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John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, (January 15, 1920 – May 3, 2000) was the eleventh bishop (eighth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, serving from 1984 until his death in 2000. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.

Background

O'Connor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a family of Irish descent, and after studying at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary he was ordained a priest on 15 December 1945. He was initially assigned to St. James High School in Chester, Pennsylvania. He obtained a master's degree in advanced ethics from Villanova University and a doctorate in political science at Georgetown University in 1970 where he wrote his dissertation under future United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and took classes at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. During his career he also performed the rite of exorcism.

He joined the United States Navy in 1952 as a Korean War chaplain, often entering combat zones in order to perform Mass and administer last rites to soldiers. He rose through the ranks to become rear admiral and chief of Navy chaplains. O'Connor was made a Prelate of Honor of His Holiness (monsignor) on 27 October 1966. On 24 April 1979 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and titular bishop of Cursola; O'Connor was personally consecrated to the episcopate on 27 May 1979 by John Paul II, with Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy and Eduardo Martínez Somalo as co-consecrators, in St. Peter's Basilica. He was named Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania on 6 May 1983, and installed in that position on the following 29 June. On 26 January 1984 O'Connor was promoted to Archbishop of New York, and installed on March 19. He was elevated to Cardinal Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paulo the next year, on 25 May 1985. He never had the opportunity to participate in a papal conclave.

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Ecumenism

O'Connor was active in interfaith and ecumenical relations. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs called him, "a true friend and champion of Catholic-Jewish relations [and] as a humanitarian who used the power of his pulpit to advocate for disadvantaged people throughout the world and in his own community."[citation needed] He strongly denounced anti-Semitism, and wrote an apology to Jewish leaders in New York for past harm done to the Jewish community.[citation needed]

O'CONNOR-His Eminence John Cardinal. The officers, Board of Councillors, area chairmen and members of the American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta express their profound sorrow at the passing of their Conventual Chaplain His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor. His dedication to the Order and his work on behalf of the sick and the poor and his dedication to the sanctification of life will be with us always. Our prayers are with the members of his family.

O'CONNOR-John, Cardinal. The Pro Life Committee of the American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta mourn the death of our beloved friend John, Cardinal O'Connor. He was a gentle man of great conviction. A glorious protector of human life from its beginning to its natural end. Lucy Flemming McGrath, D.M. Chairperson

In May 1984, when Managua's Cardinal Obando y Bravo was visiting Cardinal John O'Connor in New York, a Grace representative was dispatched to meet with the Nicaraguan to discuss his request for money for his archdiocese's leadership formation programs. No friend of the Sandinistas, the cardinal painted the situation in Nicaragua in the blackest terms, according to a memorandum of the conversation sent to Grace. The memo recommended that funds from the Sarita Kenedy East Foundation, of which Grace had partial control, be used to support the cardinal's programs since they "represent the best organized opposition in Nicaragua."

Some $30,000 was reportedly earmarked for the Managua archdiocese, but the plan was ruined by public revelation of the memo and Obando's meeting with a Grace representative. In the end, the aid was limited to a shipment of rosaries that was confiscated by Nicaraguan customs. Although Obando later claimed that he had never solicited money from W.R. Grace, the memorandum from Peter Grace's representative, John Meehan, clearly showed that Obando had hoped to obtain substantial financial support from the Catholic millionaire.

O'Connor, who is SMOM's current "Grand Protector," strongly supported Obando and saw nothing untoward in making the archdiocese's offices available for the 90 minute interview with Meehan. As a close associate of the cardinal explained, O'Connor believed in respect for the hierarchy, and he "implicitly trusted" Obando, whereas he felt "total repugnance" for the so called "popular church" that supported the Sandinista government.

On the other hand, said his associate, O'Connor was not unaware "of the horror stories about the contras," and he supported the policy of the U.S. bishops" conference in opposing aid to the contras.

WASHINGTON -- The rift between the leadership of the American Association of the Knights of Malta and its membership, which first came to light in November, is widening.

Twenty-one of the order's 28 area chairmen have called for the resignation of the New York-based association's president, William Flynn, his board and administration, exacerbating a dispute that was outlined in earlier correspondence obtained by NCR (see NCR Nov. 14, 1997).

While Flynn's supporters include the knights' conventual chaplain, New York Cardinal John O'Connor, and the knights' grand master, Andrew Bertie in Rome, the 21 area chairmen represent 85 percent of the American Association's 1,000-plus membership.

Perhaps the best of Reagan’s one-liners came after he attended his last ceremonial dinner, with the Knights of Malta in New York City on January 13, 1989. The evening’s m.c., a prominent lay Catholic, was rendered so emotional by wine that he waved aside protocol and followed the President’s speech with a rather slurry one of his own. It was to the effect that Ronald Reagan, a defender of the rights of the unborn, knew that all human beings begin life as “feces.” The speaker cited Cardinal John O’Connor (sitting aghast nearby) as “a fece” who had gone on to greater things. “You, too, Mr. President—you were once a fece!”

En route back to Washington on Air Force One, Reagan twinklingly joined his aides in the main cabin. “Well,” he said, “that’s the first time I’ve flown to New York in formal attire to be told I was a piece of shit.”

Cardinal Egan, a staunch supporter of the "infallible" Pope's Temporal Power and the Jesuit General's evil Council of Trent, will continue the Great Jesuit Cover-up, even as his predecessors, Cardinals Spellman, Cooke and O'Connor. This power is exercised through New York's Council on Foreign Relations, as both former Presidential candidates, Albert Gore and George W. Bush are under its control. Both candidates were also present (along with former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary) during Cardinal O'Connor's funeral overseen by the Knights of Malta at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

THE KNIGHTS OF BUSINESS

In a crop of corporate dramas, Knights of Malta are everywhere

When W.R. Grace & Co. Chief Executive J.P. Bolduc sensed a few months ago that his strained relations with Chairman J. Peter Grace were putting his job in jeopardy, he took his case to a rather unorthodox authority: John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. At Bolduc's request, the cardinal asked Grace to patch things up, hoping to avoid the scandals and the corporate upheaval that have since cost both men their jobs.

Project REACH, a pro-life organization based in midtown Manhattan, began with the vision and fi nancial support of Knight James P. Manning and the late Dame Eileen Manning who sought to address the abortion crisis in New York City, where nearly half of all pregnancies end in abortion. The project was championed by the late John Cardinal O’Connor, who welcomed a fresh coordinated response to the abortion crisis. Funding provided by the Order of Malta has been matched dollar for dollar by the Manning’s to reach abortion-bound women with counseling and materi-
al support. A $40,000 grant from Knight John Kaneb helped to launch a challenging semester-long certifi cation program for pregnancy center counselors, to ensure that women considering abortion were given accurate information regarding the risks and alternatives to abortion procedures. The college-level course is now available nation-
wide. Project Reach has since been designated as one of the offi cial projects of the New York Area of the Order of Malta.

OCONNOR JOHN CARDINAL

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he became an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and a spokesman for General Electric (GE). His start in politics occurred during his work for GE; originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.

As president, Reagan implemented new political initiatives as well as economic policies, advocating a limited government and economic laissez-faire philosophy, but the extent to which these ideas were implemented is debatable. The supply side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", included substantial tax cuts implemented in 1981. After surviving an assassination attempt and ordering controversial military actions in Grenada, he was re-elected in a landslide victory in 1984.

Reagan's second term was marked by the ending of the Cold War, as well as a number of administration scandals, notably the Iran-Contra Affair. The president ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union, forgoing the previous strategy of détente. He publicly portrayed the USSR as an "evil empire" and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide. Despite his rejection of détente, he negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to shrink both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan left office in 1989; in 1994 the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died ten years later at the age of ninety-three, and ranks highly among former U.S. presidents in terms of approval rating.

Ironically, in recent years a belief in the Catholic faith has not been an essential prerequisite for potential members who have the right connections. Non-aristocratic parties can now be initiated by the "Magistral Grace" of the Grand Master, although not in Britain, Germany and other European countries with a strong tradition of nobility. However, this has allowed many Americans to join, and an "Order of Merit" is bestowed upon those who have outstandingly served the Knights or their works. Past Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush are such honorary initiates, and Reagan was the toast of an extravagant dinner held by the Order in 1989.

In 1989, the American Association received national recognition when His Most Eminent Highness Fra’ Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, Grand Master of the Order, presented President Ronald Reagan with the Collar of the Order pro Merito Melitense. This presentation at the Association’s annual dinner was the first time in the Order’s history that an American President had formally recognized the Order. According to the Association’s president, J. Peter Grace, “The President … [received] this award for his vigorous defense of the pro-life cause during his eight years in office, his commitment to Christian moral principles, and his dedication to traditional family values[12]”. Perhaps, Reagan’s remarks provided one of the best insights into this Order[13].

Cardinal and Reagan

LEAD: President Reagan is to be interviewed during his stay in New York this weekend by John Cardinal O'Connor. Mr. Reagan is in New York to receive an award from the Knights of Malta. The interview is to be shown on ''Face to Face With John Cardinal O'Connor'' on Channel 2 at 7:30 A.M. Sunday. Cardinal O'Connor is expected to speak with the President about religious issues during Mr. Reagan's tenure and how his beliefs influenced his leadership.

Uncivil Liberties
Trillin, C. | February 13, 1989 issue

The article focuses on government's policy for the homeless in the U.S. Cardinal John O'Connor of New York asked President Ronald Reagan the other day about criticism that his Administration had made virtually no effort at all to build housing for the homeless. This was when the President was a guest on the Cardinal's television show just before receiving an award in New York from the Knights of Malta of America, which was described in the newspaper as an organization dedicated to serving the sick and the poor. Reagan explained to the Cardinal that most of the people who live on the street are there because they prefer that way of life.

Perhaps the best of Reagan’s one-liners came after he attended his last ceremonial dinner, with the Knights of Malta in New York City on January 13, 1989. The evening’s m.c., a prominent lay Catholic, was rendered so emotional by wine that he waved aside protocol and followed the President’s speech with a rather slurry one of his own. It was to the effect that Ronald Reagan, a defender of the rights of the unborn, knew that all human beings begin life as “feces.” The speaker cited Cardinal John O’Connor (sitting aghast nearby) as “a fece” who had gone on to greater things. “You, too, Mr. President—you were once a fece!”

