Hillary Clinton will be President

The Strange Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty America's Royal Family
Emanuael M. Josephson©1948
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"CHAPTER I

PRESIDENTS ON THE ROOSEVELT FAMILY TREE

Franklin Delano Roosevelt displayed on his family tree twelve presidents of 
the United States, and one president of the Confederate States, with whom he
claimed direct relationship. Only four of the presidents were on the
Roosevelt side of the family. Eight were derived from the influential and
powerful Delano family.

So closely has the secret been kept that it will undoubtedly surprise the
reader to know that the most closely related of these presidents to F. D. R.
was not Theodore Roosevelt, but Ulysses S. Grant.

On the Roosevelt side of the family, F. D. R. claims relationship to John
Adams, the second president and John Quincy Adams, the sixth president,
Martin Van Buren, the eighth president, and Theodore Roosevelt, the
twenty-sixth president. On the Delano side he claims relationship to George
Washington, James Madison, fourth president, William Henry Harrison, Zachary
Taylor, twelfth, Andrew Johnson, seventeenth, Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth,
Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third, and William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

The relationship of President George Washington to the Roosevelt-Delano clan
is remote and not nearly so direct as in the case of the other eleven. It
traces through George W. Parke Custis, a nephew of Martha Washington by her
first marriage to Daniel Custis, whose daughter married General Robert E.
Lee, a fifth cousin of Sara Delano Roosevelt.

An interesting sidelight on the remoteness of the relationship is cast by
George Washington's rejection of an invitation to attend the funeral of the
wife of the Revolutionary War veteran and New York State Senator, Isaac
Roosevelt, which he noted in his diary on November 14th, 1789 in the
following entry:

     "Received an invitation to attend the funeral of Mrs. Roosevelt (the wife of
     a Senator of the State) but declined complying with it, first because the
     propriety Of accepting an invitation of this sort appeared to be very
     questionable, and secondly (though to do so in this case might not be
     improper), because it might be difficult to discriminate in cases which might
     there. after happen." (F. D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors, A. V. Page,
     1933, p. 21).

The remoteness of the relationship would serve in some measure to explain the
complete absence in F.D.R. of the nobler and finer qualities of George
Washington—his modesty, his humility, his sanity, his absolute honesty, his
high and rigid principles, his refusal to stoop to cheap expediency and
politics, his passionate devotion to the cause of freedom, liberty and
democracy, his loyalty to his country and refusal to sacrifice it to the
interests of any foreign land, his spurning of nepotism and abhorrence of the
cheapening of the office of President through exploitation for social or
business advancement.

All of these characteristics definitely stamp George Washington as not a true
member of the Roosevelt Delano clan, however insistently they claim him.
Affirmation of relationship to George Washington by Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, who lent his support to the "Union Now" movement and had as a
member of his cabinet, Harold Ickes an official of that movement, and who was
instrumental in World Wars I and II in betraying the interests of his country
to Great Britain and reducing it to a more subject state than the lowliest of
the British colonies, is the height of irony.

Washington nobly rejected the "indispensable", dictatorial and regal status
that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the Dynasty have sought.

JOHN ADAMS

John Adams was originally related to the Roosevelts through the marriage of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandfather, James to Mary Aspinwall, a
descendant of Thomas Shepard and Ann Tyng who were ancestors also of the
Adamses. The relationship was in the order of seventh cousin. But as is so
common in royal families, relationships in the Roosevelt-Delano clan are
intensified and made closer by inbreeding and marriage of cousins. In the
present generation for instance, Frederick B. Adams married his distant
cousin, Ellen W. Delano, thus enabling heir apparent, James Roosevelt to talk
of "my cousin" Fred Adams when discussing sugar and insurance deals.

John Adams and his second cousin Samuel Adams were moving spirits in the
resistance of New England to British tyranny. Whether influenced by their
interests in commerce and trade, especially with the West Indies and other
British colonies, and in smuggling, as some folks allege, or not, there can
be no question as to their devotion to the cause of the Revolution. Both
signed the Declaration of Independence. Popular Samuel Adams is regarded as
the author of most of the Bill of Rights and was instrumental in the adoption
of the Constitution by the State of Massachusetts which he served as
lieutenant governor and governor between 1789 and 1797.

John Adams, Harvard graduate, courageous and devoted to the cause of the
Revolution, but vain, argumentative, impetuous, resentful, suspicious and in
the main unpopular, member of the Continental Congress, ambassador to France
and to England, got only thirty-four out of sixty votes for vice president as
contrasted with the unanimous vote for George Washington in 1789. His
snobbishness which impelled him to write that "the rich, the well-born and
the able" members of Congress should be kept apart in a Senate did not add to
his popularity. In the role of proud aristocrat, he fiercely resented
the failure of the electors to make him President instead of George
Washington. With Alexander Hamilton, Adams became a recognized political
leader of the Federalist party.

In 1796, Washington refused to accept another election to serve a third term,
because of the-danger of setting the precedent of a president assuming office
for life and becoming dictator or monarch. John Adams was chosen as President
despite his unpopularity, because of the miscarriage of a maneuver within his
own party which sought to defeat him. During his term, he fell out with
Hamilton and his own supporters. By 1800 he had gained such complete control
of his party that despite their distrust of him he secured the Federalist
nomination for presidency. He was defeated by Thomas Jefferson. In a spirit
characteristic of the clan, John Adams was so enraged at his loss of office
that he refused to attend Jefferson's inauguration and instead drove out of
Washington during the inaugural.

