- http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/212045.htm
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140505/PDF/a14_screen.pdf
- http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/05/225561.htm
- http://www.amcham.org.hk/committees/93-trade-investment?showall=&start=4
Kurt Tong, Economic Coordinator and U.S. Senior Official for APEC Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs gave a talk on expectations for APEC in 2011
ronald reagan government
- Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority Leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate.[6] Upon her nomination to the Court, O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention to retire effective upon the confirmation of a successor.[7] Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005, and joined the Court on January 31, 2006. Considered a federalist and a moderate Republican, O'Connor tended to approach each case narrowly without arguing for sweeping precedents. S
Trump government
- Reinhold Richard "Reince" Priebus (/ˌraɪns ˈpriːbəs/ ryns pree-bəs; born March 18, 1972) is an American attorney and politician who is Chairman of the Republican National Committee and the White House Chief of Staff designate - having been named by President-elect Donald Trump to the post, taking over once Trump takes office in January 2017.[5] He has previously served as RNC general counsel, and is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, where he is credited with helping to bring nationally known figures such as Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, and Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, into power on the state level and prominence on the national stage.
- Stephen K. "Steve" Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American businessman and media executive. He is the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a politically conservative American news, opinion and commentary website, noted for its connection to the alt-right, and chief strategist and senior counselor of the Trump Administration. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of the Government Accountability Institute and the executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of Breitbart News. He has been involved in the financing and production of a number of films, including Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman, The Undefeated (on Sarah Palin), and Occupy Unmasked. Bannon also hosts a radio show (Breitbart News Daily) on a Sirius XM satellite radio channel.
- michael flynn
- On April 17, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Flynn to be the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn took command of the DIA in July 2012.[24] In October 2012, Flynn announced plans to release his paper "VISION2020: Accelerating Change Through Integration", a broad look at how the Defense Intelligence Agency must transform to meet the national security challenges for the 21st Century.[25] It was meant to emphasize “integration, interagency teamwork and innovation of the whole workforce, not just the technology but the people.” [26] On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement effective later in 2014, about a year earlier than he had been scheduled to leave his position. Flynn, along with son Michael G. Flynn, runs Flynn Intel Group which provides intelligence services for business and governments.[35] Several sources, including Politico, have written that Flynn's consulting company is allegedly lobbying for Turkey. A company tied to Erdogan's government, which supports Muslim Brotherhood, is known to have hired Flynn's lobbying firm. On election day 2016, Flynn wrote an op-ed calling for U.S. backing for Erdogan's government and criticized the regime's opponent, Fethullah Gulen; Flynn did not disclose that Flynn's consulting firm had received funds from a company with ties to Erdogan's government.
- Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) He supported the major legislative efforts of the George W. Bush administration, including the 2001 and 2003 tax cut packages, the Iraq War, and a proposed national amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He was one of 25 senators to oppose the establishment of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He has opposed the Democratic leadership since 2007 on most major legislation, including the stimulus bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act. As the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, he opposed all three of President Barack Obama's nominees for the Supreme Court.
- Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an American politician who represented Kansas in the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, serving as Senate Republican Leader from 1985 until his resignation as a Senator. In the 1976 presidential election, Dole was the Republican Partynominee for Vice President and incumbent President Gerald Ford's running mate. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 and 1988. In 1996, Dole secured the Republican nomination for President of the United States, but lost the general election to incumbent President Bill Clinton. Dole is currently a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and special counsel at the Washington, D.C., office of law firm Alston & Bird. Dole was initiated as a Freemason of Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas on April 19, 1955.
- Mr. Lighthizer was a deputy United States trade representative (USTR) with the rank of ambassador during the Reagan administration. The USTR is the cabinet level agency that develops and coordinates trade policy on behalf of the United States government and negotiates on trade matters for the president. Ambassador Lighthizer had responsibility within the USTR for industry, agriculture, investment and trade policy matters. During his tenure, Mr. Lighthizer was involved in all the important trade issues. He regularly attended and chaired subcabinet policy meetings and often attended cabinet meetings when the USTR was unavailable. In addition, Mr. Lighthizer negotiated some two dozen bilateral international agreements on subjects ranging from steel to grain. He frequently participated in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization) and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development meetings. He also served as vice chairman of the board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). OPIC is the U.S. government agency whose purpose is to promote economic growth in developing countries through U.S. investment. Prior to his appointment as deputy USTR, Mr. Lighthizer was chief of staff of the United States Senate Committee on Finance. The committee has jurisdiction over international trade, taxation, Social Security and health and welfare programs. During Mr. Lighthizer’s tenure, Congress passed the basic economic legislation of the Reagan-Bush administration, as well as the legislation implementing multilateral trade negotiations.
- William F. Hagerty（born August 1959） is the managing director and co-founder of Hagerty Peterson & Company, a merchant bank and private equity investment firm. He has been reported to be the nominee of President-elect Donald Trump to serve as United States Ambassador to Japan as successor to Obama appointee Caroline Kennedy. Hagerty is a native of Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Law School. He began his career at Boston Consulting Group, culiminating in a three-year assignment to Tokyo. Hagerty served as an economic advisor under president George H. W. Bush, and then began a career in private equity, initially at Trident Capital in Silicon Valley. He was Mitt Romney's national finance chairman for his 2008 presidential campaign.
- Peter Navarro (born July 15, 1949) is a professor of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine and the author of over a dozen books, including Death by China. Prior to teaching, Navarro served in the United States Peace Corps in Southeast Asia and worked in Washington, D.C. as an energy and environmental policy analyst.In the 1970s, Navarro served as a policy analyst for the Urban Services Group, the Massachusetts Energy Office, and the United States Department of Energy.
- philip bilden
- Mr. Bilden’s family has eight decades of consecutive service in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army by seven family members over four generations. Mr. Bilden’s father is a retired career naval officer whose 20 year service in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps included a combat tour with the Seabees in Vietnam. Mr. Bilden’s mother grew up in a Navy family whose father attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served in World War II in both the European and Asia Pacific theaters. Mr. Bilden’s two brothers served as officers in the U.S. Army in the Armor and Aviation branches. Both his sons serve in the U.S. Navy. His oldest son is a 2015 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and an Ensign, USN, in Aviation training in Pensacola. His second son is a Midshipman Second Class, USNA, Class of 2018. Mr. Bilden served ten years in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Military Intelligence officer from 1986-1996. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and served through the rank of Captain at Strategic Military Intelligence Detachments supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency. He resigned his commission in 1996 upon relocating to Hong Kong. Philip Bilden is a recently retired co-founding member and Senior Advisor of HarbourVest Partners, a leading global private equity investment management firm with institutional assets under management currently in excess of $42 billion. He became a founding member of the firm following the management buyout of HarbourVest’s predecessor company in 1997.
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2065633/trump-taps-ex-hong-kong-private-equity-manager
- Donald Trump’s incoming commerce secretary, is facing questions over potential conflicts of interest stemming from his business ties to China’s largest sovereign wealth fund. High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. The billionaire investor and China Investment Corp, the state-controlled fund, were part of a consortium that invested $1bn in Diamond S Shipping, an oil products tanker business, in 2011. The company is one of the few that the financier-turned-politician has decided not to sell to join the Trump administration, according to disclosure documents. CIC, which owns about 9 per cent of the company, has been one of Beijing’s main overseas investment vehicles. Mr Ross, meanwhile, is set to be one of China’s leading interlocutors in the Trump administration on matters of trade and investment once he is confirmed by the Senate.
https://www.ft.com/content/f6800962-f201-11e6-8758-6876151821a6 - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners worldwide revealed the ties between the shipping company, Navigator Holdings, and Sibur, a Russian oil and petrochemical giant.https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/ross-may-give-up-stake-in-firm-with-russia-ties/
Malpass holds a B.A. in physics from Colorado College and an MBA from the University of Denver. He studied international economics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He speaks Spanish, Russian, and French. During the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Malpass worked on an array of economic, budget, and foreign policy issues including small business promotion throughout Latin America, and the 1986 tax cut. Malpass served as the Republican staff director of Congress's Joint Economic Committee from 1989 to 1990, and as a member of Congress's blue-ribbon panel on budget scoring from 2002 to 2003.
- Malpass was chief economist at Bear Stearns from 1993 to 2008.
