Fix the Bus

So I write this essay about Dwight Eisenhower for one purpose:  to demonstrate to you that Ike had the will in spades to vote for regime change vis a vis JFK, and he had the cunning to disguise his true lack of remorse in doing so.

Any man who can starve to death 800,000 DEF, will not bat an eyelash in taking out one man.

Eisenhower had to be consulted.  To not consult him and risk exposure would be foolhardy.

One word of dissent from Ike regarding  the Warren Commission findings and the conspirators’ goose would be cooked.

Of course the Warren Commission members need not have worried. On that commission sat Eisenhower associates such as John McCloy and Alan Dulles.

They had  all known each other through World War II and beyond.

They were members of the club.

Just who were these men on the Commission?

Internationalists all.

Law violators many.

Gerald Ford, the seemingly innocuous and folksy representative from Michigan, was not so innocuous at all. 

He was a Yale man, a trusted man.

For moving the wound on Kennedy‘s back to comport with Arlen Specter’s silly and impossible single bullet theory he was rewarded with the Presidency.

He should’ve been disbarred.

John McCloy, the corporate lawyer who rode from meager means to run with the swift was a threat to personal liberties.  And, yes, he was major violator of the fourth amendment.

He was a Harvard man.  A trusted man.

He was a man who conducted illegal wiretaps in the interwar years, a man who illegally and immorally interned Japanese-Americans in prison camps during WWII.

Well, what else would you expect from someone who had risen to such lofty heights?

Earl Warren, appointed to the Supreme Court by Eisenhower bent the constitution this way and that to fundamentally change the character of the nation.

Quite frankly, he turned the Constitution upside down.

He took prayer out of schools.

He let criminals spring free because of technical violations.

He was a Berkeley man.  A trusted man.  An  Eisenhower man.

Allen Dulles, who cheated on his wife more prolifically than JFK (no small feat),  was a man who protected Nazis, a man who invaded and disrupted the governments of so many nations. 

He was a Princeton man,  a Sullivan Cromwell man, a United Fruit Company man, a trusted man.

Most importantly he was an Eisenhower man.

Lyndon Johnson, the President who selected the men for the Commission was the man who worked with Eisenhower to defeat the Bricker Amendment which was intended to limit Presidents from making unilateral treaties that might theoretically supersede the constitution.

Lyndon Johnson was a trusted man.  And he too was an Eisenhower man. He fit in nicely with Ike’s doctrine to rule from the center while marginalizing the extreme wings of both parties.

Hale Boggs, the representative from Louisiana, who was the youngest member of the commission, was a man who was accused of being in the American  Student Union which was felt to be a communist front.  If so, that would put him in good stead with Eisenhower, who didn’t seem all that concerned about communists in government until Joe McCarthy forced him to do something about it.

Hale Boggs, whose daughter, Cokie Roberts, happily followed father’s establishmentarian footsteps, was a trusted man.

Boggs worked with Eisenhower and Albert Gore Senior to ultimately create the Federal Aid Highway Act which gave rise  to the interstate highway system.

Ike justified it as necessary to national defense (troop movement I suppose).

John Sherman Cooper was another Eisenhower man, just the type of internationalist who Eisenhower liked. He was a Republican who was also liked by Democrats. Harry Truman appointed him as a delicate to the United Nations.  He also served as a special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson during the formation of  NATO.

Later on, Eisenhower appointed him as ambassador to India. When Eisenhower needed him to run for the Senate when Alban Barkley died, Cooper complied.

(I’ll do anything for my godfather.)

Quite obviously John Sherman Cooper was a trusted man.

Not surprisingly, he had a degree from Harvard and Yale.

All these men were trusted men.  Moreover, they were Eisenhower men.

They weren’t Johnson men. They were Eisenhower men.

The one man on the commission who wasn’t 100% in Eisenhower’s camp, Richard Russell, was certainly in the internationalist camp as it pertains to America running its Cold War all over the world.

(Dere’s gold in dem dar hills.)

Richard Russell was placed specifically on that commission to be Johnson’s man to tell Johnson what was going on in that committee.

Maybe Lyndon was afraid that they would pin the assassination  on him.

Thus was the Warren Commission assembled.

It would have been more appropriately named the Eisenhower Commission.

And although we don’t hear much from Eisenhower regarding the assassination, my gut tells me that he was working behind the scenes, (just as he did in World War II, just as he did in taking down McCarthy ) coordinating the mop up, freely giving advice to associates on how best to handle a situation, a talker, or a rabble-rouser.

