All the Presidents' Bankers (106 page)

Rockefeller, Margaretta “Happy,”
307

Rockefeller, Nelson,
186
,
188
,
190
,
249
,
280
,
292

Rockefeller, Neva,
256–257

Rockefeller, Percy,
84

Rockefeller, William,
3
,
27

Rockefeller, William Goodsell,
3

Rogers, William P.,
322

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
121

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

    
Aldrich, alliance with,
123–125

    
assassination attempt on,
118

    
bankers, alliance with,
126

    
banking reforms,
122–123
,
133
,
136–137

    
death of,
173

    
election of 1920,
67

    
election of 1932,
117

    
FDIC, concern about,
130

    
fireside chat about banking,
126

    
Glass-Steagall Act and,
122–125

    
New Deal,
132–133
,
145–146

    
Perkins, secret meeting with,
122–123

    
reelection in 1936,
149

    
reelection in 1940,
161

    
reelection in 1944,
173

    
Weinberg, alliance with,
117–118

    
Yalta Conference,
173

Roosevelt, James,
121

Roosevelt, Theodore,
5–6
,
7
,
8
,
12
,
31
,
46

Root, Elihu,
59
,
63

Rose, H. Chapman,
205

Rosen, Sarah,
382
,
384

Rostow, Walt “W. W.,”
236
,
238
,
264

Rousselot, John,
340–341

Royall, Kenneth,
189

Rubin, Robert

    
Citigroup, acting chairman of,
406

    
conflict of interest, accusation of,
390

    
deregulation, pursuit of,
375
,
387
,
388

    
Enron, deal involving,
398

    
Goldman Sachs, co-chairman of,
369

    
mergers, investigation of,
383

    
Mexican bailout,
374
,
380

    
National Economic Council, chairman of,
369

    
Obama, support for,
411–412

    
as Treasury Secretary,
373–374
,
380
,
383
,
387
,
388
,
389

Rusk, Dean,
231
,
235
,
257

Russian crisis,
386

Sadat, Anwar,
221
,
289

Saez, Emmanuel,
391

Salomon Brothers,
331
,
379

Sampson, Anthony,
218
,
228

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
400

Saudi Arabia,
244
,
291

Saunders, Stuart T.,
259
,
264
,
278

Savings and loan associations (S&Ls),
314
,
321
,
333–335
,
336
,
340–341
,
347
,
359

    
See also
Thrifts

Schaefer, Alfred,
271

Schiff, Jacob,
3
,
20
,
27
,
28

Schreyer, William,
366

Schultze, Charles,
303
,
306

Schumer, Charles “Chuck,”
365
,
385

Scott, John,
102

SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization), 1954,
257

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
139
,
141
,
240
,
348
,
363
,
396
,
418–419
,
420

Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
136–138

Sedgwick, Ellery,
54

Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
256

Seventeenth Amendment (1913),
34

Shadow banking,
234

Shaw, Leo,
222

Shelton, Arthur,
23

Sheperd, Howard,
222–223

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890,
6
,
263

Shipley, Walter,
365

Short-term profit-seeking,
18

Shultz, George,
284
,
286
,
294
,
326
,
329

Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association,
352

Simon, William,
291
,
294
,
322

Sinclair, Upton,
7

Sixteenth Amendment (1913),
34

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill,
233

Smith Barney,
379

Smithsonian Agreements (1971),
285–286

Snyder, John,
175
,
182
,
184
,
191
,
192

Social Security Act of 1935,
145

Social Security Administration,
132

Solomon, Anthony,
331
,
335

Soros, George,
367
,
386

Soviet Union,
194–195
,
233
,
235–236
,
242–243
,
256–257
,
287
,
313

Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry,
147

Special Coordination Committee (SCC),
312
,
313

Sperling, Gene,
382
,
383
,
384

Spitzer, Eliot,
401

Sproul, Allan,
163

Stabler, Charles,
336

Stagflation,
290

Stalin, Joseph,
173

Standard Brands,
129

Standard Oil Company,
2
,
3
,
6–7
,
75

Stanley, Harold,
144–145
,
187

Steagall, Henry,
116

Steel, Robert,
404

Sterling, John,
53

Stillman, Elsie,
3

Stillman, James,
3
,
5
,
10
,
21
,
27
,
44
,
53

Stimson, Henry,
88
,
176

Stock market crash of 1929,
85–87
,
96–100

Stock options,
363

Strauss, Albert,
58

Strong, Benjamin,
11
,
23
,
25
,
27
,
37

Subprime loans,
402
,
403
,
404
,
420

Suez Canal, Egypt,
218

Summers, Lawrence “Larry,”
352
,
373
,
383
,
387
,
389
,
390
,
413

Supreme Court, rulings of,
127
,
149

Sutherland, Peter,
386

Swift and Company,
141

Syndicated loans,
247–248
,
278
,
293
,
304
,
311
,
331

Syria,
221
,
224

Taft, William Howard,
18
,
19
,
25–26
,
28
,
31
,
33

Tarbell, Ida,
7

TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program),
411
,
414

Teapot Dome scandal,
74

Telecom Act of 1996,
375

Tennessee Coal and Iron Company,
12

Thain, John,
406
,
409

Third world

    
debt crisis,
332–333
,
338–339
,
349–350
,
356

    
exploitation of,
211–212
,
226–227
,
265
,
276
,
293
,
327

Thomas, E. R.,
8

Thrifts,
323
,
334
,
335–336
,
341
,
352
,
355–356

    
See also
Savings and Loans (S&Ls)

Title II (of Banking Act of 1935),
142

Title III (of Banking Act of 1935),
142–143

Tonkin Resolution (1964),
257

Tourre, Fabrice,
418

Townsend, John,
142

Trade Expansion Act of 1962,
241
,
256

Travelers,
381
,
384

Trilateral Commission,
275

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP),
411
,
414

Truman, Bess,
262

Truman, Harry S.

    
background,
173–174

    
defense contracts, financing of,
201–202

    
Four Points Plan,
190

    
Japan, invasion of,
176–177

    
Korean War, funding for,
200

    
Medicare card for,
262

    
relationship with Aldrich,
174
,
179
,
181

    
Truman Doctrine,
183

Trump, Donald,
360

Trust Company of America,
9–12

Trustbusting,
5–6

Truth in Securities Act of 1933,
132

Tumulty, Joseph Patrick,
38

Turner, Donald,
263

Union Pacific,
3

Union Steel Company,
74

Unitas,
171

United Corporation,
129

United Nations,
190

United States, post-World War II dominance of,
177

Untermyer, Samuel,
27–28
,
31

US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
235

US Steel,
2
,
12
,
238

U.S.S.R.
See
Soviet Union

Valenti, Jack,
265

Van Sweringen brothers,
88
,
89
,
129

Vance, Cyrus,
272
,
302
,
304
,
308
,
309–310
,
315

Vanderlip, Frank,
10
,
14–15
,
23–25
,
29–32
,
44
,
53
,
54
,
61–62

Venezuela,
293
,
354–355

Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
58
,
62
,
64
,
66
,
68
,
77

Victory Bond Drive,
166
,
168
,
169

Vietnam War,
255
,
257–260
,
265–268
,
270

Volcker, Paul,
328
,
330
,
333
,
338
,
343

Al-Waleed bin Talal, Prince,
292

Walker, George Herbert,
401
,
402