One of the reasons for which I hold Lyndon Johnson in some high regard (beyond the fact that frankly, someone still has to) is the tendency by many, especially in recent years to more than overlook, but indeed to actively overlook just how skilfull and talented he truly was, both in terms of pure political ability, and as an actual leader.
Those who irrationally hate Johnson (which seems to be most people these days), or people who despise the New Deal values and political philosophy he genuinely espoused, and yet let fall as a consequence of the Vietnam War often refuse even to give him this - he is "ruthless", never "cunning"; he is a schemer, rather than a charismatic and ambitious flatterer, gifted with natural charm and a gift of the gab;
Most often he is just written off as a selfish, mass-murdering and talentless oaf, mad with power and ego, who somehow managed to achieve the highest office in the "Free" World despite lacking any of the necessary personal attributes or abilities and being totally hated by everyone.
I try my best every day to ignore all these people, but unfortunately, they clearly appear to be everywhere.
Outside of these hordes of raving irrationalists and NeoConservative think-tank historians, it sometimes seems that there now is only perhaps myself, Webster Tarpley and Joan Mellen left who remember the axiomatic truth of every Agatha Chrisite novel - the most obvious suspect is always the wrong one.
For example, the most obvious beneficiary of the abortive attempt on Reagan would clearly seem to have been Bush - but looking at a wider-angle snapshot of the broader social and and political scene at that moment, we might ask ourselves - "Who benefits most from Bush's son sitting down to break bread with the elder brother of the purported assassin the following day after the attempted shooting...?"
Not Bush, clearly, but rather Haig, who wanted his job (and Reagan's) and enjoyed the full endorsement and support of Kissinger, Brzezinski, the Trilateralists and the CFR, as well as the Israeli Mossad, MI6, NATO Intelligence, the House of Rockefeller, and the B'nai Brith.
Beyond this, everyone ignores the direct, personal role played by Bobby Kennedy in bringing the Warren Commission into existence - Bobby asked Earl Warren to serve on the Commission, in person, TWICE, BEFORE LBJ asked him to. Warren told him no.
Bobby was not a Mason either.
LBJ summoned Warren to the White House, had a car bring him to the Oval Office, under duress, and blackmailed him.
Not only blackmailed him, but on the basis of Warren's past military service and status as a reservist, gave him a direct, MILITARY order as his Commander in Chief to serve on the Commission, with which Warren complied (before bursting into tears).
RR: I may be wholly wrong, but I think Mr. Warren would serve on anything you'd give him any publicity on.
LBJ: Well you want me to tell you the truth? You know what happened?
Bobby and them went up to see him today and he turned them down cold and said "no."
Two hours later I called him and ordered him down here and he didn't want to come.
I insisted he come, he came down here and told me no twice and I just pulled out what Hoover told me about a little incident in Mexico City and I say now, 'I don't want Mr. Khrushchev to be told tomorrow and be testifying before a camera that he killed this fellow and that Castro killed him and all I want you to do is look at the facts and bring in other facts you want in here, and determined who killed the President and I think you'd put on your uniform of World War I, fat as you are, and do anything you could to save one American life.
And I'm surprised that you the Chief Justice of the United States would turn me down.' And he started crying and said, well I won't turn you down. I'll just do whatever you say, but he turned the Attorney General down.
KEY POINT - Earl Warren was a Mason.
In fact, at the time of this exchange, as well as being Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Earl Warren was also (deep breath) 33rd Degree Soverign Grand Inspector General, Mother Supreme Council of the World.
Previously, he had been the Head Freemason of all of California at the same time as being the "gangbusting" Wartime Attorney General of California and then Governor of California, when he had insisted upon the Federal Government (via his Anglophile ally, Henry Stimson) round up the Japanese-Americans of his state, subject them to forced deportation and put them in Concentration Camps.
(Presumably, like his brother Mason J.Edgar Hoover, his "gangbusting" activities, with which his reputation was made were strictly confined to the Irish Mafia and the Lower-echolon Jewish mob - La Cosa Nostra, after all, does not exist.)
After suffering as surprise upset defeat as the Vice-Presidential running mate of hand-picked CIA/Wall Street Republican Thomas Dewey in 1948, Warren rapidly progressed through the Federal Court circuits, eventally attaining his seat on the Supreme Court of the United States in 1952.
