Sunday, February 24, 2008

Ephilution's Knights of Malta tidbits

Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs - US Ambassador to the Vatican; US Congressman, Louisiana; Smithsonian Institution Regent; Close Up Foundation Board of Advisors; Council of American Ambassadors
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Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as 'Lindy Boggs (born March 13, 1916) is a United States political figure who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as ambassador to the Vatican. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana.

She was the wife of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, in addition to being the mother of Cokie Roberts (a television news commentator), Tommy Boggs, (a prominent lobbyist), and the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate in the 1982 New Jersey Democratic senatorial primary election.

Lindy Boggs was born in Brunswick Plantation near New Roads, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans. She was a second cousin of the late New Orleans Mayor and Ambassador to the Organization of American States, deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr.

She first took office after the presumed death of her husband from a plane crash. The first bill that the House passed in 1973, House Resolution 1, officially recognized Hale Boggs's death, opening the door for a special election, which she won, running as a Democrat in the New Orleans-based 2nd District. She was elected to a full term in 1974 with 82% of the vote and was reelected seven times thereafter. She only dropped below 80% of the vote once, in 1980. In her last four campaigns, she faced no opposition at all, which was especially remarkable considering that the 2nd had been redrawn as a black-majority district after the 1980 United States Census.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed her official U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, a position she held until 2001.

In 2005, Boggs' home on Bourbon Street in New Orleans suffered moderate damage from Hurricane Katrina, but was left standing.

In 2006, Boggs was awarded the Congressional Distinguished Service Award.

In 1994, Mrs. Boggs was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, a year after her late husband had been among the original inductees. The Boggses were the first husband-wife team inducted but not in the same year. On January 27, 2007, the first husband-wife combination was jointly inducted, Charles and Virginia de Gravelles of Lafayette, who served as a Republican state chairman and the Louisiana Republican national committeewoman, respectively.







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Loyola selects Lindy Boggs Integritas Vitae Award recipient

The Hon. Corinne "Lindy" Claiborne Boggs, former Ambassador of the United States of America to the Holy See and U.S. Congresswoman, is this year's recipient of the Integritas Vitae Award. Loyola bestows the Integritas Vitae Award, the university's highest honor, to an individual who possesses a high moral character in a lifetime of unselfish service without expectation of material reward or public recognition. Recipients of this award have demonstrated courage of convictions and adherence to the principles of honesty, integrity, justice and preservation of human dignity throughout their lifetime. Ambassador Boggs will receive the award at the Benefactors Dinner scheduled for Thursday, November 14.

Throughout her professional career, Boggs has lived a life guided by the principles of the Jesuit tradition. She was born in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Sophie Newcomb College at Tulane University. The first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana, she served nine terms before retiring in 1990. She succeeded her husband, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, by special election in March 1973, after the plane carrying him disappeared over Alaska in October 1972.

As a member of Congress, Boggs served on the Appropriations Committee. She was also on the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families where she chaired the Crisis Intervention Task Force. She spearheaded legislation on issues ranging from civil rights to credit access and government service pay equity for women. She has a special interest in scientific research and technology development, and housing issues. The Lindy Claiborne Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology was dedicated in 1988 at Tulane University.

In 1976, Boggs was the first woman to chair the National Democratic Convention. She was also the first woman to serve as a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. She presided over the Bicentennial of the American Constitution in 1987 and chaired the commission commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Congress.

Boggs has long been associated with Loyola and has supported the university's mission. In 1999, the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy was dedicated at Loyola. The mission of the center is to enrich the lives of persons on public assistance by helping them achieve their full potential through literacy and contribute to a work force that will ensure a strong national economy. In April 2002, Boggs was the focal point of the inaugural program for the Center for the Study of Catholics in the South. The program, "A Southern Catholic Woman: Life in Politics and International Affairs," featured Boggs in an interview-style program with WWL-TV's Angela Hill in which Boggs recounted her life in politics and international affairs.

