The Chairman: John J. McCloy: The Making of the American Establishment.

From: Washington Monthly | Date: March 1, 1992| Author: Thomas, Evan | Copyright information

He was, in Richard Rovere's famous characterization, "The Chairman of the Board of the American Establishment." John J. McCloy was chairman also of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as Chase Bank (the Rockefellers bank), president of the World Bank during the Marshall Plan era, the American proconsul who rebuit Germany after the war (traveling about in a private train that had belonged to Hitler), the Wall Street lawyer to the Seven Sisters oil companies during the sixties ...

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