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To: FairOpinion

Keep an eye on Jay Rockefeller. When he starts to go ballistic over this issue, it will be an indication that the UN is really starting to feel the heat.

The following info is from the link immediately below..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/timeline/timeline3.html

1946

The Rockefellers offer the United Nations a tract of land on their Pocantico estate as a site for its headquarters. When that plan falls through, Nelson persuades John D. Rockefeller Jr. to purchase land on New York City's East River and donate it to the United Nations.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000361

ROCKEFELLER, John Davison IV (Jay), (nephew of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, great-grandson of Nelson Aldrich, and son-in-law of Charles Harting Percy), a Senator from West Virginia; born in New York City, June 18, 1937; graduated, Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H., 1954; graduated, Harvard University 1961; VISTA volunteer, Emmons, W. Va., 1964-1966; member, West Virginia house of delegates 1966-1968; secretary of State of West Virginia 1968-1972; president, West Virginia Wesleyan College 1973-1976; Governor of West Virginia 1977-1985; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1984 and reelected in 1990, 1996 and 2002 for the term ending January 3, 2009; chair, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (One Hundred Third Congress, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003]); vice-chair, Select Committee on Intelligence (One Hundred Eighth Congress).


13 posted on 12/01/2004 8:24:49 PM PST by Dalite (If PRO is the opposite of CON, What is the opposite of PROgress? Go Figure....)
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To: Dalite

"Keep an eye on Jay Rockefeller. When he starts to go ballistic over this issue..."

Do you have any reason to believe that Jay Rockefeller cares about this issue, or would criticize the UN?


25 posted on 12/01/2004 8:52:29 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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