Sidney Weinberg person
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Sidney Weinberg member_of
Goldman Sachs book_quoted
“The biggest businessmen in America indeed joined, but they didn't necessarily support all aspects of the New Deal because the New Deal was socialism. Roper was basically serving as a figurehead. The brains behind the actual Business Advisor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 7:15
Sidney Weinberg headed
Business Advisory Council book_quoted
“The biggest businessmen in America indeed joined, but they didn't necessarily support all aspects of the New Deal because the New Deal was socialism. Roper was basically serving as a figurehead. The brains behind the actual Business Advisor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 7:15
Sidney Weinberg recruited
Business Advisory Council book_quoted
“Goldman and Sachs, and also on the boards of about 30 different U.S. corporations. Weinberg helped organize the Business Advisory Council, known as the BAC. He recruited most of the members. He was content to let America's big business part…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 7:51
Sidney Weinberg member_of
Action: American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods book_quoted
“The most noted CFR members was Philip Graham of the Washington Post family and Stanley Marcus. They had a representative from the Business Advisory Council, Sidney Weinberg, on there. They had a lot of union bosses like Walter Reuther on th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 33:44
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▶ 7:15
The biggest businessmen in America indeed joined, but they didn't necessarily support all aspects of the New Deal because the New Deal was socialism. Roper was basically serving as a figurehead. The brains behind the actual Business Advisor…
▶ 7:51
Goldman and Sachs, and also on the boards of about 30 different U.S. corporations. Weinberg helped organize the Business Advisory Council, known as the BAC. He recruited most of the members. He was content to let America's big business part…
▶ 8:23
and be the face of the New Deal's new philosophy of government. He felt it important that all of the claims of it being socialism would be thwarted by having the businessmen on this BAC. Secretary of Commerce Roper was kind of disappointed …
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He wanted to be the face of the BAC, and he kind of had an ongoing rivalry with the role that Weinberg was playing in it because he was actually part of this network from New York City. Sidney Weinberg was very shrewd, and he had a definite…
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He treated it more like a social club, keeping the big businessmen under exposure of this new economic philosophy of the New Deal. He was waiting for just the right time to begin implementing most of the tenets that they wanted to do the gr…
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FDR developed his ambition to get into the war. Plans for America's frenzied spending on national defense began as early as 1939. There were huge government contracts that were being prepared. Weinberg had no trouble converting the Business…
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Among the members was Sidney Weinberg and General Lucius Clay. The result was historic. I tapped three of the business advisory council leaders for his cabinet. They were Charles Wilson of General Motors as defense secretary, George Humphre…
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The most noted CFR members was Philip Graham of the Washington Post family and Stanley Marcus. They had a representative from the Business Advisory Council, Sidney Weinberg, on there. They had a lot of union bosses like Walter Reuther on th…