En route back to Washington on Air Force One, Reagan twinklingly joined his aides in the main cabin. “Well,” he said, “that’s the first time I’ve flown to New York in formal attire to be told I was a piece of shit.”

Reagan, Ronald BGC, SMOM • 40th President of the United States (1981-89)
• member, United World Federalists
• Committee on the Present Danger
• D. 2004

The Order of Merit pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a knightly order of merit established in 1920. It is awarded to men and women who have brought honour and prestige to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or actively promoted Christian values or works of charity in the Christian tradition as defined by the Roman Catholic Church. Although, strictly speaking, honorees become knights or dames, they are not invested in a religious ceremony as knights and dames of the Order of Malta itself (which is a military order of chivalry); therefore the Order pro Merito Melitensi (sometimes "Melitense") may be bestowed upon non-Catholics. Conferees include prominent statesmen, such as Ronald Reagan (who received it while still in office) and George H.W. Bush. The Order of Merit has certain ranks (such as knight commander) no longer used in the Order of Malta, and has no nobiliary grades. In this way it is comparable to numerous orders of merit around the world, including the Papal orders.

Remarks at the Annual Dinner of the Knights of Malta in New York, New York

January 13, 1989

Your Eminences, Your Excellency, Your Most Eminent Highness, President Peter Grace, and ladies and gentlemen, tonight for me is a moment from humility: to stand here before you, the members of the most ancient order of its kind in the world, formed in the Holy Land 900 years ago -- or as some of us would say, only yesterday. [Laughter] But to stand in this way before the members of this order with its remarkable history, which speaks to the entire ebb and flow of Western civilization, and its noble present, which is a monument to the highest values of free men and women, is to be reminded once again that the only true calling of man is service to God, and to have served in that calling is cause not for pride but for gratitude.

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Thomas Stephen "Tom" Monaghan (born March 25, 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an entrepreneur and Catholic philanthropist who founded Domino's Pizza in 1960.

Monaghan sold Domino's in 1998 and has subsequently dedicated his time and considerable fortune to Catholic philanthropy and political causes. A champion of the pro-life cause, Monaghan has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on philanthropy and activism, which has garnered both appreciation and criticism.[1] He and his wife, Marjorie Zybach, were married in 1962 and have four adult daughters.

Early life and business career

After his father died, Monaghan's mother had difficulties raising him alone, and Monaghan ended up in St. Joseph Home for Children in Jackson, Michigan, run by the Felician Sisters of Livonia. The nuns there inspired his devotion to the Catholic faith and later he entered a minor seminary, with the desire to eventually become a priest. Subsequently, he was expelled from the seminary for a series of disciplinary infractions.[1]

Domino’s Pizza

Monaghan enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1956 by mistake; he had meant to join the Army.[2] He received an honorable discharge in 1959. He then returned to Ann Arbor, Michigan and enrolled in the University of Michigan, intending to become an architect.[2] While still a student, he and his brother James borrowed $500 to purchase a small pizza store called DomiNick's in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This business would grow into Domino's Pizza. Tom later traded his brother James a Volkswagen Beetle for his half of the business.[3] A car like the one he traded now resides inside the main entrance into the Dominos World Resource Center in Ann Arbor.

Detroit Tigers owner

In 1983, Monaghan bought the Detroit Tigers, who won the World Series a year later. He became close to Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who remained a close friend, business associate and participant in his many philanthropic works.[4] Monaghan ultimately sold the Tigers to his competitor Mike Ilitch of Little Caesar's Pizza in 1992. Combining his passion for pizza and baseball, his 1986 autobiography was titled Pizza Tiger.
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Religious awakening

After reading Mere Christianity by Christian author C. S. Lewis in 1989, Monaghan was shaken by what he considered his sinful pride and ego. He took two years off from Domino's to examine his life and explore religious goals.[citation needed]

Despite his enormous wealth, Monaghan divested himself of most of his ostentatious material possessions. He gave up his lavish office suite at Domino's headquarters, replete with leather-tiled floors and an array of expensive Wright furnishings, turning it into a corporate reception room. He also ceased construction on a huge Wright-inspired mansion that was to be his home. (The house remains half-finished.)[2] He also built a mission in a Honduras mountain town, and funded and supervised the construction of a new cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, after the old cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake.

He returned to Domino's in 1991 after its fortunes worsened and the company bounced right back.[2] He infuriated the National Organization for Women (NOW) by donating to pro-life causes.[citation needed] NOW called for a boycott of Domino's, but it is unclear what effect, if any, that had on the company's sales.[6] Domino's spokeswoman Holly Ryan said the company has posted record sales every year it had been in business.[citation needed] Monaghan sold his controlling stake in Domino's Pizza in 1998 to Bain Capital, an investment firm based in Boston, for an estimated $1 billion, stepping away from a pizza empire he grew from a single shop to about 6,100.[2]

Philanthropy

Monaghan is a Catholic with a particular interest in pro-life causes and the appointment of pro-life Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1983 he established the Mater Christi Foundation, today known as the Ave Maria Foundation.[7] It is a private foundation formed to focus on Catholic education, Catholic media, community projects and other Catholic charities.

He helped form Legatus,[8] an organization of Catholic business leaders to promote the ideals of the Catholic Church in society. The name was taken from the Latin word for ambassador. Legatus was to serve as a spiritual resource and social community for "top-ranking Catholic business leaders". The idea came after Monaghan received Holy Communion from Pope John Paul II in his private papal chapel at the Vatican in 1987. Today there are 60 chapters in the U.S. and Canada which encompass nearly 1,500 members who represent over 750 major firms.

That Vatican visit moved him so much he returned to the United States committed to promoting the Catholic faith. He soon established Ave Maria Radio,[9] the Ave Maria List[10] pro-life political action committee, and the Thomas More Law Center,[11] a public interest law firm focused on defending the rights of Christians. The foundation donates resources to help alleviate poverty in Central and South America. In addition, his foundation established the Spiritus Sanctus Academies.[12] These elementary schools are administered by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.[13] This order of teaching sisters has benefited from Monaghan's philanthropy. In 10 years, it has grown rapidly, from 4 to 70 nuns.

The Ave Maria Foundation has subsequently fine-tuned its focus to higher education, and has established both a university and a law school. Along with that change in focus, many of the other non-profit entities that the Ave Maria Foundation established have become independent or are in the process of being weaned from Ave Maria Foundation grants. This narrowing of focus and the recent geographic re-alignment to Florida (see below) have ignited no small amount of controversy among those who share his religious convictions.

The Ave Maria School of Law,[14] located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, opened its doors in 2000, and received full accreditation from the American Bar Association in 2005, the earliest possible date under ABA rules. The school was a dream of several professors from the University of Detroit Mercy, who publicly left that institution when it allowed several pro-choice members of the Michigan Supreme Court to appear at the school's annual "Red Mass." Professors Stephen Safranek, Mollie Murphy, Richard Myers and Joseph Falvey, setting out to form a new orthodox Catholic law school, presented their idea to Monaghan (who had previously been a strong supporter of opening a new law school at Franciscan University) to provide significant funding through his Ave Maria Foundation. Together they enlisted Bernard Dobranski, Dean at The Catholic University of America's law school and former Dean of Detroit Mercy's Law School, to lead up the new school as dean. Monaghan would serve as president of the school's Board of Governors.

Faculty members include noted conservative legal scholar and Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert Bork. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia assisted in developing the school's curriculum, and the school's first annual Ave Maria Lecture was presented by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1999. The school's stated goal is to educate competent moral attorneys who will influence all aspects of the legal profession and advance natural law theory.

As a step to fulfilling his dream of creating a new Catholic university, Monaghan founded Ave Maria College[15] in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In various attempts to accelerate accreditation, Monaghan acquired St. Mary's College of Orchard Lake and a campus in Nicaragua, renamed Ave Maria College of the Americas.

Due to lack of funding, the college, against faculty and student protests, is in the process of "winding down" in preparation for a 2007 closure. Although the college continues to operate in Ypsilanti, as promised, through the 2006/2007 academic year, the current president has told students that graduating from Ave Maria College will mean receiving a substandard educational experience. To date, alternative funding has not been secured to prevent the school's closure. St. Mary's College was sold and is now under the auspices of nearby Madonna University.

The orchestral Ave Maria Mass,[16] by composer Stephen Edwards, was commissioned by Monaghan "to express in music the spiritual commitment behind the founding of Ave Maria College and Ave Maria School of Law." This mass has now been dedicated by the composer to the victims of September 11.

Monaghan publicly promotes daily attendance at Mass, daily recitation of the rosary and frequent sacramental confession. He has also committed to spending what remains of his $1 billion fortune on philanthropic endeavors.

"Morally responsible investing"

Monaghan helped to establish the Ave Maria Mutual Funds by asking friend George P. Schwartz of Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. to launch the Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund in May 2001. There are now five Ave Maria Mutual Funds. They are described as targeted at investors seeking to place their money in companies whose operations are in keeping with the core teachings of the Catholic Church. The fund calls their shareholders "morally responsible investors." The funds are open to individual investors with a $1,000 minimum investment.

Monaghan is a member of the Catholic Advisory Board. The board sets the religious criteria that screen companies before the funds will invest in them. Involvement with contraception, non-marital partner employee benefits, pornography, and abortion are some issues that disqualify a company from the fund. Lou Holtz, Larry Kudlow, Michael Novak, Phyllis Schlafly and Paul Roney are the other members of the Funds' Catholic Advisory Board. Cardinal Maida (of Detroit) is the board's ecclesiastic advisor.

Ave Maria, Florida

Monaghan had originally sought to establish the Ave Maria University[17] in Ann Arbor, at Domino's Farms, the large corporate office park that he owned and leased to Domino's Pizza. Local officials refused to approve the zoning change, forcing him to look elsewhere for a site. Eventually community leaders in Collier County, Florida, offered him a large undeveloped tract of land thirty miles east of Naples, Florida to develop the university.

