http://www.usatoday.com/elect/ep/epo/epop011.htm
"Dole said he would not rule out his friend, former Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney as a running mate".
In 1996 CSPAN interviewed former US President Gerald Ford about the
selection process for his running mate in 1976. CSPAN re-broadcast
that interview on July 23rd, 2000.
In that interview the reporter for CSPAN claimed that Ronald Reagan
was available in 1976 to become Ford's running mate. Ford said he had
not known that. Ford said that his White House Chief of Staff Dick
Cheney had told him that Reagan was NOT available, so Ford picked Bob
Dole as his running mate instead, only to lose to Jimmy Carter in the
fall of 1976.
.
http://www.texasobserver.org/Archives/991210_left_field.htm
"a Petroleum Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is set up as a large
boardroom, with dark paneled walls covered by portraits of oil
pioneers such as Sid Richardson, William and Tex Moncreif, Will and
Hugh Liedtke, Erle Halliburton, and George Bush-the one who made a
million dollars in the oil field and was elected president in 1988."
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/1998/1963.htm
"HALLIBURTON CO. AGREES TO SELL PART OF ITS WORLDWIDE OIL FIELD
SERVICES
BUSINESS AND ITS DRILLING FLUIDS BUSINESS IN ORDER TO PROCEED WITH
DRESSER
INDUSTRIES MERGER WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Department of Justice reached
a
settlement today allowing Halliburton Company and Dresser Industries
Inc. to merge, after Halliburton agreed to sell off a key part of its
worldwide oilfield service business-logging-while-drilling (LWD)--to
resolve the Department's competitive concerns."
http://www.sfbg.com/News/32/21/Features/iraq.html
"It's no accident that Iraq has weapons of mass
destruction. U.S.
corporations helped supply them."- "Gulf veterans
have
filed a
billion-dollar class action lawsuit in federal court in Galveston,
Texas, against companies that supplied Iraq with the dual-use
technology to create its weapons of mass destruction. Among the
companies named are Bechtel, M.W. Kellog, Dresser Industries, and
Interchem Inc. Vic Silvester, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told the
National Law Journal, "The companies that made the chemicals and
biologicals should pay."
http://www.agrnews.org/issues/69/commentary.html
"investigative reporting in the (corporate) media has been by Colum
Lynch of The Washington Post (Feb. 20). Lynch found that US
corporations are making under-the-table commercial agreements with
Saddam Hussein's
regime to help
partially reconstruct Iraq's oil infrastructure,
apparently the UN
has agreed to cover for them. Thus, according to Lynch, the UN "oil
for food" Web site was taken offline when the UN found that The
Washington Post was using it to track down American firms that buy
Iraqi oil through foreign subsidiaries.
Lynch identified and described several of these US
corporations, including "such petroleum industry
giants as Halliburton, the world's largest oil field service
company; Schlumberger, the second largest oil field servicer; the
Fisher Rosemount unit of Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis; the
Hamilton Sundstrand unit of United Technologies in Windsor Locks,
Conn.; and Baker Hughes Inc. of Houston." Halliburton's CEO is none
other than Richard B. Cheney, who was secretary of defense during
the Bush administration. Using State Department figures, Lynch also
found that US corporations are officially on record as exporting
"about $15 million of oil-related spare parts and $400 million of
food, medicine and water treatment equipment to Iraq...." But the
actual amount of oil production equipment and spare parts American
companies sell to Iraq is substantially higher when adding in what is
sold via foreign subsidiaries under the auspices of the UN "oil for
food" program.
