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E2. Everyone takes this quote out <strong>of</strong> context: "Then said Jesus to those Jews<br />

which believed on him: 'If ye continue in my word, [<strong>the</strong>n] are ye my disciples<br />

indeed; and ye shall know <strong>the</strong> truth, and <strong>the</strong> truth shall make you free.'" (John<br />

8:31-32).<br />

CHAPTER 6: THE BECHTEL COMPLEX<br />

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND POLITICAL INFLUE NCE<br />

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Bechtel Group and <strong>the</strong> Reagan Administration<br />

The Early Years <strong>of</strong> Bechtel<br />

Bechtel Connections<br />

Power Politics<br />

Editor's notes<br />

BECHTEL GROUP AND THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION<br />

When President Eisenhower concluded his term, he<br />

warned <strong>the</strong> nation in a parting message about <strong>the</strong> rapid<br />

growth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> "military industrial <strong>com</strong>plex". The American<br />

people did not know what he was talking about. As a<br />

military man, Eisenhower had seen firsthand <strong>the</strong> growing<br />

political and economic power <strong>of</strong> two giant construction<br />

firms: Brown & Root <strong>of</strong> Houston, Texas, and <strong>the</strong> Bechtel<br />

Group <strong>of</strong> San Francisco.<br />

Brown & Root put its man in <strong>the</strong> White House, Lyndon B.<br />

Johnson. The Bechtel Group has put its own man in <strong>the</strong><br />

White House, Ronald Reagan, whose presidential<br />

campaign in 1980 was run by George Pratt Shultz,<br />

president <strong>of</strong> Bechtel, and Caspar Weinberger, vice<br />

president and general counsel <strong>of</strong> Bechtel. They were<br />

appointed Secretary <strong>of</strong> State and Secretary <strong>of</strong> Defense.<br />

The New York Times reports July 15, 1982:

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