CBS President Frank Stanton was one of six private citizens secretly recruited and granted authority by President Eisenhower to run major components of the government if a Soviet attack wiped out many American leaders.
No public announcement of the appointments was made. Their existence was confirmed by recently publicized Eisenhower administration letters.
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appointees included George Baker, a Harvard Business School professor who was tapped to oversee transportation; Harold Boeschenstein, president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., in charge of manufacturing and production; Aksel Nielsen, president of the Title Guaranty Co., housing; J. Ed Warren, senior vice president of the First National City Bank of New York, energy; and Theodore Koop, vice president of CBS, to oversee an emergency censorship agency. Koop would have had 40 civilian staff members to monitor and control
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During the Reagan administration, then-Rep. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who was chief executive of the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle & Co., were key players in a secret program to set aside the legal lines of succession and install a new president in a catastrophe, The Atlantic Monthly reported this month.
LUNCH AMONG THE REDWOODS.:Secretary Taft, Miss Roosevelt, and Party Have an Outing.
Jul 7, 1905. pg. 4, 1 pgs
San Francisco, July 6. — The Taft party to-day visited the Bohemian grove of redwoods, near Guerneville, Sonoma County, as guests of President W.A. Foster, of the California Northeastern Railroad. Miss Roosevelt appeared on the rear platform at all stations, greatly to the delight of the crowds that desired to get a glimpse of the President’s daughter.