John Adams assumed the role of aristocrat among revolutionary rabble. His
concept of the proper form of government for the country was domination by a
self-perpetuating aristocracy that would rule, in reality, and further-their
interests while maintaining a pretense of democracy and popular franchise. It
is his idea that now prevails in the Dynasty. The Federalist political
machinery which he was instrumental in creating, served the purpose of
securing his nomination to the presidency despite unpopularity in his own
party. The control of the political machine which he built has been handed
down more or less intact in his family and Dynasty throughout our subsequent
generations. It has served to advance numerous members of the Dynasty to the
top ranks of society, politics, industry and commerce. It is one of the
mainstays of power of the Roosevelt-Delano clan.

It was fortunate, indeed, for the country that the interests of John Adams
coincided with those of the Revolutionists. For he had the courage of his
convictions and he furthered them with vigor and intensity that might have
been telling if he had opposed the Revolutionary cause. But it was even more
fortunate for the cause of democracy that there were such men as Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison to offer some opposition to his plans for setting
up a hereditary Oligarchic rule.

The opposition that confronted John Adams and his associates was not
sufficient, however, to avert the establishment of an oligarchy that is in
large measure hereditary. But it was sufficiently powerful to force the
oligarchs to maintain a pretense of democracy. This pretense of adoption of
the most radical, they call it "liberal", came of the times, has come to be
adopted as a screen behind which each successive generation of the
Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty push their drive for establishment of absolute rule
by an oligarchy and the ultimate establishment of a monarchy.

John Adams established the precedent of nepotism which has become one of the
outstanding characteristics in the political activity of the Roosevelt-Delano
Dynasty, and one of their strongest traditions. This was evidenced in his
appointment in 1782 of his fifteen year old son, John Quincy Adams, as
"additional secretary" to the American Commissioners in Paris negotiating the
treaty of peace of the Revolutionary War.

JAMES MADISON

James Madison was one of many distinguished descendants of William and
Margaret Cheney. These included his third cousin, President Zachary Taylor
who was father-in-law of Jefferson Davis, his fourth cousin, General R. E.
Lee, and his seventh cousin, President William Howard Taft. Through the
marriage of his great grand uncle, Hancock Lee to Sarah Allerton, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was a seventh cousin of James Madison.

James Madison studied for the ministry at Princeton. In 1775 he became
chairman of the Committee of Public Safety and in 1779 was elected delegate
to the Continental Congress, where he urged that Congress be given the right
to levy duties, despite the opposition of his constituency. When elected to
Virginia's House of Delegates in 1784, as a Unitarian, he opposed the
granting of special privileges to the Episcopalian Church and fought for
religious freedom. The bill he introduced was labeled Jefferson's Bill and
was passed the following year. He also opposed the further issue of paper
money. His influence was largely responsible for the form which the
Constitution took and for its adoption against the opposition of the
Federalists and others. Though defeated in his senatorial candidacy, he was
elected to Congress from his home district, defeating James Monroe.

In Congress, Madison introduced the first Tariff Bill as well as the
amendments to the Constitution that were subsequently adopted as the Bill of
Rights. He was an advocate of State rights and opposed Hamilton's bill to
establish a national bank. He sought to limit the President's prerogative and
favored France and was antagonistic to England. In 1807, Madison was elected
President, as candidate of the Republican ticket. Throughout his career,
Madison had advocated commercial reprisals rather than war against England to
force her to recognize our neutral rights. But when seeking reelection, less
than two weeks after his nomination, he sent his war message to Congress on
June 1, 1812. His reelection followed, despite the suggestion of the
Federalists that he forced to resign because of their opposition to war.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

        John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, furnished the country with the
spectacle that has been uncommon in our history outside of the
Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty father and son simultaneously serving in the top
rungs of the national government and succeeding each other to the presidency.
At the time that John Adams was vice-president, George Washington appointed
his son, John Quincy Adams, successively as Minister to Netherlands, at the
age of twenty-seven, and then Minister to Portugal. Before he took the latter
post he was transferred in 1797, by his father who had succeeded Washington
as president, to the post of Minister to Prussia. At the end of the
presidential term, his father recalled him.

In 1802 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate and in 1803 he was
appointed United States Senator in spite of the unpopularity of his father
with a large group of his own party, the Federalists led by Alexander
Hamilton. He resigned before his term of office ended and returned to his
alma mater, Harvard, as professor of rhetoric and oratory.

In the meantime, he had bolted the Federalist Party, joined the Republicans
and participated in the caucus which nominated Madison for the presidency.
President Madison appointed Adams, Minister to Russia in 1809 and in 1815 to
England, a position occupied by his father before him and his son, Charles
Frances Adams, after him. In 1817 he became Secretary of State on the
Cabinet of President Monroe.

In 1825, John Quincy Adams was chosen President by the House of
Representatives as a result of a deal made by him with Henry Clay, for the
purpose of defeating Andrew Jackson. In return Adams made Henry Clay,
Secretary of State. This raised the cry of bribery and corruption. So great
was the unpopularity of Adams and the opposition to him in Congress that hit;
presidency proved a failure. He was renominated by his party in 1828.
Another scion of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty, General William Henry
Harrison, was his running mate as vice-president, but Andrew Jackson was
elected in 1828 to succeed him.

In 1831 Adams was elected to Congress where during a period of seventeen
years, his energies were largely devoted to abolitionist activities.

MARTIN VAN BUREN

Martin Van Buren was a descendant of Martin Van Buren and Marytyice
Quackenbush as was also his fourth cousin, Isaac Roosevelt, great great
grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Van Buren's daughter-in-law,
Angelina Singleton, wife of Abraham Van Buren, who was his hostess in the
White House, was a cousin of President Madison's wife, Dolly.

