Not Much Today -- Family Commitments -- March 9, 2024

Locator: 46707B.

ENB: acquires The East Ohio Gas Company from 1st Dominion Gas Utility. Link here.

EVs: GM cuts Chevy Blazer EV price as sales restart. Link here.

• price reductions up to $6,520 per vehicle;
• another $7,500 federal credit now that the vehicle is fully qualified for the credit
• still no Apple CarPlay or Android entertainment system; will only use proprietary system;
• forecasts $25 billion annually from an estimate 30 million connected vehicles by end of 2030
• new price for the Blazer EV: $50,195, buried at the end of the article
• the RS model will start at $54,595 for all-wheel drive or $56,170 for rear wheel (sic)
• so, we were talking about $60,000 - $70,000 price tags for an EV before the price cuts

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The Book Page

Having completed a biography of Jackie Kennedy, I was drawn to this book for this week.

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, Max Boot, c. 2018.

I was aware of this book, had read excerpts but I do not recall if I've ever checked it out from the library.

With Biden getting every more involved in Ukraine and Gaza, this seems like a great time to re-look at the "origins" of the Vietnam "war."

 Ah, yes, here we go, my notes from 2018:

From 2018, my notes elsewhere:

From the Grapevine Library.

605 pages of biography
4 pages: acknowledgements
50 pages: notes (mostly just sources of citations; uninteresting)
15 pages: select bibliography
39 pages: index

Coordinator of Information (COI) becomes, as of June, 1942,
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Worked initially out of the Military Intelligence Service office at 74 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco; later able to re-join the US Army; later, about 1947, switched to US Air Force, a new service; but always kept ties with OSS.

This is where I will add new notes. 

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Sophia

I feel sorry for Sophia. In less than five years, she's going to suffer through a miserable two years of learning how to speed-read college-level books and learn how to invest.