new Orleans and was naught by L3 technolgy .I was supposed to be delivered to Jim from L3 down at the Camden area .I personally know  L3 due to my work at 600 3rd Ave   new York I am scared and I'm cont to try to get help and everyone turns there back on me I was at Newark airport and was denied safety as well went to fbi and then local police brought me to hospital to try again and deem me mental health with none of my civil rights in tact are my liberties have been stripped I've asked for protection for me and my family and no one has helped 2600:1001:B126:A307:FA2B:2F64:785A:8C19 (talk) 04:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Missing equipment section
or not ? 152.170.71.96 (talk) 22:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

title: Talk:Air National Guard


text:
Alastair Campbell

Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster, and activist, who is known for his political roles during Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party. Campbell worked as Blair's spokesman and campaign director in opposition (1994–1997), then as Downing Street Press Secretary, and as the Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson (1997–2000). He then became Downing Street's director of communications and spokesman for the Labour Party (2000–2003).

Campbell was Political Editor at the Daily Mirror newspaper in the 1980s and of Today in the 1990s. In 1994, shortly after Blair was elected as Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, Campbell left the Today newspaper to become Blair's press secretary. He was one of several key people responsible for the rebranding of the Labour Party as New Labour before its victory in the 1997 general election. In addition to being the press spokesman, Campbell was Blair's speechwriter and chief strategist, earning a reputation for ruthless news management. Campbell played an important role in the run-up to the 1997 general election, working with Peter Mandelson to co-ordinate Labour's successful election campaign.

When Labour won the general election in May 1997, Campbell served as Blair's chief press secretary. He put Downing Street briefings on record for the first time, and although he was only identified as the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman, he became one of the most high-profile and written-about figures in British politics, earning the epithet "the real deputy Prime Minister". Campbell oversaw Blair's successful 2001 general election campaign for re-election. In the run-up to the Iraq War, Campbell was involved in the preparation and release of the September Dossier in 2002 and the Iraq Dossier in 2003. Campbell was accused of influencing the reports against the wishes of the intelligence services, which led to Campbell battling with the BBC as well as the general media and later resigning. He returned to assist with the successful 2005 general election campaign.

Since his work for Blair, Campbell has continued to act as a freelance advisor to a number of governments and political parties, including Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania. He was an adviser to the People's Vote campaign, campaigning for a public vote on the final Brexit deal. He is the editor-at-large of The New European and chief interviewer for GQ. He acts as a consultant strategist and as an ambassador for Time to Change and other mental health charities. Throughout his time in Downing Street, Campbell kept a diary which reportedly totalled some two million words. Selected extracts, titled The Blair Years, were published in 2007. He expressed an intention to publish the diaries in fuller form, which he did from 2010 to 2018. In 2019, Campbell was expelled from the Labour Party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in that month's European elections. In 2022, Campbell launched the podcast The Rest Is Politics with Rory Stewart, which has been the top politics podcast in the UK in the Apple rankings since its launch.

Education and early life
Campbell was born on 25 May 1957 in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, son of Scottish veterinary surgeon Donald Campbell and his wife Elizabeth. Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice. Donald was a Gaelic-speaker from the island of Tiree; his wife was from Ayrshire. Campbell grew up with two older brothers, Donald and Graeme, and a younger sister, Elizabeth.

Campbell attended Bradford Grammar School for a short period of time, followed by City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School, and the University of Cambridge, where he was an undergraduate student of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He studied modern languages, (French and German), gaining an upper second (2:1) degree.

Journalism
Following graduation from Cambridge, he joined the Mirror Group training scheme and spent a year at a local weekly paper. He became the sports editor at the Tavistock Times, writing a column called 'Campbell's Corner'. He published Inter-City Ditties, his winning entry to a readers' competition in Forum, the journalistic counterpart to Penthouse magazine. This led to a lengthy stint writing pieces for the magazine. His first piece for mainstream news journalism was coverage of the Penlee lifeboat disaster in December 1981, while a trainee on the Plymouth-based Sunday Independent, then owned by Mirror Group.

In 1982, Campbell moved to the London office of the Daily Mirror, Fleet Street's sole remaining big-circulation supporter of the Labour Party. He became a political correspondent, then in 1986 moved to Today, a full-colour tabloid newspaper, where he worked as a news editor. His rapid rise and its accompanying stress led to alcohol abuse.

In 1986, while accompanying MP Neil Kinnock on a tour of Scotland, Campbell had a nervous breakdown. Campbell stayed in Ross Hall Hospital, a private BMI hospital in Glasgow. Over the next five days as an in-patient, he was given medication to calm him. After seeing a psychiatrist, he realised that he had an alcohol problem. Campbell said that from that day onwards he counted each day that he did not drink alcohol, and did not stop counting until he had reached thousands. He experienced a period of depression and he was reluctant to seek further medical help. He eventually cooperated with treatment from his family doctor.

Campbell returned to the Daily Mirror, where he eventually became political editor. He was a close adviser to MP Neil Kinnock, and Daily Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell. Shortly after Maxwell drowned in November 1991, Campbell punched The Guardian journalist Michael White after White joked about "Captain Bob, Bob, Bob...bobbing" in the Atlantic Ocean, referring to where the tycoon's body had been recovered. Campbell later put this down to stress over uncertainty as to whether he and his colleagues would lose their jobs. After leaving the Daily Mirror in 1993, Campbell became political editor of Today.

Politics and government

In 1994, shortly after Tony Blair was elected as Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, Campbell left the Today newspaper to become Blair's press secretary. In his autobiography, Blair would later state that Campbell had coined the name "New Labour" and described Campbell as a "genius". Campbell wrote the speech that led to the party's review of Clause IV and the birth of "New Labour". In addition to being the press spokesman, Campbell was Blair's speechwriter and chief strategist, earning a reputation for ruthless news management. The Conservatives conceded they were partly defeated by their inability to find someone to match him. Campbell played an important role in the run-up to the 1997 UK general election, working with Peter Mandelson to co-ordinate Labour's successful election campaign. He also worked hard to win support from the national media for the Labour Party, particularly from newspapers that for many years had been anti-Labour. By March 1997, many of the leading newspapers, including The Sun, once a staunch supporter of Margaret Thatcher, declared their support for Labour.

When Labour won the general election in May 1997, Campbell served as the Prime Minister Blair's chief press secretary (1997–2000). He persuaded Cabinet Secretary Robin Butler that government communications had to be modernised, and the government set up the Mountfield Review. He created a Strategic Communications Unit which gave Downing Street the power to co-ordinate all government activity, using what became known as "the grid" as its main apparatus. He set up a rapid rebuttal unit similar to the one he had used in opposition. He put Downing Street briefings on record for the first time, and although he was only identified as "The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman", he became one of the most high-profile and written-about figures in British politics, earning the epithet "the real deputy Prime Minister". He opened briefings to the foreign media, which were among a raft of modernisation and efficiency strategies he introduced. In 2001 Campbell claimed that the days of the "bog standard" comprehensive school were over, due to educational policies of the Labour government.

