Francisco. A sign over the gate advises: "Spiders Weave Not Here." Up to 1,600
members, with the occasional foreign guest like German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt,
gather in mid-summer for freemasonic ceremonies featuring the ritual interrment of "dull
care", cavort in women's panty hose in femme impersonatuer theatricals, or better yet
frolic in the nude near the banks of the Russian River. Herbert Hoover was a devoted
regular, Eisenhower and Allen Dulles made cold war speeches there; Nixon and Reagan
had discussed prospects for the 1968 election; Bechtel was always big; and Henry
Kissinger loved to pontificate, all at the Grove.
Then there was the Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller in 1973-74.
One branch from North America, one branch from Europe, one branch from Japan, with
the resulting organism a kind of policy forum aiming at an international consensus among
financier factions, under overall Anglo-American domination. The Trilateral Commission
emerged at the same time that the Rockefeller-Kissinger interests perpetrated the first oil
hoax. Some of its first studies were devoted to the mechanics of imposing authoritarian-
totalitarian forms of government in the US, Europe, and Japan to manage the austerity
and economic decay that would be the results of Trilateral policies. The Carter
Administration was very overtly a Trilateral Administration. Popular hatred of Carter and
his crew made the Trilterals an attractive target; their existence had been publicized by
Lyndon LaRouche's newspaper New Solidarity during 1973-74 in the context of a highly
effective anti-Rockefeller campaign. Reagan promised that he would change all that, but
his government was also dominated by the Trilateraloids.
Bush was also a member of the Alibi Club, a society of Washington insiders who gather
periodically to assert the primacy of oligarchism over such partisan or other divisions that
have been concocted to divert the masses. Bush had also joined another Washington
association, the Alfalfa Club, with much the same ethos and a slightly differrent cast of
characters. Bush was clearly a joiner. Later, in 1990, he would accept a bid to join
Britain's Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's in Scotland as the ninth honorary
member in the history of that august body. This was also a tribute to George Herbert
Walker, a past president of the US Golf Association, and to Prescott Bush, who was also
president of the USGA.
As we saw briefly during Bush's senate campaign, the combination of bankruptcy and
arrogance which was the hallmark of Eastern Liberal Establishment rule over the United
States generated resentments which could make membership in such organizations a
distinct political liability. That the issue exploded in New Hampshire during the 1979-80
campaign in such a way as to wreck the Bush campaign was largely the merit of Lyndon
LaRouche, who had launched an outsider bid in the Democratic primary.
LaRouche conducted a vigorous campaign in New Hampshire during late 1979, focussing
on the need to put forward an economic policy to undo the devastation being wrought by
the 22% prime rate being charged by many banks as a result of the high-interest and
usury policies of Paul Volcker, whom Carter had made the head of the Federal Reserve.
But in addition to contesting Carter, Ted Kennedy, and Jerry Brown on the Democratic
side, LaRouche's also noticed George Bush, whom LaRouche correctly identified as a