IV. Apprenticeship with Foundation-Funded Terrorists: Ayers and Dohrn 161Democratic machine was supporting the gubernatorial candidacy of Adlai Stevenson III, a former
US Senator and the son of two-time Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois governor Adlai
Stevenson, a favorite of the New York investment banks and a man who put a professorial face on
the dirty Cook County Democratic organization, but lost the presidency to Ike Eisenhower in 1952
and in 1956. For Illinois Secretary of State, the Democratic machine wanted the political hack
Aurelia Pucinski, who came from a politically prominent family and was supported by the party
organization. The Democratic machine was stunned when the Democratic nominations for
Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State were won by Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, two
supporters of the political movement of Lyndon LaRouche. The national media went berserk over
the idea that Illinois voters had chosen Fairchild and Hart, despite their association with LaRouche,
as the most effective vehicles for an explosive protest vote against the existing order of things.
Janice Hart said on the day after the primary: “I’m going to revive the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
and General Patton. We’re going to roll our tanks down State Street.” Democratic National
Committee chairman Paul Kirk joined in the hysteria, exclaiming, “Good Lord, we have a problem
here.” At this point, Stevenson could have kept his own hopes for the governorship alive by bowing
gracefully to the will of the voters, and gracefully and silently taking his place at the top of a
Democratic ticket including Fairchild and Hart for statewide office. After all, actual terrorist
bombers and accused murderers like Ayers and Dohrn had already been welcomed back into the
Chicago Democratic machine in those years. Fairchild and Hart had never killed or bombed
anybody. Neither one had ever appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list; neither had a criminal
record. But, of course, Ayers and Dohrn were different: they had always been working as
provocateurs for the intelligence community and the financiers. So Stevenson decided to go berserk,
slandering the candidates chosen by the Illinois Democratic voters, and ruining his own hopes for
the governorship in the process.
AXELROD PUSHES STEVENSON TO SELF-DESTRUCT
Ironically, the campaign manager who goaded the younger Stevenson to destroy himself was
none other than Obama’s current Svengali, the Chicago machine hack David Axelrod: ‘Political
consultant David Axelrod, who today runs Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign, was in 1986
managing the campaign of Adlai Stevenson III for governor. Axelrod told Stevenson he should quit
the race, rather than run in the general election on the same, Democratic, ticket with the LaRouche
supporters. ‘“I thought he should resign. He couldn’t run with those maniacs,” Axelrod said later.
Stevenson decided to quit the Democrats but to run as a third party candidate. Axelrod later recalled
how Stevenson fared, under his guidance: “In the following months, Stevenson was battered by the
press and deserted by the politicians. It reached the point of the absurd. It was the political
equivalent of AIDS.”’ (Chicago Magazine, December 1987). David Axelrod grew up in New York
City, where his mother, Myril Axelrod, was vice president of the Young & Rubicam advertising
agency and was a pioneer of the use of “focus groups” for profiling the population, long before
Frank Luntz and company had arrived on the scene. Attending the University of Chicago beginning
in 1972, majoring in political science, Axelrod became associated with the financier-directed
“political reform” movement centered at that University. While he was writing articles for the Hyde
Park Herald, he was taken under the wing of Don Rose, a political operative of the Public
Administration Service school at the University. That school was a component of the notorious
1313 building complex at the University of Chicago, a national center for the manipulation of
America’s public policy and municipal administrations. According to a 2004 article in the Hyde
Park Herald, “1313 grew from a 1930 lunchtime conversation in Geneva, Switzerland between
[University official Louis] Brownlow and Beardsley Ruml. Ruml was executive director of the