Van Buren was a native of Kinderhook, New York, which lies not many miles
north of the bailiwick of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A successful lawyer, though
possessed of a very rudimentary education, he entered politics as an adherent
of the George Clinton section of the Republican party. In politics his
success was signalized by his leadership of a corrupt political machine that
was known as the "Albany Regency", and dominated New York State politics for
decades. His nickname "Little Magician" attests to his skill at nepotism and
the spoils system. The Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty has since then done its level
best to live up to the tradition Van Buren set for it of dirty politics,
corruption, nepotism and the spoils system. With rare exception, all these
later presidents of the Dynasty have proved a credit to their vicious
progenitor.

Van Buren filled the offices of Surrogate of Columbia County, New York State,
State Senator, and Attorney General of New York State. In 1821 he was elected
to the U. S. Senate, and in 1827 was reelected. At the same time he served as
campaign manager for Andrew Jackson. In the following year he was elected
Governor of New York State, and resigned from the Senate. But after less than
two months as Governor of New York, in 1829, he was appointed Secretary of
State by President Jackson. He courted Jackson's favor; and after an
interlude in which he served as Minister to England, without confirmation of
his appointment, displaced Calhoun as vice-presidential candidate of the
first Democratic convention.

In 1836 Van Buren, as successor of Andrew Jackson, defeated William Henry
Harrison in the presidential election. On assuming office he appointed his
son, Captain Abraham Van Buren, as his secretary. Abraham's wife, who was a
cousin of President Madison's wife Dolly, was mistress of the White House
during Van Buren's term of office.

Van Buren's presidency was marked by two successive commercial panics in 1837
and 1839. He undertook to "follow in the footsteps of his illustrious
predecessor". Though renominated in 1840 he was defeated by William Henry
Harrison. He sought the nomination of the Democrats in 1844 but failed to
secure it.

True to the tradition of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty, no loyalty or
allegiance to any party could be expected of him and no party could hold him.
Traditionally, they acknowledge no allegiance except to themselves. As in the
case of John Quincy Adams, Van Buren bolted his party and, with Adam's son,
Charles Francis Adams as vice-presidential candidate, ran for office as
candidate of the "Free Soil" Party in 1848, but did not win a single
electoral vote. This presents an interesting demonstration of the influence
attained, the cooperation between its members and the control of political
machinery developed, even at this early date, by the branches of the growing
Roosevelt clan. Both candidates were members of the Dynasty, for the second
time in a generation.

GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The use of the Army as a springboard to the Presidency, and of war heroes as
political fronts is an old one and a favorite of the Roosevelt-Delano
Dynasty. Setting aside their claim to George Washington, they have
contributed five of them to the role of President. Some of these
hero-presidents have been real and others have been synthesized for political
purposes, created by rapid promotion through nepotism of favored individuals
to the rank of general-in-command towards the end of a war so that they can
claim some credit for the successful course of the war. Such an instance is
still fresh in the minds of the public in the promotion of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's son, Elliott to the rank of General over the heads of thousands
of professional career soldiers and officers, for his distinguished services
in commuting to and from the fronts and fighting the battles of the cabarets,
nightclubs and bistros on the, home front. This brings to mind the old
saying: "Generals die in bed with their shoes off."

William Henry Harrison was the first of the series of military presidents. He
was a grandson of Benjamin Harrison, a Virginian, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and a grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President.
He was a third cousin of Henry Lee, father of General Robert E. Lee, as well
as second cousin of James Madison, fourth President and General Zachary
Taylor, twelfth President, and' a fourth cousin of General Ulysses S. Grant,
eighteenth President.

Harrison graduated from Hampden-Sidney College and began the study of
medicine in Philadelphia. After the death of his father, against the advice
of his guardian, Robert Morris, Harrison joined the Army in 1791 as ensign,
went West and fought the Indians. He was rapidly promoted to captaincy, but
resigned from the Army in 1798. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed
Secretary of the Northwest Territory. In 1799 he was chosen by the
Jeffersonian Republicans as delegate to Congress from the Territory. In 1800
President Madison, his cousin, appointed him Governor of the Indian Territory
and for a short time in 1804 he acted also as Governor of the Louisiana
Territory, a tremendous expanse of territory.

In a skirmish against the Indians, preliminary to the War of 1812, Harrison
engaged some Indians with a force of militia and regular troops,—the much
touted victory of Tippecanoe. After the outbreak of the War of 1812, he was
made brigadier-general and placed in charge of all troops in the Northwest
Territory, and the following year he was promoted to the rank of
major-general. At the end of the War, after Perry's naval victory, Harrison
advanced on Detroit and captured the territory previously lost to the
British. In 1814 he once again resigned from the Army.

Between 1816 and 1828, Harrison was successively Congressman, Ohio State
Senator, and U. S. Senator. In 1828 efforts to secure for him command of the
Army and Vice-Presidential election on the ticket of John Quincy Adams both
failed. He was appointed first American Minister to Colombia, but was
recalled within a year. Retiring he took the lowly job of Clerk in the Court
of Common Pleas, Hammond County.

Defeated as Whig Candidate for the presidency by Van Buren, in 1836, Harrison
in turn defeated Van Buren in 1840. He survived his inauguration by one month
and was succeeded by Vice-President John Tyler.

GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR

Zachary Taylor was the second of the series of five Army presidents of the
Roosevelt-Delano clan. He was a second cousin of President James Madison and
of (President) General William Henry Harrison, father-in-law of President
Jefferson Davis, third cousin of Henry Lee, father of General Robert E. Lee,
fourth cousin of (President) General Ulysses S. Grant, fifth cousin of
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and sixth cousin of President William
Howard Taft.