Ike’s silence regarding the JFK assassination speaks volumes.

The president of the United States is assassinated, and Ike has barely a word except for the day Kennedy was shot?

Unlikely.

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Ike was a quiet man as politicians go, but he was a strong hidden force who did great damage to the republic. He was the creator of the Corporate Party that now rules the nation.

The Corporate Party carves out the true Democrats and Republicans while combining the RINOS and DINOS into the ruling class.

Ike felt that the Republican and Democratic parties should only disagree on things of no consequence.

It’s a completely disingenuous approach to politics because you’re telling people that there are two parties went in reality there are not.

Here are Stephen Ambrose’s words. They reflect Ike’s sentiments.

“His chief worry was the Old Guard. Not Taft, whom he was beginning to admire, but McCarthy, Hickenlooper, Bricker, Bridges, Goldwater, and the others. The apparent hopelessness of working effectively with such men led Eisenhower to muse about the possibility that “I should set quietly about the formation of a new party.” He was considering making a “personal appeal” to every congressman and governor “whose general political philosophy [is] ‘the middle way.’ ” He feared that such a drastic step might “be forced upon us,” but hoped that he could avoid it by educating the Old Guard about “teamwork and party responsibility.” He thought “this will be much the better way.” 85”

— Eisenhower Volume II: The President by Stephen E. Ambrose

So … in Ike’s mind, true conservatives were to be marginalized, while RINOs (the term did not exist in 1950) were to be consulted.

Is it any surprise that Gerald Ford would take a shine to Ike? Not at all. Gerald Ford stood with men like Senator Prescott Bush as the “center” to be cultivated and consulted.

The Republican Party was divided back then, as it is today, between two factions, the true conservatives (then called the Old Guard) and moderates. The true conservatives were men like McCarthy, Hickenlooper, Bricker, Bridges, Goldwater, Welker and Jenner.

Men like Nixon were more in the center of the Republican Party, not extremely right, but not exactly moderate.

Nixon was distrusted somewhat by Ike and his associates because they felt he would side with the Old Guard if elected or compelled to assume the powers of the Presidency. In fact Nixon was only brought onto the ticket because he did tend to side with the Old Guard and could therefore attract their votes in ’52 and ’56. Nixon was strongly anti-communist. The same cannot be said for Eisenhower despite his and his disciples’ protestations.

Indeed, Ike was dragged kicking and screaming into opposing the communists. Here is an example:

“In an effort to prove that McCarthy and his friends could trust Eisenhower to carry out the hunt for Communists, Brownell decided—with Eisenhower’s approval—to go after Truman himself by reviving the case of Harry Dexter White. Back in 1946, ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley had accused White, an official in the Treasury Department, of being a Russian spy. White denied it and a federal grand jury refused to indict him. The FBI, however, had sent further evidence about White to Truman. Truman read the FBI report and decided it contained only the evidence offered by “a crook and a louse” (Chambers and Bentley). The only thing new was a charge that White had shown “friendliness to Russia” during the war. Truman dismissed the charges from his mind, and indeed promoted White (who died of a heart attack in 1948). 15 Brownell looked through the record (evidently prodded by J. Edgar Hoover) and decided that Truman was wrong. Brownell felt that the record showed White to be clearly guilty, and he could not understand how Truman could have promoted the man after reading the record. Brownell met with Eisenhower. He told the President the case was too important to cover up, that he felt a personal obligation to make it public, and that “disclosure was justified political criticism and that it would take away some of the glamour of the McCarthy stage play.” Eisenhower told him to go ahead. 16”

— Eisenhower Volume II: The President by Stephen E. Ambrose

Now, if you are confused about Ike’s position regarding the Army-McCarthy hearings, you needn’t be.

No one should have been more angry about espionage at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey than Dwight Eisenhower. Yet he was not. You would think Dwight Eisenhower would be thankful to Joe McCarthy for pointing out such subversive activity at an army base; but if you thought that, you would be wrong.

In fact, Dwight Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to destroy Joe McCarthy. Why would this be?

Ike’s apologists will tell you that McCarthy’s efforts were hindering the fight against communism. The problem though was that there was no serious fight against communism here at home – or even abroad.

Joe McCarthy had remarked about George Marshall, Ike’s buddy, that if his mistakes in fighting the communists had been random and innocent, we’d have a few battles go our way.