Long before this time though, Warren had also ascended to the position of 33rd Degree Grand Master, Mother Supreme Council of the World, the Supreme Leader of World (Confederate) Freemasonry.(or, to give it it's full, official Albert Pike designation,
"The Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America.")
Now, this is very important : because this is the best evidence, for one thing, that Lyndon Johnson was not a Freemason, and goes some way towards explaining the kicking that he, and only he, Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton take amongst the post-war presidents from revisionist Ivy League Quill & Dagger/Scroll & Key/Bonesmen-type historians and faux-Libertarians...
Johnson, had he been a Mason, could have pulled a piece of handshake-style pressure, invoked the universal Masonic distress call, invoked the name of the Widow's Son to get Warren to comply and get with the program by agreeing to serve on the Commission and put his name to it for posterity - he didn't.
Instead, he resorts to crude blackmail.
Crude, but extremely effective blackmail, and Warren leaves his office in tears - not, presumably, due to having broken his oath of office, subverted the Constitution and it's separation of powers and debased his own personal moral compass - there is, after all, no evidence whatsoever that he shed so much as a single tear when he signed the order to deport and detain without charge or trial the Japanese - but rather because he had been forced to do so for reasons other than Masonic fidelity.
Hoover, of course, the 33rd Degree Master Mason in both the Royal Arch and Scottish Rite and brother Shriner, keeps his own hand well-hidden and indeed declines to directly participate in this part of the process - Warren, after all, does outrank him.
"As for Bill Clinton: A spokesman for the Freemasonic Grand Lodge of Arkansas told me that although Clinton was a member of Freemasonry’s Order of DeMolay as a young man, he is not now a Mason. I have been informed, however, that DeMolay membership is in fact a life membership."
Anton Chaitkin,
1996
"Once you get past the 33rd Degree of Freemason-tree, they drop the Bible and switch to teaching from the Quraan - now, that's some heavy shit."
- Bro. Steve Cokely, 1991
"The Hon. Elijah Muhammad teaches us..." something other than Islam...
Nov 24, 4:00PM - Account of phone call between FBI Director Hoover and White House Aide Walter Jenkins
Hoover began by reporting that "There is nothing further on the Oswald case excerpt that he is dead." At the end of the call, Hoover noted the need to have "something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin," and that (Assistant Attorney General) "Katzenbach thinks that the President might appoint a Presidential Commission of three outstanding citizens to make a determination."
Nov 24, time unknown - Phone call between Eugene Rostow and Bill Moyers
Within hours of Oswald's murder, Yale Law School Dean Eugene Rostow suggests a President Commission to Bill Moyers of the White House. Rostow tells Moyers he has talked to Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach three times that day, and suggests "a commission of seven or nine people, maybe Nixon."
Nov 25, 10:30AM - Phone call between President Johnson and FBI Director Hoover
On Monday morning, the day of the Kennedy funeral, Johnson tells Hoover that "apparently some lawyer in Justice is lobbying the [Washington] Post because that's where the suggestion came for this Presidential Commission which would be very bad and put it right in the White House." When asked to intervene with the Post, Hoover says "I don't have much influence with the Post because I frankly don't read it. I view it like the Daily Worker."
So, all of Katzenbach's memo-writing on the Monday is ACTUALLY coming from Walt Rostow....
Eugene Rostow was the one who effectively became Johnson's Chief of Staff in his retirement after he left office - he controlled the flow of all information and messages between the White House and the LBJ ranch, ensuring Johnson said nothing about the Pentagon Papers or Watergate, liaising with Kissinger's people and making sure Johnson said absolutely nothing in support of Nixon's actions to silence Ellsberg and plug other (entirely legitimate) national security leaks about the war.
Walt Rostow was the one who went to Vietnam in 1961 and recommended (strongly) that Kennedy send in combat troops into the Delta under the pretence of conducting flood relief.
The one statement that Chomsky ever made that I totally agree with was when he said "Vietnam was a war entirely conceived by liberals", and Rostow was one of the chief architects of both Vietnam and the Korean War, via his junior position in the State Dept.