- Malpass and his wife, Adele, daughter of Herman Obermayer and granddaughter of Neville Levy, live in New York City. Adele Malpass is the Chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party.[22] Malpass is a native of northern Michigan.
- richard hohlt
- Since January, the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry has paid longtime Republican lobbyist Richard Hohlt about $430,000 in exchange for “advice on legislative and public affairs strategies.” Trump’s decision to appoint a registered foreign agent to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships clashes with the president’s vow to clean up Washington and limit the influence of special interests.https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/06/22/20938/trump-appointee-saudi-government-lobbyist
Kelly was appointed Secretary of Homeland Security on January 20, 2017, by President Trump. On July 28, 2017, he was appointed to replace Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff, taking office on July 31, 2017 shortly after Priebus had officially left his post. At six months, Kelly's term as Secretary of Homeland Security is the briefest in the office's relatively short history. Kelly was born on May 11, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, into an Irish Catholic family. He grew up in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Before he reached the age of 16, he hitchhiked to Washington State and rode the trains back, including a freight-hop from Seattle to Chicago. He then served for one year in the United States Merchant Marine, where he says "my first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam".
- Susan Thornton is an American diplomat and current Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to working at the State Department, Thornton worked at the Foreign Policy Institute where she studied and wrote about Soviet politicsand contemporary Russia. She speaks Russian and Mandarin Chinese. Thornton is a career diplomat who has worked at the State Department since 1991. She has previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs since February 2016 and before that she worked as the Deputy Chief of Mission to the United States Embassy in Turkmenistan.
- Victor D. Cha (born October 27, 1961) is an American academic, author and former national foreign policy advisor. He is a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.[3] He was George W. Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs. He currently holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and is the Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Cha is also senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
- 美國總統特朗普的妻子梅拉妮亞開始慢慢負起「第一夫人」的職務，她日前再任命第二位下屬、白宮社交秘書，並選定由宴會策劃人安娜（Anna Lloyd）出任。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170210/00180_004.html
trump supporter
- Donald Trump has a funny way of making friends. In the case of rival US property developer David Cordish, Mr Trump sued him first. https://www.ft.com/content/14cb73e8-1ae8-11e7-bcac-6d03d067f81f Mr Cordish became an issue because he had landed a deal to build two Native American casinos in Florida that Mr Trump had wanted for himself. Angered that one of his former associates had joined the winning Cordish team, Mr Trump filed a civil suit in 2004, hoping to win hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. His legal action failed — Mr Cordish denies paying a cent to the plaintiff who would be president — and the suit was settled in 2010. But along the way, Mr Trump had a chance to meet Mr Cordish, and the result was the formation of one of the key alliances in the president’s inner circle. Mr Trump’s White House staff today includes Reed Cordish, son of David, the man the president once wanted to rip apart. “I didn’t know him, but I just said I’m going to get this guy, whoever the hell he is,” Mr Trump recalled at a 2015 political event where he was introduced by the very same David Cordish. “I walked in and I fell in love in about two minutes.” The object of the president’s affection is the 77-year-old patriarch of a family business empire based in Baltimore, Maryland, who boasts of running three miles a day and working nearly 100 hours a week, and who does not demur when asked if he is a billionaire. A lawyer, Mr Cordish has made a living out of playing by his own rules. Working first in government and then alongside it, Mr Cordish pioneered the use in the US of public-private partnerships to revive urban areas — a model the Trump White House would like to use in infrastructure projects. Parlaying his knowledge of legal loopholes, he outflanked the likes of Mr Trump to become a significant force in gambling — with his own casino in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC, a licence to run another in Philadelphia and plans for a $2.2bn entertainment-cum-casino complex in Spain if he can persuade reluctant officials in Madrid to see things as he does.
democrat
- Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (/pəˈloʊsi/; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing most of San Francisco, California. She previously served as the 52nd House Speaker from 2007 to 2011, the only woman to do so thus attaining the highest political office of any female politician in American history. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi represents California's 12th congressional district which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco. Pelosi was born in Baltimore to an Italian-American family, the youngest of six children of Annunciata M. "Nancy" D'Alesandro (née Lombardi; 1909–1995),[4] who was born in Campobasso,[5] South Italy, and Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., who was a Democratic Congressman from Maryland and a Mayor of Baltimore.[6][7] Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.
- Pelosi has been credited for spearheading President Obama's health care law when it seemed that it would go down in defeat. After Republican Scott Brown won Democrat Ted Kennedy's former senate seat in the January 2010 Massachusetts special election and thereby causing the Senate Democrats to lose their filibuster proof majority, Obama agreed with then chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's idea that he should do smaller initiatives that could pass easily. Pelosi, however, dismissed the president's fear and instead mocked his scaled-back ideas as "kiddie care."[44] After convincing the president that this would be their only shot at health care because of the large Democratic majorities they currently had, she rallied her Democratic caucus as she began an "unbelievable marathon" of a two-month session to craft the health care bill, which successfully passed the House with a 219–212 vote.
- hkej 8nov18 shum article - she protested in tiananmen square in 1991 and was expelled
Neither republican or democrat
- David Evan McMullin (born April 2, 1976) is a former CIA operations officer and independent presidential candidate. McMullin served as a chief policy director for the House Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives and a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also worked briefly as an investment banker after graduating from the Wharton Schoolat the University of Pennsylvania. In August 2016, McMullin launched a presidential campaign in the 2016 election for President of the United States, as an independent candidate backed by the organization Better for America. McMullin describes himself as a conservative alternative to the two major political parties' candidates, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. McMullin lost the election; his best performance came in his native Utah, where he received about 20% of the vote and came in third place behind Trump and Clinton.[2] Since the election, McMullin has said he is starting a "new conservative movement" reaching out to "non-traditional conservative voters... who feel disaffected." It may, he says, form a new political party.
Military
- Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe". Although distrustful of his Allies, Stilwell showed himself to be a capable and daring tactician in the field but a lack of resources meant he was continually forced to improvise. He famously differed as to strategy, ground troops versus air power, with his subordinate, Claire Chennault, who had the ear of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. General George Marshall acknowledged he had given General Stilwell "one of the most difficult" assignments of any theater commander
- Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he played a major role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.[4] Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.[5] McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: theDefense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency. Prior to his public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker. McNamara remains the longest serving Secretary of Defense, having remained in office over seven years.
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.(/ˈʃwɔrtskɒf/; 22 August 1934 – 27 December 2012) was a United States Army general. While serving asCommander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War.In 1946, when Norman Schwarzkopf was 12, he moved with his father to Tehran, Iran.[17] In Iran, Norman learned shooting, horseback riding, and hunting.[18] Schwarzkopf developed a lifelong interest in Middle Eastern culture.[19] The family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1947, following a new military assignment for Herbert Schwarzkopf.[20] The senior Schwarzkopf visited Italy,Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin, Germany during his military duties, and the younger Schwarzkopf accompanied him. By 1951 he had returned to Iran briefly before returning to the United States. Herbert Schwarzkopf died in 1958. From a young age, Norman wanted to be a military officer, following his father's example.
- James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who is the 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump. Mattis was previously the 11th Commander of United States Central Command during the presidency of Barack Obama, and was responsible for American military operations in the Middle East, Northeast Africa, and Central Asia. Before President Obama appointed him to replace General David Petraeus as Commander of U.S. Central Command from August 11, 2010, to March 22, 2013, Mattis had previously commanded United States Joint Forces Command from November 9, 2007, to August, 2010 and served concurrently as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation from November 9, 2007, to September 8, 2009. Prior to that, he commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force, United States Marine Forces Central Command, and 1st Marine Division during the Iraq War. On January 20, 2017, Mattis was confirmed as Secretary of Defense 98–1 by the United States Senate on a waiver,[6] as he had only been three years out of active duty despite U.S. federal law requiring at least seven years of retirement for former military personnel to be appointed Secretary of Defense. He was the first member of President Donald Trump's cabinet to be confirmed. Senator Kirsten Gillibrandwas the only senator to oppose his appointment. As Secretary of Defense, Mattis has affirmed the United States' commitment to defending long-time ally South Korea in the wake of the North Korea crisis.[7][8] An opponent of proposed collaboration with Russia on military matters,[9] Mattis has consistently stressed Russia's threat to the world order. Mattis has occasionally voiced his disagreement with certain Trump administration policies, opposing the proposed withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal,[11] and has criticized budget cuts that hamper the ability to monitor the impacts of climate change.
