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The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind - Hidden Secrets of Money
Self ^ | 3 23 2018 | Dick Bachert

Posted on 03/23/2018 2:02:14 PM PDT by Dick Bachert

WOW! How to start? Let me try this:

I once heard a presentation by a man who'd spent 20 years in the visual media business. I was shocked to learn that his experience with the Generation Xers and Millennials is as follows: * Most of them DO NOT READ BOOKS but get their information from their electronic devices (smart phones, tablets, computers). * If something they “click” on doesn't grab their attention in the first 8 seconds, THEY'RE GONE! * Even if they're “hooked” in those first 8 seconds, most of them will TUNE OUT if it runs much over 2 minutes.

THAT EXPLAINS A LOT DOESN'T IT?

Years ago there was a TV program called “The Short Attention Span Theater”. Looks like we're there!

Most of the folks to whom I send this "stuff" are older and have more deeply developed critical thinking and logic skills.

If the information in the 30 minute video by one very smart Irishman, Mike Maloney, is new to you, it will shock and anger you. I've been watching these arch criminals for decades and it STILL makes my blood boil that others don't join the effort to halt this SCAM.

Yes, it will be difficult. But so was the effort to create what was envisioned by the Founders and the farmers and tradesmen who gave their lives to create America, the IDEA that was supposed to be an uplifted middle finger to the European royals and tyrants we THOUGHT we paid in BLOOD to leave behind!

As Mike points out in the video, the sad truth is that in the early 1900's they made their way HERE!

Speaking of the Founders, what at least one of them had to say on the subject of this video bears repeating:

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from a want of honor or virtue so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation" (John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1787)

"I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else, a legal tender." (Thomas Jefferson)

Please watch the video and share it. The ONLY way we'll EVER free ourselves and our kids from this bondage is for millions of us to UNDERSTAND what's going on in this SCAM! And it will take many more than one in a million (327 of us) to get that done.

Let me close with a developing situation that SHOULD concern the millions of SECOND AMENDMENT folks out there. You may have heard that the megabanks are now beginning to purge from their list of businesses those involved in the production and sale of FIREARMS. Am I paranoid to think that perhaps they are now alarmed about those of us who are beginning to understand the nature of and parties running this scam and are concerned for THEIR safety as they begin to close the gate on the financial corral in which nearly all of us now find ourselves? Think about THAT long enough and you, too may become paranoid. PS: If you're short on time, scroll out to around 18:24 for Mike's condensed version of the scam.

THE BIGGEST SCAM IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: belongsinchat; dropthepipedick; fed; notnews; rothchild; youaredrunkdick; youryoutubesucks
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To: Dick Bachert
Water runs downhill from the middle of the country. Here's a good water quality map.





[Red = President's highest percentage of the vote by county in 2016.]


21 posted on 03/23/2018 4:06:11 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Dick Bachert

One should note that the bipartisan political/regulator class on the central and southern Rockies tends to consume water that runs down from ski resort areas.


22 posted on 03/23/2018 4:10:50 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Are you serious? Sentence structure context: presidents, printing own money to bypass bankers, murdered.

In case you haven’t realized it, the Feds are the bankers.


23 posted on 03/23/2018 4:14:58 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg
Are you serious?

Are you?

presidents, printing own money to bypass bankers, murdered.

Lincoln printed money for years and years. What took them so long? The Founders also printed their own money.

In case you haven’t realized it, the Feds are the bankers.

JFK allowed the Fed to print $1 and $2 FRNs, why would they kill him after he gave them more power?

Your claim makes no sense.

24 posted on 03/23/2018 5:17:28 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Dick Bachert
20:12 Steal a portion of everyone's deposit and lend it out.

You really think banks steal your deposit when they lend it out? LOL!

25 posted on 03/23/2018 5:33:26 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Okay, you are very serious but ignorant.

Congress controls the printing of money as per the Constitution. (Congress handed that off to the Fed, a private banking institution, comprised of American and foreign banks.)

