Epstein Secrets

the war in Vietnam was winnable, but soon he and Kissinger, knew they could not win the war, says Historian Mel Small, author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon. And employing "Newspeak" they embarked on what they called "Bombing for Peace." During this same period, Henry Kissinger was also one of the princ

inary chain of events: • General Motors, the world's largest company, went bust. • Washington Mutual became the world's largest bank failure. • Lehman Brothers became the world's largest bankruptcy ever. • The damage quickly spread around the world, shattering global confidence in the fundamental structur

et al.)? They rank almost four times as high on the trustworthy scale. To be fair, it's not as if politicians haven't earned the reputation -- from Richard Nixon ("I'm not a crook") to George H.W. Bush EFTA_R1_00298272 EFTA01883853 ("Read my lips") to Bill Clinton ("I did not have sexual relations with th

arketers. The guys who invented credit-default swaps and bundled your home loan into mortgage-backed securities (you know, the friendly bankers at Lehman Brothers et al.)? They rank almost four times as high on the trustworthy scale. To be fair, it's not as if politicians haven't earned the reputation -- from

erican League pennant in 1967. Died July 28. Peter Flanigan, 90. The former Dillon Read investment banker, who worked as deputy campaign manager for Richard Nixon’s successful 1968 presidential run, then joined the administration as an adviser on business and economic matters. Died July 29. Berthold Beitz, 99.

anaging director at Cantor Fitzgerald, he worked at Wasserstein Perella & Co., where he advised clients to sell Enron prior to its collapse, and at Lehman Brothers, where he warned colleagues in 2007 that the bank had taken on “far, far too much risk” by betting on the U.S. housing market. Died of an aneurysm o

S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, at Trump Tower in November 2016 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) After his election in 1968, President Richard Nixon asked Robert Morgenthau, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to resign. Morgenthau refused to leave voluntarily, saying it degrade

e wreckage of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. He inherited ongoing investigations into the collapse, including a probe against Lehman Brothers. He also inherited something he and his young charges found more alluring: mnsider-trading cases against hedge fund managers. His office focused obs