McCarthy was insinuating that George Marshall’s heart really wasn’t in fighting communism. There was and is a body of thought that Marshall’s capitulation to communists was intentional.

The communists in the United States in those days weren’t hippies sitting around in communes singing Joan Baez tunes. Those communists in the 30s 40s and 50s were battle-hardened, clear-thinking middle class people who took their orders from Moscow. They were engaging in active subversion of the American capitalist system.

The Rosenbergs were regular people. Julius Rosenberg pilfered documents at Fort Monmouth and dutifully turned them over to his Soviet handlers. His brother-in-law, David Greenglass, worked at Los Alamos and stole secret documents there at the behest of the Rosenbergs.

Of course, none of this mattered to the majority of the established press except as McCarthy’s accusations made good copy and sold newspapers. They were solidly and emotionally behind Ike.

Men like Herblock, Richard Rovere, Drew Pearson carried Ike’s water and led the charge against McCarthy. CD Jackson and Emmett Hughes, Ike’s speechwriters, came from Henry Luce’s Time-Life empire.

Why, and for what purpose? Why was Joe McCarthy such a threat?

Joe McCarthy himself must have wondered. He didn’t have the benefit of seventy five years of history that we do. What now seems clear is that Joe McCarthy’s crime was pulling the curtain back on both Truman and Eisenhower.

These men like Ike and Truman were not interested in defeating communism; rather they needed communism in order to justify the military industrial complex, the permanent standing US army around the world, the cold war and our new, out of control war economy. Ike’s corporate supporters feasted off war.

That was why Joe McCarthy had to be defeated then and now.

Even today Joe McCarthy is laid to waste for every sin that has befallen America.

He had to be destroyed. He still has to be destroyed.

Ike knew then what was at stake.

Vanquish the communists? Forget about it.

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One can make a good case for Ike (and Truman) not being all that interested in going after communists – and indeed protecting each other’s backs when exposed.

One example is the Harry Dexter White affair.

Harry Dexter White was indeed a communist, and when Ike’s team finally acknowledged such it is almost comical to watch Ike and Truman fall over each other as they expose and then cover each other’s back regarding this affair.

This is from. Wikipedia:

Harry Dexter White (October 29, 1892 – August 16, 1948) was a senior U.S. Treasury department official. Working closely with the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., he helped set American financial policy toward the Allies of World War II. He was later accused of espionage by passing information to the Soviet Union,^[1] an allegation which was confirmed after his death.

His espionage was confirmed by the Venona Project.

White was educated at Columbia, Stanford and Harvard. Is anyone surprised?

The essence of the matter is this. Harry Dexter White, a member of the Treasury Department, was accused of being a spy. An FBI report was sent to Harry Truman. Truman read the report and decided that the report had no substance. Instead of firing White, Truman promoted him. Eisenhower’s attorney general, Herbert Brownell, years later got hold of the report and read it. He told Ike that the evidence was clear that White was a spy. Eisenhower decided to go public with this so as to appease the McCarthyites. A congressional committee, HUAC, decided to issue a subpoena to Harry Truman. Ike thought that went too far and so he told his attorney general to put the brakes on that.

Ike had to give a press conference in which he stated that he did not believe Truman had knowingly hired a spy.

Then Truman got into the act. He gave a speech in which he stated that he had read the report and had decided to play along with the FBI by allowing White to continue his job. Then Truman went on to contradict himself by stating that he thought White was innocent. As a fall back pitch, he stated that Ike was engaging in McCarthyism (in American politics, when all else fails, blame Joe McCarthy).

Hoover of the FBI denied that he was conducting some secret operation with Truman.

So what can we conclude from this?

One conclusion might be that Truman was advised (told) to keep White on no matter what. And who would advise Truman of this? The ruling class, the clique, the club. That’s who.

And that was precisely what Joe McCarthy was stumbling onto in the early 1950s. You had a corporate party that was not only not truly fighting communism but was actually aiding and abetting communism. And that leads us to an important question: Why?

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Why would our ruling class aid and abet communism? What could possibly be gained?

An enemy.

Our ruling class desired an enemy that they could fight in order to justify building up a military industrial complex, which would give them billions of dollars in profits. Such a military industrial complex would make them filthy rich beyond their dreams.

It doesn’t get any deeper than this.

Men like Eisenhower, Truman, McCloy were merely tools of the ruling class.

They would gladly sell their poor and middle-class roots out for a few dog biscuits.