In February 2006, ground was broken for the new Catholic university and town, Ave Maria, Florida.[18] Monaghan controls all commercial real estate in the town, and plans to build 11,000 homes, an oratory, and several businesses. Pulte Homes has been signed up to build most of the private homes. Monaghan said in 2005 that any town retailers would not be allowed to sell contraceptives or pornography, a statement which drew fire from the ACLU.[19] Threatened with lawsuits, Monaghan has since modified his stance on how tightly commerce will be controlled in the town.[20] Defenders of Wildlife has also challenged the development, stating it is destroying habitat of the endangered Florida Panther.[21]

The pizza pope's utopia

Tom Monaghan stands in front of his office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1996. Photograph: Tom Pidgeon/AP

The US entrepreneur who made $1bn after founding the Domino Pizza chain is a man with a utopian vision.

Tom Monaghan - nicknamed the pizza pope by the media - has a £230m plan to build the first town in the US to be run according to strict Catholic principles.

A recent post at Dancing on the Head of a Pin showed the plans for the town of Ave Maria, Florida, being built around the new Ave Maria University. The $200 million plans are being funded by Domino's founder Thomas Monaghan as what the Ave Maria website describes as "the first modern town to be developed in conjunction with a University."

THE KNIGHTS OF BUSINESS
In a crop of corporate dramas, Knights of Malta are everywhere

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``SELECT COMPANY.''

Prominent knights dot the business and political landscapes. Lee A. Iacocca, a knight for decades, is part of a bid by investor Kirk Kerkorian to take over Chrysler Corp., whose directors include at least one other knight--former Health, Education & Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano. Other knights include Domino's Pizza founder Thomas Monaghan, Chase Manhattan CEO Thomas Labrecque, and public-relations maven Robert Dilenschneider, who counts W.R. Grace as a client.

Largely through this foundation, Monaghan also provided $3.5 million
of the $4.5 million cost of a new cathedral--to replace one destroyed in
a 1972 earthquake--for Managua's Cardinal Obando y Bravo. Monaghan
offered the money in response to an appeal issued by President Violeta
Charmorro after she defeated the Sandinistas in the national elections.
Chamorro and the cardinal have also enjoyed substantial support from
other key elements of the Catholic right-wing.

Monaghan has also provided at least $100,000 for the televangelism
programs of Word of God-Sword of the Spirit cofounder Ralph Martin, who
serves with him on the FUS board, and of Sword of the Spirit
televangelist Fr. John Bertolucci. Both Martin and Monaghan were
inducted into the Knights of Malta in the late 1980s and participated in
a January 199 ceremony which featured a keynote address by outgoing US
president Ronald Reagan.

For Mr. Monaghan, the late 1980's were a time when his interest in managing Domino's day to day was waning, while his Catholic activism was rising. He underwrote construction of a mission in the Honduran mountain town of San Pedro Sula and paid $3.5 million of the $4.5 million cost of building a cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, that was favored by the conservative Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo and opposed by liberal Catholics.

In 1988, he was made a Knight of Malta, thus joining an international charitable group with a conservative cast. He also hired several members of the Word of God, a charismatic Catholic group active in right-wing causes, though Mr. Monaghan says he was never a member himself.

John Paul II has most likely been briefed by the archconservative cardinal of Managua, Miguel Obando y Bravo. Obando financed the construction of a huge cathedral by accepting a land donation from the neoliberal government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and huge sums of money from Tom Monaghan, the Domino's pizza magnate and a Knight of Malta.

Sir Thomas Monaghan of Detroit, founder of Domino’s
Pizza announced that he is retiring so that he can devote
his time to charity. “At the age of 61, reflecting on my life
and the goals I have yet to fulfill, I have decided to retire
from active involvement in Domino’s and devote more time
to my charitable endeavors”.

Jefferson Caffery (December 1, 1886 – April 13, 1974) served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador (1926-1928), Colombia (1928-1933), Cuba (1934-1937), Brazil (1937-1944), France (1944-1949), and Egypt (1949-1955).

Career

Caffery launched his career of international diplomacy in 1911 when he entered the Foreign Service as second secretary of the legation in Caracas in 1911 during the William Howard Taft administration.

He traveled to Persia (now Iran) in 1916, to Paris after World War I with President Wilson’s peacemakers, then to Washington, D.C., to arrange details for visits by the King of Belgium and the Prince of Wales. In 1920, he was named second-in-command at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. In 1933, Caffery briefly served as assistant secretary of state under Cordell Hull. Throughout his career he also had worked in lower-ranking diplomatic posts in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, Persia, Sweden, and Venezuela.

In total, he worked 43 years in foreign service under five presidents, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower.

He was awarded the Foreign Service Cup in 1971 by his fellow Foreign Service officers. He held several honorary degrees and decorations, including the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, in 1954. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from the president of France in 1949 and the Order of the Cordon of the Republic from the president of Egypt in 1955.

Personal life

Caffery was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Charles Duval Caffery and the former Mary Catherine Parkerson. He was privately educated in primary and secondary school. He was a member of the first graduating class of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then called the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute). He also graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1906. He was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1909.

According to one account, Caffery was bisexual. The source reports that in the 1930s William Wieland, a U.S. State Department official known in Cuba as Arturo Montenegro, was intimate with Caffery and his predecessor Sumner Welles.[1]

Caffery married the former Gertrude McCarthy of Evansville, Indiana, in 1937, while in Rio de Janeiro. They had no children. He retired with his wife in 1955 to reside in Rome, where he was the honorary private chamberlain to Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI. He returned to Lafayette in 1973, shortly before Mrs. Caffery's death.

The Cafferys are buried behind St. John’s Cathedral in Lafayette. A portion of Louisiana Highway 3073 in Lafayette is named Ambassador Caffery Parkway in his memory.

Jefferson Caffery

Born: 1-Dec-1886
Birthplace: Lafayette, LA
Died: 13-Apr-1974
Location of death: Lafayette, LA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, St. John's Cemetery, Lafayette, LA

Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: Diplomat

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Ambassador to Egypt, France, Brazil, Cuba

Father: Charles Duval Caffery
Mother: Mary Catherine Parkerson
Wife: Gertrude McCarthy (m. 20-Nov-1937)

University: Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute

US Ambassador to Egypt (1949-55)
US Ambassador to France (1944-49)
US Ambassador to Brazil (1937-44)
US Ambassador to Cuba (1934-37)
US Ambassador to Colombia (1928-33)
US Ambassador to El Salvador (1926-28)
French Legion of Honor
Knights of Malta

Jefferson Caffery. Artifacts

ARTIFACTS: MEDALS
[...]
2-2 Medal, Holy See Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross,
Mrs. Caffery, 3/2/1957 [22]
1 medal/bow, 1 bow in burgandy case with gold trim
Medal: gold with orange/yellow/white bow
Side 1: PRO ECCLESIA ET PONTIFICE,, PRID,
CAL, IAN, 1888
Side 2: LEO XIII P. M. ANN. X
Bow: miniature verson of bow attached to medal

2-3 Medal, Holy See Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross,
Ambassador Caffery, 3/2/1957 [23]
1 medal/bow in burgandy case with no trim
Medal: gold with orange/yellow/white bow
Side 1: LEO XIII P. M. ANN. X
Side 2: PRO ECCLESIA ET PONTIFICE, PRID,
CAL, IAN, 1888

[NOTE: The medals in 2-2 and 2-3 are identical, but reversed]

2-4 Medals, Holy See Order of Piux IX Grand Cross, 7/8/1960 [20]
1 medal/ribbon, 1 medal, no rosette in burgandy case
Medal 1: gold with blue/black/white enamel,
blue/red ribbon
Side 1: PIUS IX, VIRTUTI ET MERITO
Side 2: ANNO MDGGGXLVII
Medal 2: gold/silver with blue/black/white enamel
Side 1: PIUS IX, VIRTUIT ET MERITO
Side 2: ANNO MDGGGXLVII
[...]
2-7 Medals, Rome Order of Malta Knighthood, awarded 7/25/1957
[27]
1 large medal/ribbon, 1 small medal/ribbon in red case
Medal 1: gold with white/red/enamel, black ribbon
Side 1: red shield with white cross, gold
crown and white 8-point star
Side 2: gold crown and white 8-point star
Medal 2: miniature version of Medal 1

CAFFERY JEFFERSON
Brazil 1941-1943 France 1944-1948 Egypt 1949-1955

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Robert Henry (Bob) Abplanalp (April 4, 1922, New York, New York - August 30, 2003, Bronxville, New York) was a Swiss-American inventor who invented the aerosol valve[1], the founder of Precision Valve Corporation and a political activist.[2]

Born to Swiss immigrant parents in The Bronx, Abplanalp graduated from Fordham Preparatory School in 1939 and studied mechanical engineering at Villanova University and ran his own small machine shop prior to entering the United States Army in 1943.

After fighting in World War II he worked in his machine shop where he invented the first workable aerosol valve that could be mass-produced inexpensively.[2]

He began the Precision Valve Corporation in 1949, and, by 1950, 15,000,000 valves had been produced, marking the beginning of his business empire. In 1956 he married Josephine Sloboda.[2]

Later in life he became a Republican and supported many conservative causes. Abplanalp was a close friend and supporter of former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, Nixon's immediate family and Nixon's long-time confidant, Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo.

Abplanalp and his wife donated much to charities championed by the Roman Catholic Church and in 1971 they were named to two charitable orders, the Order of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition.

Before Abplanalp died of cancer on August 30, 2003, he held over three hundred aerosol-related patents.

1922 - Born on the 4th of April in Bronxville, New York.

1939 - He graduated from Fordham Preparatory School.

1943 - He ran his own small machine shop prior to entering the United State Army.

1949 - He began the Precision Valve Corporation.

1950 - 15,000,000 valves had been produced, marking the beginning of his business empire.

1956 - He married Josephine Sloboda.

1971 - They were named to two charitable orders, the Order of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition.

2003 - He died of cancer on the 30th of August in Bronxville, New York.