He BADLY wanted the war, and was a leading advocate of limited, regional/semi-proxy wars against the Communist world in Asia, as a constant challenge to the Soviet system.
From the NeoCon Miller Center (they hate Nixon more than Kennedy):
The Right Man
By lunchtime that day, Nixon had the name of the man who actually did give a copy of the Pentagon Papers to the Times—Daniel Ellsberg. It came from none other than Johnson’s former national security adviser, Walt W. Rostow.28 Haig had checked his suspicions with Rostow. “He said he doesn’t think it’s Gelb,” Haig told Nixon. “It may be, he says he doesn’t think so. And he doesn’t think it’s Halperin.” Nixon was unconvinced. “Gelb was in on it, wasn’t he? Wasn’t he in charge?”
Gelb ran the Pentagon Papers study and was strongly against the war, Haig said, but Rostow had “said whoever did this could not be a good Democrat. He said he would have to be a radicalized individual.”29 Only someone who was willing to lose his security clearance forever, to never work in government on foreign policy again, would engineer the largest leak in U.S. history. Halperin and Gelb were both advising Democratic presidential candidates, would both serve in future Democratic administrations.
Ellsberg was a former Marine. He’d gone to Vietnam himself, looking for ways to win the war. He didn’t find them. When he came back, he worked on the Pentagon Papers study, trying to figure out how things had gone wrong. He got permission from Halperin and Gelb to read the entire study and became convinced that getting it out to the public was essential. There’s no evidence he informed either man about his plans to leak the study, and it would have been stupid for him to tell them, since they’d have a strong incentive to turn him in just to protect themselves.
Rostow had told Nixon all he needed to know. If Nixon had listened, he might have saved his presidency. But this President was a conspiracy theorist."
28 Haig’s conversations with Nixon on June 13 and June 14 contradict an earlier published account, in which Haig purportedly learned of Ellsberg’s involvement by June 12, the day before the Times started publishing, and in turn informed Rostow. See Harrison E. Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980) p. 210. (↑)
29 Conversation 519–7, 14 June 1971, 12:26 pm - 1:09 pm, Oval Office. (↑)
30 Conversation 521-13, 15 June 1971, 5:13 pm - 6:03 pm, Oval Office. Oddly, Nixon had earlier this day told Haldeman that it was Kissinger who believed there was a conspiracy. See conversation 520–3, 15 June 1971, 9:56 am - 10:37 am, Oval Office. Since the tapes contain many unclear passages, I can’t rule out the possibility that Kissinger was the first to use the word “conspiracy” in connection with the Pentagon Papers, but the first recorded use of it is Nixon’s. (↑)
31 Conversation 524-27, 17 June 1971, 2:42 pm - 3:33 pm, Oval Office. Following the 1999 release of the Nixon tapes from February-July 1971, the New York Times ran an article on Nixon’s anti-Semitism quoting from this conversation and others. The article didn’t mention, however, Nixon’s characterization of Jews in the State and Defense Departments as “security situations,” or his reference to clearing Jews out of the NSC.New York Times, 7 October 1999, “In 1971 Tapes, Nixon Is Heard Blaming Jews for Communist Plots.” (↑)
36 See “How Paranoid Was Nixon?” by Kenneth J. Hughes, Jr., on the History News Network website.
To summarize: Jews, intellectuals, and Ivy Leaguers were three constituent groups of the New Deal, which began when Nixon was 20 and didn’t end until he was 32. Nixon was a young Republican during the most Democratic period in American history, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and Franklin D. Roosevelt won four presidential landslides in a row.
In Washington, there was a changing of the guard, and historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., recorded the Republican bureaucracy’s displeasure with the newcomers:
“There were too many Ivy League men, too many intellectuals, too many radicals, too many Jews.”
The Hiss case provided Republicans with the perfect villains, a handful of Jewish, intellectual or Ivy League New Dealers who were Communist spies. The case fueled Nixon’s rise to the apex of politics, but the lessons he learned from it precipitated his downfall. (↑)
Notice how NeoCons cite Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Who is hardly objective) to attack Nixon and call him paranoid.
Nixon wasn't paranoid.
There WAS a conspiracy, and these people WERE determined to destroy him and everything he stood for and had accomplished.
He was just looking in the wrong places.