The bankers started trying to control the money supply early on. Jackson stopped them when he was president.

However, Lincoln printed green backs to finance the Civil War, which was money based on the faith and credit of the United States government. He did not want to pay the high interest the bankers wanted to charge if he borrowed the money. Bankers did not like that; they reasoned — what if all the governments start doing that? Otto von Bismarck was supposed to have said that the bankers killed Lincoln over that.

JFK said the Fed was treasonous (which it is) and began printing dollars in the same fashion as Lincoln. He started off kind of small and had every intention of ramping it up. The Fed did not like that and quickly removed those bills after the assassination.

You can find pictures of those bills on the internet.

The Reagan administration, early on, was discussing getting rid of the Fed entirely. The Fed is, of course, completely unconstitutional and crooked.


26 posted on 03/23/2018 5:48:28 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg
(Congress handed that off to the Fed, a private banking institution, comprised of American and foreign banks.)

The Fed is part of the US government.

Bankers did not like that; they reasoned — what if all the governments start doing that?

Just....wow!

JFK said the Fed was treasonous (which it is) and began printing dollars in the same fashion as Lincoln.

JFK allowed the Fed to print $1 and $2 FRNs, for the first time. JFK was ending $1 and $2 silver certificates.

Just for fun, when did he say the Fed was treasonous? Why? Link?

The Reagan administration, early on, was discussing getting rid of the Fed entirely.

Is your weed medicinal or recreational?

In either case, maybe you should cut back?

27 posted on 03/23/2018 7:04:32 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

“The Fed is part of the US government.”

For crying out loud. I was only joking about you being ignorant, but you really are. They chose the name Federal Reserve to make people like you think it was part of the government.

Do you think Federal Express is part of the government?

Where is the link? Look it up yourself.


28 posted on 03/23/2018 8:09:53 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg
you think Federal Express is part of the government?

Why, do you think the US government created Federal Express?

Where is the link? Look it up yourself.

I Googled, "odawg JFK fed fantasy", no luck.

29 posted on 03/23/2018 8:28:50 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; odawg
The Fed is part of the US government.

Uh, no, it is not. The Federal Reserve Banks are privately owned by thirteen families. Sorry. You are just wrong. There is quasi-governmental control over the DISCOUNT RATES the Federal Reserve Banks can charge for lending the money they create (the paper money) from the government BACK to the government and to other banks, but that is the limit of the government's involvement. However, most of the ones they lend both to the Federal Government and to the other banks is created out of nothing. It is merely entries in electronic ledgers.

Each of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks is organized into a corporation whose shares are sold to the commercial banks and thrifts operating within the Bank's district. Shareholders elect six of the nine the board of directors for their regional Federal Reserve Bank as well as its president. Mullins reported that the top eight stockholders of the New York Fed were, in order from largest to smallest as of 1983, Citibank, Chase Manhatten, Morgan Guaranty Trust, Chemical Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Bankers Trust Company, National Bank of North America, and the Bank of New York (Mullins, p. 179). Together, these banks owned about 63 percent of the New York Fed's outstanding stock. Mullins then showed that many of these banks are owned by about a dozen European banking organizations, mostly British, and most notably the Rothschild banking dynasty. Through their American agents they are able to select the board of directors for the New York Fed and to direct U.S. monetary policy. Mullins explained,
'... The most powerful men in the United States were themselves answerable to another power, a foreign power, and a power which had been steadfastly seeking to extend its control over the young republic since its very inception. The power was the financial power of England, centered in the London Branch of the House of Rothschild. The fact was that in 1910, the United States was for all practical purposes being ruled from England, and so it is today' (Mullins, p. 47-48).

