Our Man in Halcyon

Happy Solstice! Halcyon: "A mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves." WordWeb 3.02 I remember reading a NY Times op-ed piece "Our Man in Halcyon" back in 1992 or so in the Hudson House in Cold Spring, NY, (named for the water by former President George Washington) once the site of the West Point Foundry, where I was working on the EPA remediation of the Marathon Battery Site (made batteries for Nike missiles) which included the "Foundry Cove" next to Constitution Island across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy. We could see their ski trails lit at night and sometimes an echo from the parade field would drift over. Another time two F-14's from the Navy mock attacked the Point in a snow squall, probably at an Army-Navy game. I wanted to call the FAA! Anyway, the point of the article was that FBI agents on Halcyon, (as was then President George Bush, the previous Bush President, the current, others referred to as "Walker B.") were walking through metal detectors forgetting they were armed, and since the President was also taking it, what about it? The idea, I think, was that we had been convinced by President George Bush that the world had been made safer, then, after "Desert Storm," when actually, it had become a much more dangerous place.