Zachary Taylor, followed in the footsteps of his father, Revolutionary
veteran, Col. Richard Taylor, was commissioned at 23, first lieutenant in the
Army in 1808. In the War of 1812 he participated in the defense of Fort
Harrison. By 1814 he had attained the rank of major and resigned from the
service. He was reinstated in the service in 1816, promoted to the rank of
lieutenant-colonel in 1819. He took part in the Black Hawk War in 1832 and
the Seminole War in 1836. Following the battle of Okeechobee, he was brevetted
brigadier-general. In 1846, he defeated the Mexicans in the Rio Grande Valley
and at Saltillo, and had become the popular hero of the Mexican War.

Nominated presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1848 at the height of
his military success and popular acclaim, his Louisiana plantation, slave
ownership and his family background swung the tide in an election in which
the question of slavery played a paramount role. His support of slavery was
not as whole-hearted as he had led his supporters to anticipate. Shortly
after his entering office he had antagonized them and was bitterly attacked
by them. He was stricken by illness and died while in office, July 9,
1850. Millard Fillmore succeeded him in office.

ANDREW JOHNSON

Andrew Johnson is named as one of the twelve presidents of the United States
who share common ancestry through the Delanos with Franklin D. Roosevelt
in an article entitled "MY COUSIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE" by Daniel W. Delano,
published in "PIC" Magazine on July 8, 1941. No data is available that
permits detailing the degree and manner of the relationship. The ancestry
probably traces back to Humphrey Johnson. In spirit Andrew Johnson is
outstandingly a true progenitor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Andrew Johnson began his political career in 1828 as Alderman in Greenville,
Tennessee of which he became Mayor in 1830. After a period in legislature, he
was elected to Congress in 1843. On his defeat for reelection to Congress in
1853, he became Governor of Tennessee. In 1857 he was elected Senator on the
Democratic ticket, in which capacity he remained until 1862 when he was
appointed military governor of recaptured Tennessee. True to the tradition of
the Dynasty, once in high office he flaunted his campaign platforms and
violated the interests of the electorate. In 1864, to hold the votes of the
Democrats who favored the war, Johnson was nominated vice-president to run
with Lincoln on the ticket of the Union Party.

Following Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson became President. Johnson
favored a lenient reconstruction policy, opposed immediate, general negro
suffrage, and personally attempted to force an antagonistic Congress to
rubber-stamp his bills, But in those days men were men and even Congressmen
were men. To assert their authority, Congress passed in 1867 the Tenure of
Office Act over the President's veto. The act prohibited the President
dismissing from office with. out the consent of the Senate, any officer
appointed by and with the consent of Senate. Also an amendment to the Army
Appropriations Bill subordinating the President to the Senate and the Chief
of Staff of the Army in military matters. This wholesome move to restrict the
monarchic power of the President was defiantly violated by President Johnson
by his removing from office, Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and replacing
him ad interim first with Grant and then with Lorenzo Thomas.

Congress promptly brought impeachment proceedings against President Johnson,
in February 1868. The charge finally voted on, rings familiar to us these
days, viz: "eleventh, that Johnson had publicly stated that the 39th Congress
was not an authorized Congress and that its legislation was not binding upon
him." Unfortunately the vote was 35 to 19, lacking but one of the two-thirds
majority required for impeachment.

        Johnson's victory considerably enhanced the monarchic power of the
President. It prepared the way for the abuses of executive power that
signalized the regime of later members of the Dynasty. The deliberate effort
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal to eliminate the Constitutional
check on the monarchic power of the President by Congress through the device
of discrediting it with the nation by a constant stream of vicious propaganda
and through various devices robbing it of its power and initiative and
converting it into an impotent and pathetic rubber- stamp, culminate this
fight for expansion of presidential powers initiated by Johnson.

There should be noted at this point, the odd "coincidence" that of the
three Presidents of the United States who have been assassinated, two have
been seceded in office by members of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty-Andrew
Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt

GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT

General Ulysses S. Grant was the closest relative of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt among the Presidents of the United States. He was one degree closer
than Theodore Roosevelt, who was a fifth cousin. Grant's great grandmother
was Susana Delano, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's great great grandfather was
her brother Thomas Delano.

Hiram S. Grant received an appointment to West Point under the name Ulysses
S. Grant. In 1845, two years after his graduation, his regiment joined the
forces of General Taylor in Mexico, where he fought in a number of
engagements in the war. He emerged from the war, a captain. After marriage to
Julia T. Dent, in 1848, he was stationed in California and Oregon.

In 1854, he resigned his commission amid charges of excessive drinking. During
the following six years he lived in St. Louis making a poor living at farming
and dealing in real-estate. In 1860 he became a clerk in the leather store of
his father at Galena, Illinois.

Grant volunteered at the outbreak of the Civil War and was commissioned
Colonel of the 21st Illinois Regiment by Governor Yates; and then was
commissioned brigadier-general. Shortly thereafter he fell into disgrace.
suffered serious military reverses, and was relieved of his command.
Subsequently he was reinstated but sustained further reverses.

 Despite Grant's mistakes and reverses, Lincoln and Stanton supported him.
This political support served to keep him in his command. To outcries against
Grant's drunkenness, Lincoln replied to the deputations that if they would find
out what sort of liquor Grant drank, he would send some kegs of it to the
other generals.

The fall of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, marked the turning point in Grant's
career. At Chattanooga he was placed in command of four armies that on
November 25, 1863, administered a crushing blow to the Confederates. Grant
then was made Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces with the rank of
Lieutenant-General. In the months that followed, the war was characterized
by a ruthless sacrifice of Union forces in a drive on Lee's army in Virginia.
Six thousand men, for instance, fell in a useless assault lasting only one
hour, at Cold Harbor; and in two months the Union Armies before Richmond and
Petersburg lost seventy-two thousand men. These sacrifices were eventually
rewarded with success.

