
471 - Poppy, Part 1 (11/12/20)
Chapo Trap House
Dresser, Dresser
Neil Malin was hired as president of Dresser Industries by Prescott Bush's father-in-law George Herbert Walker in 1948. Hiring decisions by the Bonesmen at the Harriman firm were presented as jolly and distinctly informed with Club and family being prime qualifications. American oil had driven the American war machine during World War II. The deal that FDR made with the Saudis, the Bitter Lake, Adam Curtis documentary goes into all of this after World War II,. which was to set in place like the dominant American foreign policy towards the Middle East for basically from then up until now.
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