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Kissinger's recent speeches could have been lifted from the pages of [the Trilateral Commission's journal] Trialogue..."" Rockefeller Internationalism had again made its mark, but, in a major irony, Nelson, despite being the Vice-President, had only a peripheral role. His marginal role was reinforced when, in November 1975, at Ford's insistence, Nelson withdrew his candidacy for Vice- President in the 1976 presidential elections. It was Rumsfeld's doing; believing Rockefeller to be an electoral liability, the zealous Chief of Staff pushed to have Nelson dumped from the Republican presidential ticket. Instead of the Vice-Presidency being the final stepping-stone to the Oval Office, as Nelson undoubtedly hoped, it became a dead-end in his political career. According to David Rockefeller, "Ford's decision devastated Nelson" and caused him to lose all interest in politics. Moreover, "Thwarted when the greatest political prize seemed within his grasp", Nelson ended his political career an "angry and deeply bitter man". He returned to the family fold where, in one last grasp at power, he tried—and failed—to wrest control of the RBF from his brothers.” The end for Nelson Rockefeller was sudden and suitably controversial, the 70-year-old ex-politician reputedly dying in the midst of a sexual tryst with one of his female staffers. Nevertheless, Nelson's passing in 1979 was the cause of much pious reflection from the corporate-controlled US media and some of his former beneficiaries. Time magazine claimed that "He was driven by a mission to serve, improve and uplift his country", while the New York Times lauded Nelson's "enlightened internationalism" and "extraordinary standard of concern and effort in service of the country".” Less restrained was Henry Kissinger, who eulogised his departed benefactor as the "greatest American I have ever known", a "pragmatic genius" who "would have made a great President". In fact, it was "a tragedy for the country" that Nelson had not achieved his goal. Kissinger also claimed that Nelson's impact on American domestic and foreign policy was greater than many people supposed: ...in the final accounting it was often Nelson who worked out the agenda which others then implemented as national policy. The intellectual groundwork for many innovations was frequently his... Destiny willed it that he made his enduring mark on our society almost anonymously in the programs he designed, the values he upheld, and the men and women whose lives he changed.” If we put to one side Kissinger's fawning and somewhat inaccu- rate eulogy, Nelson Rockefeller's rise and demise reveals that his contribution to the New World Order was marginal at best. There can be no doubt that had Nelson been President of the United States, even if only for a few years, he would have set in motion the globalist plans he had endorsed throughout the 1960s. Fortunately—though some Establishment figures might disagree— it was not to be. But Nelson's failure to get into the Oval Office effectively reduced him to little more than a publicist of the Rockefeller fami- ly's New World Order vision. He promoted the policies for global government, but was never able to order their implementation. As Nelson was unable to secure the high office he craved and was largely detached from those philanthropic institutions—especially the RBF and Rockefeller Foundation—that gave the Rockefellers their real power, the bitterness of his final years should come as no surprise. As we shall see in the following parts, it was those Rockefeller brothers who were the most heavily involved in philanthropic pur- suits, including the foundations, think-tanks and policy-planning organisations supported by Rockefeller money, who have had the most impact on formulating the NWO ideology and implementing it. And the leading Rockefeller in that endeavour has been, of course, David... Pan Endnotes Rockefeller, Simon & Schuster, 1982, pp. 82. 2A, David Rockefeller, Memoirs, Random House, 2002, p. 191. Itshould 34 Alsop, Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait, pp. 88-89. be noted that, somewhat improbably, the impetus for David's moment of 35. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An American clarity was Nelson's divorce of his first wife, Mary Todhunter Clark, in Dynasty, Holt Reinhart & Winston, 1976, pp. 230, 236-238. 1961—and not his ruthless drive for political power or his bullying of his 36. George E. G. Catlin, The Atlantic Commonwealth, Penguin, 1969, p. siblings for control of Rockefeller finances to fund his numerous cam- 49. ; _ ; paigns. Moreover, David's explanation overlooks how politically costly 37. Blanche W. Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Nelson's divorce was to his 1964 campaign. Peace and Political Warfare, Penguin Books, 1981, pp. 295-296. 25. Stewart Alsop, Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait, Doubleday, 38. Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the 1960, p. 80. Power of Money Today, Lyle Stuard Inc., 1968, pp. 593-594. 26. As Jonathan Vankin notes, "If not for a couple of jammed pistols, 39. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Prospect for America: The Rockefeller Nelson Rockefeller would have fulfilled his dream of becoming President— Panel Reports, Doubleday, 1961, pp. 24, 26, 34, 35, 188, 228 (emphasis without winning a single vote"; see Vankin, Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and added). Crimes: From JFK to the CIA Terrorist Connection, Dell Publishing, 1992, 40. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, pp. 340, 344; p. 259. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller, p. 71. 27. Quoted in Cary Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to 41. Emmet John Hughes, The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Conquer, 1908-1958, Doubleday, New York, 1996, p. xvii. Eisenhower Years, Atheneum, 1963, pp. 102-113 (including speech quote), 28. Stephen Chapman, "Rocky as St Sebastian", The New Republic, 218-221. February 10, 1979, pp. 12-14; Robert Fitch, "Nelson Rockefeller: An Anti- 42. Jordan A. Schwarz, Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an Obituary", Monthly Review, June 1979, p. 13. American Era, The Free Press, 1987, pp. 304-305, 311-312. 29. Gary Allen, The Rockefeller File, '16 Press, 1976, p. 50. 43. Nelson A. Rockefeller, "Widening Boundaries of National Interest", 30. Robert Welch, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, Western Foreign Affairs, July 1951, p. 527. Islands, 1961, p. 113. 44. Nelson A. Rockefeller, "Purpose and Policy", Foreign Affairs, April 31. For a scathing review of Kissinger's myriad sins, including possible war 1960, p. 383. crimes, see Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Text 45. Nelson A. Rockefeller, The Future of Federalism: The Godkin Publishing, 2001. Lectures at Harvard University 1962, Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 32. Henry A. Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, Council on 63-64. Foreign Relations/Harper & Brothers, 1957, pp. 219-221. Continued on page 76 33. 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