[Rhodes22-list] Politics

[Ronald Lipton]

Brown and root has a long, storied history of political influence.  B & 
R
was the company that backed Lyndon Johnson in his early house and
Senate campaigns.  His breakthrough on the national political scene
came in his leadership of the Democratic campaign committee; when
he was able to allocate unprecedented levels of money, largely provided
by B & R.  Their influence on Texas and national politics has been
continuous over the last 60+ years.

By the way, I will again recommend Robert Caro's LJB biography.  
Beautifully
resarched and written.

Ron
On Nov 11, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Brad Haslett wrote:

> Herb,
>
> Before it was Kellogg, Brown & Root, it was just Brown & Root.  You may
> remember, B & R was accused of getting sweetheart deals in Vietnam 
> from the
> Johnson administration.  Ah, some things never change.
>
> Here's my story with Brown & Root.  My first flying job (1975) was for 
> a
> company in Waco, TX that sold distribution transformers.  We did a lot 
> of
> military contracts because of our size (small) on set-aside contracts, 
> and
> also because we could make small production runs of odd voltage units. 
>  I
> was sent to Houston to the B & R hangar to pickup two engineers.  My
> airplane (a Cessna 310L) would fit under the wing of the smallest 
> thing B &
> R had on the ramp. I walked into their lobby, introduced myself, and
> inquired about Mr.SoandSos.  The one engineer looked at me and said, 
> "you're
> the co-pilot, right?"
>
> "No, sir, I'm the pilot."
>
> "How old is the co-pilot?" (I was 18 at the time)
>
> "There isn't one, I'm it."
>
> "Where's the airplane?"  I pointed to the 310, which I was quite proud 
> of,
> parked next to one of their G2's.
>
> "Bullshit, I'm not going!".  My boss got on the phone and finally 
> convinced
> them I wouldn't kill them and off we went.
>
> You are correct about KBR.  The division has been a drag on 
> Haliburton's
> core business.
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/11/06, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not only that, that division of the company is one of the poorest
>> performing division, and Haliburton has attempted to sell it off.
>>
>> But, it gives the empty talking heads something to talk about. I 
>> REALLY
>> get a kick out of the nonsense that Cheney sent us to Iraq to make 
>> money.
>> Doesn't exactly explain why he pulled us in the early 90's.
>>
>>
>> Herb Parsons
>>
>> S/V O'Jure
>> 1976 O'Day 25
>> Lake Grapevine, N TX
>>
>> S/V Reve de Papa
>> 1971 Coronado 35
>> Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
>>
>> >>> 3drecon at comcast.net 11/10/2006 7:15:23 pm >>>
>> With a 4.4% unemployment rate, I would say the economy isn't doing 
>> bad.
>> Revenues to the Federal Government are up (in spite of the tax cuts) 
>> and
>> people are working.  Under Clinton the ephemeral Dot.coms made money
>> without
>> hiring anyone and the unemployment rate stayed around 5.6%.  That is 
>> not a
>> bad unemployment rate either, but it isn't 4.4%.  The whole Haliburton
>> controversy is a shibboleth, a talking point.  At the time Haliburton 
>> was
>> selected for the contracts in Iraq they were the only ones capable of 
>> the
>> job.  That may have changed but I can't say.
>>
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
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>> Philip,
>> Economically he failed by increasing the national debt to record 
>> levels.
>> Normally a war time economy is considered good, but there were so that
>> profited
>> (Haliburton comes to mind) that it didn't create jobs or fuel the 
>> economy.
>>
>> Rummy
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