BBC documentary maker Michael Cockerell produced a full-length documentary about Campbell's media operation, News From Number Ten. Campbell attacked the news media for their obsession with him, and eventually began to pull back from frontline work and delegated direct briefing of the media to others. He then moved to the post of Prime Minister's Director of Communications.

Campbell was part of the core team that conducted the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and he has been honoured by several Irish universities for his role in the peace process. He became a close friend of Martin McGuinness, and attended his funeral in 2017. McGuinness helped Campbell with a novel which had an Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit as part of the plot.

Campbell was seconded to overhaul the communications of NATO during the Kosovo War, when US President Bill Clinton feared NATO was losing the propaganda war against the Slobodan Milošević regime. The general in charge of the military operation, Wesley Clark, credited Campbell with bringing order and discipline to NATO communications, and freeing the military to do its job.

Campbell became a central figure in the handling of the aftermath of Diana, Princess of Wales's death after the head of the royal household, the Earl of Airlie, asked Tony Blair to second Campbell to help prepare the funeral, saying they knew it would have to be different. Campbell is widely reported to have coined the phrase "the people's princess" and to have persuaded the queen to make her broadcast to the nation more personal, not least by using the phrase "speaking as a grandmother".

Campbell oversaw Blair's successful 2001 UK general election campaign for re-election and also returned to assist with the successful 2005 UK general election campaign.

Iraq War
In the run-up to the Iraq War, Campbell was involved in the preparation and release of the "September Dossier" in 2002 and the "Iraq Dossier" in February 2003. These documents argued the case for concern over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Both have been criticised as overstating or distorting the actual intelligence findings. Subsequent investigations revealed that the "September Dossier" had been altered at Campbell's suggestion to be consistent with a 12 September 2002 speech given by President George W. Bush and statements by other United States officials. On 9 September 2002, Campbell sent a memo to Sir John Scarlett, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, in which Campbell directed that the British dossier be "one that complements rather than conflicts with" the US claims.

On 29 May 2003, Andrew Gilligan of the BBC first alleged Campbell to have influenced the reports against the wishes of the intelligence services, misrepresenting his source, Dr David Kelly, in the process. This led to Campbell battling with the BBC as well as the general media.

A Channel 4 interview The Guardian called 'infamous' even 20 years later, and forcefully written diary entries made public in the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly saw the resignation of Campbell during the inquiry, then, upon publication of its findings, the resignation of both the Chair of the BBC Gavyn Davies as well as its Director-General Greg Dyke and, eventually, the resignation of Andrew Gilligan himself. The BBC's online history of itself describes it as "one of the most damaging episodes in the BBC's history". After his resignation, a complete overhaul of the Prime Minister's press office was suggested in internal government documents, as the press office was seen as to have "lost all credibility as a reliable, truthful, objective operation".

Neither a parliamentary investigation (2003) led by Lord Hutton, nor a private review (2004) of the intelligence services by Lord Butler found cases of wrongdoing on Campbell's behalf. (Though the opposite case continued to be made in the media. Also, with conviction, by Dyke and Gilligan.) Neither did the Chilcot Inquiry of 2016, which was much more critical of the government than previous investigations.

Another view has been offered by Biljiana Scott, as early as 2004. She suggested that an accessible explanation for the incident can be found by examining the parties' differing professional cultures. Kelly sought to communicate scientific truth, Gilligan sought to communicate the government's lacking argument, and Campbell sought to communicate the case for war in the most convincing way available.

Later in 2003, commenting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Campbell said, "Come on, you don't seriously think we won't find anything?". Even years later he was genuinely convinced of there being a case for war.

In 2013, in a speech Campbell gave in Australia, he argued that there had always been "spin" and propaganda, but that there was more pressure to tell the truth 'today' than there was during the second world war. He went on to claim that Tony Blair had "greater commitment to wartime truth than Winston Churchill".

Later career
Campbell worked again for the Labour Party as Campaign Director in the run-up to their third consecutive victory at the 2005 general election. Campbell also acted as an adviser to Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband at the 2010 and the 2015 general elections. Sir Clive Woodward recruited Campbell to manage relations with the press for the British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005. Campbell wrote a column for The Times during the tour.

Throughout his time in Downing Street, Campbell kept a diary which reportedly totalled some 2 million words. Selected extracts, titled The Blair Years, were published on 9 July 2007. Subsequent press coverage of the book's release included coverage of what Campbell had chosen to leave out, particularly in respect of the relationship between Blair and his chancellor and successor Gordon Brown. Campbell expressed an intention to one day publish the diaries in fuller form, and indicated in the introduction to the book that he did not wish to make matters harder for Brown in his new role as Prime Minister, or to damage the Labour Party. Campbell released the diaries in fuller form from 2010 to 2018.

In 2003 and 2004, Campbell wrote a series for The Times newspapers, analysing greatness in sports to answer the question "Who is the greatest sports star of all time?" Although his conclusion was Muhammad Ali, as part of the process, he interviewed and profiled sports stars from around the world, including Ian Botham, Nick Faldo, Ben Ainslie, Michael Phelps, Martina Navratilova, Shane Warne, Alex Ferguson, Bobby Charlton and Lance Armstrong. Campbell later said that he "fell hook, line and sinker" for the Armstrong legend. He subsequently worked with Armstrong, campaigning for cancer charities, but drew criticism from Armstrong's nemesis David Walsh for being so supportive and defending him so passionately. Campbell later said that Walsh had been right.

Campbell has his own website and blog, as well as several pages on other social media websites. He uses these platforms to discuss British politics and other topics close to his heart. So far, Campbell's commentaries and views have garnered media attention and generated interest among various online communities. In October 2008, he broadcast the personal story of his mental illness in a television documentary partly to reduce the stigma of that illness. He has written a novel on the subject entitled All in the Mind.

Campbell made his first appearance on the BBC One political discussion programme Question Time on 27 May 2010. At the opening of the edition, presenter David Dimbleby said that the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition would not allow a frontbench member of the government to appear on the show unless Campbell was dropped. The BBC refused to do this. The government later accused the BBC of behaving improperly for allowing Campbell to appear as a more in-depth version of his diaries was due to be published the following week, and a Downing Street spokesman told The Guardian, "Campbell seemed to be on because he's flogging a book next week, so the BBC haven't behaved entirely properly here." Campbell said that he had waited until Labour were in opposition before appearing on the show and that the date was a coincidence as it was the only time he was free. He suggested the discord was part of a Conservative anti-BBC agenda. The minister who had been scheduled to appear was the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws, who Campbell produced a picture of during the programme. Three days later, Laws resigned from his post following revelations about possible irregularities in his expenses claims in The Telegraph the day before.