Mr. Abplanalp won many honors, including the Horatio Alger Award in 1971, and made the Roman Catholic Church and its institutions the focus of his philanthropy. He was chairman of the board of Fordham Prep and rescued it from financial distress in 1978.

He married Josephine Sloboda in 1956. They were named in 1971 to two charitable orders, the Order of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulcher.

ABPLANALP ROBERT H

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Richard R. Shinn, a retired chairman of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who was active in the arts and civic affairs and helped stave off New York City's fiscal crisis in the 1970's, died Friday at his home in Greenwich, Conn., after a long battle with leukemia. He was 81.

After graduating from Rider College in Trenton, Mr. Shinn began his career at Metropolitan Life in 1939 in the mailroom. He was paid $15 a week.

By 1953, he had become an assistant vice president for the group insurance division and was named vice president in charge of the group in 1963. In the post, he was responsible for major contracts with General Motors, General Electric and other large insurance customers. He became executive vice president in 1966 and senior executive vice president in 1968 in charge of all the company's life and health insurance administration and sales operations. He was elected president and a member of the board of directors in May 1969, and became chief executive in October 1973. He became chairman of the board in 1980, the ninth person to head Metropolitan since it was founded in 1868.

During his tenure, the company phased out its traditional home collection business and entered into the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance businesses. In order to provide better local service, he also established 10 subsidiaries. Metropolitan Life also purchased the 59-story Pan Am Building on Park Avenue north of Grand Central Terminal in 1980.

''Dick Shinn was a visionary leader who contributed over many years to the history of Met Life and helped propel the company into its prominent place in the financial services marketplace,'' said Robert H. Benmosche, the company's chairman and chief executive.

Mr. Shinn retired as chairman in 1983 but remained active in civic affairs and the arts during his retirement. Named executive vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange in 1986, he served as chairman of an eight-member committee that the exchange set up the following year to monitor its own self-regulatory system in the wake of an insider trading scandal.

During the mid-1970's, at the request of Mayor Abraham Beame and Gov. Hugh Carey, he served on several panels to help avert the city's financial default. Recommendations from one of those panels, composed of Mr. Shinn and three other executives, led to the creation of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, which helped resolve the city's recurring short-term debt problem.

''In the discussions that led to the birth of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, Dick Shinn was always a tower of strength,'' Felix G. Rohatyn, the United States Ambassador to France, who is the former head of the corporation, said.

As a result of the crisis, and a compromise reached between the Mayor and the Municipal Assistance Corporation, Mayor Beame formed a management advisory board to review city operations, which Mr. Shinn led from 1975 through 1977. The commission recommended pay increases for city officials, which were vetoed by Mayor Beame. A study of the city's pension system suggested that additional cash payments to insure adequate financing be made by city employees rather than the cash-pressed city itself.

Mr. Shinn led a temporary New York City commission in the late 1970's that criticized a policy of naming unqualified political appointees, and one in 1983 that resulted in an increase in Mayor Edward I. Koch's salary from $80,000, to $110,000. And in 1987, he was chairman of a city commission that recommended pay levels for leading officials.

Mr. Shinn has served on the board of directors of numerous corporations including Chase Manhattan Bank, the Allied Corporation, May Department Stores, the Sperry Corporation and Consolidated Edison of New York. Mr. Shinn was also a trustee of the Conference Board, an independent research institute and a member of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

He held honorary doctor of law degrees from Colgate University, Rider College and Iona College. Mr. Shinn was also a trustee of St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, Barnard College and the Inner-City Scholarship Fund.

Mr. Shinn was born in Lakewood, N.J., in 1918. He is survived by his wife, Marion; two daughters, Kathleen Clark of Greenwich, Conn., and Patricia Grossthanner of Germany; a son, John, of Doylestown, Pa.; seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

Shinn, Richard R. SMOM • chairman, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
• trustee, American Enterprise Institute

SMOM member Richard R. Shinn chairs the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company while also serving as a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute. This conservative brain trust publishes This World magazine, whose editorial board includes four people closely associated with the Institute for Religion and Democracy [IRD]: James Finn, Paul Seabury, Michael Novak and Peter L. Berger.

Established in 1981 to combat the "heresy" of liberation theology, the IRD is financed by various right-wing groups, such as the Sarah Scaife and Smith Richardson foundations, both of which have served as CIA funding conduits.

SHINN RICHARD R

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Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici (born May 7, 1932) is an American politician, currently serving as a Republican Senator from New Mexico. He has served continuously since 1973, the longest tenure in the state's history. On September 7, 2006, he cast his 13,000th vote, joining only seven other Senators who have done the same.

During Domenici's tenure in the Senate, he advocated waterway usage fees, nuclear power, and related causes. However, in recent years, his environmental record was rated to be one of the worst in the Senate, he has been involved in a scandal involving the dismissal of U.S. attorneys, and he has had dwindling approvals in his sixth term. Domenici announced on October 4, 2007 his decision not to seek re-election to the Senate in 2008 for health reasons, in particular frontotemporal lobar degeneration.[1][2]

Early years

Domenici was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, to Italian-American parents[3] Alda Vichi and Cherubino Domenici, who were born in Sorbarro, Italy.[4] Growing up, he worked in his father's grocery business after school. He graduated in 1950 from St. Mary's High School in Albuquerque. After earning a degree in education at the University of New Mexico in 1954, he pitched for one season for the Albuquerque Dukes, a farm club for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He taught mathematics at Garfield Junior High in Albuquerque. He earned his law degree at the University of Denver in 1958 and returned to practice law in Albuquerque.

After graduating, he married Nancy Burk. Together they have two sons and six daughters (Lisa, Peter, Nella, Clare, David, Nanette, and twins Paula and Helen).

In 1966, Domenici successfully ran for a position on the Albuquerque City Commission and in 1968 was elected Commission Chairman. This position was equivalent to that of "mayor" under the structure of the city government at the time. Albuquerque since has changed to a popularly elected mayor position resulting from city wide balloting and a move beyond the internal appointment.

Domenici was unsuccessful in his 1970 attempt in New Mexico's governor's race, losing to Democrat Bruce King, 148,835 to 134,640.
[...]
Department of Justice controversy

Prior to the 2006 midterm election Domenici called and pressured then-United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico David Iglesias to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator. When Iglesias said an indictment would not be handed down until at least December, Domenici said "I'm very sorry to hear that" — and the line went dead. Iglesias was fired a little over one month later by the Bush Administration. A communication by a senator or House member with a federal prosecutor regarding an ongoing criminal investigation is a violation of ethics rules. In a March 2007 statement, Domenici admitted making such a call.[9] House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., issued subpoenas to require Iglesias and three other ousted U.S. attorneys to testify before Congress.[10]

Domenici later admitted calling Iglesias, though Domenici claimed he never used the word "November" when he called Iglesias about an ongoing Albuquerque courthouse corruption case.[11] Domenici has denied trying to influence Iglesias, and has hired lawyer K. Lee Blalack II to represent him.[12]

According to the Justice Department, Domenici called the Department and demanded Iglesias be replaced on four occasions.[13]

According to the Washington Post, on the day of the firing (Dec 7, 2006) William Kelley, a deputy to then White House Counsel Harriet Miers, said in an email that Domenici's chief of staff was "happy as a clam" about the Iglesias firing. A week later, a Justice Department email to the White House counsel stated: "Domenici is going to send over names tomorrow (not even waiting for Iglesias's body to cool)."[14]

Environmental record

The grassroots organization Republicans for Environmental Protection singled out Domenici as “Worst in the Senate in 2006” on environmental issues.[15] In addition to assigning Domenici a score of zero for his environmental voting record, the group issued him “environmental harm demerits” for what they saw as two particularly irresponsible acts: first, for spearheading efforts to include in federal budget legislation provisions for “speculative revenues from oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; second, “for sponsoring and securing passage of S. 3711, the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which would perpetuate America’s dangerous oil dependence, set a precedent for drilling in sensitive marine waters, and direct a disproportionate share of federal royalty revenues from a public resource to four states.”[16] Domenici also received an exceptionally low environmental rating from the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters, who claimed in 2003 that “[d]uring the last decade his voting record has become even more strikingly anti-environmental.”[17] The LCV went on to criticize Domenici for voting in 1995 “to allow mining companies to ‘patent’ (purchase) public lands in order to extract minerals from them, without environmental standards, for the ridiculously low ‘price’ of $5 an acre or less.”[18]

Senator Domenici met with Sandia National Laboratories director Tom Hunter during a visit to re-dedicate its Z Machine—a $91 million project that will greatly expand its application to the stockpile stewardship mission, fusion energy, high energy density physics, and astronomy.

At the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, President Bush tours the Department of Energy's National Solar Thermal Test Facility, where mirrored dishes and solar panels generate electricity. He is joined by Sandia's president, Thomas O. Hunter (left), and Senator Peter Domenici, Republican of New Mexico. © AP Images/J. Scott Applewhite

"Pajama Pete" Domenici

WHO'S WHO ? - KNIGHTS OF MALTA KNOW
[...]
Other prominent American Knights include:
[...]
Senator Peter Domenici, Republican senator from New Mexico since 1972.

Well-known columnists Michael Novak and William F. Buckley Jr. are knights. So is Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), along with former Cabinet Secretaries William Simon and Alexander Haig. The knights also figure prominently on the board of Ingersoll-Rand Co., which recently agreed to acquire Clark Equipment Co. Peter Grace is a director emeritus at Ingersoll-Rand, and knights Theodore Black and Joseph Flannery serve on the board.

Pete V. Domenici
Senator (R-NM) U.S. Congress
Knights of Malta

WELL-KNOWN KNIGHTS

In addition to those listed in the article, the following are some other Knights of SMOM of interest:
[...]
- Pete Domenici: U.S. Senator from New Mexico 1972 - present.

DOMENICI PETE V (R-NM)

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[center]Joseph A. Unanue
Business Leader
Spanish
1994 Recipient
[/center]
Joseph A. Unanue is president of the largest Hispanic-owned company in the country, which was founded by his parents, Don Prudencio and Dona Carolina Casal Unanue, in 1936. Today the Secaucus, NJ-based firm, which began in lower Manhattan as an importer of olives, olive oil, and canned sardines, manufactures, markets, and distributes close to 1,000 fine food products.

