Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years by Russ Baker

Author:Russ Baker [Baker, Russ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Political Science, Presidents & Heads of State, Presidents, 20th Century, Government, Political, Executive Branch, General, United States, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, Business and Politics, Biography, history
ISBN: 9781608190065
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2009-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

It is a little-known fact that Ken Lay played a central role in the new relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia that developed in the 1970s.32 Lay did so as one of Gerald Parsky’s young colleagues in the Nixon White House energy operation. Lay had gone directly from college to senior economist and speechwriter for the chief executive of Humble Oil in Houston, the Texas subsidiary of the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil of New Jersey, which later became Exxon. His professor Pinkney Walker had been named by Nixon as vice chairman of the Federal Power Commission, the precursor to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and he brought Lay with him as his aide.33 After less than two years, Lay was put in charge of coordinating government energy policies, as deputy undersecretary of interior (the Department of Energy did not yet exist).34

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