In 2011, Campbell contacted the Metropolitan Police with suspicions that his phone was hacked by the News of the World in 2003. He received damages, part of which he used to sponsor the Burnley women's football team.

In May 2012, Campbell took a role at PR agency Portland Communications, at the invitation of Tim Allan, a former adviser to Tony Blair. Along with Blair, Campbell has also provided consultancy services to the government of Kazakhstan on "questions of social economic modernisation."

Return to journalism
In January 2014, Campbell announced that he was joining British GQ, with a brief to conduct interviews with figures from "politics... sport, business, culture, (and) other aspects of life that I find interesting", succeeding Piers Morgan. In his role at GQ Campbell has interviewed a wide range of public figures, including José Mourinho, Raheem Sterling, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mario Balotelli, Mo Farah and Usain Bolt from the world of sport and Tony Blair, Sadiq Khan, Nicola Sturgeon, George Osborne, John McDonnell, John Bercow, and Chuka Umunna from the world of politics. Campbell has also conducted in-depth interviews with many other figures from public life, including Archbishop Justin Welby, Garry Kasparov and Rachel Riley. In 2017, Campbell conducted an interview with Prince William. In March 2017, GQ began to film the interviews to use as part of their digital platform, beginning with an interview with Owen Jones, and then Tony Blair. When Jeremy Corbyn was interviewed for the magazine in late 2017, he did so on the condition that Campbell would not be the interviewer.

In May 2016, the International Business Times announced that Campbell had joined it as a columnist.

In March 2017, the newspaper The New European announced that it had appointed Campbell as editor-at-large.

In May 2019, Campbell announced that he and his daughter Grace, a comedian and feminist, had launched a joint podcast, Football, Feminism and Everything In Between: a series of interviews with figures from politics, sport and other walks of life. Their first interview was with Ed Miliband, followed by Rachel Riley, Jamie Carragher, Kelly Holmes and Maro Itoje.

When Government Adviser Dominic Cummings broke government guidelines to visit Durham, England, Campbell urged his social media followers to write to all Conservative MPs asking for their view and published a 50,000-word analysis of what he called 'Organised Hypocrisy' on his website, based on the responses he collated.

Campbell was a guest presenter of Good Morning Britain from 10 to 12 May 2021, co-hosting with Susanna Reid.

In January 2022, Campbell began a series of interviews for Men's Health called Talking Heads, with a focus on mindset and well-being. This began with England rugby player Maro Itoje and former athlete turned sports politician Sebastian Coe.

In March 2022, Campbell launched The Rest Is Politics podcast with Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and a candidate in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. The pair discuss current news stories and reminisce about their old jobs.

In May 2023, Campbell published his eighteenth book, But What Can I Do?, a call to arms to people to get more engaged in politics. He provides an analysis of what he refers to as "populism, polarisation and post-truth politics". The book went to No 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list in the first week of publication, meaning Campbell had both the most popular podcast (The Rest Is Politics) and the best-selling non-fiction hardback book in the UK at the same time.

Campbell has launched a regular series of 'Instagram live' broadcasts, in which he vented his criticisms of Boris Johnson. Campbell was a critic of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the British government's tolerance of oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin, contrasting it with their 'cruel and shabby' treatment of Ukrainian refugees, who faced large amounts of red tape before being considered for exile. He wrote extensively on his meetings with the Russian president alongside Tony Blair.

People's Vote campaign
Immediately after the UK's referendum on membership of the European Union in June 2016, Campbell stated that he thought it was "the worst decision Britain had made in his lifetime" and would do what he could to change people's minds. In addition to establishing The New European, he was one of the early movers in the People's Vote campaign for a referendum on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations.

In 2018 Campbell became part of the top table team at the People's Vote campaign fighting for a referendum on the Brexit deal. This included overseeing the production of campaign films, including one written by and starring his daughter Grace, called The Brexit Special, for which Campbell persuaded actor Richard Wilson to revive his most famous character, Victor Meldrew.

In 2018 Campbell worked for the People's Vote campaign's planning and organisation of a march on Parliament on 20 October, which drew an estimated 250,000 people onto the streets. The march was described by the media as the second biggest ever, after the protest against the Iraq war in 2003.

Campbell helped organize and spoke at a second march and rally attended by an estimated million people in October 2019, on the day that Boris Johnson called a rare Saturday sitting in Parliament to back his Brexit deal.

In July 2017, Campbell was invited to speak at the French National Assembly to the newly elected MPs of President Emmanuel Macron's victorious En Marche party. This was after Campbell had met and advised Macron during the campaign. He urged the French to be patient with the United Kingdom and to give them a chance to change course and reverse Brexit. He said Macron had been bolder than Tony Blair in setting up a new party and leading it to power within little over a year.

Campbell wrote a piece criticising the chairman of Open Britain, Roland Rudd, after Rudd unilaterally decided to sack two key campaign officials ahead of the 2019 UK general election.

Mental health activism
Campbell's experience with depression was recalled in a BBC documentary titled Cracking Up. He has since then been a prominent supporter and advocate for the mental health anti-stigma campaign Time to Change. In November 2017, he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in recognition of his work in breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness and promoting the importance of psychiatry.

Campbell took part in the Mental Health Foundation's takeover of Channel 4 for Mental Health Awareness Week 2017, acting as a celebrity continuity announcer. For the Mental Health Awareness Week two years later he broadcast the documentary Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me, exploring different ways of dealing and coping with depression. It was part of a BBC series drawing attention to different mental health conditions.

In 2019, Campbell was appointed global ambassador to Australians for Mental Health, a new umbrella organisation fighting for better services. He made numerous media appearances and caused controversy by saying on the Australian version of Question Time, that Donald Trump and fellow populists were "sowing the seeds of fascism".

Expulsion from Labour Party
On 28 May 2019, Campbell announced that he had been expelled from the Labour Party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in that month's European elections, and that he would appeal against the decision. He also questioned the speed of his expulsion compared to the treatment of Labour colleagues accused of anti-semitism. In response, shadow minister Dawn Butler stated that it was common knowledge that voting for another party would result in automatic exclusion.

Campbell was a long-standing critic of Labour's Brexit strategy and in the May 2019 European elections, he voted for the Liberal Democrats as a protest vote. He announced this after the polls had closed in interviews on TV and radio covering the results as they came in. He said he did so, in common with many others, to persuade Labour unequivocally to back a People's Vote. Two days later, by email, he was expelled from the Party, a move which provoked a major media storm in which many other Labour members outed themselves as having voted for parties other than Labour, including Cherie Blair, Charles Clarke, Bob Ainsworth and Betty Boothroyd. A hashtag #ExpelMeToo trended on Twitter as ordinary members expressed their support for Campbell. He immediately appealed the decision, saying tactical voting was not a breach of the rule under which he had been expelled, and arguing that unless all others who had acted as he did were expelled he also had a case for discrimination. Labour deputy leader Tom Watson condemned the expulsion as "spiteful" and a number of senior MPs immediately called for the decision to be reversed, and an amnesty of all who voted against Labour in the European elections.

