Posted on 12/01/2007 7:36:28 AM PST by topher
For those who do not know the History of the Federal Reserve, a group of Americans wanted a Central Bank, and one of them was John D. Rockefeller.
Now to get this Legislation through Congress, they enlisted Woodrow Wilson, saying if he would sign this Bill, they would get him elected president. They did that by getting Teddy Rooservelt to split the Conservative vote by running against incumbent President Taft -- so it was a three way race.
Now there was a problem with getting the legislation through the Senate. But Senator Nelson Aldrich, the maternal grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller, was able to do that by keeping the US Senate in session with two other senators on Christmas eve, and the three of them passed the Federal Reserve Act.
Fast forward to the 1970s. Hillary Rodham Clinton helps Nelson Rockefeller bolt forward politically in the Watergate hearings. A promise is made to make her husband, Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas (Arkansas at that time was controlled by Winthrop Rockefeller).
Nelson Rockefeller becomes Vice President to Gerald Ford, as close as any Rockefeller as gotten to the Presidency.
Fast forward to the 1990s. Realizing the Democratic Party is in trouble in Arkansas, Win Rockefeller is a Republican. The only son of Winthrop Rockefeller becomes Lt. Gov. under Mike Huckabee.
Maybe as a pro-lifer such an act should be praised. But not necessarily by one who is conservative.
One concern I have for such harden criminals -- even if their death penalty is commuted to life -- is that they might take the life of Prison Guards or even other prisoners...
He is the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., of Standard Oil fame...
Did I say that he was?
And I admit my error. In 1964, Winthrop Rockefeller ran for governor -- but was soundly defeated by the incumbent, Orval Faubus.
Rockefeller did not win election until 1966 -- but was himself defeated, as you note, by Democrat Dale Bumpers when he ran for re-election in 1970.
Neither Arkansas Rockefeller was a conservative. Doesn’t matter, they were good honest men.
The elder Rockefeller worked to establish a two-party system in a one-party dictatorship. He took a big fat axe to the Arkansas Democratic Party machine. He lost his health and ultimately his life enduring their backstabs, attacks, tricks, and whispering campaigns.
The day he left office the government of Arkansas, as bad as it is, was 1000 times better than it was the day he took office.
He modernized the government as much as he could. He cleaned up the hell pit that was the Arkansas prison system. He quietly and peacefully integrated the public schools with no trouble. He started bringing African-Americans into the state government and ignored opposition by the segregationist Democratic party.
Say what you will about the rest of the Rockefellers, but Winthrop and Win Paul were great men, great Republicans, and great Arkansans.
To claim that Winthrop Rockefeller Sr. controlled Arkansas politics in the early seventies isn’t vanity, it’s insanity.
'Gloryoski, Zero! That's Daddy Warbucks.'
If the national debt was zero, and trade deficit was zero, would anyone complain about the Federal Reserve?
The Clintons never do anything that isn’t calculated to help them. Hillary’s Socialist/Marxist theories have the potential to destroy America.
The Clintons got into the WH the first time by DIVIDING the repubs - and I’ve always believed Perot knew he was being used by the Clintons to divide the repub party.
WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN!!!
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Did Perot split the Republicans, or did the free-traitors split the Republicans?
Considering the big complaint about immigration, I seriously doubt the anarcho-capitalists are really loved by a majority of Republican voters.
Never heard of that one. Gravity’s Rainbow? I’ll check it out.
Yeah, I’m in the middle of reading “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” by Joseph Borkin for the second time. It was listed at our government archives as a reference.
bttt
Birds of a feather . . .
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Another Arkansas governor who carries the Bible for the television cameras.
The Watergate investigation was barely getting underway, and WR had been dead at least two months.
There were reports that WR and Nelson rarely spoke: that Nelson looked down on WR for moving to AR.
Huckabee was not completely a Win Paul backer either because Win Paul favored abortion. Win Paul for governor in 2006, had he lived, was in the situation of Mitt Romney trying to convince people that he was somehow also “pro-life,” when the record showed otherwise.
After Win Paul’s tragic death, the party turned to Asa Hutchinson, who was defeated soundly for a second time statewide (the first was against Bumpers in 1986). The Hutchinsons did to the AR GOP what GWB has done to us nationally. Joseph Farah wrote on Feb. 4, 2008, that GWB has “euthanized” the conservative movement.
Henry Ross Perot was not a Republican prior to 1991. He was a close advisor to Democratic Governor Mark White from 1983-1987 and advised White to pursue the “no-pass/no-play” policy that angered many voters who like Friday night football games. Apparently though he had flirted with Nixon in the early 1970s. The late Richard Crenna once played him in a film.
That is a very touch story about Win Paul’s death. I understand he had a handicapped child too. But he supported abortion.
Thanks for your compelling point of view about Winthrop Rockefeller. Too often, FReepers go for the black-or-white view of public personalities.
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