- hkej 15mar18 shum article, 5jun18 shum article
- hkej 5jun18 shum article
navy
- John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, in that office since 1987. He was the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election, which he lost to Barack Obama. McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While McCain was on a bombing mission over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was aprisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. The wounds that he sustained during war have left him with lifelong physical disabilities.John McCain was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer John S. McCain Jr. (1911–1981) andRoberta (Wright) McCain (b. 1912). He has a younger brother named Joe and an elder sister named Sandy.[1] At that time, the Panama Canal was under U.S. control. McCain's family tree includes Scots-Irish and English ancestors.[3] His father and his paternal grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., both became four-star United States Navy admirals.[4] The McCain family[1] followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific.[5] Altogether, he attended about 20 schools. In 1951, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school inAlexandria.[7][8] He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954.
- hkej 28 and 29aug18 shum article
- Roberta McCain (born February 7, 1912) is the widow of Admiral John S. McCain Jr. and mother of the late Senator John S. McCain III. Roberta Wright and her identical twin sister Rowena were born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on February 7, 1912. Their parents were Archibald Wright, a Los Angeles oil wildcatter, and Myrtle Mae Fletcher. Her father became a stay-at-home dad after gaining wealth from the oil industry and the family traveled constantly, with trips every summer during August.On January 21, 1933, she eloped in Tijuana, Mexico with a naval ensign, later to become four-star Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. in Caesar's Bar. She was attending the University of Southern California and McCain was attached to USS Oklahoma (BB-37).[3][4][5] She became the daughter-in-law of Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., a noted World War II carrier admiral under Fleet Admiral William Halsey.
- hkej 6sep18 shum article
Diplomat
- Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛf bʒɛˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-nyef bzheh-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi]
Polish pronunciation (help·info); March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman. Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II); the brokering of the Camp David Accords; the transition of Iran from an important U.S. ally to an anti-Western Islamic Republic; encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union;[4] the arming of the mujahideen in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 28, 1928. His family hailed from Brzeżany in Galicia in the Tarnopol Voivodeship (administrative region) of then eastern Poland (now in Ukraine). The town of Brzeżany is thought to be the source of the family name. Brzezinski's parents were Leonia (née Roman) and Tadeusz Brzeziński, a Polish diplomat who was posted to Germany from 1931 to 1935; Zbigniew Brzezinski thus spent some of his earliest years witnessing the rise of the Nazis.[7] From 1936 to 1938, Tadeusz Brzeziński was posted to the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.[8] Israel later praised his father for having helped Jews escape from the Nazis.- Brzezinski was married to Czech-American sculptor Emilie Benes (grand-niece of the second Czechoslovak president, Edvard Beneš), with whom he had three children. His son, Mark Brzezinski (b. 1965), a lawyer who served on President Clinton's National Security Council as an expert on Russia and Southeastern Europe and who was a partner in McGuire Woods LLP, served as the US ambassador to Sweden (November 24, 2011, to July 1, 2015). His daughter, Mika Brzezinski (b. 1967), is a television news presenter and co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program, Morning Joe, where she provides regular commentary and reads the news headlines for the program. His eldest son, Ian Brzezinski (b. 1963), is a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program and is on the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Advisors Group. Ian also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO and was a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. Key highlights of his tenure as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy (2001–2005) include the expansion of NATO membership in 2004, the consolidation and reconfiguration of the Alliance’s command structure, the standing up of the NATO Response Force and the coordination of European military contributions to U.S.- and NATO-led operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170528/PDF/a20_screen.pdf biography
- Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.[1] Prior to that position he was theSecretary of the Army and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April 1980, Vance resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescueAmerican hostages in Iran. He was succeeded in the position by Edmund Muskie. Vance was the cousin (and adoptive son) of 1924 Democratic presidential candidateand lawyer John W. Davis.
- Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general who served as theUnited States Secretary of State underPresident Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
- Pro israel
- George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Laborfrom 1969 to 1970, as the director of theOffice of Management and Budget from 1970 to 1972, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as theU.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Before entering politics, he was professor of economics at MIT and the University of Chicago, serving as Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Businessfrom 1962 to 1969.
- Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. (born 1958) is an American diplomat and the current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. In early 2017, Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee, Rex Tillerson, was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee, John J. Sullivan. Since 1984, Shannon has worked in the United States Foreign Service, and he has served in embassies around the world. From 2005 to 2009, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and from 2010 to 2013 he was United States Ambassador to Brazil. From 2013 to 2016, he was Counselor of the United States Department of State, and was also acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in 2011. On February 2, 2016, the Senate confirmed Shannon as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.[2] Just under two years later, the Associated Press reported that Shannon would be stepping down from the post pending the naming of a successor.- Richard Harvey Solomon (June 19, 1937 – March 13, 2017) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992, after which he was Ambassador to the Philippines. In September 1993, he became president of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held until September 2012. He subsequently joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.Richard H. Solomon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 28, 1937. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1960, and a PhD in political science with a specialization in Chinese politics in 1966. In 1966, Solomon became a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. He left in 1971 to become a staff member of the United States National Security Council (NSC), responsible for Asian Affairs. In this position, he worked with NSC Adviser Henry Kissinger on the normalization of relations with China.
- Kelly Knight Craft (née Guilfoil; born February 24, 1962)[1] is an American businesswoman and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Canada; she is the first woman to be the United States Ambassador to Canada.[2][3][4] In 2007, she was appointed by President George W. Bush as a U.S. alternate delegate to the United Nations, where her focus included U.S. engagement in Africa.[5][6] She was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kentucky.[5] She headed Kelly G. Knight LLC, a business advisory firm based in Lexington, Kentucky.[7] On February 22, 2019, President Trump nominated Craft to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.Knight Craft was born in 1962, the daughter of the late veterinarian Dr. Bobby Guilfoil and Sherry Dale Guilfoil.[9] Her father was a Democratic Party activist who once served as chairman of the Barren County, KentuckyDemocratic Party.[1] She grew up in Glasgow, Kentucky, and graduated from Glasgow High School in 1980.[10] She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1984.Knight Craft has been married three times and divorced twice. She married David S. Moross and then Judson Knight.[12] She wed Joe Craft in April 2016.[22] Her husband is a billionaire coal-mining executive for Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., the third-largest coal producer in the eastern United States.
intelligence
- john brennan
- Trump's visit, his first official one since becoming President, was seen as part of a bid to mend fences after he strained relations with intelligence officials by repeatedly casting doubt on their assessment that Russia had carried out cyberattacks during the campaign. He also suggested that the intelligence community was leaking information about the investigation to the press, taking to Twitter to slam Brennan, a 25-year veteran of the agency.
lobbyist
- Anthony T. Podesta (born October 24, 1943), commonly known as Tony Podesta, is an American lobbyist best known for founding the Podesta Group.[1] Podesta has lobbied for a variety of groups, including Bank of America, BP,[1] and Egypt[2] in addition to political campaigns such as Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, and Bill Clinton. Podesta and the Podesta Group are reportedly under federal investigation regarding compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for their work for a Ukrainian group tied to the pro-Russian former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych beginning in 2012.
- Paul John Manafort Jr. (born April 1, 1949)[1] is an American lobbyist, political consultant and lawyer. He joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign team in March 2016 and served as campaign manager from June to August 2016. He was previously an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. In 1980 Manafort co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone, along with principals Charles R. Black Jr., and Roger J. Stone,[2][3][4] joined by Peter G. Kelly in 1984.[5]:124Manafort often lobbied on behalf of controversial foreign leaders such as former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, former dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the former Democratic Republic of the Congo Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi.[6][7][8] Lobbying to serve the interests of foreign governments requires registration with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA); however, as of June 2, 2017, Manafort had not registered.[9][10][11] On June 27 he retroactively registered as a foreign agent.Manafort was born April 1, 1949,[18] in New Britain, Connecticut, the son of Antoinette Marie (née Cifalu) and Paul J. Manafort, Sr. (1923–2013).[19][20] His grandfather, James A. Manafort was an Italian who immigrated to the U.S. state of Connecticut[21] in 1907[22] and founded the construction company "New Britain House Wrecking Company" in 1919 (later renamed Manafort Brothers Inc. in 1946). His father served with the US Army combat engineers in World War II and was mayor of New Britain from 1965 to 1971.