To the people at large Grant appeared as a savior of the Union. His dispute
with President Johnson over his appointment by Johnson in defiance of
Congress as Secretary of War to succeed Stanton, contributed in some measure
to his nomination as presidential candidate on the Republican ticket. He was
elected against a weak Democratic candidate set up by the New York party
machine, ex-Governor Seymour.

Grant during his presidency dropped to lower depths than ever Martin Van
Buren had dreamed of, the level of crookedness, corruption and nepotism
traditional in the Roosevelt-Delano history. Cabinet positions were put on
the auction block. For instance, Alexander T. Stewart, dry goods merchant of
New York City was repaid for many costly gifts which he presented to Mrs.
Grant, by the post of Secretary of the Treasury.

Numerous members of Grant's immediate family were placed on the public
payroll, including the following:

1. Frederick Dent, Grant's brother-in-law, aid to the Vice-President.

2. A second brother-in-law, (brother of Frederick Dent) United States
Customs, San Francisco.

3. A third brother-in-law, Government Indian trader, New Mexico.

4. A second cousin, Receiver of Public Moneys, Oregon.

5. James F. Casey, Collector of Port, New Orleans and distributor of Federal
patronage.

6. Peter Casey, Postmaster, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

7. Jesse Root Grant, Postmaster, Covington, Kentucky.

8. Michael J. Cramer, his brother-in-law, Minister to Denmark. Cramer who was
a German, antagonized the Danes by telling them how inferior they were to the
Germans.

9. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior.

All types of shady and dishonest ventures were sponsored or aided by
associates of Grant. The Fisk-Gould Gold Conspiracy manipulated the price of
gold from 132 to 155 and then smashed it down to 135 and precipitated a
financial panic known as Black Friday. Associated in this enterprise was
Grant's brother-in-law A. R. Corbin. And Grant himself played an important
part in directing the policy of the Treasury Department to make this
manipulation possible.

Secretary of the Treasury, William A. Richardson, appointed a political
henchman of Grant's, John D. Sanborn, special agent for collection of
delinquent taxes. Sanborn received, as commission, half of the taxes
collected. He soon expanded his activities to take a cut of half of all
moneys pouring into the United States Treasury until a Congressional
Committee stumbled onto this looting of the Treasury. The Committee urged
dismissal of Secretary Richardson. Grant permitted him to resign. He was
appointed immediately Justice of the Court of Claims.

Benjamin N. Bristow, who succeeded as Secretary of the Treasury uncovered
evasion of Excise Tax on a huge scale by the Whisky Ring that involved
bribery of Grant's principal secretary, General Orville E. Babcock. The
money collected by Babcock had been used to finance Grant's campaign for
reelection in 1872. Indicted with the rest of the conspirators, Babcock was
acquitted as a result of voluntary intercession and character testimony by
President Grant. Secretary Bristow who had so courageously performed his duty
in protecting the Treasury, was "cold shouldered" out of office by Grant.

Grant had the same contempt of the Constitution as characterized most of the
Presidents of the Dynasty. He assumed the royal prerogative of making a
treaty to annex San Domingo, disregarding the Senate's role prescribed in the
Constitution in making treaties. The treaty was rejected by a Senate that had
not yet degenerated to the rubber stamp state.

These and numerous other exposed cases of nepotism, bribery and corruption
served to stamp Grant's two term in office as the most shameful and dishonest
in our history to that date. They have been surpassed, however, by the
corruption of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's regime that was so closely
patterned after Grant's in that respect.

True to the tradition of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty, Grant held in contempt
the democratic precept laid down by George Washington who refused to serve a
third term, in the interest of preserving democracy. In 1880 Grants
profligacy and incompetence left him in poor financial condition. He widely
advertised among his friends that he would either have to obtain lucrative
employment or get a third term as President. Whereupon he set out to secure
the nomination of the Republican Party. Nomination was refused him and given
to Garfield, who did not live to enjoy his office long. He was succeeded by
Chester A. Arthur, leader in the fight at the Republican National Convention
to reelect Grant for a third term.

Grant's financial needs were provided for by a two hundred and fifty thousand
dollar fund raised by subscription by the New York Times, just as Franklin
Delano Roosevelt's needs were taken care of by a subscription fund of eight
hundred thousand dollars raised from the financial community to bribe him to
run for office. Jay Gould repaid the service Grant and his family had
rendered him in the Gold Conspiracy by contributing twenty-five thousand
dollars to the fund. It was gratefully accepted by Grant.

Not content with the provision thus made for him, Grant barged into Wall
Street and engaged through the firm of Grant and Ward in a colossal swindle
as stupid as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's financial flotations.

Senator Charles Sumner, in a speech before Senate, on May 31, 1872, aptly
summed up the unprincipled incompetence of Grant. Several of his statements
emphasize the pattern of conduct in public office that has come to be
expected of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty such as:

1. Anyone who brought gifts to Grant's door was sure to receive favors.

2. Relatives, and friends of relatives, were appointed by Grant regardless of
fitness with a favoritism described as "a dropsical nepotism swollen to
elephantiasis".

3. Grant assumed monarchical prerogatives and flaunted the Constitution.

Another characteristic of the latter-day office holders of the Dynasty is
exploitation of the presidency by the sale of their literary effluvia. This
stems from their financial incompetence and inability to hold on to money no
matter how much they make. Grant sold his memoirs to help support his family
and to pay his debt.