The Brooklyn-born leader began working in the family business part-time as a young man during school vacations. Following service in the United States Army during World War II, he received a degree in mechanical engineering from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He then joined his father at Goya Foods. Mr. Unanue spent the next 25 years learning every facet of the food industry, from purchasing, production and distribution, to credit, personnel, and payroll. His engineering degree also paid off as the company expanded and built new distribution center and manufacturing facilities.

Mr. Unanue continues the long tradition of community service started by his parents. The company, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 1996, supports scores of civic, cultural, athletic, and religious organizations including: the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Repertorio Espanol, Ballet Hispanico, and the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Goya is a supporter of the New Jersey Council for the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has contributed to the learning through Arts Educational Program at the Guggenheim Museum.

Mr. Unanue has been honored repeatedly for his community-minded service. Among his many distinctions, he has been named "Man of the Year" twice by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and has received the Leadership Award from the National Minority Suppliers Association. In addition, he has received the Key to the City of Boston, the 1991 National Hispanic Achievement Award presented by Hispanic Magazine, and has been knighted with the "Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta." Mr. Unanue has served on the Board of Trustees of the Boys Club of America, the Board of Regents of Seaton Hall University, and the Board of Directors of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America, the Advisory Board of Banco Popular of New York, the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society Foundation, Casita Maria, Inc., and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He has received honorary doctorates from Mercy College, Long Island University in New York, and Felician College in New Jersey.

Working in a glass office open to view Mr. Unanue is known to his employees as "Joe." He is married to the former Carmen Ana Casal. They live in New Jersey and have six children and sixteen grandchildren.

Joseph and Carmen Unanue (at left) at the reception for the recent Walsh Library Gallery exhibition, Voces y Visiones, with Seton Hall Executive Vice President Sister Paula Buley and University President Monsignor Robert Sheeran.

Joseph and Carmen Unanue are long-time supporters of Latino activities and organizations, and Seton Hall as well. Joseph, a former member of the University's Board of Regents from 1982 to 1989, has been named "Man of the Year" twice by the National Conference of Christians and Jews; has received the Leadership Award from the National Minority Suppliers Association, the Key to the City of Boston, and the 1991 National Hispanic Achievement Award presented by Hispanic Magazine; has been honored by Bnai Brith in 1989; and has been knighted by the "Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta." Also, he has served as the Grand Marshall of New York's Puerto Rican Day Parade and has been named Grand Marshall of the Hispanic Heritage Parade in New York. Joseph received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Seton Hall University in May 2004.

Carmen received an honorary doctorate of Humanitarian Service from Seton Hall in May 1994. She is well known throughout the Archdiocese of Newark and the Latino community for her philanthropic work and volunteer service. Also, she is vice chair of the Board of Trustees, El Museo del Barrio, the largest museum of Latin American art and culture in the Northeast.

The Unanues, frequently through Goya, have made many charitable contributions over the years, among them 30,000 lbs. of food to Colombia earthquake victims in 1998, as well as to the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater; Repertorio Español; Ballet Hispanico; Puerto Rican Day Parade; New Jersey State Council on the Arts; El Museo del Barrio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Arts Educational Programs at the Guggenheim Museum.

Knight of Malta Joseph A. Unanue is the head of Goya Foods.

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., (born July 14, 1913) was the 38th (1974–1977) President of the United States. He also served as the 40th (1973–1974) Vice President. He was the first person appointed to the Vice-Presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and upon succession to the presidency became the first (and to date, only) president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President.

Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., after his biological father. His parents divorced when he was less than a year old, and when his mother remarried, he was given the name of his step-father, Gerald Rudolph Ford. Ford obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a football star. He went on to obtain a law degree from Yale University before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. Returning from the war a confirmed "internationalist", Republican Ford defeated the incumbent in the party primary and was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. He was elected House Minority Leader in 1963 and served in the House until 1973. When Spiro Agnew resigned, Ford was appointed Vice President of the United States at the height of the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation.

The Ford administration saw the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam, the execution of the Helsinki Accords, and the continuing specter of inflation and recession. Faced with an overwhelmingly Democratic majority in Congress, the administration was hampered in its ability to pass major legislation, and Ford's vetoes were frequently overridden. Ford was criticized by many for granting a pre-emptive pardon to Nixon. Democrat Jimmy Carter narrowly defeated him in the 1976 presidential race. Along with his own Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, he is one of two people appointed Vice President rather than elected.
[...]
Vice Presidency, 1973–74

After Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned during Richard Nixon's presidency October 10 1973, Nixon nominated Ford to take Agnew's position on October 12; this was the first time that the Vice-Presidential vacancy provision of the 25th Amendment had been applied. The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Ford on November 27, and on December 6 the House confirmed him 387 to 35.

Ford's tenure as Vice President was little noted by the media. Instead, reporters were preoccupied by the continuing revelations about criminal acts during the 1972 Presidential elections and allegations of cover-ups within the White House. Ford said little about the Watergate scandal, although he privately expressed his personal disappointment in the President's conduct.[17]

The Watergate investigation continued following Ford's appointment until Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig contacted Ford on August 1, 1974, and told him that "smoking gun" evidence had been found. The evidence left little doubt that President Nixon had been a part of the Watergate cover-up. Ford at the time was continuing to reside in the same home he had as a congressman and was waiting on repairs before becoming the first Vice President to move into the new Vice President's official residence at Number One Observatory Circle. However, "Al Haig [asked] to come over and see me," Ford later related, "to tell me that there would be a new tape released on a Monday, and he said the evidence in there was devastating and there would probably be either an impeachment or a resignation. And he said, 'I'm just warning you that you've got to be prepared, that things might change dramatically and you could become President.' And I said, 'Betty [Ford, his wife], I don't think we're ever going to live in the Vice President's house.'"[1]

Presidency, 1974–77

Accession

When Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal on August 9, 1974, Ford assumed the presidency. Immediately after taking the oath of office in the East Room of the White House, he spoke to the assembled audience in a speech broadcast live to the nation. Ford noted the peculiarity of his position: "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers."[18] On August 20 Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill the Vice Presidency he had vacated. Rockefeller was confirmed by the House and Senate.[19]

Nixon pardon

On September 8, 1974, Ford gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed while President.[20] [21] In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country and that the Nixon family's situation "is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must."[22] At the same time as he announced the Nixon pardon, Ford introduced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War draft dodgers who had fled to countries such as Canada.[23] Unconditional amnesty, however, did not come about until the Jimmy Carter presidency.[24]

The Nixon pardon was highly controversial. Critics derided the move and claimed a "corrupt bargain" had been struck between the men.[3] They claimed Ford's pardon was quid pro quo in exchange for Nixon's resignation that elevated Ford to the Presidency. Although no deal was actually made between Ford and the Nixon Administration, Nixon's chief of staff, Alexander Haig, offered a deal to Ford. Bob Woodward, in his book, Shadow, recounts the Haig deal. Woodward recounts that Haig entered Ford's office on August 1, 1974 while Ford was still Vice President and Nixon had yet to resign. Haig told Ford that there were three pardon options: (1) Nixon could pardon himself and resign, (2) Nixon could pardon his aides involved in Watergate and then resign, or (3) Nixon could agree to leave in return for an agreement that the new president would pardon him. After listing these options, Haig handed Ford various papers; one of these papers included a discussion of the president's legal authority to pardon and another sheet was a draft pardon form that only needed Ford's signature and Nixon's name to make it legal. Woodward summarizes the setting between Haig and Ford as follows: "Even if Haig offered no direct words on his views, the message was almost certainly sent. An emotional man, Haig was incapable of concealing his feelings; those who worked closely with him rarely found him ambiguous." Despite the situation, Ford never accepted the offer from Haig and later decided to pardon Nixon on his own terms. Regardless, historians believe the controversy was one of the major reasons Ford lost the election in 1976.[25]

Ford's first press secretary and close friend Jerald terHorst resigned his post in protest after the announcement of President Nixon's full pardon.

Knights of Malta

Paramilitary Catholic Organization, though some of the individuals purported to be members are anything but Catholic.
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John, of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta.

The Knights of Malta is a sovereign state, and is recognized diplomatically as a nation by a number of countries.

J. Peter Grace.
Gerald Ford.
William F. Buckley.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig.
Lee Iacocca.
Clare Booth Luce.
William Casey.
Prescott Bush, Jr. (brother of George HW Bush.)
John McCone, former DCI.

Quite from author Vaticanassassins:
Do not forget that "Poppy" Bush, like Gerald Ford, is a Knight of Malta and hosted his Grand Master Andrew Bertie at the White House in 1991. The crimes of the Bush family can be traced right back to the Vatican---the Munich Jesuits being the power behind Hitler who in turn was financed by SMOMs Prescott Bush, Sr. and Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen was the intimate friend of SMOM Franz von Papen, the man who brought Hitler to power, negotiated the Concordat at the Vatican in 1933 and later was protected by Jesuit Edmund A. Walsh at Nuremberg resulting in his acquittal and release.

FORD GERALD R
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Joseph J. DioGuardi (b. September 20, 1940, The Bronx, New York) is an American accountant and politician of Arbëreshë descent from New York. He previously served in the House of Representatives representing the 20th congressional district of New York from 1985 to 1989.

He is a member of the Republican party, and has frequently launched unsuccessful attempts to regain a seat in Congress. As recently as June of 2007, his name was mentioned as a possible candidate for congress in the 19th district of New York seeking to face freshman incumbent John Hall in the 2008 general election.

Early background

Joseph J. DioGuardi moved to Westchester County with his immigrant parents, brother, and sister in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham Preparatory School, and in 1962 he graduated with honors from Fordham University. His parents were of Albanian origin. DioGuardi served for twenty-two years, twelve of them as a tax partner, with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. He is the author of Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn't Add Up.

DioGuardi's wife, Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, is the Balkan Affairs Advisor to (and co-founder of) the Albanian American Civic League. The DioGuardis reside in Ossining, New York. They have a daughter, Kara DioGuardi, a songwriter, record producer, and singer.