- Anthony T. Podesta (born October 24, 1943), commonly known as Tony Podesta, is an American lobbyist best known for founding the Podesta Group.[1] Podesta has lobbied for a variety of groups, including Bank of America, BP,[1] and Egypt[2] in addition to political campaigns such as Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, and Bill Clinton. Podesta and the Podesta Group are reportedly under federal investigation regarding compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for their work for a Ukrainian group tied to the pro-Russian former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych beginning in 2012.
- Paul John Manafort Jr. (born April 1, 1949)[1] is an American lobbyist, political consultant and lawyer. He joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign team in March 2016 and served as campaign manager from June to August 2016. He was previously an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. In 1980 Manafort co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone, along with principals Charles R. Black Jr., and Roger J. Stone,[2][3][4] joined by Peter G. Kelly in 1984.[5]:124Manafort often lobbied on behalf of controversial foreign leaders such as former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, former dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the former Democratic Republic of the Congo Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi.[6][7][8] Lobbying to serve the interests of foreign governments requires registration with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA); however, as of June 2, 2017, Manafort had not registered.[9][10][11] On June 27 he retroactively registered as a foreign agent.Manafort was born April 1, 1949,[18] in New Britain, Connecticut, the son of Antoinette Marie (née Cifalu) and Paul J. Manafort, Sr. (1923–2013).[19][20] His grandfather, James A. Manafort was an Italian who immigrated to the U.S. state of Connecticut[21] in 1907[22] and founded the construction company "New Britain House Wrecking Company" in 1919 (later renamed Manafort Brothers Inc. in 1946). His father served with the US Army combat engineers in World War II and was mayor of New Britain from 1965 to 1971.
john danilovich, Secretary-general International Chamber of Commerce
- http://martenscentre.eu/users/john-danilovich
Ben Bernanke
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb28200c-0904-11e5-b643-00144feabdc0.html Beijing was pushed into launching the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank by US lawmakers’ refusal to give China greater clout in existing multilateral institutions, Ben Bernanke has said. “The US Congress is largely at fault for all that’s happening,” the former chairman of the Federal Reserve said in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
Henry kissinger
- http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21669596-americas-greatest-modern-diplomat-was-also-one-its-great-thinkers-ideas-man
- 基辛格一九二三年出生於德國巴伐利亞，父親任職教師。一九三八年逃往紐約，日間在工廠上班幫補家計，夜間讀大學，成績優秀。加入美國籍後，一九四三年基辛格參軍赴歐洲戰場，擔任軍隊德語翻譯和追殺納粹的反情報工作。戰後，基辛格考進哈佛大學，取得哲學博士學位。他與《基》作者費格森同屬校友。一九六八年基辛格擔任尼克遜政府的國家安全顧問，以及後來福特總統的國務卿；一九七九年離職時，他剛過五十三歲生日，正值盛年，卻再沒有一位總統委他重任。在白宮十一年，基辛格位高權重，操縱美國的外交政策。過去二十多年來，西方媒體相繼算舊賬，探討他在這段時間所肩負的歷史責任。比較轟動的研究著作有美國記者赫什（Seymour Hersh）所寫的《權力的代價》（The Price of Power），詳述尼克遜執政時的基辛格如何翻雲覆雨。該書稱基辛格為「老狐狸」，一九六九年他以鏟除越柬邊境的越南基地為由，下令轟柬，歷時十四個月，幾十萬無辜平民死亡。一九七零年十月智利大選，左翼贏得多數選票，基辛格指揮顛覆行動，推翻民選政府，手法骯髒。一九七五年東帝汶擺脫葡萄牙殖民統治，宣佈獨立，但印尼宣稱對東帝汶擁有主權，用武力鎮壓。基辛格同意印尼的侵略行動。隨後二十七年，東帝汶三分一人口被屠殺，直到二零零二年正式獨立。美國記者希欽斯（Christopher Hitchens）寫的《審判基辛格》（The Trial of Henry Kissinger）一書裡，直斥基辛格觸犯反人類罪，應受審判。二零零二年BBC贊助拍攝同名紀錄片，歷史學家認為，基辛格在片中暴露其冷酷，他對人類的痛苦和災難，無動於衷，他對冷戰戰略過於狂熱，他權慾熏心。新書《基》作者費格森為基辛格翻案。書中引述基辛格的回憶，指一九四三年底戰事快將結束，他作為美兵重新踏上德國領土，準備接管納粹集中營，「兩旁馬路堆放着穿間條囚衣的骷骨。我見到木囚室裡的人，臉孔空洞麻木，雙目如死魚。我對他們說：『你們自由了。』事實上，我能夠給予他們什麼自由？我從未住過這裡，從沒被鞭打過。我的同儕從另一囚室流着疏咱X來，勸我別進去......」基辛格說，他十三個親人被德軍屠殺，以他當日作為情報員的無限權力，可以向德軍復仇，但他沒有這樣做。他甚至勸告父母：「無論你們怎麼憎恨德國人，這是一場悲劇。」費格森認為，基辛格的成長並沒有受二戰影響。他是一位理想主義者。但《每日電訊報》評論文章期待費格森再為基辛格寫下集，看他如何剖析當年基辛格下令轟炸北越和柬埔寨的決策。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/01/23/b08-0123.pdf
- 92歲的馬哈蒂爾曾是94歲的基辛格半世紀前在哈佛大學的學生。1951年，哈佛大學籌組名為哈佛國際研討會（Harvard International Seminar）的夏季課程，那時只有28歲的基辛格是其中一名教員。艾薩森（Walter Isaacson）出版於1992年的傳記《Kissinger/基辛格》提到這段舊事。哈佛國際研討會是由政治學系教授艾略特組建，參加的多是各國年輕政界人士或公務員精英。艾薩森說，研討會雖由艾略特負責，但交給他最鍾愛的門生基辛格執行具體工作。這個班一直到1969年基辛格加入尼克遜政府後才結束，翻看研討會校友名錄，其實等於國際政治名人大全：1968年班的馬哈蒂爾之外，1953年有日本中曾根康弘、1954年的法國德斯坦、1957年以色列阿龍（Yigal Allon）等一大批。到了90年代，基辛格還間中和一些學員見面。哈佛國際研討會開始時，基辛格差3年才拿博士學位，那時他已是哈佛名人。艾略特放手給基辛格負責，基辛格把研討會的行政教學包攬上身，艾薩森說，所有研討會學員，都由基辛格親自挑選（Kissinger personally chose the participants），延攬哈佛內外著名教授講課。第二次世界大戰之後的這種課程有巨大戰略意涵：在和平年代讓終於遠離戰爭的歐洲年輕一代探看世界；第二個意義是美國通過交流加強對戰後世代影響力。這批學員當中，馬哈蒂爾後來當上馬來西亞首相；德斯坦是1974年到1981年的法國總統；阿龍是以色列副總理；中曾根康弘是自民黨80年代五大派閥之一、日本首相。研討會學員並包括外國政府的選舉官員和新聞記者。從研討會學員其後的「成就」觀之，基辛格選人眼光不同凡響，歐洲一線大國的總統登位前20年已被相中；日本首相拜相前30年就獲看好https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20180511/20387396
- hkej 26jul18 shum article
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland and later Georgetown, D.C., near Washington, D.C. who wrote the lyrics for a poem entitled at first "The Defence of Fort McHenry", which when set to an old English gentlemens' society tune,[discuss]eventually became the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".Key was a leading attorney in Frederick, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. for many years, with an extensive real estate as well as trial practice. He and his family settled in Georgetown in 1805 or 1806, near the new national capital. There the young Key assisted his uncle, the prominent lawyer Philip Barton Key, such as in the sensational conspiracy trial of Aaron Burr and the expulsion of Senator John Smith of Ohio. He made the first of his many arguments before the United States Supreme Court in 1807. In 1808 he assisted President Thomas Jefferson's attorney general in United States v. Peters. In 1829, Key, a supporter of Andrew Jackson, assisted in the prosecution of Tobias Watkins, former U.S. Treasury auditor under former President John Quincy Adams for misappropriating public monies. He also handled the Petticoat affair concerning Secretary of War John Eaton, who had married a widowed saloonkeeper.[12] In 1832, he served as the attorney for Sam Houston, then a former U.S. Representative and Governor of Tennessee, during his trial for assaulting Representative William Stanbery of Ohio. President Jackson nominated Key for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1833. After the U.S. Senate approved the nomination, he served from 1833 to 1841, while also handling his own private legal cases.[14] In 1835, in his most famous case, he prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Andrew Jackson at the entrance doors and top steps of the Capitol, the first attempt to kill an American chief executive.
