Posted on 02/09/2012 5:29:55 PM PST by maggief
Steve Jobs, being considered in 1991 for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush, underwent a thorough background investigation by the FBI, according to newly released files from the agency.
The FBI amassed a lengthy and often unflattering file on Apple’s co-founder, with more than 30 interviews of friends, neighbors, family, former business associates and Jobs, that revealed his early drug use and concerns that the then-head of NeXT was neglecting his daughter born out of wedlock with his high school girlfriend.
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Nice guys finish last.
Uh, why is this becoming public?
so... in other words he was a leftist?
Gawd, I'd love to see what they say about me!
I can only hope that President Gingrich won’t get the ideer to appoint me.
Exactly why is the FBI compiling files on citizens? If this was not part of a criminal investigation - it should not exist.
Why can’t the press just let lie in peace?
Just as Apple is being attacked for child slavery in its Chinese manufacturing plants, a convenient leak of an FBI file? Will wonders never cease? I quests we should all throw out our Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods. Buy the Microsoft pad, etc and be patriotic Americans. No manipulation here.
We now live in a police state. There are files on citizens but we know nothing about terrorists and invaders.
Payback for dissing Barry. Jobs publicly called him a one-term president.
Good thing they don't require FBI background checks on people running for political office.
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By BYRON TAU |
1/21/12 2:38 PM EST
The New York Times reports on a terse exchange that President Obama had with the late Steve Jobs last February over why Apple couldn’t produce its products in America:
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.
Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.
Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.
Describes Obama to a T.
“He will distort reality to meet his goals.”
They said the same thing about Zefram Cochrane too.
Steve Jobs told President Obama that he was “headed for a one-term presidency” if he did not adopt more business friendly policies, according to a biography of the legendary Apple CEO to be released Monday. He even offered his assistance to avoid that outcome.
Jobs met the president in in the fall of 2010 and later offered to help make political advertisements for his re-election campaign. The book, based on interviews with Jobs, says the Apple CEO hoped the ads would do for Mr. Obama what the famous “morning in America” ads did for Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide re-election victory over Walter Mondale.
“I think political advertising is terrible. I’d love to get Lee Clow out of retirement, and we can come up with great commercial for him,” Jobs told Walter Isaacson, author the forthcoming biography “Steve Jobs.” Clow is the ad executive partially responsible for Apple’s famous 1984 advertisement launching the Macintosh.
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bump
Make enough laws, then everybody will eventually become a “criminal” in need of criminal investigation.
“Jobs met the president in in the fall of 2010 and later offered to help make political advertisements for his re-election campaign. The book, based on interviews with Jobs, says the Apple CEO hoped the ads would do for Mr. Obama what the famous “morning in America” ads did for Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide re-election victory over Walter Mondale.”
Never owned an Apple product and I’m glad I didn’t!
Because Bush 41 was considering him for an appointment at the time. I can see doing a background check in that case.
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