Moreover, Lynch reported that American
capitalists have used foreign intermediaries to purchase Iraqi crude
oil and that an estimated "700,000 of the 2 million barrels of oil
exported daily by Iraq" ends up in the United States."
http://www.petroleum.co.uk/speeches.htm
Excerpted from text of Dick Cheney's speech at the IP (Institute of
Petroleum) Autumn lunch
" I understand last year when Sheikh Yamani spoke that he was rather
pessimistic about the outlook for oil prices and the ability of
OPEC
to arrive at a price level and maintain it over time and I'm not sure
that it's fair to come back a year later and second-guess and I hope
a year from now people won't do that to me in terms of the
forecasts
I'm going to make, but I do want to talk about the outlook, certainly
from the perspective of Halliburton, how we
look at what
may occur here in the future and let me say at the
outset
that I am unreasonably optimistic about our industry… the Middle
East
with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still
where the prize ultimately lies. While Halliburton has certainly
grown
bigger through its merger with Dresser and other key acquisitions,
this made sense in part because it gave our company both a broader
array of services and also greater depth in products and service"
http://www.upr.com/investor/97annrep/directors.shtml Union Pacific
Lynne V. Cheney wife of Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Dick
Cheney is/was? a member of the Board of Directors of Union Pacific.
So
too is/was ? Samuel K. Skinner
http://www.ltvsteel.com/htmfiles/skinner.htm Skinner was former
President Bush's White House chief of staff.
http://www.qwest.com/about/inside/board_anschutz.html
"Philip F. Anschutz Chairman of the Board Philip F.
Anschutz has
been a Director and the Chairman of the Board of Qwest
since
February 1997. He was a Director and Chairman of the Board of QCC from
November 1993 until September 1997. He has been a Director and
Chairman of the Board of Anschutz Company, Qwest's principal
stockholder, for more than five years, and a Director and Chairman
of
the Board of The Anschutz Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Anschutz Company, for more than five years. Since the merger of
Southern Pacific Rail Corporation (. . SPRC. . ) and Union Pacific
Corporation (. . UP. . ) in September 1996, Mr.
Anschutz has served as Vice-Chairman of UP. Prior to the merger, Mr.
Anschutz was a Director of SPRC from June 1988 to September 1996 and
Non-Executive Chairman of SPRC from 1993 to September 1996. He also
has been a Director of Forest Oil Corporation
since 1995."
http://www.barnburners.com/anschultz1.html
"Philip Anschutz, 55, is also the owner of the MLS Colorado
Rapids and the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. His
main business is The Anschutz
Corporation, Denver, Colorado. The company's major business
interests are in the fields of natural resources, railroads, real
estate, and communications. Mr. Anschutz is a native of Kansas,
having
been born in Russell, and graduated from the University of Kansas
with
a degree in business. He started The Anschutz Corporation in 1965. He
is currently serving as chairman of the board of Southern Pacific
Rail
Corporation; is on the boards of the American Petroleum Institute,
Washington, D.C.; the National Petroleum Institute Council,
Washington, D.C"
http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/billnew/richmain98.asp?value2=9040
"Philip F. Anschutz Net Worth $8.8 billion."
http://205.180.59.50/news/state/reports/staplescenter/anschutz.htm "a
worth of $16.5 billion, as Forbes says Anschutz does," "Part of
Anschutz's vision for the growth of Qwest is pure genius.
Not
only has he laid the cable on his railroad rights-of-way, he has
also
laid miles of open pipe alongside, so that when other
communications companies run out of capacity, Qwest will be ready to
serve.
At a steep price, of course."
http://www.urhc.org/prescontrib.html
"Reference: April 19, 1999 issue of Business Week, pp. 34-36
"Major CEO Contributors to
Front-runner Republican Presidential
Candidates

George W. Bush
James Barksdale - Former CEO of Netscape
Richard Cheney - CEO of Halliburton
J.W. Marriott Jr. - CEO of Marriott International
Henry Kravis - Founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Kenneth Lay - CEO of Enron
T.J. Rodgers - CEO of Cypress Semiconductor
Wilfred Corrigan - CEO of LSI Logic
Floyd Kvamme - Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers
Gordon Binder - CEO of Amgen
Herbert Kelleher - CEO of Southwest Airlines
Michael Dell - CEO of Dell Computer
Robert Herbold - COO of Microsoft

Elizabeth Dole
Carl Pascarella - CEO of Visa USA
Philip Anschutz - Owner of the L.A. Kings
Dennis Kozlowski - CEO of Tyco International
Dano Davis - Chairman of Winn-Dixie Stores
Dan Quayle
Emmanuel Kampouris - CEO of American Standard
Steven Reinemund - CEO of Frito-Lay
Thomas Bell - CEO of Young and Rubicam Advertising

http://infinity.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/dolead.html
"When [Coe and other Dole fundraisers] moved [to the RNC], do did the
money of some of Dole's biggest
backers. Philip Anschutz, a billionaire Denver oilman who serves on
Dole's campaign finance committe, hadn't given heavily to the RNC in
recent years. But in April, after Anschutz and his wife reached their
individual contribution limits for Dole's presidential campaign, his
company, Anschutz Corp., gave the RNC $250,000."