Boggs is a member of the Military and Hospitalier Order of St. Lazarus and the Order of Malta, the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the Constantinian Order of St. George, the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Foundation of the National Archives, the Stennis Center, and many other distinguished organizations.

The former ambassador's honors include the first American Veterans Auxiliary National Humanitarian Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Award, the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Service Award, the first annual International Women's Forum Award and the Louisiana Library Association's Literary Award for her book, Washington Through a Purple Veil.

She holds honorary degrees from 33 institutions, including Tulane, Loyola University New Orleans, Trinity College (District of Columbia), St. Mary of the Woods College (Indiana), St. Thomas University (Texas), St. Thomas Aquinas College (New York), Notre Dame University (Indiana), Georgetown Law Center (District of Columbia) and Xavier University of Louisiana.







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Lindy Boggs AKA Corinne Morrison Claiborne

Born: 13-Mar-1916
Birthplace: Pointe Coupee Parish, LA

Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: Politician, Diplomat
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congresswoman from Louisiana, 1973-91

Husband: Hale Boggs (d. 1972)
Daughter: Barbara Boggs Sigmund
Daughter: Cokie Roberts
Son: Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.

    High School: St. Joseph’s Academy, New Roads, LA (1931)
    University: BA, Tulane University (1935)

    US Ambassador to the Vatican (1997-2001)
    US Congressman, Louisiana 2nd (1973-91)
    Smithsonian Institution Regent
    Close Up Foundation Board of Advisors
    Council of American Ambassadors
    Knights of Malta
    Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority

Author of books:
Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman (1995, memoir)







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Boggs, Marie Corinne (Lindy) (D-LA) SMOM • U.S. House of Representatives (1973-91)
• Ambassador to the Vatican (1997-2001)
• mother of Cokie Roberts


 

 

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Frank Charles Carlucci III - US Secretary of Defense; White House National Security Advisor; CIA Deputy Director; US Ambassador to Portugal; Chairman o/t Carlyle Group; Director of Wackenhut and United Defense; Corporate and Political Centipede
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Carlucci, Frank Charles 

He was a naval officer from 1952 to 1954, joined the Foreign Service, and worked for the State Department from 1956 to 1969. In 1961 he participated in a CIA mission to the Congo, where he was involved in the operation to overthrow (and assassinate) Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba (followed up by 1001 Club member Mobutu). The assassination took place less than seven months after the Congo had declared its independence, with Lumumba as its first prime minister. In 1964 he is said to have been involved in the overthrow of the Brazilian Goulart government ("soft on communism"). Carlucci became Ambassador to Portugal, and served in this position from 1974 until 1977. Here he was accused of being involved in the (failed) 1975 coup of the right-wing General Spinola. Carlucci was an intermediary between Le Cercle member Henry Kissinger and Le Cercle member Spinola. During the early 1970s he became a protégé of Donald Rumsfeld and Caspar Weinberger (both probably are / were members of Le Cercle). He was undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare when Weinberger was secretary during the Nixon administration. Involved with the Institute for the Study of Conflict, which was established in 1975. Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978-1981, under CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who succeeded George Herbert Walker Bush. Carlucci was deputy defense secretary from 1981 until 1986, national security advisor from 1986 until 1987, and defense secretary in 1987, following the resignation of Weinberger, his nomination by President Ronald Reagan and his confirmation in the Senate by a vote of 91 to 1. He was reportedly less hard-line in policies toward the Soviet Union than Weinberger. Carlucci is Chairman emeritus of the Carlyle Group (board members included James Baker III, John Major, and George H.W. Bush) and Nortel Networks. He also has business interests in the following companies: General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Ashland Oil, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman. Carlucci is a former director of Wackenhut and a director at (the very corrupt) defense contractor United Defense (majority owned by Carlyle). Worked with Harold Okimoto, a high ranking member of the Yakuza, for many years. Affiliated with the Project for the New American Century, a think tank that's sets American policy to take over the world. Trustee of the RAND Corporation. Advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions. Member of the Atlantic Council of the United States.