Kay Griggs
| Eugene Victor Debs Rostow |
According to Kay Griggs: communist; part of Mob (probably says so because he's Jewish)
Involved with American Security Council.
Another rare neocon eastern establishment person, like Paul Nitze, James Woolsey, etc.
Born in 1913. Son of Victor A. and Lillian (Helman) R.; m. Edna Berman Greenberg; children: Victor A. D., Jessica, Charles Nicholas.
AB, Yale University, 1933.
LLB, Yale University, 1937.
AM, Yale University, 1944. Postgrad., King's College.
Postgrad., Cambridge University, England, 1934.
MA, Cambridge University, England, 1959.
Practice in New York City, 1937-38.
Member faculty Law School Yale, 1938–, professor law, 1944-84, professor emeritus, senior research scholar, from 1984, dean, 1955-65, Sterling professor law and pub. affairs, 1964-84.
Master Trumbull College, 1966.
Distinguished visiting research professor law and diplomacy National Defense University, 1984-90, 92—;
under-sec. state for political affairs, 1966-69;
president Atlantic Treaty Association, 1973-76;
visiting professor University Chicago, 1941;
Pitt professor Am. history and institutions, professorial fellow King's College, Cambridge University, 1959-60;
William W. Cook lecturer Michigan University, 1958;
John R. Coen lecturer University Colorado, 1961;
Leary lecturer University Utah, 1965;
Brandeis lecturer Brandeis University, 1965;
Rosenthal lecturer Northwestern University, 1965;
George Eastman visiting professor, fellow Balliol College, Oxford (England) University, 1970-71;
Adviser Department State, 1942-44;
assistant executive secretary Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 1949-50;
member Judicial Council of Connecticut, 1955-66,
Attorney Gen.'s National Committee Study Antitrust Laws, 1954-55.
Chairman executive committee of the Committee on the Present Danger, 1976-81, 86-92.
Director Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1981-83.
Fellow Am. Academy Arts and Scis.; member Am. Law Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, Elizabethan Yale Club, Century Association New York City Club, Cosmos Club Washington.
Democrat.
Jewish.
Died in 2002.
2003, Edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, Probe magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK , and Malcolm X:
"It appears that the idea of a Presidential commission to report on the assassination of President Kennedy was first suggested by Eugene Rostow, Dean of the Yale Law School, in a telephone call to LBJ aide Bill Moyers during the afternoon of November 24th.
Although the time of this call is missing from the White House daily diary, it is possible to identify the period during which the call was made. Rostow refers to the killing of Oswald, so the call had to be after 2:07 p.m. EST, the time Oswald was pronounced dead.
The call appears in the White House daily diary prior to a conversation at 4:40 p.m. between President Johnson and Governor Pat Brown of California.
Rostow tells Moyers that he is calling to make a suggestion that a "Presidential commission be appointed of very distinguished citizens in the very near future." ...
Eugene Rostow is either the originator of the idea, the first active promoter, or both. We don't know the identity of the individual or individuals with whom he was discussing this on the afternoon of the 24th. ...
In 1971 Lyndon Johnson himself provided important parts of the truth.
His statement was closer to an accurate account than what was provided by the HSCA six years later.
The Committee totally ignored LBJ's account and, as far as the author is aware, so did everyone else for over 20 years.
In his book The Vantage Point, Johnson said that Eugene Rostow called the White House on November 24th and suggested a commission, and that Joe Alsop and Dean Rusk also recommended a commission. This account, although brief and incomplete, was closer to the truth than anything said about this between 1963 and 1993.
Perhaps it is a tribute to LBJ's lack of credibility that no one paid any attention to this for over 20 years (including the author).
The commission idea comes from Rostow, Alsop, and Acheson.
It has immediate support from individuals at the Washington Post (James Wiggins) and the New York Times (James Reston).
The idea is then supported by Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. "
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| Nicholas "Nick" Rostow |
According to Kay Griggs: Friend of George;
runs the Boston harbor mob with William Weld;
Rostows are major bad guys;
did all this "drug business" in Mexico for years with [William] Weld.
Born in 1950. Son of Eugene Debs Rostow (1913-2002).
Full name is Charles Nicholas Rostow.