GENERAL BENJAMIN HARRISON

Benjamin Harrison was a grandson of William Henry Harrison whose genealogy
already has been outlined. After graduation from Miami University, he studied
law and engaged in the practice of law in Indianapolis. At the outbreak of
the Civil War he was commissioned second-lieutenant by the Governor,
raised a regiment and was promoted to the rank of colonel. He saw service
with Buell and Sherman. After the war was over, he was brevetted a
brigadier-general.

Harrison was defeated in his candidacy for governorship in 1876. He was an
ardent supporter of James Garfield, who offered him a cabinet post. In 1881,
he became United States Senator but failed of reelection in 1887. In 1888 he
was nominated Republican Party candidate for presidency, and defeated
Cleveland. In 1893 he was renominated but was defeated by Cleveland.

COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Theodore Roosevelt was a descendant of Nicholas Roosevelt, son of Claas
Martenszen van Rosenvelt (or Rosenfeld, in the German form) and Heyltje
Kunst, early New Amsterdam settlers. He was a fifth cousin of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and through his side of the family was more or less distantly
related to the other Presidents of the Dynasty. Eleanor Roosevelt, a niece of
Theodore Roosevelt married Franklin Delano Roosevelt and tied in the
relationship of the two sides of the family more closely, as is so frequently
the case in the history of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty and other royal
families. Through his first wife, he was related to the Boston Cabots and the
Lees.

In Theodore Roosevelt the Dynasty emerged from its amateur status of crude
Politicians to the status of professional demagogues and expert tricksters of
public opinion and panderers to the mob. Educated at Harvard, he came under
the influence of the "liberalism" there in vogue that is richly tainted with
Bismarck's subsidized propaganda of class warfare. He then began the study of
law at Columbia University Law School but abandoned his studies for the
avowed purpose of making professional politics his career. Thanks to the
influence of the Dynasty, he was elected as regular Republican candidate to
the New York State Legislature in 1881, for three successive terms; and in
1883 at the age of twenty-four, he was his party's candidate for Speaker of
the Assembly. In 1883, he was a delegate to the Republican Convention in 
Chicago that nominated Blaine for president.

With an eye to acquiring Western background and support for his political
career, he bought two cattle ranches in North Dakota where he spent two
years. While he was absent in the West, the Dynasty made him Republican
candidate for Mayor of New York City. He was nominated by Chauncey Depew,
attorney for the Vanderbilt-New York Central interests, and Elihu Root, the
Ryan-Morgan-Boss Tweed attorney. Thomas C. Platt, New York's Republican boss
was ordered to support him. He received fewer votes than Henry George, the
candidate of the United Labor Party.

In 1889, his distant cousin, President Benjamin Harrison appointed Theodore
Roosevelt to the Unite States Civil Service Commission. The civil service
reforms instituted during the Cleveland Administration had proved popular;
and Theodore Roosevelt was demagogue enough to know how to profit from
anything that was popular.

One of the outstanding features of Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty in its
development, is its appreciation and effective use of all channels of
publicity. Theodore Roosevelt was the first of them to court the press with
the consequence that he always enjoyed the complete support of a good press.
He became the prototype of the Dynasty which is now unexcelled in its public
relations and self-publicity.

In 1895, Roosevelt was appointed President of the Board of Police
Commissioners of the City of New York and in 1897, he was appointed by
President McKinley, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The Navy Department post
is a purposefully hereditary one in the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty, as will be
related in a later chapter, because of their interest in naval armor and
naval armament.

When the Spanish American War broke out in 1898, Roosevelt resigned from the
Navy Department. He raised a regiment of cavalry, known as the "Rough Riders"
and in spite of lack of previous military training, such is the magic of the
Dynasty, became its lieutenant-colonel. As might be expected as a result of
influence and favorable press, Col. Theodore Roosevelt emerged as the great
synthetic military hero of the Spanish American War. In 1898, the war hero
was given the nomination by the Republican party of the governorship of New
York State and was elected.

In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt was nominated vice-president to run with McKinley,
by the Republican Convention at Philadelphia. This convention was dominated
by Mark A. Hanna who represented the major industrial combines of the
country and particularly the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests. It was
public knowledge that in both 1896 and 1900 the Rockefeller Standard Oil
interests contributed $250,000 to the Republican campaign fund. Theodore
Roosevelt was nominated under these auspices.

McKinley did not live to enjoy his office long. It is a startling
"coincidence" that of the three United States Presidents assassinated, two of
them, Lincoln and McKinley were succeeded by members of the Roosevelt-Delano
Dynasty, Andrew Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt, respectively; and the third,
Garfield, was succeeded by Chester A. Arthur, a supporter and campaign
manager of a third member of the Dynasty, Ulysses S. Grant, who obeyed its
dictates.

Succeeding McKinley in office, Theodore Roosevelt immediately proceeded to
pretend to betray the very groups who had given him the nomination and
supported the election campaign. He assumed the melodramatic role of
Presidential rabble-rouser and "trust buster". As such he was a complete
fraud. He was always accusing others of nature-faking. But never has there
been done a better job in nature-faking and humbugging The public. than was
done by his Wall Street sponsors, through their controlled press, in the
build-up of Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt was completely the tool of J. P. Morgan and Company and
their associates who had sponsored him politically. He submitted to Morgan's
agents for censorship all his official statements. His first message to
Congress was submitted for editing to Cassatt, Aldrich, Hanna, Root, and
Knox, all affiliated with Morgan. His third annual message to Congress was
submitted to James Stillman, President of the National City Bank, and
passages referring to currency were changed at his suggestion. He followed
the dictates of E. H. Harriman in most matters.