- Has its own coat of arms
trade stream
- Wendy Cutler became the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea and APEC Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in June 2004. In this capacity, she is responsible for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy towards Japan and Korea. In addition, she is responsible for developing and implementing the U.S. trade and investment agenda in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Since joining USTR in 1988, Ms. Cutler has held a number of positions, including Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for North Asian Affairs, as well as for Services, Investment and Intellectual Property. She was the Chief U.S. Negotiator for the U.S.- Korean (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement, signed on June 30, 2007. In addition, She has negotiated bilateral agreements on a wide range of sector issues, including telecommunications, insurance, and semiconductors. She also has extensive multilateral negotiating experience as the U.S. negotiator for the 1997 WTO Financial Services Agreement and the Uruguay Round Agreements on Rules of Origin and Import Licensing. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Cutler worked at the Commerce Department from 1983-1988. Ms. Cutler received her Masters Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and her B.A. from the George Washington University. https://ustr.gov/archive/Who_We_Are/Bios/Wendy_Cutler.html
Economist
- David R. Malpass (born March 8, 1956) is an American economist who currently serves as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, and Chief Economist at Bear Stearns for the six years preceding its collapse.[1]During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Malpass served as an economic advisor to Donald Trump, and in 2017, he was nominated and subsquently confirmed as the undersecretary for international affairs in the United States Department of the Treasury.
- Anne Osborn Krueger (born February 12, 1934) is an American economist. She was theWorld Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986, and the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2001 to 2006. She is currently professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Krueger was born on February 12, 1934, in Endicott, New York. Her father was a physician. Her uncles include the Australian politician Sir Reginald Wright and physiologist Sir Roy Wright. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. ineconomics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an economist, Krueger is known in macroeconomics and trade, famously coining the termrent-seeking in a 1974 article.[1][2] Furthermore, she has frequently criticised the U.S. sugar subsidies.[3] She has published extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international economy, and the political economy of trade policy. In her 1996 Presidential address to the American Economic Association, she explored the lack of congruence between successful trade and development policies enacted worldwide and prevailing academic views.
intellectual property
- As an Associate Solicitor in the USPTO’s Office of Solicitor, Joseph Matal briefed and argued appeals of patent and trademark decisions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court, and assisted in the development of legal positions taken by the U.S. Solicitor General in patent and copyright cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Matal recently served as acting Chief of Staff for the agency, and has advised the director on legislative matters. Matal previously served as the General Counsel of the Judiciary Committee for former Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and as a Judiciary Committee Counsel to former Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ). In that role, he was the principal staff drafter and negotiator of legislation that became the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the first comprehensive patent law overhaul since 1952. Matal has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/executive-biographies/joseph-matal
evangelical
- William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally after 1949. He has been called one of the most influential preachers of the 20th century.[2] He held large indoor and outdoor rallies with sermons which were broadcast on radio and television, some still being re-broadcast into the 21st century.[3] In his six decades of television, Graham hosted annual Billy Graham Crusades, which ran from 1947 until his retirement in 2005. He also hosted the popular radio show Hour of Decision from 1950 to 1954. He repudiated segregation and, in addition to his religious aims, helped shape the worldview of a huge number of people coming from different backgrounds leading them to find a relationship between the Bible and contemporary secular viewpoints. Graham preached to live audiences of nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories through various meetings, including BMS World Mission and Global Mission. He also reached hundreds of millions more through television, video, film, and webcasts. Graham was a spiritual adviser to American presidents and provided spiritual counsel for every president from Harry Truman to Barack Obama.[5] He was particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson (one of Graham's closest friends),[6] and Richard Nixon. He insisted on racial integration for his revivals and crusades in 1953 and invited Martin Luther King Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. Graham bailed King out of jail in the 1960s when King was arrested in demonstrations. He was also lifelong friends with another televangelist, the founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, Robert H. Schuller, whom Graham talked into doing his own television ministry.William Franklin Graham Jr. was born on November 7, 1918. He was the eldest of four children born to Morrow (née Coffey) and William Franklin Graham Sr. Graham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was raised on a family dairy farm with his two younger sisters and younger brother. In 1927, when he was eight years old, the family moved about 75 yards (69 m) from their white frame house to a newly built red brick home.[12] He was raised in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church by his parents and was of Scots-Irish descent.On August 13, 1943, Graham married Wheaton classmate Ruth Bell, whose parents were Presbyterian missionaries in China. Her father, L. Nelson Bell, was a general surgeon.[25] Ruth Graham died on June 14, 2007, at the age of 87. The Grahams were married for almost 64 years. Graham and his wife had five children together: Virginia Leftwich (Gigi) Graham (born 1945; an inspirational speaker and author); Anne Graham Lotz (born 1948; runs AnGeL ministries); Ruth Graham (born 1950; founder and president of Ruth Graham & Friends, leads conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada); Franklin Graham (born 1952, who serves as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and as president and CEO of international relief organization, Samaritan's Purse);[26]and Nelson Edman Graham (born 1958; a pastor who runs East Gates Ministries International,[27] which distributes Christian literature in China). Graham had 19 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. His grandson Tullian Tchividjian, son of Gigi, was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida until he was defrocked in June 2015 after admitting to an extra-marital affair.[28][29] Tchividjian later filed for divorce from his wife, Kim. Grandson Basyle "Boz" Tchividjian, a former child abuse chief prosecutor and professor at Liberty University School of Law, is the founder and executive director of Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing and responding to abuse in Christian organizations.
Warren Edward Buffett (/ˈbʌfɪt/; born August 30, 1930)[2] is an American business magnate, investor, speaker and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world[3][4] and has a net worth of US$84 billion as of June 3, 2018, making him the third wealthiest person in the world. Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He developed an interest in business and investing in his youth, eventually entering the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 before transferring and graduating from University of Nebraska at the age of 19. He went on to graduate from Columbia Business School, where he molded his investment philosophy around the concept of value investing that was pioneered by Benjamin Graham. He attended New York Institute of Finance to focus his economics background and soon after began various business partnerships, including one with Graham. He created the Buffett Partnership after meeting Charlie Munger, and his firm eventually acquired a textile manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway and assumed its name to create a diversified holding company.
Bill gates
- https://www.quora.com/What-are-Bill-Gates-children-up-to/answer/Aldrich-Williams-1
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-06/02/content_25583812.htm Bill Gates-led facility promises to deliver to China professional sector skills training. The first class of 49 students, from 14 cities across China, has started at the China GlobalPhilanthropy Institute - an organization created by Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates and otherleading philanthropists. Ma Weihua, its first chairman and former president and CEO of China Merchants Bank Co Ltd,said the event marked the official start of what he described as China's first truly internationalphilanthropic institute.
Tom pritzker, Hyatt Hotels chairman
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35cece52-3e8e-11e4-adef-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3E0nQpSDW
descendents of mayflower passengers
- William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author and diplomat who served as the 30th Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration and has also served as a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. In December 2008, he was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration,[1] but withdrew a month later as he was investigated for possible improper business dealings in New Mexico. Although the investigation was later dropped, it was seen to have damaged Richardson's career, as his second and final term as New Mexico governor concluded.Richardson occasionally troubleshoots diplomatic issues with North Korea.Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California.[7] His father, William Blaine Richardson, Jr. (1891-1972), who was of Anglo-American and Mexican descent, was an American Citibank executive who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and lived and worked in Mexico City.[8] His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez (1914-2011), was the Mexican-born daughter of a Spanish father from Villaviciosa, Asturias and a Mexican mother, and had been his father's secretary. Richardson's father was born on a ship heading towards Nicaragua.[7] Just before Bill Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, "My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States." Richardson, a U.S. citizen by birthright, spent his childhood in Mexico City[9] and was raised Roman Catholic.Richardson is a descendant of William Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower.After college, Richardson worked for Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse from Massachusetts. He was later a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Richardson worked on congressional relations for the Henry Kissinger State Department during the Nixon Administration.