Born in the Bronx, New York, on September 20, 1940, Joseph J. DioGuardi moved to Westchester County with his immigrant parents, brother, and sister in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham Preparatory School, and in 1962 he graduated with honors from Fordham University.

DioGuardi served for twenty-two years, twelve of them as a tax partner, with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., one of the first public advocates of governmental fiscal responsibility. In November 1984, he brought his extensive professional and volunteer experience to Congress, when he became the first practicing certified public accountant ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in sounding the call for truth in federal budgeting, accounting, and reporting and in bringing financial accountability to Capitol Hill. He was the original author of the Chief Financial Officer's Act, signed by President George Bush in 1990, which mandated the assignment of a CFO to each major department and agency of the U.S. government. Charles Bowsher, former Comptroller General of the General Accounting Office, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate that since the enactment of the bill, "we have seen important progress in directly confronting serious financial management weaknesses. "

DioGuardi has distinguished himself by finding bipartisan solutions to difficult problems. On issues of local concern, he founded and cochaired the Congressional Long Island Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which secured vital increases in federal support for these embattled waterways. In 1986, with the late Democratic Congressman Mickey Leland, DioGuardi initiated legislation to confer Congressional Medals of Honor on Black World War I and World War II military heroes, thereby correcting an historic injustice. More recently, he cofounded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force for Port, Rail, and Industrial Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's manufacturing and transportation industries.

DioGuardi is an advocate for the human rights and self-determination of oppressed peoples in the Balkans. Since 1989, he has made fifteen trips to the region. As president of the Albanian American Civic League, he and Congressman Tom Lantos made the first official trip to Albania in fifty years, and he helped open the doors to democracy in this former Communist dictatorship. In August 1990, DioGuardi persuaded Bob Dole and six other U.S. senators to visit the two million Albanians in Kosovo under Serbian occupation. In September 1996, he returned to Albania with Congressman Benjamin Gilman, chairman of the Committee on International Relations, to meet with President Sali Berisha to discuss Albanian national security and minority rights for the ethnic Greeks in southern Albania. In June 1997, Dio Guardi led a delegation to monitor the national elections in Albania and in August, 1998 he traveled to northern Albania to assess the humanitarian crisis emanating from the war in Kosova, at the request of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

Since leaving Congress in 1989, DioGuardi has established a nonpartisan foundation, Truth In Government, through which he continues his crusade for federal fiscal reforms. The author of Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn't Add Up, DioGuardi is a frequent speaker on fiscal responsibility and public accountability. In August 1994, as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American Accounting Association, DioGuardi persuaded professors of accounting to play an active role in federal budgeting and financial management. In May 1996, he returned to Washington as a keynote speaker on federal financial management reforms before the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National Association of Accountants). In April 1997, the Texas Society of CPAs published an article by DioGuardi in Today's CPA on the real magnitude of the national debt.

DioGuardi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including investiture as a Knight of Malta in 1979, the International Humanitarian Award The Boys Towns of Italy in 1986, the Outstanding CPA in Government Award from the New York State Society of CPAs in 1986, the Torch of Liberty Award from the New York State Conservative Party in 1987, the Outstanding Public Service Award from the Westchester County Republican Committee in 1987, the Westchester Irish Committee's Dedication to Peace and Justice Award in 1988, the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International in 1988, and the Annual Achievement Award of the Association of Government Accountants, Boston Chapter, in 1992.

Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is a former United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Santorum is a member of the Republican Party and was the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the number-three job in the party leadership of the Senate.

Santorum is usually considered a strong social and fiscal conservative but paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians have accused him of being too reliant upon the federal government.[1] He also holds strong neoconservative stances in regard to foreign policy, which has further alienated many conservatives of a more traditional nature.[2] He is particularly known for his stances on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Social Security, intelligent design, homosexuality, and the Terri Schiavo case.[3] Santorum was defeated 59% to 41% in the 2006 U.S. Senate election by Democratic candidate Bob Casey, Jr. This was the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent Senator since 1980.

In March 2007, Santorum joined Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. He will primarily practice law in the firm’s Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. offices, where he will provide business and strategic counseling services to the firm clients. In addition to his work with the firm, Santorum also serves as a Senior Fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and is a contributor to Fox News Channel.

Early life, education, and legal career

Santorum was born in Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Berkeley County West Virginia and Butler County, Pennsylvania, the son of Aldo Santorum (born 1923) and Catherine Dughi (born 1918). Both his father and maternal grandfather were of Italian descent.[4] In 1976, Santorum graduated from Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois.[5]. He lists his residency as Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, and maintains a home in Leesburg, Virginia, for his work in Washington, D.C. His father was an immigrant from Italy.[6]

Santorum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Political Science, from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1981.

In 1986, Santorum earned a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, and began practicing law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While working at the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, he represented the World Wrestling Federation, arguing that professional wrestling should be exempt from federal anabolic steroid regulations because it was not a sport.[7] Santorum left private practice after first being elected to the House in November 1990.

Santorum and his wife, Karen Garver Santorum, have six children: Elizabeth Anne (born 1991); Richard John ("Johnny"), Jr. (born 1993); Daniel James (born 1995); Sarah Maria (born 1998); Peter Kenneth (born 1999); and Patrick Francis (born 2001). In 1996, their son Gabriel Michael was born prematurely and lived for only two hours (a sonogram taken before Gabriel was born revealed that his posterior urethral valve was closed and that the prognosis for his survival was therefore poor). Karen Santorum wrote a book about the experience: Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum.[8] In it, she writes that the couple brought the deceased infant home from the hospital and introduced the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital. The anecdote was also written about by Michael Sokolove in a 2005 'New York Times Magazine story on Santorum.[9] Karen is also the author of a book on etiquette for children.[10]

Santorum and his family attend Latin Mass at a Roman Catholic Church near Washington, D.C. On weekdays, he attends another church. On November 12, 2004, Santorum and his wife were invested as Knight and Dame of Magistral Grace of the Knights of Malta in a ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.[11]
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Comments about the Boston Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal

In 2005, a controversy developed over comments about Boston, Massachusetts, that Santorum made in a 2002 article about the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. Santorum wrote:
“ It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning "private" moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.[62] ”

These comments came to wider attention through an opinion column in the Philadelphia Daily News on June 24, 2005. Columnist John Baer cited Santorum's article, stating, "I'd remind you this is the same Senate leader who recently likened Democrats fighting to save the filibuster to Nazis."[63]

Santorum's remarks were criticized, especially in Massachusetts. On July 12, 2005, Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory called on Santorum to explain his statement, and reported that Robert Traynham, Santorum's Director of Communications, told him "It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases. I think that's what the senator was speaking to." Julie Teer, a spokeswoman for Governor of Massachusetts, Republican Mitt Romney, said "What happened with the church sex abuse scandal was a tragedy, but it had nothing to do with geography or the culture of Boston."

Later that day, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) delivered a personal rebuke to Santorum on the Senate floor, saying "The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say."[64] Santorum has stood by his 2002 article and has not apologized.

On July 21, 2005, Rush Limbaugh interviewed Santorum about Kennedy's speech. Santorum said that he was being targeted by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which, he said, coordinated with the media to publicize Kennedy's speech. He argued that his statement about Boston was taken out of context from an article he had written three years earlier. Santorum agreed with Limbaugh's summary that it was "no surprise that the center of the Catholic Church abuse took place in very liberal, or perhaps the nation's most liberal area, Boston." Santorum reiterated his broader theme of a cultural connection, saying that it is "no surprise that the culture affects people's behavior. [...] the liberal culture — the idea that [...] sexual inhibitions should be put aside and people should be able to do whatever they want to do, has an impact on people and how they behave." When asked why Boston specifically was mentioned, Santorum pointed out that, in July 2002, the outrage of American Catholics, as well as his own, was focused on the Archdiocese of Boston.[65]

(AP) Democrat Bob Casey highlights his religious work while Republican Sen. Rick Santorum seeks out evangelical Christians, a reflection of the fierce fight for voters of faith.

Casey, who is a Catholic, has been talking openly about his religious upbringing and his work with the Jesuit Corps. He unveiled a 60-second television ad in the Philadelphia market Tuesday featuring a former student talking about Casey's mentoring from days in the corps' inner-city program.

Similar to a missionary assignment, Casey spent one year with the organization, which he described in a speech last week at Catholic University in Washington....

Rick Santorum
Full Name: Rick Santorum

Current Office: Senator, PA

Born: Winchester, Virginia

Education: B.A., Penn State University; M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh; J.D., Dickinson School of Law

Religion: Roman Catholic, Conservative Latin Rite Mass, Knight of Malta

Family: Wife, Karen Garver Santorum; six children

Significant Career Experience: Director, Pennsylvania Senate Local Government Committee, 1981-9184; Director, Pennsylvania Senate's Transportation Committee, 1984-1986; U.S. House of Representatives, 1991-95; U.S. Senate, 1995 - present

Publications:

It Takes a Family : Conservatism and the Common Good
Rick Santorum

Description: Rick Santorum is a solid conservative with excellent views on immigration, national defence and homeland security.

Views on Immigration: http://lrp57.redstate.com/story/2006/5/21/144619/676

Gene F. Jankowski

Gene F. Jankowski is a member of the Board of Advisors of Veronis Suhler Stevenson. From 1995 through 2004 he was an Advisor Managing Director of VSS. Mr. Jankowski focuses his activities on television broadcasting, filmed entertainment, radio broadcasting, and subscription video services. In 1994, Mr. Jankowski joined VSS after a 28-year career at CBS. In 1970 he was appointed General Sales Manager of WCBSTV, the CBS flagship station in New York. He then became Vice President of Sales for the nationwide CBS Television stations division and was later named Vice President and Controller for CBS Inc. In 1977, Mr. Jankowski became President and Chairman of the CBS Broadcasting Group, a position he held for 12 years until 1989, when he left CBS to form his own company. Mr. Jankowski graduated from Canisius College and Michigan State University with a master's degree in radio, television and film. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Canisius College and Michigan State. Mr. Jankowski is Chairman of the Board at the Trans-Lux Corporation. He is the co-author of Reflections on Television: It Won't Be What You Think.