In July 2019, in the week Boris Johnson became prime minister, Campbell penned a 3,500-word open letter to Jeremy Corbyn saying he no longer wished to be re-admitted to the party despite legal advice saying he would win a court case against his expulsion. He called on Corbyn to step down and cited his "failure" on Brexit, antisemitism, broader policy and "above all the failure to develop and execute a strategy". The story was broken in The Guardian and the full letter published in The New European. Corbyn said he was "disappointed", prompting Campbell to ask why he had been expelled.

Campbell voted Labour in the 2019 general election, having been part of a failed tactical voting campaign aimed at preventing Johnson from winning a majority. Labour were returned to government in the 2024 general election, under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Campbell and Stewart did the election night coverage on Channel 4.

Personal life
Campbell entered into a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar, on 30 March 2021, after being together for 42 years. The couple have two sons and a daughter, the comedian Grace Campbell. Campbell's nephew James Naish is the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe since 2024 for Labour.

Campbell's older brother Donald had schizophrenia. He died in 2016 at the age of 62 from complications resulting from his illness. Campbell has talked extensively about how Donald had inspired him to fight for better mental health services and understanding, and to become the ambassador for several mental health charities.

Campbell is a lifelong Burnley supporter. He is regularly involved in events with the club, and was involved in rescuing the club from potential bankruptcy. He was one of the founders of the University College of Football Business, based at Burnley's stadium. Campbell is also a fan of the rugby league club Keighley Cougars, as it had been a childhood dream of his to play for the team.

In his spare time, Campbell plays the bagpipes to relieve stress. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he performed on the bagpipes in a charity song written by Martin Gillespie of Scottish band Skerryvore, "Everyday Heroes", which topped the iTunes download charts. Campbell also has an interest in the music of the Belgian singer Jacques Brel.

Campbell is a keen runner, cyclist, swimmer and triathlete, having raised over half a million pounds for charity running the London Marathon in 2003. In his 60s, he developed an interest in cold water swimming. Campbell has described himself as a pro-faith atheist.

Stage and screen portrayals
Bremner, Bird and Fortune often satirised Campbell during the Blair years. In 2005, Campbell was played by Jonathan Cake in the Channel 4 television film The Government Inspector, based on the David Kelly Case. The following year, he was portrayed by Mark Bazeley in the Stephen Frears film The Queen – a role reprised by Bazeley in 2010 follow-up The Special Relationship. Alex Jennings portrayed Campbell in the television drama A Very Social Secretary. He featured in Dead Ringers and was portrayed by Adam Damerell in season 6 of The Crown.

Campbell has been cited as the inspiration for the character of Malcolm Tucker in the BBC political satire comedy The Thick of It.

Television appearances
In 2006 and 2007, Campbell took part in Soccer Aid as part of the Rest of the World team. He appeared with Diego Maradona and Paul Gascoigne to raise money for UNICEF. Also in 2007, he appeared on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice.

Campbell appeared as a mentor in the BBC Two series The Speaker in April 2009, offering his advice on persuasive speaking.

Campbell appeared on BBC's Top Gear in July 2010, where he was booed by some members of the audience but set a time of 1:47 around the Top Gear test track in the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment.

Campbell also took part in the 2011 Channel 4 television series Jamie's Dream School. In June 2012, he was guest presenter of Have I Got News for You

Campbell presented and narrated the 20 February 2012 edition of the BBC current affairs programme Panorama, which was entitled "Britain's Hidden Alcoholics".

In 2012, Campbell made his first appearance in an acting role with a small part in an episode of the BBC drama Accused.

In November 2021 Campbell was featured in the BBC series Winter Walks, walking in the Yorkshire Dales along Ribblesdale, from a waterfall above the market town of Settle, to Catrigg Force near Stainforth, 5 mi to the North.

In May 2022 it was announced that Campbell would appear in the Channel 4 political entertainment series Make Me Prime Minister, due to broadcast at the end of September 2022.

In May 2023, Campbell was involved in a heated debate with Alex Phillips, a member of Reform UK, on BBC Newsnight. Phillips later accused Campbell of "bullying, intimidation and thinly veiled misogyny". He later apologised to the presenter, Victoria Derbyshire, for his behaviour.

Honours
He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) on 6 November 2017.

He was awarded the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage by the Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin on 16 October 2019.

He has on a number of occasions turned down the opportunity to sit in the House of Lords. In 2010, Gordon Brown offered him a senior ministerial position alongside a peerage, but Campbell is a long-standing opponent of the House of Lords.

Published books

 * The Blair Years (2008). Arrow. ISBN 0-09-951475-3
 * All in the Mind (2008). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-192578-9
 * Maya (2010). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-193087-1
 * Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994–1997 (2010). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-179726-8
 * Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People 1997–1999 (2011). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-949346-2
 * Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility 1999–2001 (2012). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-949347-0
 * The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq (2013). Arrow. ISBN 978-0-09-951473-2 (volume four, 2001–2003)
 * The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness (2012). Arrow. ISBN 0-09-957982-0
 * My Name Is... (2013). Arrow. ISBN 0-09-9588196
 * The Irish Diaries 1994–2003 (2013). The Lilliput Press. ISBN 9781843514008
 * Winners: And How They Succeed (2015). Pegasus. ISBN 1605988804
 * Diaries Volume Five: Outside, Inside 2003–2005 (2016). Biteback. ISBN 978-1-78590-061-7
 * Diaries Volume Six: From Blair to Brown 2005–2007 (2017) Biteback. ISBN 9781785900846
 * Saturday Bloody Saturday (2018) Orion. ISBN 9781409174561

title: Alastair Campbell


text:
Talk:Radio Liberty

This isn't what was meant in the "request for papers", in my view. There's already and article on Radio Free Europe. I think what was meant by the request is an article on the history of the radio station before that. Hephaestos 02:44 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

title: Talk:Radio Liberty


text:
Talk:Bodhmall

Pronunciation of her name
I'll have to look it up, but going from the pronunciation I was taught, by several different teachers, this spelling of the name of incorrect; as I was taught it, the name would be pronounced "bodval" (Bodmhaill), whereas this version would be pronounced "bogmall" -- Jim Regan 02:46 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)
 * I've added the spellings Bodhmann and Bómall, with references.
 * Pronouncing "dh" as 'g' is a Munsterism. I don't know where she was from but she raised Fionn in the Slieve Bloom Mountains.  That region, as far as I know, spoke what we today call the Connacht dialect, so it seems more likely there was no 'g' or 'd' sound.
 * There was an attempt to bless Munster Irish as being the national dialect, so there's a certain generation where the non-Gaeltacht speakers all consider Munster Irish to be the right way to pronounce Irish. Great floors (talk) 00:50, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

title: Talk:Bodhmall


text:
Wen Ho Lee

Wen Ho Lee or Li Wenho (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He created computerized simulations of nuclear explosions for the purposes of scientific inquiry, as well as for improving the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of stealing secrets about the U.S. nuclear arsenal for the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1999. After federal investigators were unable to prove these initial accusations, the government conducted a separate investigation. Ultimately it charged Lee only with improper handling of restricted data, one of the original 59 indictment counts, a felony count. He pleaded guilty as part of a plea settlement.