http://publicintegrity.org/buying_updates.html
List of top 10 Dole contributors -includes Anschutz
http://www.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/rncdonor.html
TWENTY-ONE WEALTHY SOFT MONEY DONORS GAVE $100,000
OR MORE EACH TO RNC includes Anschutz Corp APRIL 1996
http://www.unionpacific.com/sharehld/directors.htm
"Union Pacific - Directors - Philip F. Anschutz Chairman"
http://www.uprr.com/uprr/ffh/history/sig-indv.shtml
"Edward Henry Harriman
1848-1909 Railroad magnate, former president of the Illinois
Central and president
of the Union Pacific from 1904-1909. In 1897, Harriman, as part of an
investment group put together by Kuehn, Loeb & Co., bought the
bankrupt UP for $110 million dollars. Soon he set about improving the
line, spending over $240 million, and creating a railroad empire.
Known for possessing a vision of the new order toward which railroads
were evolving, Harriman embraced gigantic undertakings and served
as
a catalyst in changing how railroads were run, specifically promoting
consolidation and acquiring rival companies. One scholar writes of
Harriman, "If they would not sell the colt, Harriman would buy the
mare."
"Averell Harriman 1892-1986 Son of E.H. Harriman chairmanship of
Union Pacific (1920-1946)"
http://share.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/8820/skull.htm "Another
interesting group of "Bonesmen" is the Harriman/Bush crowd.
A.
Harriman , "Elder Statesman" and his brother
Roland Harriman were very active members. In fact, four of Roland's
fellow "Bonesmen" from the class of 1917 were directors of Brown
Brothers,
Harriman, including Prescott Bush ,(former President) George Bush's
dad Since the turn of the century, two investment bank firms
Guaranty
Trust and Brown Brothers, Harriman were both dominated by members of
Skull and Bones. These two firms were heavily involved in the
financing of Communism
and Hitler's regime."
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3751908d3af4.htm GEORGE HERBERT
WALKER BUSH " George Bush was deeply involved with supporting the
Nazis in the Republican's closet. In fact, support for the Nazis was
a
Bush family tradition which goes back more than six decades and, once
again, to Allen Dulles. Loftus and Aarons write: "The real story of
George Bush starts well before he launched his own career. It goes
back to the 1920s, when the Dulles brothers and the other pirates of
Wall Street were making their deals with the Nazis. . . ."
THE BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION
"George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal
grandfather, George Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. Louis, who
founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company
in
1900. Later the company shifted from St. Louis to the prestigious
address of 1 Wall Street. . . .
"Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the
United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when
Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's
infant
Nazi party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there were American
contributors as well.
"Some Americans were just bigots and made their connections to
Germany
through Allen Dulles's firm of Sullivan and Cromwell because they
supported Fascism. The Dulles brothers, who were in it for profit
more
than ideology, arranged American investments in Nazi Germany in the
1930s to ensure that their clients did well out of the German
economic
recovery. ."Sullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in
funding Germany. According to 'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher
Simpson's seminal history of the politics of genocide and profit,
Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized in
investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a
dominating figure in the American establishment. "The firm originally
was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The link between Harriman &
Company's American investors and Thyssen started in the 1920s,
through
the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just
one three-year period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million
of
German bonds to American investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's
president, and the firm was located in the offices of Averill
Harriman's company at 39 Broadway in New York. "In 1926 Bert Walker
did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It was the sort of
favor families do to help their children make a start in life, but
Prescott came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice
president of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker's specialty
was companies that traded with Germany. As Thyssen and the other
German industrialists consolidated Hitler's political power in the
1930s, an American financial connection was needed. According to our
sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering
machine. "In [1931], Harriman & Company merged with a
British-American investment company to become Brown Brothers,
Harriman
Prescott Bush became one of the senior partners of the new company,
which relocated to 59 Broadway, while Union Banking remained at 39
Broadway. But in 1934 Walker arranged to put his son-in-law on the
board of directors of Union Banking. "Walker also set up a deal to
take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line,
a
cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The
shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda, and money for
bribing American politicians to see things Hitler's way. The holding
company was Walker's American Shipping & Commerce, which shared the
offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking. In an elaborate corporate
paper trail, Harriman's stock in American Shipping & Commerce was
controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen
Corporation, run out of Walker's office.