The Class of 1955 is loaded with alumni who have gone on to become leaders in their professions and communities, and have also stayed connected with Canisius College. Joseph J. Castiglia ’55, Anthony J. Colucci ’55, Richard A. DiVita '55 and Gene F. Jankowski ’55 are all recipients of the alumni association’s Distinguished Alumni Award. The same group, along with Harrison R. Naylor ‘55, also served on the college’s Board of Trustees. Robert B. Adams ’55, Joseph F. Crangle ’55, Thomas J. Dougherty ’55, J. Francis Drea ’55 and Larry Felser ’55 are also past recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award. Robert B. Adams ’55 and Robert D. Morgan ’55 went on to become major generals in the U.S. Army. Several classmates have also established endowed scholarships at Canisius: Charles Borzilleri, Joseph J. Castiglia, Anthony J. Colucci, Richard A. DiVita, Thomas J. Dougherty, Gene F. Jankowski, John D. Naples, Harrison R. Naylor and Hugh M. Neeson.

Gene F. Jankowski (Fellow) formed his own company, Jankowski Communications Systems in August 1989. Prior to this he was chair of the CBS Broadcast Group. Formerly he served as president since 1977 and before that was executive vice president of the Group and vice president of administration of CBS, Inc. respectively. Jankowski began his career with CBS in 1961 as an account executive with its Radio Network Sales Division, becoming an eastern sales manager in five years later. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Jankowski received a B.S. from Canisius College and an M.A. in radio/television and film from Michigan State University. In March 1979, he received an honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree, also from Michigan State. In February 1983, Jankowski received the Distinguished Communications Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Southern Baptist Radio and TV Commission. Jankowski is past chairman of the American Film Institute. a trustee of the Advertising Educational Foundation and a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

[align=center]Television Today and Tomorrow
It Won't Be What You Think
Gene F. Jankowski and David C. Fuchs[/align]

Description
Today the media is awash in exuberant tales of the arrival of the information superhighway, when television will explode with exciting possibilities, offering some five hundred channels as well as a marriage of television and computer that will provide, on command, access to unlimited bits of information. In Television Today and Tomorrow , Gene Jankowski-- former President and Chairman of the CBS Broadcast Group--and David Fuchs--also a former top executive at CBS--predict a bumpy road ahead for the information superhighway, and the major TV networks, they say, are abundantly healthy and will remain so well into the next century.

The information superhighway, the authors admit, will dramatically increase the distribution channels, but it will have little impact on the amount of programming created--and this may spell disaster. Jankowski and Fuchs point out that the media blitz has hardly focused on programming, or funding, or on what needs these five hundred channels will fill. The major networks will remain the only means of reaching the whole country, and the only channels that offer a full schedule of current, live, and original programs, free of charge.

This is a brass tacks look at television with an eye on the bottom line by two men who boast over sixty years of experience in the medium. If you want to understand television in America, where it came from and where it is going, you will need to read this book.

BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI (EGYPT)
SIXTH UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 January 1992, when he began a five-year term.At the time of his appointment by the General Assembly on 3 December 1991, Mr. Boutros-Ghali had been Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt since May 1991 and had served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from October 1977 until 1991.

Mr. Boutros-Ghali has had a long association with international affairs as a diplomat, jurist, scholar and widely published author.

He became a member of the Egyptian Parliament in 1987 and was part of the secretariat of the National Democratic Party from 1980. Until assuming the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations, he was also Vice- President of the Socialist International.

He was a member of the International Law Commission from 1979 until 1991, and is a former member of the International Commission of Jurists. He has many professional and academic associations related to his background in law, international affairs and political science, among them, his membership in the Institute of International Law, the International Institute of Human Rights, the African Society of Political Studies and the Académie des sciences morales et politique (Académie française, Paris).

Over four decades, Mr. Boutros-Ghali participated in numerous meetings dealing with international law, human rights, economic and social development, decolonization, the Middle East question, international humanitarian law, the rights of ethnic and other minorities, non-alignment, development in the Mediterranean region and Afro-Arab cooperation.

In September 1978, Mr. Boutros-Ghali attended the Camp David Summit Conference and had a role in negotiating the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, which were signed in 1979. He led many delegations of his country to meetings of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, as well as to the Summit Conference of the French and African Heads of State. He also headed Egypt's delegation to the General Assembly sessions in 1979, 1982 and 1990.

Mr. Boutros-Ghali received a Ph.D. in international law from Paris University in 1949. His thesis was on the study of regional organizations. Mr. Boutros-Ghali also holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, received from Cairo University in 1946, as well as separate diplomas in political science, economics and public law from Paris University.

Between 1949 and 1977, Mr. Boutros-Ghali was Professor of International Law and International Relations at Cairo University. From 1974 to 1977, he was a member of the Central Committee and Political Bureau of the Arab Socialist Union.

Among his other professional and academic activities, Mr. Boutros-Ghali was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University (1954-1955); Director of the Centre of Research of The Hague Academy of International Law (1963-1964); and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Paris University (1967-1968). He has lectured on international law and international relations at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

Mr. Boutros-Ghali was President of the Egyptian Society of International Law from 1965; President of the Centre of Political and Strategic Studies (Al-Ahram) from 1975; member of the Curatorium Administrative Council of The Hague Academy of International Law from 1978; member of the Scientific Committee of the Académie mondiale pour la paix (Menton, France) from 1978; and associate member of the Institute affari internazionali (Rome) from 1979. He served as a member of the Committee on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organisation from 1971 until 1979. Mr. Boutros-Ghali also founded the publication Alahram Iqtisadi, which he edited from 1960 to 1975, and the quarterly Al-Seyassa Al-Dawlia, which he edited until December 1991.

The more than 100 publications and numerous articles that Mr. Boutros-Ghali has written deal with regional and international affairs, law and diplomacy, and political science.

During the course of his career, Mr. Boutros-Ghali has received awards and honours from 24 countries, which, besides Egypt, include Belgium, Italy, Colombia, Guatemala, France, Ecuador, Argentina, Nepal, Luxembourg, Portugal, Niger, Mali, Mexico, Greece, Chile, Brunei Darussalam, Germany, Peru, C&ocircte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Central African Republic, Sweden and the Republic of Korea. He has also been decorated with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

He was awarded a doctorate of law honoris causa from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (September 1992); a doctorate honoris causa from l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (January 1993); the Christian A. Herter Memorial Award from the World Affairs Council, Boston (March 1993); a doctorate honoris causa from The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (April 1993); the "Man of Peace" award, sponsored by the Italian-based Together for Peace Foundation (July 1993); an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Laval, Quebec (August 1993); and the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Star Crystal Award for Excellence from the African-American Institute, New York (November 1993).

In addition, he was given an honorary membership of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow (April 1994); an honorary foreign membership of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (April 1994); an honourary foreign membership of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, (April 1994); an honorary doctorate from the University Carlos III of Madrid (April 1994); an honorary degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (May 1994); a doctorate in international law honoris causa from the University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (August 1994); honorary doctorates from the University of Bucharest (October 1994), University of Baku (October 1994), University of Yerevan (November 1994), University of Haifa (February 1995), University of Vienna (February 1995), and University of Melbourne (April 1995); and a doctorate of law honoris causa from Carleton University, Canada (November 1995). He was made a Fellow of Berkeley College, Yale University (March 1995) and is the recipient of the Onassis Award for International Understanding and Social Achievement (July 1995). He was awarded an honorary doctorate of law by the University Montesquien of Bordeau, France (March 1996), and he received an honorary doctorate from Koryo University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (April 1996).

New York. Ambassador Count Don Carlo Marullo di Condojanni, Permanent Observer of the Order to the United Nations and Receiver of the Common Treasure, during the audience at the UN headquarters with the Secretary General of the Assembly, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Ambassador Marullo presented his credentials of the Order on 23 October 1996

Miles Davis was one of the greatest visionaries and most important figures in jazz history. He was born in a well-to-do family in East St. Louis. He became a local phenom and toured locally with Billy Eckstine's band while he was in high school. He moved to New York under the guise of attending the Julliard School of Music. However, his real intentions were to hook up with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. He quickly climbed up the ranks while learning from Bird and Diz and became the trumpet player for Charlie Parker's group for nearly 3 years. His first attempt at leading a group came in 1949 and was the first of many occurrences in which he would take jazz in a new direction. Along with arranger Gil Evans, he created a nonet (9 members) that used non-traditional instruments in a jazz setting, such as French horn and Tuba. He invented a more subtle, yet still challenging style that became known as "cool jazz." This style influenced a large group of musicians who played primarily on the west coast and further explored this style. The recordings of the nonet were packaged by Capitol records and released under the name The Birth of the Cool. The group featured Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, and Max Roach, among others. This was one of the first instances in which Miles demonstrated a recurring move that angered some: he brought in musicians regardless of race. He once said he'd give a guy with green skin and "polka-dotted breath" a job, as long as they could play sax as well as Lee Konitz. After spending 4 years fighting a heroin addiction, he conquered it, inspired by the discipline of the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, known popularly as Malcolm X (his Nation of Islam-issued name), and Sir Miles Dewey Davis III (whose honorific derives from his induction in 1988 into The Knights of Malta[1]) share intriguingly similar biographical details. Born in the mid-western United States, in 1925 and 1926 respectively, these iconic incarnations of African-American masculinity came to maturity during the era of Euro-American-authored apartheid in the United States, yet attained cross-over and international prominence in their proper fields of theological-cum-political theorizing and jazz trumpet virtuosity and music theory innovation. They also authored celebrated, as-told-to autobiographies. In collaboration with Alex Haley, X narrated The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965). Davis drafted, with the assistance of Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography (1989). Though X was assassinated in 1965 and Davis died of a pneumonia-triggered stroke in 1991, they persist as phantasmal cultural presences through their books (including Davis's The Art of Miles Davis,[2] a portfolio of his paintings) and their recordings (X's speeches and Davis's music). The Ballantine Books paperback edition of X's Autobiography achieved, in November 1992, its 33rd printing since 1973, while Davis's post-mortem popularity as a jazz artist seems poised to eclipse that of John Coltrane (1926-1967), the race pride emblem par excellence of the 1960s. [3] X and Davis dominate the popular cultures of their separate demesnes. Transfigured into demi-deities, they are omnipresent in mass media, in film (Spike Lee's X [1992]), opera (Anthony and Thulani Davis's X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X [1986]), documentaries, books, recordings, and clothing and associated tchotchkes. Even as X and Davis are reified into protean, Warhol-like pop idols, their representations also dramatize and reproduce a patriarchal black masculinity, an anarchic machismo. Worse, this rugged phallocentrism, which bell hooks blames for "much black-on-black violence," among other ills (Black 111), is furthered, perhaps, by the seductiveness of these figures for urban, African-American, male youth, from whose ranks they came and to whose concerns and styles they paid scrupulous fealty. [4] In fact, the steady appeal of these figures likely owes something to their efforts, during their careers, to address this alienated constituency. [5] Positioning themselves as archetypal black men, they became exemplary champions of the black male-delineated worlds of black religion and black music, spheres in which the masterful and the triumphant exude confidence, poise, purpose, style--in short, 'cool.' Their investments in codes of honour, in 'coolness,' offer a context for their cultural success, but also, arguably, useable notions for the construction of a re-energized and progressive African-American socio-political movement. [6] Paradoxically, too, their styles of honour yield means for subverting their sexism, while yet permitting their inscription into avant-garde politics and aesthetics. [7]
[1]The full title of the order is The Knights of the Grand Cross in and for the Sovereign Military Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta. See Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography (388).