BA from Yale in 1972. Ph.D. in History from Yale in 1979.
JD from Yale in 1982.
Went to the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris at some point.
Associated with Shearman & Sterling, New York, 1982-1985.
Member of the CFR since 1987.
Aide to Abraham D. Sofaer, the State Department's legal advisor, from 1985 to 1987.
Sofaer, who was supported by such individuals as Douglas Feith and Daniel P. Moynihan, reinterpreted the SALT treaties for the Reagan administration to find ways to legitimize Star Wars and related programs.
Sofaer, a Jew and Zionist himself, also became controversial for his legal rationales for the 1986 Libya bombing and for keeping open the PLO's Washington offices.
Deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council March - December 1987.
April 1, 1987, New York Times:
"Nicholas Rostow, who as the Tower commission's keeper of the detailed chronology of the Iran arms sales should be well familiar with the foibles of the National Security Council..."
Married Ariana van der Heyden White in November 1987.
Legal adviser to the National Security Council December 1987 - January 1993.
Special Assistant to presidents Reagan and Bush for National Security Affairs December 1987 - January 1993.
In April 1991, the White House established a vetting process directed by Rostow. Under his direction, administration lawyers refused to provide Congress with certain documents. In their place, Rostow offered oral briefings on the contents of the documents.
Executive-branch departments were advised by the White House that "alternatives to providing documents should be explored."
August 9, 1992, New York Times:
"Democratic lawmakers are also investigating whether Administration officials purposely misled Congress about Iraq policy, either in public testimony, correspondence or conversations, or by withholding documents. One line of inquiry involves the Commodity Credit Corporation program through which Iraq made grain purchases.
In the fall of 1989 the Bush Administration was locked in a heated debate about whether to go forward with $1 billion in new credits for Iraq. State Department officials argued that the credits were crucial to improving relations with Baghdad...
Democratic lawmakers charge that the Administration conspired to mislead Congress by withholding crucial documents. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who has taken the lead in the investigations, has said there was a cover-up formulated in meetings held at the White House by lawyers from various Government agencies to coordinate answers to Congressional demands for documents.
He has dubbed the group the "Rostow gang" because its chairman was C. Nicholas Rostow... White House officials call the charge absurd, saying that such coordination is routine.
But a senior State Department official said that Mr. Baker was indeed upset to learn that Mr. Rostow was trying to control the flow of documents."
July 7, 1992, House of Representatives, Henry B. Gonzalez (Hispanic Congressional representative from Texas):
"Mr. Speaker, today I will provide an update on the Rostow gang which will reveal that President Bush, his legal adviser, Boyden Gray, and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, were all directly involved in the efforts to thwart the congressional investigation of the Iraq policy. I will also detail some of the more prominent examples of why the President is continuing to thwart the Banking Committee's inquiry of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro...
the National Security Council and the State Department received a detailed secret CIA report on BNL indicating that BNL loans were used to fund Iraq's clandestine missile and nuclear weapons procurement program...
In April 1991, the National Security Council's legal adviser, Mr. Rostow, called a high-level, interagency meeting to discuss congressional investigations of Iraq policy prior to the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The meeting was chaired by Nick Rostow...
Mr. Rostow's previous experience includes playing a key role in the White House efforts to cover up the Iran-Contra scandal and to obstruct a 1988 GAO investigation of then-Vice President Bush's ties to Panamanian leader and drug lord, one Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Also at the meeting were President Bush's General Counsel, Boyden Gray, and the top lawyers for the Departments of Justice, Defense, State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, and the CIA.
Each of the agencies had received requests for information from the Congress, and these lawyers were responsible for overseeing the collection and submission of the information. That is where I referred to this high-level legal team as the `Rostow gang.'
The Rostow gang established a process whereby a congressional investigation had to hurdle a series of increasingly difficult barriers in order to obtain information from an executive branch agency.
Ostensibly the function of the group was to review documents and information applicable to congressional requests for Iraq-related information and to establish a coordinated approach for the dissemination of this information."
Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law 1993-1995.
Executive director of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (Boston) 1995- 1999.
Panel member of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China, better known as the Cox Committee, which existed from June to December 1998 and investigated the role China's illegal acquisition of dual-use technology from the United States.