Teddy played to the gallery by advocating a new Department of Commerce and
Labor and by pretending to attack Morgan. The attacks which he made upon the
Morgan interests were designed to bamboozle the voters into believing that he
was a champion of the little man. But they always served Morgan's advantage,
as in the Northern Securities Company case. The Panama Canal venture which he
sponsored was motivated by a forty million dollar swindle of the American
 taxpayer serving the advantage of Philippe Bunau-Varilla and his
associates including J. P. Morgan and Company, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, August
Belmont, Levi P. Morton, William Nelson Cromwell and others, according to
stories published in the New York World. The Panama Canal route was less
desirable than the Nicaraguan which had been chosen previously but was
adopted because it was controlled by the speculators.

With the same defiance of the Constitution that characterized the Dynasty
before him, viz. Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt
deliberately conspired to circumvent Congress. Henry Pringle, Roosevelt's
biographer, states that be secretly dispatched G. M. P. Murphy,
Vice-President of Morgan's Guaranty Trust Company to look over the ground
with an eye to staging the Panama revolution against Colombia to force the
issue. At the behest of J. P. Morgan & Co., acting on behalf of foreign
creditors, Roosevelt ordered the seizure of the Dominican customs. Congress
was completely disregarded in this move to use U. S. armed forces to collect
private debts. Unknown to the Senate, he also entered into a secret
agreement, or quasi-treaty, with England and Japan regarding the Pacific
Ocean that paved the way for U.S. entry into World War I on the side of
England and Japan.

An insurance investigation was motivated by Harriman's fight with Ryan for a
half interest in 502 shares of Equitable Life Insurance Society he had
purchased from John H. Hyde. The ultimate results benefited J. P. Morgan and
Company who acquired the stock in 1910 for $3,000,000. When the insurance
companies were compelled to divest themselves of control of a group of banks
and stock in the First National Bank and the National City Bank, they were
turned over to J. P. Morgan and Company. George W. Perkins, a partner of
Morgan's emerged as the villain in the insurance scandal. He became Teddy's
most trusted adviser.

        The degree of the Morgan influence over President Theodore Roosevelt
is indicated by the extent to which he surrounded himself with Morgan
henchmen. As vice-presidential candidate, while still Governor of New York State, 
dinner which he gave in the banker's honor in December 1900, Roosevelt had
at a reassured Morgan personally regarding his sham "liberalism" thereby clearing
the way for the formation of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Further assurance
was given by the inclusion by Roosevelt in his Cabinet of numerous Morgan
henchmen, including George von L. Meyer, first as Postmaster-General and then
as Secretary of the Navy; Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy; Herbert L.
Satterlee, Morgan's son-in-law, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Elihu
Root, Secretary of State (who resigned from the Cabinet to defend Morgan in
the Northern Securities Company case, to his complete satisfaction, and then
returned to the Cabinet); Robert Bacon, Morgan partner, as Assistant
Secretary of State; William  Howard Taft, Secretary of War, and others.
Notable is the frequency with which Roosevelt changed his Secretaries of the
Navy in order to retain direct control of the Navy himself.

"Teddy" Roosevelt was as antagonistic to the Rockefellers as he was friendly
and helpful to his political sponsors, the Morgan group. His "trust busting"
activities were designed to court public favor and to trick folks into
believing him to be a champion of the common man and an antagonist of great
wealth, so as to cover his partisanship. The policy of trust "regulation"
which Roosevelt later advocated originated with George W. Perkins, Morgan's
partner and the President's intimate and adviser. "Regulation" is selective
and is admirably designed to further special interests. TR's hatred of the
Rockefellers was rooted in his belief, instilled by his advisers, that
Rockefellers were his enemies. He attacked them viciously and vindictively.
This did not deter him, however, from seeking contributions to his campaign
funds from the Rockefeller group. Around nomination time Roosevelt extended a
invitation through Congressman Silbey to Archbold, President of the Standard
Oil Company, to luncheon at the White House. The Standard Oil Company 
contributed thereafter $100,000 to the 1904 campaign fund. At the time of the
contribution Archbold was assured that Roosevelt was cognizant of the
contribution. Roosevelt, played to the gallery as usual, and pretended to
demand the return of the money. But when the same contribution was listed as
coming from H. H. Rogers, a Standard Oil executive, Roosevelt was completely
content with this transparent effort to deceive the public. His campaign
managers then went back to the Standard Oil Company to ask for another
$150,000, but were turned down. While he railed at "malefactors of great
wealth", he sought them out as friends and supporters.

Roosevelt's campaign of "trust busting" was sham. He was playing to the
gallery and courting the rising tide of "liberalism", as German propagandized
Marxism was then labeled. The drive on big business was aimed to destroy the
"bad trusts", the Rockefeller trusts, and regulate the "good trusts", the
Morgan trusts. As is usual with the Roosevelts, the criterion of "good" or
"bad" was entirely personal-those who opposed his plans were "bad". This was
clearly expressed by Theodore Roosevelt to the Clapp Committee:

   "I never changed my attitude toward the Standard Oil in any shape or
    manner. It antagonized me before my election, when I was getting through my
    Bureau of Corporations bill, and I then promptly threw down my gauntlet to it..."

For Roosevelt the Standard Oil dissolution decree was a tiff for the
edification of his public. For the nation, it meant the deliberate
precipitation of the disastrous 1907 panic, which followed a fortnight after
the decree.

The panic of 1907 was deliberately engineered by Dynastic and allied bankers,
as was the panic of 1929. Roosevelt himself acknowledged that it was a
conspiracy started, or at any rate aggravated, for the purpose of permitting
U. S. Steel Corporation to combine with Tennessee Coal and Iron Corporation
in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The dissolution decree handed
down by Judge Kenesaw Landis against the Standard Oil Company and the huge
fine imposed, played an important part in undermining confidence and in
infuriating the Rockefellers. The Rockefeller interests, who controlled
Amalgamated Copper, of which Robert Bacon, a Roosevelt Cabinet member, was
director, strategically struck at a weak point in the financial structure of
the country. They raided the stock of their competitor, United Copper, a low
cost producer that had consistently undersold them. It was controlled by
their bitter enemy, F. Augustus Heinze. The smash in the price of the United
Copper stock closed the Mercantile National Bank of which Heinze was
President and also closed his bank in Butte.