The Rothschild family holds majority interest along with twelve other families in the following Nation's Central banks:

Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan
Albania: Bank of Albania
Algeria: Bank of Algeria
Argentina: Central Bank of Argentina
Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia
Aruba: Central Bank of Aruba
Australia: Reserve Bank of Australia
Austria: Austrian National Bank
Azerbaijan: Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic
Bahamas: Central Bank of The Bahamas
Bahrain: Central Bank of Bahrain
Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bank
Barbados: Central Bank of Barbados
Belarus: National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Belgium: National Bank of Belgium
Belize: Central Bank of Belize
Benin: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Bermuda: Bermuda Monetary Authority
Bhutan: Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan
Bolivia: Central Bank of Bolivia
Bosnia: Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana: Bank of Botswana
Brazil: Central Bank of Brazil
Bulgaria: Bulgarian National Bank
Burkina Faso: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Burundi: Bank of the Republic of Burundi
Cambodia: National Bank of Cambodia
Came Roon: Bank of Central African States
Canada: Bank of Canada – Banque du Canada
Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
Central African Republic: Bank of Central African States
Chad: Bank of Central African States
Chile: Central Bank of Chile
China: The People’s Bank of China
Colombia: Bank of the Republic
Comoros: Central Bank of Comoros
Congo: Bank of Central African States
Costa Rica: Central Bank of Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Croatia: Croatian National Bank
Cuba: Central Bank of Cuba
Cyprus: Central Bank of Cyprus
Czech Republic: Czech National Bank
Denmark: National Bank of Denmark
Dominican Republic: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
East Caribbean area: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
Ecuador: Central Bank of Ecuador
Egypt: Central Bank of Egypt
El Salvador: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea: Bank of Central African States
Estonia: Bank of Estonia
Ethiopia: National Bank of Ethiopia
European Union: European Central Bank
Fiji: Reserve Bank of Fiji
Finland: Bank of Finland
France: Bank of France
Gabon: Bank of Central African States
The Gambia: Central Bank of The Gambia
Georgia: National Bank of Georgia
Germany: Deutsche Bundesbank
Ghana: Bank of Ghana
Greece: Bank of Greece
Guatemala: Bank of Guatemala
Guinea Bissau: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Guyana: Bank of Guyana
Haiti: Central Bank of Haiti
Honduras: Central Bank of Honduras
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Hungary: Magyar Nemzeti Bank
Iceland: Central Bank of Iceland
India: Reserve Bank of India
Indonesia: Bank Indonesia
Iran: The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iraq: Central Bank of Iraq
Ireland: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland
Israel: Bank of Israel
Italy: Bank of Italy
Jamaica: Bank of Jamaica
Japan: Bank of Japan
Jordan: Central Bank of Jordan
Kazakhstan: National Bank of Kazakhstan
Kenya: Central Bank of Kenya
Korea: Bank of Korea
Kuwait: Central Bank of Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan: National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
Latvia: Bank of Latvia
Lebanon: Central Bank of Lebanon
Lesotho: Central Bank of Lesotho
Libya: Central Bank of Libya (Their most recent conquest)
Uruguay: Central Bank of Uruguay
Lithuania: Bank of Lithuania
Luxembourg: Central Bank of Luxembourg
Macao: Monetary Authority of Macao
Macedonia: National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia
Madagascar: Central Bank of Madagascar
Malawi: Reserve Bank of Malawi
Malaysia: Central Bank of Malaysia
Mali: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Malta: Central Bank of Malta
Mauritius: Bank of Mauritius
Mexico: Bank of Mexico
Moldova: National Bank of Moldova
Mongolia: Bank of Mongolia
Montenegro: Central Bank of Montenegro
Morocco: Bank of Morocco
Mozambique: Bank of Mozambique
Namibia: Bank of Namibia
Nepal: Central Bank of Nepal
Netherlands: Netherlands Bank
Netherlands Antilles: Bank of the Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Nicaragua: Central Bank of Nicaragua
Niger: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Nigeria: Central Bank of Nigeria
Norway: Central Bank of Norway
Oman: Central Bank of Oman
Pakistan: State Bank of Pakistan
Papua New Guinea: Bank of Papua New Guinea
Paraguay: Central Bank of Paraguay
Peru: Central Reserve Bank of Peru
Philip Pines: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Poland: National Bank of Poland
Portugal: Bank of Portugal
Qatar: Qatar Central Bank
Romania: National Bank of Romania
Russia: Central Bank of Russia
Rwanda: National Bank of Rwanda
San Marino: Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino
Samoa: Central Bank of Samoa
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Senegal: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Serbia: National Bank of Serbia
Seychelles: Central Bank of Seychelles
Sierra Leone: Bank of Sierra Leone
Singapore: Monetary Authority of Singapore
Slovakia: National Bank of Slovakia
Slovenia: Bank of Slovenia
Solomon Islands: Central Bank of Solomon Islands
South Africa: South African Reserve Bank
Spain: Bank of Spain
Sri Lanka: Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Sudan: Bank of Sudan
Surinam: Central Bank of Suriname
Swaziland: The Central Bank of Swaziland
Sweden: Sveriges Riksbank
Switzerland: Swiss National Bank
Tajikistan: National Bank of Tajikistan
Tanzania: Bank of Tanzania
Thailand: Bank of Thailand
Togo: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Tonga: National Reserve Bank of Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia: Central Bank of Tunisia
Turkey: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Uganda: Bank of Uganda
Ukraine: National Bank of Ukraine
United Arab Emirates: Central Bank of United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom: Bank of England
United States: Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Vanuatu: Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Venezuela: Central Bank of Venezuela
Vietnam: The State Bank of Vietnam
Yemen: Central Bank of Yemen
Zambia: Bank of Zambia
Zimbabwe: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