He filed a civil suit that was settled. In June 2006, Lee received $1.6 million from the federal government and five media organizations as part of a settlement leaking his name to the press before any charges had been filed against him.

Federal judge James A. Parker eventually apologized to Lee for denying him bail and putting him in solitary confinement. He excoriated the government for misconduct and misrepresentations to the court.

Early life
Wen Ho Lee was born on December 21, 1939, to a Hoklo family in Taiwan during Japanese rule. He graduated from Keelung High School in the northern part of the island in 1959, after which he attended National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1963.

In My Country Versus Me, Lee describes life as being harsh. His father died when Lee was very young. His mother suffered from asthma and eventually committed suicide so that she would not 'burden' the family. He was a young boy in Taiwan when Republic of China (ROC) forces violently suppressed the February 28 Incident of 1947. Taiwan was placed under martial law; his brother died when he was a conscript and his commanding officers allegedly would not allow him to take medicine. Lee overcame steep odds. He had what he describes as a wonderful teacher in the 6th grade who encouraged his intellectual abilities. Eventually, he made his way to university, where he became interested in fluid dynamics and studied mechanical engineering.

Graduate education and career
Lee came to the United States in 1965 to continue his studies in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his doctorate in mechanical engineering with specialization in fluid mechanics in 1969 and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1974.

He was employed at industrial and government research firms before he moved to New Mexico in 1978. He worked as a scientist in weapons design at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in applied mathematics and fluid dynamics, from that year until 1999. He created simulation software for nuclear explosions, which were used to gain scientific understanding and help maintain the safety and reliability of the US nuclear weapons arsenal.

Government investigation
Lee was publicly named by United States Department of Energy officials, including Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, as a suspect in the theft of classified nuclear-related documents from Los Alamos. Richardson was criticized by the Senate for his handling of the espionage inquiry because he had not testified sooner before Congress. Richardson was less than truthful in his response by saying that he was waiting to uncover more information before speaking to Congress.

On December 10, 1999, Lee was arrested, indicted on 59 counts, and jailed in solitary confinement without bail for 278 days. On September 13, 2000, he accepted a plea bargain from the federal government. Lee was released on time served after the government's case against him could not be proven. Part of his defense rested on a graymail strategy, which tried to compel prosecutors to release large amounts of classified material related to nuclear weapons. He was ultimately charged only with one count of mishandling sensitive documents, which did not require pre-trial solitary confinement. The other 58 counts were dropped.

President Bill Clinton issued a public apology to Lee over his treatment by the federal government during the investigation. Lee filed a civil lawsuit to gain the names of public officials who had leaked his name to journalists before charges had been filed against him. It raised issues, similar to those in the Valerie Plame affair, of whether journalists should have to reveal their anonymous sources in a court of law.

Lee's lawsuit was settled by the federal government in 2006 just before the Supreme Court was set to decide whether to hear the case. The federal judge who heard the case during an earlier appeal said that "top decision makers in the executive branch...have embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen."

Operation Kindred Spirit
After an intelligence agent from the People's Republic of China (PRC) gave U.S. agents papers which indicated that they knew the design of a particularly modern U.S. nuclear warhead (the W-88), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started an investigation codenamed "Operation Kindred Spirit" to look into how China could have obtained that design.

In 1982, Lee was recorded on a wiretap speaking with another Taiwanese-American scientist who had been accused of espionage. Lee offered to the scientist to find out who had turned him in. When confronted by the FBI about this incident, Lee said he did not know the scientist, until the FBI demonstrated proof of the conversation. Despite some evidence that could have kept the case open, the FBI closed this file on Lee in 1984.

Lee did not get the attention of the FBI again for 12 years until 1998. The FBI had lost the file on Lee from the 1983 and 1984 meetings with him, and had to reconstruct the information. In 1994, a delegation of Chinese scientists visited Los Alamos National Laboratory in an unannounced capacity for a meeting. One of the scientists visiting was Dr. Hu Side, the head of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics. He also was credited with the design of the small, W88-like weapon. However, despite the visit being unannounced, Lee showed up to the meeting uninvited.

This alarmed LANL officials who contacted the FBI, which opened up another investigation of Lee. On December 23, 1998, Lee was given a polygraph test by Wackenhut, a DOE contractor. He was not told of the reason why, other than that it involved his latest trip to China to escort his nephew. During the questioning, he admitted that he had, in fact, met with Dr. Hu Side in a hotel room in 1988 and that Hu had asked him for classified information, which he refused to discuss.

Lee admitted that he failed to report this contact and approach by individuals requesting classified information as required by security regulations. He was told that he passed the test, but was stripped of his Q clearance to the LANL's classified X Division section. Although he questioned the action against him, Lee went along, deleting the classified information he held on his computers, and moved to the T (unclassified) clearance zone. He was later subjected to three more polygraph tests before being told by the FBI agents that re-evaluation of the test results showed that Lee had failed all of them.

In January, The Wall Street Journal ran an article on the investigation, headlined "China Got Secret Data on U.S. Warhead -- Chief Suspect Is a Scientist at Weapons Laboratory of Energy Department," without naming a suspect. On March 6, The New York Times published an article on the W-88 case, "China Stole Nuclear Secrets for Bombs, U.S. Aides Say," again without naming the suspect. Government officials had requested the newspaper delay publication, and The New York Times held back publication for one day, saying it would consider a further delay if asked personally by the FBI director, who did not act on the request.

The FBI interviewed Dr. Lee on March 5, and he consented to a search of his office. On March 8, 1999, Lee was fired from his job at Los Alamos National Laboratory for failure to maintain classified information securely. However, FBI investigators soon determined that the design data the PRC had obtained could not have come from the Los Alamos Lab, because it related to information that would only have been available to someone like a so-called "downstream" contractor, meaning one involved in the final warhead production process, and this information was only created after the weapon design left the LANL.