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Frank Carlucci

Frank Carlucci AKA Frank Charles Carlucci III

Born: 18-Oct-1930
Birthplace: Scranton, PA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89

Military service: US Navy (1952-54)

Father: Frank Carlucci
Mother: Roxanne
Wife: Jean Anthony (m. 1954, div. 1974, one son, two daughters)
Son: Frank
Daughter: Karen
Daughter: Kristin
Wife: Marcia McMillan Myers (m. 1976)

    University: BA, Princeton University (1952)
    University: Harvard University

 
US Secretary of Defense (1987-89)
    White House National Security Advisor (1986-87)
    CIA Deputy Director (10-Feb-1978 to 5-Feb-1981)
    US Ambassador to Portugal (1975-78)
    Member of the Board of Ashland (1989-2003)
    Member of the Board of BDM International Inc. (1990-97)
    Member of the Board of Bell Atlantic (1989-97)
    Member of the Board of Carlyle Group (1989-, as Chairman, 1993-2003)
    Member of the Board of General Dynamics (1991-97)
    Member of the Board of IRI International (1994-2000)
    Member of the Board of Kaman Corporation (1989-)
    Member of the Board of Neurogen (1989-)
    Member of the Board of Nortel (1989-2000)
    Member of the Board of Pharmacia (2000-03)
    Member of the Board of Pharmacia & Upjohn (1995-2000)
    Member of the Board of Quaker Oats (1983-87 and 1989-2001)
    Member of the Board of Texas Biotechnology Corporation (1990-)
    Member of the Board of United Defense Industries (1997-)
    Member of the Board of Upjohn (1990-95)
    Member of the Board of Wackenhut
    Member of the Board of Westinghouse (1989-97)
    American Academy of Diplomacy Chairman Emeritus
    Association for Intelligence Officers Honorary Board of Directors
    Atlantic Council Honorary Director
    Council for a Community of Democracies Senior Advisor
    Drug Policy Alliance Honorary Board
    Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Board of Directors
    John O. Marsh Institute Honorary Member, Advisory Committee
    Knights of Malta
    Middle East Policy Council
    National Coalition on Health Care Board of Directors
    Public International Law and Policy Group Balkan Action Council
    Special Operations Warrior Foundation Board of Advisors
    Straight Talk America
    The Washington Center National Honorary Advisory Board







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New York City’s
Council on Foreign Relations
Shriner Freemason Peter G. Peterson, Chairman
Shriner Freemason David Rockefeller, Presider
Shriner Freemason Henry A. Kissinger, Presider
Shriner Freemason George H. W. Bush, Presider
Knight of Malta Alexander M. Haig, Presider
Knight of Malta William F. Buckley, Jr., Presider
Knight of Malta Frank C. Carlucci, Presider
Jesuit Joseph A. O’Hare, Presider
Freemason Jesse L. Jackson







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“The high-flying Carlyle Group has made fortunes doing deals with the Saudis. Among Carlyle’s top advisers have been former [SMOM] President George H. W. Bush; James Baker, his secretary of state; and [SMOM] Frank Carlucci, a former secretary of defense. If that wasn’t enough, there was the staggering amount of Saudi investment in America—as much as $600 billion in U.S. banks and stock markets.”







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Carlucci, Frank C. CFR, SMOM, BWC • chairmen emeritus, Carlyle Group
• Secretary of Defense (1987-89)
• National Security Advisor (1986-87)
• Deputy Director, CIA (1978-81)



 

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William Edward Simon, Jr - Assistant United States Attorney; Co-founded William E. Simon & Sons, a global merchant bank; Co-chair o/t William E. Simon Foundation.

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William Edward Simon, Jr. (born June 20, 1951), best known as Bill Simon, is an American businessman and politician. In 2002, Simon campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor of California as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Gray Davis. Billed as a "conservative Republican," the virtually unknown Simon's campaign was significantly boosted by support from better-known Republican officeholders from out of state, including former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Background

Simon was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of William E. Simon, Sr., the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Coincidentally, Simon was a childhood friend of current Democratic party chair Howard Dean.

