amicus
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I don’t even know how to do this…The best thing would be just to implore you to find a way to watch the Charlie Rose hour long interview with Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Since you probably didn’t watch it live and won’t look for it, I will give it my best shot…
I took three pages of notes…there are no commercial breaks, so I needed a smoke and a drink but I persevered …I think…
Alan Greenspan was 18 ½ years Chairman, he received eight million dollars up front for his book which he is busily promoting; a self described introvert and, Roxanne probably already knows, a Libertarian, of all things.
Greenspan dated Barbara Walters, married Andrea Mitchell and knew Ayn Rand for thirty years and she became his ‘mentor’, moving him intellectually away from Logical Positivism and Empiricism, to Objectivism, I suspect, although it was not spoken.
(I take good notes)
He described Ayn Rand, as rational and as ‘tough minded’, as any man he had ever met, and proclaimed her his mentor in epistemology, acknowledged Locke, Hume and Adam Smith and Ayn Rand as his influential intellectual foundations, mentioned that Mathematics and Mozart had a cerebral connection beyond reason and emotion.
I am trying to function in a ‘reportorial’ style here, remaining unbiased and objectively relating what I saw and heard and it ain’t easy.
You need to watch this yourself. There is just too much to relate.
Greenspan replaced Paul Volker, former Fed. Chairman in about 1987, about the end of the Cold War, which, according to Greenspan, changed everything.
Then the conversation bounced around a little bit from Populism, inflation, unemployment, referring to the Carter years, then an analysis of the Nixon and Ford administrations, Nixon a brilliant man but a schizophrenic with deep hatreds and Ford, probably the most ‘normal’ man to ever occupy the White House.
A discussion of Kissinger, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and several others in previous administrations…somehow they began talking about post 9/11 and the general consensus that subsequent terrorist attacks were expected against the US.
Then Charlie Rose showed his cleverness and his bias, he asked about administration officials admitting mistakes in judgment concerning retaliation following 9/11, smooth Charlie.
There is a lot more, but if I have not lost your interest thus far, if I continue, I will, thus…
“Was the Iraq War about oil?” asked Charlie Rose.
“Yes, but not in the way you mean.” answered Greenspan.
Saddam Hussein, even after the first Gulf War, was still determined to control the oil resources in the region and was seeking nuclear weapons from the now defunct armories of the Soviet Union; he had to be deposed.
“Saddam was of far greater importance than Osama Bin Laden and had to be contained…”
Greenspan, speaking as a Libertarian, bemoaned the sacrifice of some civil liberties for security against terrorism. He felt the Republican Congressional majority failed their conservative heritage by over spending and that Bush failed to veto a Republican Congress as he should have.
Greenspan noted that the world saw the difference between East and West Berlin when the wall came down and socialism died on that day; “everyone noticed…” the difference between east and west.
There is much, much more of that interview that I could write. If I were given so many column inches to fill, I would have to condense what I have already condensed, perhaps you can understand.
Amicus…
Since you probably didn’t watch it live and won’t look for it, I will give it my best shot…
I took three pages of notes…there are no commercial breaks, so I needed a smoke and a drink but I persevered …I think…
Alan Greenspan was 18 ½ years Chairman, he received eight million dollars up front for his book which he is busily promoting; a self described introvert and, Roxanne probably already knows, a Libertarian, of all things.
Greenspan dated Barbara Walters, married Andrea Mitchell and knew Ayn Rand for thirty years and she became his ‘mentor’, moving him intellectually away from Logical Positivism and Empiricism, to Objectivism, I suspect, although it was not spoken.
(I take good notes)
He described Ayn Rand, as rational and as ‘tough minded’, as any man he had ever met, and proclaimed her his mentor in epistemology, acknowledged Locke, Hume and Adam Smith and Ayn Rand as his influential intellectual foundations, mentioned that Mathematics and Mozart had a cerebral connection beyond reason and emotion.
I am trying to function in a ‘reportorial’ style here, remaining unbiased and objectively relating what I saw and heard and it ain’t easy.
You need to watch this yourself. There is just too much to relate.
Greenspan replaced Paul Volker, former Fed. Chairman in about 1987, about the end of the Cold War, which, according to Greenspan, changed everything.
Then the conversation bounced around a little bit from Populism, inflation, unemployment, referring to the Carter years, then an analysis of the Nixon and Ford administrations, Nixon a brilliant man but a schizophrenic with deep hatreds and Ford, probably the most ‘normal’ man to ever occupy the White House.
A discussion of Kissinger, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and several others in previous administrations…somehow they began talking about post 9/11 and the general consensus that subsequent terrorist attacks were expected against the US.
Then Charlie Rose showed his cleverness and his bias, he asked about administration officials admitting mistakes in judgment concerning retaliation following 9/11, smooth Charlie.
There is a lot more, but if I have not lost your interest thus far, if I continue, I will, thus…
“Was the Iraq War about oil?” asked Charlie Rose.
“Yes, but not in the way you mean.” answered Greenspan.
Saddam Hussein, even after the first Gulf War, was still determined to control the oil resources in the region and was seeking nuclear weapons from the now defunct armories of the Soviet Union; he had to be deposed.
“Saddam was of far greater importance than Osama Bin Laden and had to be contained…”
Greenspan, speaking as a Libertarian, bemoaned the sacrifice of some civil liberties for security against terrorism. He felt the Republican Congressional majority failed their conservative heritage by over spending and that Bush failed to veto a Republican Congress as he should have.
Greenspan noted that the world saw the difference between East and West Berlin when the wall came down and socialism died on that day; “everyone noticed…” the difference between east and west.
There is much, much more of that interview that I could write. If I were given so many column inches to fill, I would have to condense what I have already condensed, perhaps you can understand.
Amicus…