United States of America: The FED and the IRS

FACT: US Federal Reserve is a privately-owned company, sitting on its very own patch of land, immune to the US laws.


30 posted on 03/24/2018 1:20:58 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; odawg
Why, do you think the US government created Federal Express?

Oh. My. GAWD!

Federal Express is a world wide company with trucks and planes that delivers packages and shipments.

The Federal Reserve Banks and System and its member banks is a system for creating money out of thin air and then lending it into existence, created by a non-quorum Congress made up mostly of Democrats (who decided NOT to make a quorum call to avoid notifying the Congressmen opposed to the measure) late in the night on December 23, 1913. It was signed into law as soon as it was passed by President Woodrow Wilson.

Made up entirely of privately owned banks, with publicly traded stock, the FED, is controlled by a nine member Board of Governors, SIX of which are selected by the member banks, and only THREE are selected by the President of the United States. Monetary policy of the US is set not by the government of the US, but by unelected BANKERS for their profit purposes. THEY create the money.

All currency in circulation is a NOTE, a loan, from the Federal Reserve Bank. . . made at a discount from the FED. As such a "discounted loan," it can NEVER BE COMPLETELY PAID BACK, because it was loaned into existence at a discount, as there can never be enough money in circulation to retire the loan at face value! Why? Because any money to pay back previously loaned money, ALSO has to be borrowed at a discount. It's Zeno's paradox writ large: the faster you chase the payoff, the more behind you will be.

31 posted on 03/24/2018 1:34:45 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; odawg
"20:12 Steal a portion of everyone's deposit and lend it out.
You really think banks steal your deposit when they lend it out? LOL!

It's actually worse than that. The word "Reserve" in the Federal Reserve Bank has to do with the rules their member banks have to adhere to. What it means is that your deposit is the RESERVE they must keep on hand to handle demand withdrawals. Under the RESERVE system, the bank is allowed to lend out a percentage of the money they have on hand for demand deposits. . . but it's not what you might think.

Let's say you deposit $1000. Once the bank has your $1000 on hand, they are THEN allowed, because of that $1000 in cash, the RESERVE, to lend it out Eight TIMES to borrowers in the form of electronic money. So your $1000 becomes $8,000 in loans. . . which get deposited in other banks, and then gets to be THEIR reserves, and then loaned again. . .

There is a limit, because at some point cash DOES start getting withdrawn from the banks' reserve pools. I've seen figures of about 17.5 times as the multiplier for each dollar of actual cash deposited being turned into fictitious money being turned into money earning loans by your bank and other down stream banks before they have to stop creating money to be safe before the house of cards is at risk.