Simon earned a B.A. from Williams College in 1973, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, and a J.D. from Boston College in 1982. From 1986 to 1988, Simon served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, working under then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani.

In 1988, Simon, together with his father and brother J. Peter Simon, co-founded William E. Simon & Sons, a global merchant bank. The two brothers are also the co-chairs of the William E. Simon Foundation.







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For all the aggression of his father's parenting style, Bill Simon Jr. followed him in his politics ("basically a chip off the old block in terms of his perspective," Feulner says); his deeply felt, conservative Catholicism (a Knight of Malta, Simon makes a pilgrimage to the cathedral in Lourdes, France, every year); and ultimately, his career.







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Bill Simon, Jr., the 2002 California Republican Gubernatorial candidate, delivered the annual Presidents' Day Address at the College before a packed St. Joseph Commons on February 17, 2003. Among other endeavors, Simon is Co-Chairman of the William E. Simon Foundation, founded by his deceased father to engage in a wide-variety of philanthropic interests. Like his father, Simon has been a loyal friend of the College, which he calls, "a sanctified island in a secular sea." He is a graduate of William's College and Boston College Law School. A Knight of Malta, he and his wife, Cynthia, have four children. Following is an abridged version of his remarks.


 

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Angus Daniel McDonald - President o/t Southern Pacific Company; Bohemian Grover; Trustee of Notre Dame
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Angus Daniel McDonald (April 14, 1878 – November 15, 1941) was president of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

McDonald attended the University of Notre Dame, where he was the first baseman and team captain for the baseball team, and the quarterback of the football team in 1899.

In 1931, McDonald was named a Knight of Malta by Pope Pius XI.


In World War II the United States liberty ship SS Angus McDonald was named in his honor.







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President of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Trustee of Notre Dame. Knight of Malta. Died in 1941.







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Angus Daniel McDonald (1878-1941)- Railroad pres. w/ all types of railroad leadership positions, Trustee of Notre Dame, Knight of Malta, member Bohemian Club


 

 

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Joseph Brennan - Chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York
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ITALY'S MYSTERIOUS, DEEPENING BANK SCANDAL

By PAUL LEWIS, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: July 28, 1982

As his financial difficulties mounted, the investigators assume Mr. Calvi needed the Vatican letters of comfort to reassure skeptical directors of his own bank that the lending program was sound and also to satisfy foreign lenders.

The real mystery, these sources say, is why Archbishop Marcinkus agreed to provide the letters of comfort that he knew could be used to make lenders think the Panamanian companies enjoyed Vatican backing, while at the same time demanding a secret letter from Mr. Calvi absolving the Vatican of any financial responsibility for what must have been looking by then like an increasingly risky operation. ''The Vatican must have known that the two letters could not be genuine at the same time; the deal was intended to defraud and to lead people astray,'' argued one senior Italian financial official.
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The Pope has already appointed a three-member lay commission to investigate the Vatican bank. It is made up of an American Roman Catholic, Joseph Brennan, a former chairman of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York; Phillipe de Wech, a former president of Switzerland's Union Bank, and Carlo Cirutti, an Italian civil servant with strong ties to the Vatican.







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KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS

THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
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Joseph Brennan is the Chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York and a Knight of Malta.







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Other prominent American Knights include:

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Joseph Brennan, former chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York. Brennan was a member of an independent commission appointed by the pope to study the relationship between the Vatican Bank and Italy's P-2 Masonic Lodge.







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A partial list of the Knights and Dames of Malta reads like a Who's Who of American Catholicism:
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Joseph Brennan - Chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York.







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BRENNAN JOSEPH

    * Cornwell,R. God's Banker. 1984 (209)
    * Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (35)
    * Gurwin,L. The Calvi Affair. 1984 (134)
    * Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (301)

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