The conspirators closed the Knickerbocker Trust Company. They also started a
run on the Trust Company of America in order to secure control of a large
block of Tennessee Coal and Iron Company stock held as collateral for a loan
of less than a million dollars and force its exchange for U. S. Steel
Corporation stock. This was the price demanded by J. P. Morgan for helping
the Trust Company with United States Treasury money which President Roosevelt
had turned over to J. P. Morgan and Company for this purpose. Further
pressure on the market was continued that threatened the closing of the Wall
Street brokerage house of Moore and Schley, to set the stage for Roosevelt to
give with apparent justification, formal consent to the merger of Tennessee
Coal and Iron Corporation with U. S. Steel Corporation.

Theodore Roosevelt drove hard to enhance the monarchic power of the President
and establish a dictatorship. He heartily echoed in his speech and deeds
the attitude of Louis XIV, "L'etat, c'est moi". He was a good actor and a
shrewd demagogue. He appealed to the unthinking mob. The members of the
Gridiron Club who come in close contact with the Presidents and have
excellent opportunity to judge them, shrewdly portrayed and caricatured Teddy
Roosevelt at their 1907 dinner as a would-be "emperor".

At the end of the second term, Roosevelt picked his heir and dictated the
nomination of another member of the Dynasty, a distant relative, William
Howard Taft. Taft, however, was a Rockefeller puppet and refused to take
orders from Roosevelt. Instead, he authorized prosecution of the United
States Steel Corporation as a Trust, for its purchase of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company. This enraged Roosevelt be. cause his bosses of the Morgan
clique controlled U. S. Steel, and he had given his consent to the deal.

Theodore Roosevelt was not a person who would forgive the disregard of his
imperial order, and he attempted to bar Taft's renomination. He found that he
could not dictate to the Republican Party and get the nomination for himself,
for a third term. Following the policy of the Dynasty to give allegiance to
no one but themselves, to pay heed to no tradition-as had his Dynastic
predecessors, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Ulysses S. Grant-he
engineered the bolting of a section of the Republican Party, organized a
third party, the Bull Moose Party, and made himself its presidential
candidate for a third term. He was soundly trounced. But he engineered the
defeat of Taft and the election of Wilson.

In the Wilson regime which followed, the control of the Navy Department that
had come to be of par. amount importance to the Dynasty, was placed in the
hands of another of its members, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore's nephew
by marriage as well as his fifth cousin. Teddy Roosevelt used all his
prestige as President to further the career of Franklin as his political
heir, because of affection for his niece.

Fortunately for the nation, Roosevelt's "trust busting" was merely "nature
faking" and shallow demagoguery. It was his "line", his method of attracting
attention to himself and his antics and distracting attention from what he
was doing behind the scenes. Characteristically, he inveighed against
"muckraking", as he labeled exposes made by others, but be himself, resorted
to it to attract the radical and Marxist vote. He was shrewdly aware that
from the standpoint of the uncritical mob "what one says counts for more than
what one does, if one shouts often and loudly enough". He anticipated
Goebbels by decades. When Theodore Roosevelt entered the White House there
were only 150 large combines or "trusts". When his term ended, despite all
his pretexts at "trust busting" there were over 10,000 "trusts" in the land.

The idea that large business combines are bad is obviously absurd. The
larger the industrial unit, the more effectively it can serve. The damage
lies not in trusts but in the suppressive misuse to which they may be put.
With chicanery Roosevelt pretended to fight trusts, while actually fostering
their abuse. But in this respect Cousin Franklin Delano, his heir, has far
outdone him.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

William Howard Taft was the son of Alphonso Taft Secretary of War and later
Attorney General in the Cabinet of his kin, President Grant, and Minister to
Austria and then to Russia under President Arthur, the staunch Grant
supporter. Descended from William and Margaret Cheney, Taft shares common
ancestry with Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, James Madison, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His
relationship to the balance of the Dynasty was more tenuous. Taft's
father-in-law, Judge John W. Herron was a law partner of President Rutherford
B. Hayes.

Graduating from Yale and Cincinnati Law School in 1880, Taft became
successively law reporter, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and Assistant City
Solicitor, Cincinnati and Judge, Cincinnati Superior Court. By 1880, ten
years after graduation he had become United States Solicitor General. That
was an extraordinary performance even for a man of acknowledged legal talent.
No doubt it reflects the magic of the Dynasty.

In 1892, Taft was appointed by his kin, Benjamin Harrison, United States
Circuit Judge. In 1896 to 1900 he was simultaneously Dean of the Law School
of the University of Cincinnati. In 1900, McKinley appointed him President
of the United States Philippine Commission, and in the following year,
Governor of the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt appointed Cousin
Taft, Secretary of War.

In 1908, Roosevelt picked Cousin Taft as his successor and gave him the
Republican nomination. The story of his tiff with Roosevelt, his renomination
and defeat by Wilson has been related.

Taft was a product of Rockefeller's Ohio political machine which Mark Hanna
had built up for them. His favoring of the Rockefeller interests and
antagonism to Morgan might have been anticipated by anyone acquainted with
his earlier career.

In William Howard Taft's son, Robert Alphonso Taft, the Dynasty seeks to give
the nation another of its unique presentations—hereditary transmission of the
Presidency in spite of the obstacles presented by the forms of democracy."