Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

Houston, and its fifty-seven subsidiary Texas banks.
Chairman of First City is James Anderson Elkins Jr., who
is a director of Hill Samuel Co. of London, one of the
seventeen merchant banks chartered by the Bank of
England.
His father [J.A. Elkins Sr.] was chairman of First City,
and founded the Texas law firm of Vinson and Elkins, the
primary law firm of First City Bank. This firm dominated
national politics through its most well known partner,
John B. Connally, who achieved a reputation as
"kingmaker" in Texas politics. He began as
administrative assistant to Congressman Lyndon B.
Johnson in 1949, then became attorney for the oil
millionaire Sid Richardson, and Perry Bass, 1952-61,
Secretary of the Navy 1961, Governor of Texas 1963-69;
Secretary of the Treasury 1971-72. He was wounded in
the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. He is now trustee
of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, serves on the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and the
Advisory Committee on Reforming the International
Monetary System. He advised Nixon on devaluing the
dollar and going off the gold standard in 1971. He is now
director of Superior Oil, and Falconbridge Nickel Mines
Ltd.
James Anderson Elkins is also director of Freeport
Minerals, whose directors include some of the leading
names in American business. Chmn of Freeport is
Benno H. Schmidt, managing director of J.H. Whitney
Co.. Schmidt, who married into the wealthy Fleischmann