Even though this left Wen Ho Lee apparently in the clear, the FBI continued its attempt to find evidence to implicate Lee in committing espionage for the PRC. There were 60 agents and more assigned to Lee's case, working to prove that he was a spy. The FBI conducted a search of Lee's house on April 10, seizing any item related to computers or computing, as well as anything that had notations written in Chinese. The FBI and the Department of Energy then decided to conduct a full forensic examination of Lee's office computer. The examination of Lee's computer determined that he had backed up his work files, which were restricted though not classified, onto tapes, and had also transferred these files from a system used for processing classified data onto another, also secure, system designated for unclassified data.

After the FBI discovered Lee's transfer, they revoked his badge access and clearance, including his ability to access the data from the unclassified but secure network. Lee then requested from a colleague in another part of Los Alamos to be allowed to use his computer, at which time he transferred the data to a third unclassified computer network. The government then retroactively redesignated the data Lee had copied, changing it from its former designation of "PARD" (Protect As Restricted Data), which was just above the "Unclassified" designation and contained 99 percent unclassified data, to a new designation of "Secret" (which was treated on a higher security level than PARD), giving them the crime that the government needed for a formal charge.

Indictment, imprisonment and release
The Department of Justice constructed its case around the only real evidence of malfeasance, the downloading of the restricted information. It ultimately employed an unusual strategy of trying to prove that in addition to illegally handling information, Dr. Lee had an "intent to injure" the United States by denying it the exclusivity of the nuclear information. Lee was indicted on 59 counts, 39 of which were for mishandling information under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and 20 of which were for lesser violations of the Espionage Act. (The original Atomic Energy Act, also known as the McMahon Act, was passed in response to the case of Cambridge physicist Alan Nunn May after he confessed to giving Manhattan Project secrets to the USSR.) Janet Reno confirmed with CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Louis Freeh that if the presiding judge rules that the government must reveal in open court what specifically was on the tapes, the prosecution would have to plea out the case or risk jeopardizing state secrets.

Dr. Lee spent nine months incarcerated in solitary confinement with limited access to family. His treatment, which included constant shackling, was inconsistent with treatment of other prisoners at the Santa Fe County detention facility, and became a source of great controversy for the DOJ. In September 2000, Judge Parker ruled that the government was required to disclose the information on the tapes. According to Louis Freeh and Janet Reno, they were left with no option but to plea out Dr. Lee in order to find out where the missing tapes were, and not risk sensitive government information by bringing it to trial. Dr. Lee was freed, and at plea admitted to having made copies of the tapes which he later destroyed, according to his book My Country Versus Me, and other sources.

Lee pleaded guilty to one felony count of illegal "retention" of "national defense information". In return, the government released him from jail and dropped the other 58 counts against him. Judge Parker apologized to Dr. Lee for the unfair manner in which he was treated. The judge also regretted being misled by the executive branch into ordering Dr. Lee's detention, stating that he was led astray by the Department of Justice, by its FBI, and by its United States attorney. He formally denounced the government for abuse of power in its prosecution of the case. Later, President Bill Clinton remarked that he had been "troubled" by the way Dr. Lee was treated.

Post-release
Lee is now retired and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife. He also has two adult children – a son, and a daughter, Alberta, who at one time was an intern at Los Alamos Laboratory. In 2003, he wrote a memoir, My Country Versus Me, in which he describes his love of classical music, literature, poetry, fishing in the mountains of New Mexico, and his dedication to organic gardening. He also charges that his Asian ethnicity was a primary factor behind his prosecution by the government. As evidence of such racial profiling, he cited cases of several scientists of non-Han Chinese ancestry who were responsible for similar security transgressions but were able to continue their careers. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh categorically denied these charges.

Lee was compensated with a $1.6 million settlement from the U.S. federal government and five news organizations for privacy violations. A condition of the United States portion of the settlement, $895,000, is that it is to be applied only to lawyer's fees and the taxes on the media's payments, since the government insisted that they would not pay anything that would be perceived as damages to Lee.

He has published an applied physics textbook that he started writing while still in prison.

In media
The 2001 play The Legacy Codes, by American playwright Cherylene Lee, deals with the Wen Ho Lee case.

The short story "Amnesty" in the 2005 edition of Octavia Butler's collection Bloodchild and Other Stories was inspired by the government's treatment of Lee.

The 2007 play Yellow Face by Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang places this incident in the context of a greater number of cases dealing with racial profiling against Asian Americans, particularly the Chinese during the 1980s.

The 2010 short film The Profile and its animated remake (the 2017 short film Disk 44), both by American film maker Ray Arthur Wang, are inspired by the Lee case.

title: Wen Ho Lee


text:
Talk:Yo-Yo Ma

Change Musical Artist infobox to Person infobox?
Yo-Yo Ma is a classical cellist, not a pop artist. For that reason I suggest we use Infobox Person, as this has fewer trivia fields and also less redundancy. -- Klein zach  12:51, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Absolutely. This is one of the worst bios I have ever read on a classical musician. It focuses on trivialities like TV appearances instead of on the artist. After reading this article, one gets a very wrong view of Yo-Yo Ma. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB08:9B:CB00:ADE9:EB42:C050:7ABD (talk) 06:54, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Inclusion of sister's info??
Out of curiosity, why is his eldest sister's info included along with Ma's in the Personal Life section. If she was married to someone that connects directly with Ma it would make sense, but this type of connection does not appear to be the case. Thoughts?THX1136 (talk) 19:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Wife
Many articles say that his wife, Jill Hornor, is a teacher or instructor or professor of German literature at Harvard. This is not true, as can easily be verified on the Harvard web site. She was apparently a graduate student in German literature at Harvard, and a tutor at a House, but that's not at all the same thing. I have corrected the article. --Macrakis (talk) 22:41, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The official directory (including the internal version) agrees that no "Jill Horner" is currently employed by Harvard. FourViolas (talk) 22:53, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, that directory does show Jill Hornor (correct spelling) as an "associate of the Department of Music" (whatever that means). But there's no reason to include that detail in the Yo-Yo Ma article. --Macrakis (talk) 16:59, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

External links trimmed

 * About Us, The Children's Orchestra Society, ChildrensOrch.org, 2007
 * Yo-Yo Ma in Conversation from WGBH Radio Boston
 * Yo-Yo Ma Interview on Time.com, October 2008
 * Yo-Yo Ma Podcast Series produced by Sony BMG Masterworks
 * Yo-Yo Ma TV Interview with Ennio Morricone from C Music TV
 * 2006 Dan David Prize laureate
 * "Welcome to Baku: Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Ensemble with Alim Gasimov and Fargana" by Aida Huseinova in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 14:2 (Summer 2006), p. 14

Note: I have trimmed the above external links as I don't see the purpose in keeping them. If someone wants to find information, please feel free to read and use them as a citation if required. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:43, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Yo-Yo Ma. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054307/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html to http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html
 * Corrected formatting/usage for https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/17/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 16:31, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion: You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Branch Out.JPG