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As I stated before Ike had the will in spades to take out JFK and not bat an eyelash.

Read this from Stephen Ambrose as it pertains to Ike and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala

But first remember that Ike was running Murder, Incorporated through the CIA all over the world to supposedly defeat communism.

He accomplished this in stealth when most Americans in the post WWII period were raising families in the euphoria of having beaten the Depression and the Nazis.

While America sat back in an opiate-laced fog of American propaganda courtesy of Ike’s CIA-collaborating speechwriter, CD Jackson, Ike was tear-assing around the world creating the conditions for blowback that we still suffer from today.

Read this:

“Eisenhower was highly pleased by the outcome. At a June 30 news conference, he announced that he had heard that the “Communists and their great supporters were leaving Guatemala. If I would try to conceal the fact that this gives me great satisfaction, I would just be deceitful. Of course it has given me great satisfaction.” ⁴⁵ On January 19, 1955, when Eisenhower gave his first televised news conference, he listed the elimination of the Arbenz regime as one of his proudest accomplishments. In his memoirs, it was the only CIA covert operation that he mentioned, and he did so in some detail and with great pride. ⁴⁶ But he gave his account a lighthearted touch by making it appear that the only risk the United States took was to send two planes to Somoza. In fact there were more planes involved, but what really matters was how much more than planes Eisenhower had put at stake. First, the prestige of the United States in a military action which he would not hesitate to escalate if necessary. As he so firmly told Goodpaster, once you start this sort of thing you don’t back down.”

— Eisenhower Volume II: The President by Stephen E. Ambrose

and this …

“Clearly, the President took grave risks over Guatemala. He also opened himself to the criticism that American policy toward Central America was dictated by United Fruit (the company, incidentally, got its land back from Castillo Armas). But he did not overthrow the elected government of Guatemala, or risk SEATO and EDC, or declare a blockade, in order to protect the holdings of the United Fruit stockholders. What he feared was not the loss of American profits in Guatemala, but rather the loss of all Central America. Milton had reported to him that the area was a breeding ground for Communism, because of the awful extremes between rich and poor, and that long term the United States had to work to correct the disparity. But short term, Milton had warned, the United States could never afford to allow Communism to establish a foothold in Central America. If the Russians ever got a base there, they could export subversion, arms, a whole guerrilla uprising to the surrounding countryside. In Eisenhower’s nightmare, the dominoes would fall in both directions, to the south of Guatemala toward Panama, endangering the Canal Zone, and to the north, bringing Communism to the Rio Grande. “My God,” Eisenhower told his Cabinet, “just think what it would mean to us if Mexico went Communist!” He shook his head at the thought of that long, unguarded border, and all those Mexican Communists to the south of it. 47 To prevent the dominoes from falling, he was prepared to, and did, take great risks over tiny Guatemala.”

— Eisenhower Volume II: The President by Stephen E. Ambrose

And so Ike had no qualms about violating another nation’s sovereignty. He had no qualms about using military power to kill people. Also note that his own brother, Milton Eisenhower, told him that military force can only be a short term solution, that there has to be a long-term solution. This long-term solution was never forthcoming from Eisenhower or the United States of America.

There was one man who did try to attempt a long-term solution and that was JFK through his Alliance for Progress. For this he was assassinated. And he was assassinated because our ruling class had and has no desire to elevate the standard of living for anyone in the developing world. What our ruling class is interested in is a Pax Americana backed up by military force for the purposes of exploitation in order to garner untold profits for American oligarchs.

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Ike and his other fellow 1890’ers say that they we’re committed to defeating communists, but they were not really committed at all. They used communism as a common enemy to justify a military industrial complex which would enrich the ruling class. JFK was a threat to everything they had built. Enabling the people of the third world by allowing them to have a stake in the game would eliminate communist forces in those countries. That was anathema to men life Eisenhower, McCloy, Lodge, Harriman, and Dulles. They needed communism as a threat. Men like JFK were a true threat to communism because he wanted to defeat it at it its roots.

Ike had the will in spades to defeat Arbenz, Mossadegh and Lamumba. He had the same will in spades to defeat a homegrown threatm(JFK) as well.

No one should be fooled by Eisenhower warning us about the military industrial complex. Ike was the commander of the armies during World War II. He was the President of the United States. He ran all over the world to defeat anyone who might pose a threat to the American military industrial complex. Ike was the military industrial complex.

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