- Robert Warren Miller (born May 23, 1933) is an American-born British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and sailing champion. He is the father of Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Alexandra Miller, and Pia Getty, dubbed by tabloids and high society as The Miller Sisters.Miller was born in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in 1933, the son of Ellis Warren Appleton Miller (1898 – c. 1986), a bookkeeper, salesperson, and descendant of several Mayflower passengers; and Sophia "Sophie" June Squarebriggs (1899–1998), a Canadian-born former governess. Miller's ancestry is rooted in the British North American colonial elite, and descends over time, he claims, from Henry I of England, Louis IV the Carolingian, and William, King of the Scots.
Jesuits background
- Jerome Hayden Powell (born February 4, 1953) is a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and has served since 2012. On November 2, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Powell to serve as the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Powell was born on February 4, 1953 in Washington, D.C., the son of Patricia (Hayden) and Jerome Powell, a lawyer in private practice.[5] His maternal grandfather, James J. Hayden, was Dean of the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America. In 1971, Powell graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit university-preparatory school. He received a Bachelor of Arts in politics from Princeton University in 1975, where his senior thesis was titled "South Africa: Forces for Change."[7] In 1975-1976, he spent a year as a legislative assistant to Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Vice President of the United States on a ticket with Ronald Reagan during the primary election in 1976. Powell earned a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979, where he was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal.
puritan migration to new england
- The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English Puritans to Massachusetts and the West Indies, especially Barbados. They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.
King James I of England made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy in England, who had been alienated by the conservatism blocking reform in the Church of England. Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of England, which had also preserved medieval canon law almost intact. They opposed church practices that resembled Roman Catholic ritual.
This religious conflict worsened after Charles I became king in 1625, and Parliament increasingly opposed his authority. In 1629, Charles dissolved Parliament with no intention of summoning a new one, in an ill-fated attempt to neutralize his enemies there—which included numerous Puritans. With the religious and political climate so unpromising, many Puritans decided to leave the country. Some of the migration was also from the expatriate English communities in the Netherlands of nonconformists and Separatists who had set up churches there since the 1590s.
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 included eleven ships led by the flagship Arbella; it delivered some 700[2] passengers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Migration continued until Parliament was reconvened in 1640, at which point the scale dropped off sharply. The English Civil War began in 1641, and some colonists returned from New England to England to fight on the Puritan side. Many then remained in England, since Oliver Cromwell backed Parliament as an Independent.[3]
The Great Migration saw 80,000 people leave England, roughly 20,000 migrating to each of four destinations: Ireland, New England,[4] the West Indies, and the Netherlands. The immigrants to New England came from every English county except Westmorland, and nearly half from East Anglia.[5] The colonists to New England were mostly families with some education who were leading relatively prosperous lives in England.[1] One modern writer, however, estimates that 7 to 10 percent of the colonists returned to England after 1640, including about a third of the clergymen.
- http://martenscentre.eu/users/john-danilovich
Ben Bernanke
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb28200c-0904-11e5-b643-00144feabdc0.html Beijing was pushed into launching the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank by US lawmakers’ refusal to give China greater clout in existing multilateral institutions, Ben Bernanke has said. “The US Congress is largely at fault for all that’s happening,” the former chairman of the Federal Reserve said in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
Henry kissinger
- http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21669596-americas-greatest-modern-diplomat-was-also-one-its-great-thinkers-ideas-man
- 基辛格一九二三年出生於德國巴伐利亞，父親任職教師。一九三八年逃往紐約，日間在工廠上班幫補家計，夜間讀大學，成績優秀。加入美國籍後，一九四三年基辛格參軍赴歐洲戰場，擔任軍隊德語翻譯和追殺納粹的反情報工作。戰後，基辛格考進哈佛大學，取得哲學博士學位。他與《基》作者費格森同屬校友。一九六八年基辛格擔任尼克遜政府的國家安全顧問，以及後來福特總統的國務卿；一九七九年離職時，他剛過五十三歲生日，正值盛年，卻再沒有一位總統委他重任。在白宮十一年，基辛格位高權重，操縱美國的外交政策。過去二十多年來，西方媒體相繼算舊賬，探討他在這段時間所肩負的歷史責任。比較轟動的研究著作有美國記者赫什（Seymour Hersh）所寫的《權力的代價》（The Price of Power），詳述尼克遜執政時的基辛格如何翻雲覆雨。該書稱基辛格為「老狐狸」，一九六九年他以鏟除越柬邊境的越南基地為由，下令轟柬，歷時十四個月，幾十萬無辜平民死亡。一九七零年十月智利大選，左翼贏得多數選票，基辛格指揮顛覆行動，推翻民選政府，手法骯髒。一九七五年東帝汶擺脫葡萄牙殖民統治，宣佈獨立，但印尼宣稱對東帝汶擁有主權，用武力鎮壓。基辛格同意印尼的侵略行動。隨後二十七年，東帝汶三分一人口被屠殺，直到二零零二年正式獨立。美國記者希欽斯（Christopher Hitchens）寫的《審判基辛格》（The Trial of Henry Kissinger）一書裡，直斥基辛格觸犯反人類罪，應受審判。二零零二年BBC贊助拍攝同名紀錄片，歷史學家認為，基辛格在片中暴露其冷酷，他對人類的痛苦和災難，無動於衷，他對冷戰戰略過於狂熱，他權慾熏心。新書《基》作者費格森為基辛格翻案。書中引述基辛格的回憶，指一九四三年底戰事快將結束，他作為美兵重新踏上德國領土，準備接管納粹集中營，「兩旁馬路堆放着穿間條囚衣的骷骨。我見到木囚室裡的人，臉孔空洞麻木，雙目如死魚。我對他們說：『你們自由了。』事實上，我能夠給予他們什麼自由？我從未住過這裡，從沒被鞭打過。我的同儕從另一囚室流着疏咱X來，勸我別進去......」基辛格說，他十三個親人被德軍屠殺，以他當日作為情報員的無限權力，可以向德軍復仇，但他沒有這樣做。他甚至勸告父母：「無論你們怎麼憎恨德國人，這是一場悲劇。」費格森認為，基辛格的成長並沒有受二戰影響。他是一位理想主義者。但《每日電訊報》評論文章期待費格森再為基辛格寫下集，看他如何剖析當年基辛格下令轟炸北越和柬埔寨的決策。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/01/23/b08-0123.pdf
- 92歲的馬哈蒂爾曾是94歲的基辛格半世紀前在哈佛大學的學生。1951年，哈佛大學籌組名為哈佛國際研討會（Harvard International Seminar）的夏季課程，那時只有28歲的基辛格是其中一名教員。艾薩森（Walter Isaacson）出版於1992年的傳記《Kissinger/基辛格》提到這段舊事。哈佛國際研討會是由政治學系教授艾略特組建，參加的多是各國年輕政界人士或公務員精英。艾薩森說，研討會雖由艾略特負責，但交給他最鍾愛的門生基辛格執行具體工作。這個班一直到1969年基辛格加入尼克遜政府後才結束，翻看研討會校友名錄，其實等於國際政治名人大全：1968年班的馬哈蒂爾之外，1953年有日本中曾根康弘、1954年的法國德斯坦、1957年以色列阿龍（Yigal Allon）等一大批。到了90年代，基辛格還間中和一些學員見面。哈佛國際研討會開始時，基辛格差3年才拿博士學位，那時他已是哈佛名人。艾略特放手給基辛格負責，基辛格把研討會的行政教學包攬上身，艾薩森說，所有研討會學員，都由基辛格親自挑選（Kissinger personally chose the participants），延攬哈佛內外著名教授講課。第二次世界大戰之後的這種課程有巨大戰略意涵：在和平年代讓終於遠離戰爭的歐洲年輕一代探看世界；第二個意義是美國通過交流加強對戰後世代影響力。這批學員當中，馬哈蒂爾後來當上馬來西亞首相；德斯坦是1974年到1981年的法國總統；阿龍是以色列副總理；中曾根康弘是自民黨80年代五大派閥之一、日本首相。研討會學員並包括外國政府的選舉官員和新聞記者。從研討會學員其後的「成就」觀之，基辛格選人眼光不同凡響，歐洲一線大國的總統登位前20年已被相中；日本首相拜相前30年就獲看好https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20180511/20387396
- hkej 26jul18 shum article
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor,Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world (Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996). From 1993 to 1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions inBosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995. Holbrooke was a leading contender to succeed the retiring Warren Christopher as Secretary of State but was passed over in 1996 as President Bill Clinton chose Madeleine Albright instead. From 1999 to 2001, Holbrooke served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He was an adviser to the Presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry in 2004. Holbrooke then joined the Presidential campaign of SenatorHillary Rodham Clinton and became a top foreign policy adviser. Holbrooke was considered a likely candidate for Secretary of State had Kerry or Hillary Clinton been elected President. In January 2009, Holbrooke was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan, working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He served until he died from complications of an aortic dissection on December 13, 2010. Holbrooke's unfulfilled ambition was to become Secretary of State; he, along with George Kennan and Chip Bohlen, were considered among the most influential U.S. diplomats who never achieved cabinet rank. Several considered Holbrooke's role in the Dayton Accords to merit the Nobel Peace Prize.