Grammys 18, not 19 https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/yo-yo-ma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.197.233 (talk) 17:30, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Meeting Rostropovitch
I'm surprised that there is no mention of the master class in 1976 in which Ma met Rostropovitch. There is presumably documentation of this somewhere, e.g. in the Harvard Crimson.Bill (talk) 08:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Yo-Yo Ma Museum
Apparently, according to this article, a Yo-Yo Ma Museum was opened in 2017 in the Ma family's ancestral home in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 09:57, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

"Yeon chang ma" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Yeon chang ma. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 26 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin (she/they, no pref.) | o toki tawa mi. 23:08, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:Yo-Yo Ma


text:
Talk:Taiwanese Americans

Barred from 'administration' during Japanese era? Really?
The article states "During Japanese rule (1895-1945), Taiwanese were barred from politics and administration..." I'm Taiwanese, and I'm fairly sure my grandfather worked as a government official during the Japanese era. It seems like there should have been other low-level Taiwanese government employees as well. --JC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.168.151.38 (talk) 01:11, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Subject population
In a recent attempt to add false data on the Asian American article page, an IP editor had made a change not supported by the reference claiming that there are 1 million Taiwanese Americans. This lead me to this article, which provided a possible non-reliable source stating that there are 600K Taiwanese Americans. Therefore, I added the 2007 ACS data, with a link to the reference (the same used on the Asian American article), while not removing the pre-established reference. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:45, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

taiwanese citizenship
i am an american born Chinese. i applied for taiwanese nationality and got it. i never lived in tw. my father is a Chinese american who also got taiwanese nationality back in the 1960s when he went there to study. i know personally a filipino guy who has Chinese ancestry that successfully got the taiwanese nationality. however, none of us have the id card, because you need to go through the immigration proces to get it, whereas with the nationality, you dont need to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ASD955668FYDS (talk • contribs) 16:00, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

conflicting numbers for taiwan-american population
Although the 2007 ACS says 100k, this article based on census data cites 342k for Taiwan-born immigrants in the US.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=790

Falkiewu (talk) 08:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Infobox image discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 07:37, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Lucy Liu
Why isn't there any mention of Liu? She is one of the most high profile Taiwanese Americans, not to mention Asian Amnericans, in Hollywood. 119.73.191.66 (talk) 01:00, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 7 September 2015

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved both. Natg 19 (talk) 18:57, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

– Both should be pluralized, like "Americans", per WP:CONSISTENCY policy. I would like to cite a broad discussion, but that discussion attracted very little amount of people. Also, RMs from Talk:Chinese Americans and Talk:Korean Americans conflict with RM from Talk:African American. Therefore, I'll do case-by-case basis instead. George Ho (talk) 06:04, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Taiwanese American → Taiwanese Americans
 * Hong Kong American → Hong Kong Americans
 * Support per WP:PLURAL. RGloucester  — ☎ 15:43, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Shhhhwwww!! (talk) 18:27, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:PLURAL recommendations for population groups. Additionally, this is how the actual articles are almost always written; the titles should reflect that.--Cúchullain t/ c 14:20, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Taiwanese Americans. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050208141701/http://www.tacl.org/index.php to http://www.tacl.org/index.php

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 04:13, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Renaming article with no explanation and no consensus.
There was no explanation for renaming this article from Taiwanese Americans to Taiwanese in America. All the similar-subject articles that I spot-checked followed the Taiwanese Americans format, for example Hakka Americans, Albanian Americans, Nigerian Americans. So as a consistent style issue this move seems ill-conceived. Also one would expect a discussion, as happened with the previous quite minor rename (see above). -- M.boli (talk) 17:22, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Propose new section: Community and identy
I suggest a new section Community and identity which would include the following sections underneath it: The disputed few sentences, currently subject of a lede-section edit war, would logically belong in the Community and identity section instead. Even if they are to be kept in the article they don't belong in the lede. Also there should be a citation. -- M.boli (talk) 19:21, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * First generation immigrates and later
 * Media
 * Organizations
 * Connection to politics of Taiwan

banned emigration
Whys this not mentioned? The article talks about a ban a ban on mainland emigration, but makes no mention of the ban of movement on Taiwan. Through most of the Chiang Kai Shek years, Taiwanese were not allowed to leave TW, as TW was under martial law. That's a major reason why you probably wouldn't have seen any Taiwanese overseas throughout the 50s, 60s, and 70s. As far as I know, Taiwanese weren't even allowed to take vacations abroad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by T43534534 (talk • contribs) 15:21, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Taiwanese Americans


text:
Little Italy, Manhattan

Little Italy (also Piccola Italia) is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, known for its Italian population. It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, and on the north by Nolita.

History
Little Italy used to extend as far south as Worth Street, as far north as Houston Street, as far west as Lafayette Street, and as far east as Bowery. It is now only five blocks on Mulberry Street north of Canal St. Little Italy originated at Mulberry Bend south of Canal, in what had formerly been the Five Points area but is now the heart of Chinatown. Jacob Riis described Mulberry Bend as "the foul core of New York's slums." During this time period "Immigrants of the late 19th century usually settled in ethnic neighborhoods". Therefore, the "mass immigration from Italy during the 1880s" led to the large settlement of Italian immigrants in lower Manhattan. The results of such migration had created an "influx of Italian immigrants" which had "led to the commercial gathering of their dwelling and business".

Italian immigrants from Naples settled on Mulberry Street, immigrants from Puglia and Calabria settled on Mott Street, immigrants from Sicily settled on Elizabeth Street, and immigrants from northern Italy, especially Genoa settled on Baxter Street.

Bill Tonelli from New York magazine said, "Once, Little Italy was like an insular Neapolitan village re-created on these shores, with its own language, customs, and financial and cultural institutions." Little Italy was not the largest Italian neighborhood in New York City, as East Harlem (or Italian Harlem) had a larger Italian population. Tonelli said that Little Italy "was perhaps the city's poorest Italian neighborhood".

In 1910 Little Italy had almost 10,000 Italians; that was the peak of the community's Italian population. At the turn of the 20th century, over 90% of the residents of the Fourteenth Ward were of Italian birth or origins. Tonelli said that it meant "that residents began moving out to more spacious digs almost as soon as they arrived." Such a vastly growing community impacted the "U.S. labor movement in the 20th century" by making up much of the labor population in the garment industry".

After World War II, many residents of the Lower East Side began moving to Brooklyn, Staten Island, eastern Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey. Chinese immigrants became an increased presence after the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965 removed immigration restrictions, and the Manhattan Chinatown to Little Italy's south expanded. In 2004, Tonelli said, "You can go back 30 years and find newspaper clips chronicling the expansion of Chinatown and mourning the loss of Little Italy."

