Shrub Was "Campaign Mgr" for Winton M. BLOUNT While A.W.O.L.

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In about all of the A.W.O.L. stories, it is only mentioned that Shrub was working on "a senatorial campaign in Alabama." Meet Winton M. BLOUNT. Despite the fellow's having SOME personal accomplishments, including patron of the arts, his chief claim to fame appears to be boiling down to have been the senate campaign Shrub supposedly was working on during his A.W.O.L year. Wonder why BLOUNT's campaign staff, family, or other associates haven't come forward with personal recollections of Shrub as "campaign manager"? What, was he A.W.O.L. from there, too? And, predictably for the B.F.E.E., there is the CA-CHING factor, ties to Saudi Arabia and rebuilding Kuwait after Desert Storm.



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http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/w_blount.html

.... 1968 President, Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
1969-70 Postmaster General of the United States and member of the President's Cabinet.
1970-71 Postmaster General and Chairman of the Board, U.S. Postal Service.
1972 Candidate, U. S. Senate, State of Alabama. ....


http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eaglebios/01bios/blount01.htm

.... Winton and his brother Houston started Blount Brothers Construction Company (now Blount International) by digging fish ponds, paving streets, and installing storm drains; a far cry from the complex structures Blount International is known for today. They soon completed their first $1 million contract in Birmingham, Alabama, and in the 1950s the company erected Launch Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral in direct response to Sputnik, an atomic energy plant in Tennessee, a radar and electronics building and flight operations hangar for Lockheed Aircraft, and a portion of the wind tunnel at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee. It was from Blount’s launch pad that Apollo 11 lifted off in 1969 on its historic trip to the moon. Blount International also built the huge space environment simulator at Sandusky, Ohio, the New Orleans Superdome, and the nation’s first Atlas intercontinental missile base near Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 1980s saw Blount International flourish with the completion of the world’s largest fixed-price contract, $2 billion, for the King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Following Operation DESERT STORM, Blount International "turned the lights back on" in Kuwait by rebuilding its infrastructure. ....

http://www.nixonfoundation.org/nrc/021025bBlount.shtml

Among Mr. Blount's accomplishments was the transformation of the U.S. Post Office Department into the U.S. Postal Service. At the time, Rep. Thaddeus J. Dulski (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, described

Mr. Blount this way: "He has a cast-iron stomach and a skin like a rhinoceros. But he may be the only man who could have brought about postal reform."
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