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland and later Georgetown, D.C., near Washington, D.C. who wrote the lyrics for a poem entitled at first "The Defence of Fort McHenry", which when set to an old English gentlemens' society tune,[discuss]eventually became the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".Key was a leading attorney in Frederick, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. for many years, with an extensive real estate as well as trial practice. He and his family settled in Georgetown in 1805 or 1806, near the new national capital. There the young Key assisted his uncle, the prominent lawyer Philip Barton Key, such as in the sensational conspiracy trial of Aaron Burr and the expulsion of Senator John Smith of Ohio. He made the first of his many arguments before the United States Supreme Court in 1807. In 1808 he assisted President Thomas Jefferson's attorney general in United States v. Peters. In 1829, Key, a supporter of Andrew Jackson, assisted in the prosecution of Tobias Watkins, former U.S. Treasury auditor under former President John Quincy Adams for misappropriating public monies. He also handled the Petticoat affair concerning Secretary of War John Eaton, who had married a widowed saloonkeeper.[12] In 1832, he served as the attorney for Sam Houston, then a former U.S. Representative and Governor of Tennessee, during his trial for assaulting Representative William Stanbery of Ohio. President Jackson nominated Key for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1833. After the U.S. Senate approved the nomination, he served from 1833 to 1841, while also handling his own private legal cases.[14] In 1835, in his most famous case, he prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Andrew Jackson at the entrance doors and top steps of the Capitol, the first attempt to kill an American chief executive.
- Has its own coat of arms
trade stream
- Wendy Cutler became the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea and APEC Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in June 2004. In this capacity, she is responsible for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy towards Japan and Korea. In addition, she is responsible for developing and implementing the U.S. trade and investment agenda in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Since joining USTR in 1988, Ms. Cutler has held a number of positions, including Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for North Asian Affairs, as well as for Services, Investment and Intellectual Property. She was the Chief U.S. Negotiator for the U.S.- Korean (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement, signed on June 30, 2007. In addition, She has negotiated bilateral agreements on a wide range of sector issues, including telecommunications, insurance, and semiconductors. She also has extensive multilateral negotiating experience as the U.S. negotiator for the 1997 WTO Financial Services Agreement and the Uruguay Round Agreements on Rules of Origin and Import Licensing. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Cutler worked at the Commerce Department from 1983-1988. Ms. Cutler received her Masters Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and her B.A. from the George Washington University. https://ustr.gov/archive/Who_We_Are/Bios/Wendy_Cutler.html
- In addition to consulting with Akin Gump, Ms. Cutler serves as vice president and managing director of the Washington, D.C., office of the Asia Society Policy Institute. In her role, she focuses on strengthening the organization’s presence and outreach, as well as leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade and women’s empowerment in Asia.Prior to joining the organization, Ms. Cutler spent nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Most recently, she served as acting deputy U.S. trade representative, working on a range of U.S. trade negotiations and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region, where she was responsible for the just-concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, including the bilateral negotiations with Japan. https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/wendy-cutler.html
Economist
- David R. Malpass (born March 8, 1956) is an American economist who currently serves as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, and Chief Economist at Bear Stearns for the six years preceding its collapse.[1]During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Malpass served as an economic advisor to Donald Trump, and in 2017, he was nominated and subsquently confirmed as the undersecretary for international affairs in the United States Department of the Treasury.
- Anne Osborn Krueger (born February 12, 1934) is an American economist. She was theWorld Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986, and the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2001 to 2006. She is currently professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Krueger was born on February 12, 1934, in Endicott, New York. Her father was a physician. Her uncles include the Australian politician Sir Reginald Wright and physiologist Sir Roy Wright. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. ineconomics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an economist, Krueger is known in macroeconomics and trade, famously coining the termrent-seeking in a 1974 article.[1][2] Furthermore, she has frequently criticised the U.S. sugar subsidies.[3] She has published extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international economy, and the political economy of trade policy. In her 1996 Presidential address to the American Economic Association, she explored the lack of congruence between successful trade and development policies enacted worldwide and prevailing academic views.
intellectual property
- As an Associate Solicitor in the USPTO’s Office of Solicitor, Joseph Matal briefed and argued appeals of patent and trademark decisions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court, and assisted in the development of legal positions taken by the U.S. Solicitor General in patent and copyright cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Matal recently served as acting Chief of Staff for the agency, and has advised the director on legislative matters. Matal previously served as the General Counsel of the Judiciary Committee for former Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and as a Judiciary Committee Counsel to former Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ). In that role, he was the principal staff drafter and negotiator of legislation that became the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the first comprehensive patent law overhaul since 1952. Matal has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/executive-biographies/joseph-matal
evangelical
- William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally after 1949. He has been called one of the most influential preachers of the 20th century.[2] He held large indoor and outdoor rallies with sermons which were broadcast on radio and television, some still being re-broadcast into the 21st century.[3] In his six decades of television, Graham hosted annual Billy Graham Crusades, which ran from 1947 until his retirement in 2005. He also hosted the popular radio show Hour of Decision from 1950 to 1954. He repudiated segregation and, in addition to his religious aims, helped shape the worldview of a huge number of people coming from different backgrounds leading them to find a relationship between the Bible and contemporary secular viewpoints. Graham preached to live audiences of nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories through various meetings, including BMS World Mission and Global Mission. He also reached hundreds of millions more through television, video, film, and webcasts. Graham was a spiritual adviser to American presidents and provided spiritual counsel for every president from Harry Truman to Barack Obama.[5] He was particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson (one of Graham's closest friends),[6] and Richard Nixon. He insisted on racial integration for his revivals and crusades in 1953 and invited Martin Luther King Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. Graham bailed King out of jail in the 1960s when King was arrested in demonstrations. He was also lifelong friends with another televangelist, the founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, Robert H. Schuller, whom Graham talked into doing his own television ministry.William Franklin Graham Jr. was born on November 7, 1918. He was the eldest of four children born to Morrow (née Coffey) and William Franklin Graham Sr. Graham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was raised on a family dairy farm with his two younger sisters and younger brother. In 1927, when he was eight years old, the family moved about 75 yards (69 m) from their white frame house to a newly built red brick home.[12] He was raised in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church by his parents and was of Scots-Irish descent.On August 13, 1943, Graham married Wheaton classmate Ruth Bell, whose parents were Presbyterian missionaries in China. Her father, L. Nelson Bell, was a general surgeon.[25] Ruth Graham died on June 14, 2007, at the age of 87. The Grahams were married for almost 64 years. Graham and his wife had five children together: Virginia Leftwich (Gigi) Graham (born 1945; an inspirational speaker and author); Anne Graham Lotz (born 1948; runs AnGeL ministries); Ruth Graham (born 1950; founder and president of Ruth Graham & Friends, leads conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada); Franklin Graham (born 1952, who serves as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and as president and CEO of international relief organization, Samaritan's Purse);[26]and Nelson Edman Graham (born 1958; a pastor who runs East Gates Ministries International,[27] which distributes Christian literature in China). Graham had 19 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. His grandson Tullian Tchividjian, son of Gigi, was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida until he was defrocked in June 2015 after admitting to an extra-marital affair.[28][29] Tchividjian later filed for divorce from his wife, Kim. Grandson Basyle "Boz" Tchividjian, a former child abuse chief prosecutor and professor at Liberty University School of Law, is the founder and executive director of Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing and responding to abuse in Christian organizations.
