Ghosts of Campaigns Past - Palin Attacks Obama In Tradition of Willkie vs. FDR in 1940

October 6, 2008 | Washington, District of Columbia | Vetting explained

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Hidden in the books written about the behind the scenes details of past presidential contests, are hints of the ruthless, no holds barred strategies of underdog Republican tickets. The 1940 campaign between Republican Wendell Willkie vs. Democrat FDR, seeking a third presidential term, was no exception. Sarah Palin's desparate, repeated attempts to tar Obama with Bill Ayers "terrorist" persona of 35 years ago, persuade me that it is only fair to dredge up some history of Palin's party's shocking past.. From the details of the following history, the Obama campaign should understand that the republicans will stop at nothing, no strategy is too unsavory if they think it will help win the election. My recent report, "California 2003: Both Arnold and Gray Davis Had Nazi Family Ties" http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-104444 ....details the traitorous WWII exploits of Nazi Abwehr Agent C-80, aka Gray Davis's well hidden grandfatjher, William Rhodes Davis. The history takes an even more curious turn, because there is much evidence that Wendell Willkie, even though he was quite aware that WR Davis was offering a financial boost to the Willkie campaign with money provided for that purpose by the Nazi Reich, Willkie readily accepted Davis's offer. The Willkie campaign's eastern states campaign manager, Sam F. Pryor Jr., son of George Walker and Prescott Bush business partner, the late Samuel F. Pryor, aka "Merchant of Death" and Remington-UMC managing director, and one of three founding directors of the later seized (in 1942) by US Alien Property Custodian, Union Banking Corp. per an excerpt from:

Mystery Man: William Rhodes Davis, Nazi Agent of Influence

By Dale Harrington

"oilman's willingness to pay for the Lewis Broadcast, Willkie wanted to meet this mysterious man who would make an offer of such dimensions. Pryor used his private plane to fly Davis to meet with Willkie, who was then at his home in Rushville, Indiana. After Davis repeated his offer to Willkie in person, the Republican nominee...." http://books.google.com/books?id=VBJnAAAAMAAJ&dq=rhodesdavisRushville%2CIndiana&q=republicannominee&pgis=1 "http://John L. Lewis's speech would have hurt Willkie more if the story of how it was financed had been known to the democrats. Marquis Childs has told the story (/ Write from Washington, pp. 206-07)... of how the cost of the broadcast over all of the major networks ($45,000 according to Dillon) was borne by William Rhodes Davis, an oil millionaire with a shady background including connections with the Nazi government. In order to "get around" the Hatch Act, "the oil man and his associates set up as kind of political black bourse, exchanging checks at a furious rate to insure that no individual would be listed as giving more than $5000....Willkie told me after it was all over that he had never heard of Davis before Sam Pryor told him of the oil man's willingness to pay for the Lewis broadcast." Willkie ought, Child suggests, to have been more cautious about Davis and his motives; and certainly his casual acceptance of it is hard to reconcile.... http://books.google.com/books?id=xurZhUonAMAC&pg=PA559&dq=marquischildsuntil+pryor&sig=ACfU3U39xaxz8QSn2L9feYKo3P1Jdw4gFQ Six years later, Time reported: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777186,00.html?iid=digg_share "At quiet Swarthmore College one night last week, 0. (for Oet je) John Rogge, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General..... .....Rogge traced out the oft-told tale of the late oilman William R. Davis, who, inspired by the German Government, had tried to mediate World War II back in 1940. He also mentioned John L. Lewis, Senator Burton K. Wheeler and other touchy names in the same breath with Nazi bigwigs. To the familiar Davis story Rogge added the authority of months spent in Germany this year, poring over Nazi records. Upon his return Rogge had turned over a report to Attorney General Tom Clark with the expectation that it would be published. Instead, Clark had kept it in the files. After Rogge's Swarthmore speech Pennsylvania Republicans gleefully recalled that pro-German Bill Davis once had connections with another prominent politico: Senator Joe Guffey, facing defeat Nov. 5. Indignantly Tom Clark charged Rogge with willfully violating Justice Department rules by making a speech based on the quashed report. Then he fired *him."* ...and 15 years after Asst. US Atty Gen, Rogge was fired for leaking details of his "Official Nazi Report", he published it in 1961: http://books.google.com/books?id=82ohAAAAMAAJ&q=rogge%22Gentlemen,IhavereviewedMr.Davis' "...A few minutes later Hitler walked in and they all jumped to attention and remained standing. Hitler said: "Gentlemen, I have reviewed Mr. Davis' proposition and it sounds feasible, andI want the bank to finance it." As a result of this, Davis' business..." O. John Rogge learned the information displayed in his report, (at the links below) about Lewis and Davis, via his face to face interrogations of Goering and Ribbentrop at Nuremberg in 1946, before their deaths: Copy and paste next link in browser address box to view excerpt: http://books.google.com/books?id=82ohAAAAMAAJ&q=roggelessformidableone&dq=roggelessformidableone Copy and paste next link in browser address box to view excerpt: http://books.google.com/books?id=82ohAAAAMAAJ&q=roggeconnectionwithlewis&dq=roggeconnectionwithlewis&pgis=1 Sam Pryor Jr. was a lifelong friend of Nazi sympathizer Charles A. Lindbergh, and gave Lindbergh 5 acres of his own 100 acre Hana, HI estate. The two are buried in a small church cemetery in Hana, "just yards apart". http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/20/191832/300/898/554378 More details and links here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/14/16452/3607/684/551565

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