It‘s a win-win situation for ‘Skull and Bones.’ ROBBINS: I‘ve actually asked members of Skull and Bones what happened if it‘s a Bush-Kerry election. OLBERMANN: But what happens when two Bonesmen are in conflict like, oh, say, if they run against each other for president? Are there rules of conduct among Bonesmen to cover this? The sole purpose of Skull and Bones is to get members into positions of power and then to have those members hire other members to prominent positions, which is something that President Bush has done.īasically, this is probably the most powerful and elite alumni network in the country and that‘s the significance of ‘Skull and Bones.’ That‘s something that both Bush and Kerry would have done. For example, they really do tell their sexual histories. There are conspiracy theories that you‘ll hear that are based on nuggets of truth. Either the group is viewed as the warm-up act for the Trilateral Commission or it is a society devoted to making people thinking that it‘s nefarious and then giggling when people take it seriously. KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: There seems to be no middle ground about this organization. She talked to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about the organization. This raises the question- how exactly is the Bush bone connected to the Kerry bone?Īlexandra Robbins, author of “Secrets of the Tombs: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power.” She‘s also a Yale alum, and, in the interest of full disclosure, a member of another Yale secret society. One a Democrat, one a Republican, miles apart on the issues-but both rooted in the same secret Yale society. Both Bush and Kerry refused to answer ‘Meet the Press’ host Tim Russert when asked about the organization. So we have an all-secret-society presidential election, not that either of them are talking about it. And if this needs to be weirder for you, his wife Teresa Kerry‘s first husband, John Heinz, his father was ‘Skull and Bones.’ Buckley Averell Harriman, long-time governor of New York.Īnd then there are the presidents: William Howard Taft, whose father, Alphonso, had helped found the group and whose son Robert was a senator George Herbert Walker Bush, whose father, Prescott, was a Bonesman and a senator the current President Bush, although his kid at Yale has not been tapped for Skull and Bones-even though they do admit women now. There are a lot of Bonesmen who did not talk, but did succeed, Henry Luce, who created “TIME” magazine and all its cousins Harold Stanley, founder of Morgan Stanley Henry Lewis Stimson, the secretary of war under FDR and Truman William F. Talking about ‘Skull and Bones’ is for others. Once you‘re in, you‘re in: ‘Skull and Bones’ is for life. New members, the neophytes, are expected to do things like lie in coffins, wrestle in mud, kiss a skull, and confess their sexual histories in front of the group to bond themselves together further or presumably just for a few laughs. Members of ‘Skull and Bones’ gather on High Street in the Yale campus at the tomb. Founder William Huntington Russell thought of his little enclave as sort of anti-Masons and as a home for the wealthy and the powerful and the people who would do anything for another Bonesman.Įach year, 15 young undergraduate seniors are tapped for membership, initiated in controversial, murky fashion. It was in fact a reaction to a secret society, the Masons, then much more influential than they are today.
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