Among the other investigators with long experiences with national security was Lewis "Scooter" Libby
(RAND; Northrop Grunman; Defense Policy Board under Perle; co-founder of PNAC; chief of staff to vice president Dick Cheney; indicted in October 2005 in the Valerie Plame affair; in his 1996 novel 'The Apprentice' the following text appears:
"At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.").
Rostow agreed with the conclusions of chairman Christopher Cox that China had targeted major defense corporations and military installations in their spying endeavours.
Staff director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1999-2000. Held the Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in 2001.
General counsel and senior policy adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations October 2001 - October 2005.
In these capacities, he was an integral member of the Mission's senior management and representation on the Security Council and in the General Assembly. Rostow's activities included, among other things, representation of the United States on the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee, responsibility for matters involving international criminal tribunals, and participation in the negotiation of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions regarding the Middle East, including Iraq, terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, African conflicts, including Sudan, Congo, Liberia, and Burundi.
University counsel and vice chancellor for legal affairs of the State University of New York (SUNY) since November 2005.
University Fellow at the Levin Institute of International Relations and Commerce of SUNY and senior counsel of SUNY's Research Foundation since November 2005.
Since January 2006, director of Toreador Resource Corporation, an oil and gas company with interests in the Gulf of Mexico, Europe and Turkey.
Religion: Jewish.
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| Walt Whitman Rostow |
According to Kay Griggs: communist;
his report (with General Taylor) got us into the Vietnam War because he wanted to sell weapons, just as Kissinger;
Victor Krulak was Rostow's lackey
Born in 1916 in a Jewish family.
Like Eugene, his brother, a son of Victor Aaron and Lillian (Helman) Rostow.
BA, Yale University, 1936.
Rhodes scholar Balliol College, 1936-38.
PhD, Yale University, 1940. Instructor in Economics, Columbia University, 1940-41.
Major in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Army of the United States, 1942-45.
Assistant chief German-Austrian economic division of the Department State, 1945-46.
Harmsworth professor American history Oxford (England) University, 1946-47.
Assistant to executive secretary Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-49.
Pitt. professor American history Cambridge (England) University, 1949-50.
Professor economic history Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1950-60.
Staff member Center International Studies, 1951-60.
Deputy special assistant to President for national security affairs National Security Council, 1961.
Special assistant to President for national security affairs, 1966-69.
Counselor, chairman policy planning council US Department State, 1961-66. U.S. rep., ambassador Inter-American Committee Alliance for Progress, 1964-66.
Rex G. Baker Junior professor political economy, departments econs. and history University Texas, Austin, professor emeritus.
Member Board Foreign Scholarships, 1969-72, Austin Project, 1982—.
Hon. Order of the British Empire.
Member Am. Academy Arts and Scis., Am. Philosophical Society, Massachusetts Hist. Society, Texas Philosophical Society, Cosmos Club, Elizabethan Club.
Clubs: Cosmos (Washington); Elizabethan (New Haven).
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Member of the Georgetown Set (also called Wisner Gang), which consisted of a group of influential people living in Washington.
At first the key members of the group were former members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
These included Frank Wisner, Philip Graham, David Bruce, Tom Braden, Stewart Alsop and Walt Rostow. Over the next few years others like George Kennan, Dean Acheson, Richard Bissell, Joseph Alsop, Eugene Rostow, Chip Bohlen, Desmond FitzGerald, Tracy Barnes, Cord Meyer, James Angleton, William Averill Harriman, John McCloy, Felix Frankfurter, John Sherman Cooper, James Reston, Allen W. Dulles and Paul Nitze joined their regular parties.
Some like Bruce, Braden, Bohlen, McCloy, Meyer and Harriman spent a lot of their time working in other countries.
However, they would always attend these parties when in Georgetown. The vast majority were members of the Democratic Party but John Sherman Cooper and Desmond FitzGerald were both left-wing Republicans.
As Sally Reston pointed out:
"We were liberal anti-Communist, intellectuals, precisely the class and breed that Joe McCarthy hated and whose careers he wanted to ruin. It was the same old battle: the Republican right versus the Democratic left."