Why do you think they get so pissed off if you bounce a check and charge you so much when one is not honored? It's not about the embarrassment of having to undo the paperwork. It's the impact on their RESERVE and all that money they will lose!

32 posted on 03/24/2018 1:48:30 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; odawg
JFK allowed the Fed to print $1 and $2 FRNs, why would they kill him after he gave them more power?

JFK's note were not FRN—Federal Reserve Notes. They were United States Notes. Big difference. They were loans from the future income of the US Government at a much smaller discount. . . and cut the Federal Reserve Bank out of their cut. That is what made the owners of the FED irate.

The very first Executive Order that President Johnson signed was one ordering the destruction of those United States Notes. . . and he signed it five minutes after he was sworn into office aboard Air Force One, on an order already prepared for him, typed on a typewriter with a typeface that did not exist on AF-1, but was common in his office in DC. It was prepared with the signature line "Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States." It was WAITING FOR HIM, on board since before Air Force One left Washington, while Kennedy was still alive!

33 posted on 03/24/2018 1:55:01 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

I always figured the Fed had a hand in the planning.


34 posted on 03/24/2018 5:20:20 AM PDT by odawg
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To: eyeamok

“For a lot of us this is all old stuff”

So what? Many are unaware of the threat and it needs to be repeated, DAILY, if we are to survive as a free Country.


35 posted on 03/24/2018 5:25:52 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I won’t to apologize to everyone on this thread for engaging an idiot.


36 posted on 03/24/2018 6:06:54 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Swordmaker
The Fed is part of the US government.

Uh, no, it is not.

It is.

The Federal Reserve Banks are privately owned by thirteen families.

DERP!

Federal Reserve Banks can charge for lending the money they create (the paper money) from the government BACK to the government and to other banks,

You think the Federal Government borrows paper money?

37 posted on 03/24/2018 7:44:15 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Swordmaker
created by a non-quorum Congress made up mostly of Democrats

Sounds series!

What were the final vote totals?

who decided NOT to make a quorum call to avoid notifying the Congressmen opposed to the measure) late in the night on December 23, 1913.

It was debated for months. They didn't sneak anything past anyone.

Monetary policy of the US is set not by the government of the US, but by unelected BANKERS for their profit purposes. THEY create the money.

The Fed made $80.7 billion in net profit last year. How was the profit divided up?

All currency in circulation is a NOTE, a loan, from the Federal Reserve Bank. .

I'm holding FRNs that I didn't borrow from anyone. I'm not paying interest for them. Are you?

. . made at a discount from the FED.

Please explain this claim further.

38 posted on 03/24/2018 7:53:10 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Swordmaker
Let's say you deposit $1000. Once the bank has your $1000 on hand, they are THEN allowed, because of that $1000 in cash, the RESERVE, to lend it out Eight TIMES to borrowers in the form of electronic money. So your $1000 becomes $8,000 in loans. . .

Wrong. Every loan is fully funded. If the only deposit is $1000, they can only lend $1000 less the reserve requirement, not multiples of $1000.

39 posted on 03/24/2018 7:56:04 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Swordmaker
JFK's note were not FRN—Federal Reserve Notes.

This executive order amended Executive Order 10289 (dated September 17, 1951)[1] by delegating to the Secretary of the Treasury the president's authority to issue silver certificates under the Thomas Amendment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended by the Gold Reserve Act. The order allowed the Secretary to issue silver certificates, if any were needed, during the transition period under President Kennedy's plan to eliminate Silver Certificates and use Federal Reserve Notes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11110

The very first Executive Order that President Johnson signed was one ordering the destruction of those United States Notes. .

Baloney. US Notes were issued until 1971. Strangely, no mention of them in LBJs 1963 Executive orders. Or 1964 EOs. Or 1965 EOs. Or 1966 EOs. Or 1967 EOs. Or 1968 EOs. Or 1969 EOs.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1963-johnson.html

40 posted on 03/24/2018 8:16:48 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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