FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
originally wanted former President Ford to be his Vice-President,
however, Ford wanted the power to appoint people to the National
Security Council and the Cabinet. He also wanted to prepare “position
papers” on foreign policy matters. This situation would have been
almost like a co-Presidency, making Reagan more of a figurehead,
which he refused to be, so his only other option was Bush.Manchester Union Leader publisher William Loeb made the
Commission a campaign issue during the New Hampshire Primary by
saying: “It is quite clear that this group of extremely powerful men is
out to control the world.” He accused them of advocating a “world
order in which multinational corporations ... can thrive without
worrying about so-called national interests.” During the campaign,
Reagan attacked Carter’s ties to David Rockefeller, and other Trilateral
financiers; while Edwin Meese, a Reagan advisor, said that Trilateral
influence was responsible for a “softening of defense.”Although Reagan appeared to be anti-Commission, it was only a front.
Reagan’s Campaign Manager, William J. Casey (former Chairman of
the Securities and Exchange Commission, who Reagan later appointed
as Director of the CIA) was a Trilateralist. His campaign was controlled
by such Trilateralists as David Packard, George H. Weyerhaeuser, Bill
Brock, Anne Armstrong, Philip M. Hawley, William A. Hewitt, Caspar
Weinberger, and others who were CFR members. Reagan had the
personal support of David Rockefeller, and belonged to the elitist
Bohemian Grove Club in Northern California.The Bohemian Grove is the site of an annual two-week (including the 3
weekends) summer retreat on a 2,700 acre redwood estate about 75
miles north of San Francisco (near the town of Monte Rio), along the
Russian River. It was established in 1872 by five reporters of the San
Francisco Examiner as a social club “to help elevate journalism to that
place in the popular estimation to which it is entitled.” By 1878, when
the first Grove-fest took place, reporters were being pushed out.
Newsweek (August 2, 1982) called it “...the world’s most prestigious
summer camp.” There is a $2,500 initiation fee, and annual dues of
$600. Nearly every Republican President since Calvin Coolidge has
been a member of this conservative clan. President Herbert Hoover
called it the “greatest men’s party on Earth.” Among its 2,000 members
are other high level government officials, and the very elite of