The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and
Prescott Bush. . A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that
Walker's 'Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi
propaganda efforts both in Germany and the United States.' Walker did
not know it, but one of his American employees, Dan Harkins, had
blown
the whistle on the spy apparatus to Congress. Harkins, one of our
best
sources, became Roosevelt's first double agent . . . [and] kept up
the
pretense of being an ardent Nazi sympathizer, while reporting to
Naval
Intelligence on the
shipping company's deals with Nazi intelligence. "Instead of
divesting
the Nazi money," continue the authors, "Bush hired a lawyer to hide
the assets. The lawyer he hired had considerable expertise in such
underhanded schemes. It was Allen Dulles. According to Dulles's
client
list at Sullivan &
Cromwell, his first relationship with Brown Brothers, Harriman was on
June 18, 1936. In January 1937 Dulles listed his work for the firm
as
'Disposal of Stan [Standard Oil] Investing stock.' "As discussed in
Chapter 3, Standard Oil of New Jersey had completed a major stock
transaction with Dulles's Nazi client, I.G.Farben. By the end of
January 1937 Dulles had merged all his cloaking activities into one
client account: 'Brown Brothers Harriman-Schroeder Rock.' Schroeder,
of course, was the Nazi bank on whose board Dulles sat.
The
'Rock' were the Rockefellers of Standard Oil, who were already coming
under scrutiny for their Nazi deals. By May 1939 Dulles handled
another problem for Brown Brothers, Harriman, their 'Securities
Custodian Accounts.' "If Dulles was trying to conceal how many Nazi
holding companies Brown Brothers, Harriman was connected with, he did
not do a very good job. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, word leaked from
Washington that affiliates of Prescott Bush's company were under
investigation for aiding the Nazis in time of war. " The government
investigation against Prescott Bush continued. " Under the Trading
with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation
were seized, including those held by Prescott Bush as being in effect
held for enemy nationals. Union Banking, of course, was an affiliate
of Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Bush handled the Harrimans'
investments as well."
http://callertimes.com/busarch/bus3595.html
Halliburton, Dresser

http://www.famoustexans.com/georgebush.htm
"George opted for a third family tie. He met with Henry Neil Mallon,
the president of Dresser Industries. Mallon offered George his first
job at Dresser subsidiary International Derrick and Equipment Company
(Ideco), in Odessa, Texas. Brown Brothers Harriman had underwritten
Dresser's transition from a private company to a publicly traded one.
Years later, George named a son after Mallon."
http://www.wsaccess.com/theStreet/stocks/topstories/19967.html
Halliburton at " The Houstonian George Bush's official residence"
http://www.caller-times.com/texas/tex2411.html
"Former administrators of President Bush donate to governor"
"'I'm a Texas voter, and I'm a Republican and I know him personally,"
said Cheney, who is now
chairman and CEO of the Halliburton Co. in Dallas."
http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm
"The Bush Nazi Connection"
http://dresser-rand.com/contact/Houston_drive.htm
"Directions to Dresser-Rand Houston From George Bush
Intercontinental Airport:"
"Who We Are | Our History | Dresser History - Three generations
of Bush family stand in front of a Dresser company airplane in West
Texas. Former President George Bush, center, received his first
job in the energy industry
http://www.halliburton.com/corp/about_dresserhistory4.asp