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Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from the Top Down (incl. membership roster)

Friday, February 20, 2015 11:37

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An ethical person – like a politician, banker or lawyer – may know right from wrong, but unlike a politician, a moral person lives it. “Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person.” – Socialism http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/

Chairman,
Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Peter G. Peterson is chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and founder and chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, whose mission is to target “undeniable, unsustainable and untouchable”threats to the nation’s future and to future generations of Americans. He is chairman emeritus and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, a private investment banking firm. He is also founding chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and founding president of the Concord Coalition. Mr. Peterson was the co-chair of the Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise and was also chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2000 to 2004. Prior to founding Blackstone, Mr. Peterson was chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers(1973 –1984). He was chairman and CEO of Bell and Howell Corporation from 1963 to 1971. In 1971, President Richard Nixon named Mr. Peterson assistant to the president for international economic affairs. He was named secretary of commerce by President Nixon in 1972.

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