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| William Weld |
According to Kay Griggs: runs the Boston harbor mob with Nicholas Rostow; did all this "drug business" in Mexico for years with Walt Rostow (Friend of George)
Born in 1945. AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1966. Diploma with distinction, Oxford University, England, 1967. JD cum laude, Harvard University, 1970. Law clerk to Hon. R.A. Cutter, Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts, 1970-71. Partner Hill & Barlow, Boston, 1971-81. Married Susan Roosevelt Weld in 1976 (until 2002), formerly a professor at Harvard University specialising in ancient Chinese civilization and law, and then General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, who is a great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt. Associate minority counsel US House of Reps. Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry, Washington, 1973-74. Republican nominee for attorney general, Massachusetts, 1978. US attorney (District Massachusetts) US Department Justice, Boston, 1981-86, assistant attorney general, criminal division Washington, 1986-88. Senior partner Hale & Dorr, Boston, Washington, 1988-90. Governor Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1991—1997. Weld resigned the governorship after being appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico by President Bill Clinton. He was never confirmed by the United States Senate, however, and hence never served as Ambassador. Republican nominee for US Senate, Massachusetts, 1996. Partner McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, New York City and Boston, 1997—. Actor: (films) Traffic, 2000 (about a Mexican drug cartel; a number of other Senators play in this movie). Principal Leeds Weld & Co., New York City, 2001—2006 (describes itself as the United States's largest private equity fund focused on investing in the education and training industry. Its board of advisors is chaired by Rudolph W. Giuliani). During the reelection campaign of President George W. Bush (in 2004), who was running against Weld's old foe John Kerry, Weld helped Bush to prepare for the debates. Weld publicly endorsed Mitt Romney for the presidency on January 8, 2007. Weld currently serves as the co-chairman for Romney's campaign in New York State. 1996, Robert Parry for The Consortium, 'The Kerry-Weld Cocaine War':
"WASHINGTON -- The sudden uproar over a decade-old story -- cocaine smuggling linked to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels -- could reverberate with special intensity in Massachusetts, where the controversy has the potential for affecting the outcome of a close Senate race. That race pits John Kerry, the Democratic senator who led the investigation into contra drugs, against Republican William Weld, the chief of the Justice Department's criminal division when the contra-drug allegations were emerging as a national issue and when the Iran-contra scandal broke in the fall of 1986. In new testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Oct. 23, one of Kerry's former investigators, Jack Blum, fingered Weld as the "absolute stonewall" who blocked the Senate's access to vital evidence linking the contras and cocaine. "Weld put a very serious block on any effort we made to get information," Blum told a crowded hearing room. "There were stalls. There were refusals to talk to us, refusals to turn over data." Weld has denied those charges and insisted that he conscientiously pursued the allegations... An investigation by The Consortium has uncovered new evidence that buttresses Blum's charge that Weld stonewalled the contra-cocaine allegations... According to other internal Justice Department documents, Weld continued to just say no when it came to Senate requests for advancing the contra-cocaine inquiries. Later in November 1986, Weld personally edited a letter to Kerry denying federal protection to Wanda Palacio, the woman who claimed to have witnessed Medellin cartel cocaine shipments connected to the CIA and the contras. But by rejecting Palacio as not credible, Weld had blocked her attempts to become a federal witness. Into 1987, Weld and his criminal division continued the pattern of failing to follow leads from other potentially valuable CIA-cocaine witnesses, such as George Morales who alleged before the U.S. Senate that the Colombian cartel had given a ton of cocaine which the contras smuggled into the United States through Costa Rica... Weld's friendships with key Washington journalists also helped him fend off contra-cocaine damage to his reputation in the late 1980s. Not only was Weld pals with prominent Boston Globe writers, he had a close personal relationship with Newsweek bureau chief Evan Thomas and other influential members of the press corps from the Harvard alumni set. That story of a pro-Weld press remains pretty much the same today. The Globe hits Kerry for alleged decade-old ethical lapses after his marriage break-up, while Weld escapes any serious scrutiny over whether he shirked his public duty to enforce criminal drug smuggling laws for political reasons. Weld also has been one of the chief beneficiaries from the big-media attacks on the Mercury News contra-crack series. Over the past two weeks, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times joined The Washington Post in bashing that series, while continuing to accept the CIA's word about little or no contra drug trafficking."
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