Before 2004, several upscale businesses entered the northern portion of the area between Houston and Kenmare Street. Tonelli said, "Real-estate prices zoomed, making it even tougher for the old-timers—residents and businesspeople alike—to hang on." After the September 11 attacks in 2001, areas below Houston Street were cut off for the rest of the fall of 2001. The San Gennaro feast, scheduled for September 13, was postponed. Business from the Financial District dropped severely, due to the closure of Park Row, which connected Chinatown and the Civic Center; as a result, residents in Little Italy and Chinatown suffered. Tonelli said the post-9/11 events "strangely enough, ended up motivating all these newfangled efforts to save what's left of the old neighborhood."

In 2004 Tonelli said "Today, Little Italy is a veneer—50 or so restaurants and cafés catering to tourists, covering a dense neighborhood of tenements shared by recent Chinese immigrants, young Americans who can't afford Soho, and a few remaining real live Italians." This sentiment has also been echoed by Italian culture and heritage website ItalianAware. The site has called the dominance of Italians in the area "relatively short-lived." It attributes this to the quick financial prosperity many Italians achieved, which allowed them to leave the cramped neighborhood for areas in Brooklyn and Queens. The site also goes on to state that the area is currently referred to as Little Italy more out of nostalgia than as a reflection of a true ethnic population.

In 2010, Little Italy and Chinatown were listed in a single historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Little Italy, by this point, was shrinking rapidly.

Foods and traditions that were invented in Little Italy include sausage and peppers and the rainbow cookie. In addition, the Italian-American Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes originated in Little Italy back in the late 1800s.

Demographic changes
The New York Times sent its reporters to characterize the Little Italy/Mulberry neighborhood in May 1896:

"They are laborers; toilers in all grades of manual work; they are artisans, they are junkman, and here, too, dwell the rag pickers. ... There is a monster colony of Italians who might be termed the commercial or shop keeping community of the Latins. Here are all sorts of stores, pensions, groceries, fruit emporiums, tailors, shoemakers, wine merchants, importers, musical instrument makers. ... There are notaries, lawyers, doctors, apothecaries, undertakers. ... There are more bankers among the Italians than among any other foreigners except the Germans in the city."

Since the late 1960s, when the United States allowed immigration from China, Chinatown's traditional boundary at Canal Street has inched northward into Little Italy. By the 1990s, while many Italian business remained, the blocks between Canal and Kenmare Streets had taken on a feel of Chinatown, though locals continue to refer to the area (including Nolita) as Little Italy.

As of the 2000 census, 1,211 residents claiming Italian ancestry lived in three census tracts that make up Little Italy. Those residents comprise 8.25% of the population in the community, which is similar to the proportion of those of Italian ancestry throughout New York City. Bill Tonelli of New York magazine contrasted Little Italy with the Manhattan Chinatown; in 2000, of the residents of the portions of Chinatown south of Grand Street, 81% were of Chinese origins.

In 2004, Tonelli revisited the issue, saying, "Little Italy may always endure as an open-air theme park of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European immigration to the Lower East Side ... But you'll spend a long time in the neighborhood before you hear anyone speak Italian, and then the speaker will be a tourist from Milan." Tonelli added, "You have to slow your gaze to find the neighbors in this neighborhood, because they're so overwhelmed and outnumbered by the tourists. But once you focus, you can see them, standing (or sitting) in the interstices, taking in the scene, like the group of men, mostly senior citizens, loitering contentedly under an awning on Mulberry Street."

By 2010 the U.S. Community Survey found that none of the people living in Little Italy were born in Italy, and 5% of residents identified as Italian American.

Cultural attractions
Little Italy was home to dozens of restaurants that serve authentic Italian cuisine, but between March 2013 and March 2014, eight eateries closed down.

Since 2004, Sorrento Lactalis funds neighborhood cultural events in Little Italy.

The Feast of San Gennaro originally was once only a one-day religious commemoration. It began in September 1926 with the new arrival of immigrants from Naples. The Italian immigrants congregated along Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to celebrate San Gennaro as the Patron Saint of Naples. The Feast of San Gennaro is a large street fair, lasting 11 days, that takes place every September along Mulberry Street between Houston and Canal Streets.

The festival is an annual celebration of Italian culture and the Italian-American community. In 1995, Mort Berkowitz became the professional manager of a community group that had been formed to take over management of the San Gennaro feast. Since then, Berkowitz became involved in other recreational activities in Little Italy, including the summer, Carnevale, Columbus Day, and Christmas events.

Richard Alba, a sociologist and professor at University at Albany, SUNY, said, "The fascinating part here is the way in which ethnic tourism—not only by Italian Americans but by people who want to see an authentic urban village—keeps these neighborhoods going."

Little Italy was also home to Alleva Dairy, the oldest cheese shop in the United States. The store was founded in 1892 and was located on Grand Street until March 2023, when it closed its Little Italy location and announced a move to Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

Organized crime and the Mafia
Little Italy residents have seen organized crime since the early 20th century. Powerful members of the Italian Mafia have operated in Little Italy.
 * Ignazio "The Wolf" Lupo (a Morello crime family boss operated in Little Italy from late 1890s-1920s)
 * Paolo Antonio "Paul Kelly" Vaccarelli (founder of the Five Points Gang, who operated in Little Italy in the early twentieth century)
 * Michele "Big Mike" Miranda (a Capo in the Genovese crime family operated in the neighborhood from the 1950s into the late 1960s)
 * Peter DeFeo (a Genovese crime family capo who operated an illegal Italian lottery in the 1960s into the 1970s)
 * Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello, a Genovese crime family capo operated from his restaurant Umberto's Clam House in the 1970s
 * John Gotti, boss of the Gambino crime family operated from the Ravenite Social Club in the late 1980s into the early 1990s

Notable people

 * Gianni Russo, actor and singer

In popular culture
Little Italy is the locale of the fictional Corleone family depicted in the novel The Godfather and the film trilogy based on it. It is also the setting for the Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets (1973), starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro, the latter of whom also grew up in the neighborhood, and the Luc Besson film Léon: The Professional (1994), starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman. It is also depicted in the series finale of The Sopranos, titled "Made in America", where a character walks down a block and finds himself in Chinatown, demonstrating how Little Italy has shrunk.

Other Italian American neighborhoods in New York City
Other Italian American neighborhoods in New York City include:
 * In Manhattan - East Harlem (Italian Harlem, Pleasant Avenue), Greenwich Village, and Nolita
 * In the Bronx - Fordham (Arthur Avenue), Belmont, Morris Park, Country Club, and Pelham Bay
 * In Brooklyn - Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, Gravesend, South Brooklyn (especially Carroll Gardens), East Williamsburg and other neighborhoods
 * In Queens - Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Middle Village, Astoria, and other neighborhoods
 * In Staten Island - the borough has the highest proportion of Italian Americans of any county in the United States and possibly North America. Over 200,000 residents claim Italian heritage, representing over 40% of the total population, with Rosebank being the first Italian enclave.

title: Little Italy, Manhattan