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Miles Davis is forever the innovator, not only as a musician, but in other realms. His artistic impressions in oil paintings and sketches have drawn critical acclaim and have been shown in galleries around the world. "Sir" Miles Davis was inducted into the Knights of Malta in November 1988. In November 1984, he received the Sonning Music Award for lifetime achievement in music, and in March 1990, his twenty-fourth Grammy Award, this time for lifetime achievement in music.

Sir Miles Davis was inducted into the Knights of Malta in November 1988 and won 24 Grammys, including one for lifetime achievement in March1990. He was a Renaissance man for the ages who passed away on September 28, 1991.

[center]A VICE-PRESIDENT FOR WHAT?
Terence Gallagher helped Pfizer build a reputation as a governance stalwart[/center]

Terence J. Gallagher often gets stares when he tells people his title at Pfizer Inc. ''People are almost always surprised,'' he says. ''They've never heard anything like it.''

Gallagher may be the world's only vice-president for corporate governance. Most companies hand over such duties to their general counsels, who serve as the liaison between the board and senior management. But when William C. Steere Jr. became chairman five years ago, he wanted Pfizer to help shape the then-emerging debate over governance.

Enter Gallagher, a 32-year Pfizer veteran who had been assistant vice-president for administration. Since 1992, the soft-spoken lawyer has helped the company build a reputation as a governance stalwart. Ironically, he has done so even as the company toes a moderate line on board issues. ''At Pfizer, governance has not been a revolution. It has been an evolution,'' says Robert W. Lear, a consultant and executive-in-residence at Columbia University's business school.

Pfizer's carefully cultivated reputation enabled Gallagher to pull off the near-impossible earlier this year: He persuaded the country's most activist investors--from the New York City Teachers' Retirement Fund to TIAA-CREF--to swallow its renewal of a poison pill. To most stockholders, such devices are anathema, since they protect management. Poison pills usually bring a call for a shareholder vote.

Pfizer, however, avoided a fuss over its poison pill, largely through goodwill Gallagher created. He talked investors into accepting the pill by ensuring it would be reviewed every three years by the independent directors. ''Maybe I sell out too easily, but I judge their outreach effort to be serious,'' says Jon Lukomnik, deputy controller for New York City pensions. ''We haven't always agreed on things, but they have been out front in examining governance.''

So what does a corporate-governance VP do? Gallagher started by helping revamp executive compensation, linking pay to performance. Next, he assisted the board in creating a governance committee and designing a charter that empowered the panel--instead of the CEO--to recommend new board members. He also helped to draft a set of governance principles and regularly meets with shareholders.

In his first year, Gallagher visited with 20 top Pfizer institutional investors. ''I learned that some of them weren't much interested in corporate governance,'' he says. ''They didn't care about it unless we failed to make the bottom line next quarter.''

COURTED. More important, however, many investors--who had scant contact with the management of the companies in their portfolios--were suddenly being courted by Gallagher. ''This is a company that has been very attentive to shareholders,'' says B. Kenneth West, the head of governance at TIAA-CREF.

As boards go, Pfizer's is good. CEO Steere and two other insiders do not sit on the audit, compensation, or governance committees. And once a year, the outsiders meet without Steele to discuss his performance and other matters. Pfizer also ditched director pensions in 1995.

But if those moves put it ahead of many, Pfizer is hardly pushing the envelope. Among other things, Pfizer doesn't let shareholders vote each year for all directors. It does not do performance evaluations of either the board or individual directors, and it has no mandatory share ownership rules. Moreover, among his four directorships, Steere serves on the board of Minerals Technologies Inc., whose CEO also sits on Pfizer's board.

Such relationships would be prohibited at governance leaders like Campbell Soup, Compaq, and Chrysler. Gallagher's answer to this charge: ''You can have a good corporate-governance program without going as far as Campbell or Compaq.'' Gallagher's unique title notwithstanding, Pfizer remains firmly in the middle of the pack.

By John A. Byrne in New York

It is a truth that has comforted Terence J. Gallagher, vice president for corporate governance at Pfizer, Inc., a giant pharmaceutical firm with 40,000 employees, operations in 40 countries, and $10 billion in annual revenues. Gallagher's prime responsibilities include maintaining the company's code of conduct and dealing with large institutional stockholders on social-responsibility issues.

In the course of a candid conversation on human rights, corporate responsibility and personal faith, Gallagher mentions several examples where the economic was as vital a need as any other.

"We have operations in South Africa, and have for a long time. When apartheid was in place, religious groups wanted us to withdraw. I pointed out we were operating in accordance with our code of conduct, which requires equal opportunity in hiring and promotions.

"We had been in South Africa since the 1950s, so we had employees who had been with us for 30 years. We did not want to abandon these employees, and, as a pharmaceutical company, we felt that we were providing a vital service to people, black or white, by providing basic pharmaceuticals."

After apartheid, Pfizer was asked by a delegation of investors from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility to adopt the "Code of Conduct for Businesses Operating in South Africa," written by Catholic bishops and other church leaders from the South African Council of Churches. Gallagher told the group, which included Maryknoll Father Joseph La Mar and Ursuline Sister Barbara Glendon, that Pfizer's code was similar and "generally consistent."

After much back and forth, the company issued a statement to that effect, one that Gallagher shepherded through all necessary channels.

"We were not only pleased with the compromise that resulted from open and frank dialogue," he says, "but gratified when six other companies, following our lead, accepted the South African [Council of Churches] code's standards for their businesses in that country."

In another instance, Gallagher recalls the scene in Haiti, where he traveled to donate Pfizer goods. "I was discouraged by what I saw both in terms of human rights and from a business perspective. In that brief visit, it looked like a country that was virtually bankrupt. You've got to provide some sort of livelihood for the people to get human rights to mean anything."

Though doing good helps Pfizer do well, Gallagher's faith also directs his work.

"As a Catholic, I am involved in humanity generally and have a responsibility for my fellow man. Whatever I can do to assist my fellow man, I should do."

He was raised in New York City in a family "that was always reaching out to other people." This included housing orphaned cousins and others in need. He attended Manhattan College and Harvard Law School. Today, Gallagher is active in his parish—St. Joseph's in Bronxville, New York—and as a Knight of Malta.

Pfizer, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription medicines for humans and animals in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. Its Pharmaceutical segment offers products for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, such as Lipitor for elevated cholesterol levels in the blood; Norvasc for hypertension; Caduet for cardiovascular events; Chantix/Champix for smoking cessation; and Exubera, the inhaled human insulin therapy for glycemic control. Its products for central nervous system disorders include Zoloft for various disorders; Geodon/Zeldox, a psychotropic agent; Aricept for Alzheimer's disease; and Lyrica for adjuctive therapy for adults with partial onsent epileptic seizures. This segment also offers Celebrex for osteoarthritis, adult rheumatoid arthritis, acute pain, menstrual pain, and familial adenomatous polyposis; Zithromax for bacterial infections; Vfend for serious and potentially fatal fungal infections, esophageal candidiasis, and blood stream infections in non-neutropenic patients; Zyvox for bacterial infections; and Viagra for erectile dysfunction; and Detrol for overactive bladder. In addition, it offers Camptosar, a therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer; Sutent, an oral multi-kinase inhibitor; Xalatan/Xalacom for open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension; Genotropin for various growth disorders; and Zyrtec for allergies and hives. The company's Animal Health segment offers parasiticides, anti-inflammatories, vaccines, and antibiotics. Pfizer also offers Celsentri (maraviroc), an oral CCR5, for HIV treatment. It serves retailers, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, and government agencies. Pfizer has collaboration with Icagen, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and Graffinity Pharmaceuticals AG. The company was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

7.30.2007
Nigeria sues drug giant

The government of Nigeria is suing Pfizer, charging that the world's largest pharmaceutical company conducted improper trials of the anti-meningitis drug Trovan in children.

The Nigerian government wants $7 billion in damages for the families of children who allegedly died or suffered serious side effects after being given the experimental antibiotic, BBC News reported. A few years ago, the Nigerian state of Kano filed a separate lawsuit against Pfizer seeking $2.7 billion in damages. That suit is still working its way through the legal system.

Pfizer tested Trovan in children during a meningitis outbreak in Kano in 1996. About 200 children died and others suffered mental and physical problems. In its lawsuit, the Nigerian government says Trovan caused the deaths and injuries and that the children were injected with the drug without approval from the country's regulatory agencies, BBC News reported.

Pfizer has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing and says the trials were conducted with the full knowledge of the Nigerian government, according to Nigerian and international law.

In the United States, Trovan is approved to treat adults, but not children. – (HealthDayNews)