The Atlantic Council was founded with the stated mission to encourage the continuation of cooperation between North America and Europe that began after World War II. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_…
In February 2009, James L. Jones, then-chairman of the Atlantic Council, stepped down in order to serve as President Obama's new National Security Advisor and was succeeded by Senator Chuck Hagel. In addition, other Council members also left to serve the administration:
Susan Rice as ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke as the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, General Eric K. Shinseki as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Anne-Marie Slaughter as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. Four years later,
Hagel stepped down to serve as US Secretary of Defense. Gen. Brent Scowcroft served as interim chairman of the organization's Board of Directors until January 2014, when former ambassador to China and governor of Utah Jon Huntsman Jr. was appointed.
•John F.W. Rogers, Chairman
•David McCormick, Chairman, International Advisory Board
•Frederick Kempe, President and CEO
•James L. Jones, Jr., Executive Chairman Emeritus
In 1994, Rogers joined Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Division and eventually became the
chief of staff to CEOs Jon S. Corzine, Henry Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein, and David M. Solomon. He was made a partner in 2000, and "has no revenue-generating responsibilities and strives to have virtually no public profile." He is said to have been United States Treasury Secretary
Paulson's closest advisor while at Goldman, as well as a member of United States Secretary of State James Baker's inner circle.
McCormicks wife Dina Powell joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 as a managing director, having been hired by John F. W. Rogers.
Powell was Deputy National
Security Advisor in the Trump Administration.
McCormick joined Bridgewater Associates in 2009. Since 2016 he has served as Co-CEO where he is responsible for overseeing the management of the firm.
From 2010 until early 2013, Bridgewater's general counsel was James Comey, former
United States Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013 to 2017.
Billionaire Ray Dalio showed up at Burning Man in a tie-dye fur coat and said it was like Woodstock but with 'less good music'
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Map of the Spanish Road. Brown arrows are the major routes passing through the Franche-Comté; blue arrows are the alternative routes alongside Rhine. Territories of Habsburg Spain are colored in orange; the territories of Habsburg-inherited Burgundy, including Franche-Comté and
Habsburg Netherlands, are colored in purple.
The Spanish Road was created by Philip II of Spain as a vital artery for the Spanish war effort during the Eighty Years' War against the Dutch Republic.
In 1560, Philip II organised a Holy League between the Spanish kingdoms and the
Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Papal States, the Duchy of Savoy and the Knights of Malta.
Philip's father arranged his marriage to 37-year-old Queen Mary I of England, Charles' maternal first cousin. His father ceded the crown of Naples, as well as his claim to
Robert Hale Merriman (November 17, 1908 – c. April 2, 1938) was an American doctoral student who fought with the Republican forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ha…
Battalion of the International Brigades.
In 1932, he wed Frances Marion Stone.
A member of left-wing groups at the University of California and friend of Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Hale Merriman was chosen to lead the volunteers in Spain. As few volunteers had any military
experience, Merriman's ROTC experience meant he took over the training of the 428-man Lincoln Battalion and, in late January, he became battalion commander. He held the rank of Captain of the Spanish Republic.
The 6'4" Merriman is believed to be have been the inspiration for
In 1963, Ralph J. Roberts in conjunction with his two business partners, Daniel Aaron and Julian A. Brodsky, purchased American Cable Systems as a corporate spin-off from its parent, Jerrold Electronics, for U.S. $500,000. At the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
time, American Cable was a small cable operator in Tupelo, Mississippi, with five channels and 12,000 customers.
The company was re-incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the new name Comcast Corporation.
Ralph Roberts was born on March 13, 1920, in New York City. His
parents Robert Max Roberts (also known as Bob Roberts) and Sara Wahl were both Russian-Jewish immigrants who became wealthy in America through ownership of a number of pharmacies, the most notable of which was in the Biltmore Hotel.
Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 – July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_D._Y…
He is known for the plan to settle Germany's World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsdiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until
1929.
Young represented Stone and Webster in a successful case against GE around 1911 and through that case came to the attention of Charles A. Coffin, the first president of General Electric.
In 1919, at the request of the government, he created the Radio Corporation of
Jeff Zucker kept the NBC network at Rockefeller Center ahead of the pack by airing the gross out show Fear Factor, negotiating for the cast of the hit series Friends to take the series up to a tenth season, and signing Donald Trump for the reality show The Apprentice.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), then
owned by General Electric (GE), NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., founder and financier of Rockefeller Center, arranged the deal with GE chairman Owen D. Young and RCA president David Sarnoff. When it moved into the
Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1948 by Russell H. and Sigurd F. Varian, William Webster Hansen, and Edward Ginzton to sell the klystron, the first vacuum tube en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_As…
which could amplify electromagnetic waves at microwave frequencies, and other electromagnetic equipment.
On April 20, 1948, the Articles of Incorporation were filed, signed by nine directors: Edward Ginzton, who had worked with the Varian brothers since his days as a doctoral
student; William Webster Hansen, Richard M. Leonard, an attorney; Leonard I. Schiff, then head of the physics department at Stanford University; H. Myrl Stearns, Russell H. Varian, his wife, Dorothy Varian, Sigurd F. Varian and Paul B. Hunter.