- 他先後於1956年、1975年及1990年三度於香港大球場舉行佈道會，入場人次超過52萬，過萬港人因此決志信主。由於鍾路得的中國背景，葛培理對中國因而有着特別感情，除了三度來港舉辦佈道會外，也曾於1988年和1994年兩度訪問內地，其中1988年4月的訪問走遍了北京、淮陰、南京、上海和廣州，在北京獲時任國務院總理李鵬於紫光閣接見。葛培理和兒子葛福臨是全球唯二獲准於朝鮮教會講道的美國人，他先後於1992年和1994年訪問平壤，並於1992年獲時任朝鮮領導人金日成接見。葛培理一手令美國福音派教會在戰後急速壯大，足以與羅馬天主教和自由派基督教會分庭抗禮。他在政界亦擁有巨大影響力，他與黑人民權運動領袖馬丁路德金關係密切，後者曾說過沒有葛培理的支持，黑人民權運動便不可能如此成功。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/02/22/a18-0222.pdf
- The late Billy Graham's influence reached beyond US borders all the way to Asia. "America's Pastor" visited the secret state of North Korea twice {added by me - 1992 and 1994?, legacy being presbyterian churches}, meeting with the country's leader Kim Il Sung and serving as an informal adviser for US presidents. CNN's Will Ripley reports on the anti-communist pastor's influential work in North Korea.https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/03/02/billy-graham-north-korea-ripley-pkg.cnn
Warren Edward Buffett (/ˈbʌfɪt/; born August 30, 1930)[2] is an American business magnate, investor, speaker and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world[3][4] and has a net worth of US$84 billion as of June 3, 2018, making him the third wealthiest person in the world. Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He developed an interest in business and investing in his youth, eventually entering the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 before transferring and graduating from University of Nebraska at the age of 19. He went on to graduate from Columbia Business School, where he molded his investment philosophy around the concept of value investing that was pioneered by Benjamin Graham. He attended New York Institute of Finance to focus his economics background and soon after began various business partnerships, including one with Graham. He created the Buffett Partnership after meeting Charlie Munger, and his firm eventually acquired a textile manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway and assumed its name to create a diversified holding company.
- former daughter in law mary buffet hkej 11sep18 c3
Bill gates
- https://www.quora.com/What-are-Bill-Gates-children-up-to/answer/Aldrich-Williams-1
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-06/02/content_25583812.htm Bill Gates-led facility promises to deliver to China professional sector skills training. The first class of 49 students, from 14 cities across China, has started at the China GlobalPhilanthropy Institute - an organization created by Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates and otherleading philanthropists. Ma Weihua, its first chairman and former president and CEO of China Merchants Bank Co Ltd,said the event marked the official start of what he described as China's first truly internationalphilanthropic institute.
Tom pritzker, Hyatt Hotels chairman
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35cece52-3e8e-11e4-adef-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3E0nQpSDW
descendents of mayflower passengers
- William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author and diplomat who served as the 30th Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration and has also served as a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. In December 2008, he was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration,[1] but withdrew a month later as he was investigated for possible improper business dealings in New Mexico. Although the investigation was later dropped, it was seen to have damaged Richardson's career, as his second and final term as New Mexico governor concluded.Richardson occasionally troubleshoots diplomatic issues with North Korea.Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California.[7] His father, William Blaine Richardson, Jr. (1891-1972), who was of Anglo-American and Mexican descent, was an American Citibank executive who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and lived and worked in Mexico City.[8] His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez (1914-2011), was the Mexican-born daughter of a Spanish father from Villaviciosa, Asturias and a Mexican mother, and had been his father's secretary. Richardson's father was born on a ship heading towards Nicaragua.[7] Just before Bill Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, "My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States." Richardson, a U.S. citizen by birthright, spent his childhood in Mexico City[9] and was raised Roman Catholic.Richardson is a descendant of William Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower.After college, Richardson worked for Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse from Massachusetts. He was later a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Richardson worked on congressional relations for the Henry Kissinger State Department during the Nixon Administration.
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/26/myanmar-accuses-bill-richardson-of-personal-attack-as-row-deepens Myanmar has deepened its row with US diplomat Bill Richardson, saying it made the decision to dump him from an advisory panel on the Rohingya crisis and accusing the veteran politician of a “personal attack” on Aung San Suu Kyi in his stinging resignation letter.
- Robert Warren Miller (born May 23, 1933) is an American-born British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and sailing champion. He is the father of Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Alexandra Miller, and Pia Getty, dubbed by tabloids and high society as The Miller Sisters.Miller was born in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in 1933, the son of Ellis Warren Appleton Miller (1898 – c. 1986), a bookkeeper, salesperson, and descendant of several Mayflower passengers; and Sophia "Sophie" June Squarebriggs (1899–1998), a Canadian-born former governess. Miller's ancestry is rooted in the British North American colonial elite, and descends over time, he claims, from Henry I of England, Louis IV the Carolingian, and William, King of the Scots.
Jesuits background
- Jerome Hayden Powell (born February 4, 1953) is a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and has served since 2012. On November 2, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Powell to serve as the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Powell was born on February 4, 1953 in Washington, D.C., the son of Patricia (Hayden) and Jerome Powell, a lawyer in private practice.[5] His maternal grandfather, James J. Hayden, was Dean of the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America. In 1971, Powell graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit university-preparatory school. He received a Bachelor of Arts in politics from Princeton University in 1975, where his senior thesis was titled "South Africa: Forces for Change."[7] In 1975-1976, he spent a year as a legislative assistant to Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Vice President of the United States on a ticket with Ronald Reagan during the primary election in 1976. Powell earned a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979, where he was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal.
puritan migration to new england
- The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English Puritans to Massachusetts and the West Indies, especially Barbados. They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.
King James I of England made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy in England, who had been alienated by the conservatism blocking reform in the Church of England. Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of England, which had also preserved medieval canon law almost intact. They opposed church practices that resembled Roman Catholic ritual.
This religious conflict worsened after Charles I became king in 1625, and Parliament increasingly opposed his authority. In 1629, Charles dissolved Parliament with no intention of summoning a new one, in an ill-fated attempt to neutralize his enemies there—which included numerous Puritans. With the religious and political climate so unpromising, many Puritans decided to leave the country. Some of the migration was also from the expatriate English communities in the Netherlands of nonconformists and Separatists who had set up churches there since the 1590s.
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 included eleven ships led by the flagship Arbella; it delivered some 700[2] passengers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Migration continued until Parliament was reconvened in 1640, at which point the scale dropped off sharply. The English Civil War began in 1641, and some colonists returned from New England to England to fight on the Puritan side. Many then remained in England, since Oliver Cromwell backed Parliament as an Independent.[3]
The Great Migration saw 80,000 people leave England, roughly 20,000 migrating to each of four destinations: Ireland, New England,[4] the West Indies, and the Netherlands. The immigrants to New England came from every English county except Westmorland, and nearly half from East Anglia.[5] The colonists to New England were mostly families with some education who were leading relatively prosperous lives in England.[1] One modern writer, however, estimates that 7 to 10 percent of the colonists returned to England after 1640, including about a third of the clergymen.
- Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (/ˈkrɒzbi/; May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) (most famous for singing the song white christmas) was the fourth of seven children: brothers Larry (1895–1975), Edward (1896–1966), Ted (1900–1973), and Bob (1913–1993); and two sisters, Catherine (1904–1974) and Mary Rose (1906–1990). His parents were Harry Lillis Crosby Sr.[16] (1870–1950), a bookkeeper, and Catherine Helen "Kate" (née Harrigan; 1873–1964).[16] His mother was a second generation Irish-American. His father was of English descent; an ancestor, Simon Crosby, emigrated to America in the 17th century. The first Crosby in America was the English immigrant Simon Crosby, who was a Puritan from Cambridgeshire, England. Through an entirely paternal line Bing Crosby is descended from Simon Crosby, who immigranted from England to New England in the 1630s during the Puritan migration to New England.[17][18] Through another line, also on his father's side, Crosby is descended from Mayflower passenger William Brewster (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644).
Iran related
- Valerie June Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is an American government official who is currently the Senior Advisor to thePresident of the United States and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration. She is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior to that she served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project.Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was an architect who was the first accredited African American architect, and the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz in 1956 as part of a program where American physicians and agricultural experts sought to help developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five years old, the family moved to London for a year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.
from italy
- Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stageactor[2] with a career spanning five decades. Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. Fonda's patrilineal line originates with an ancestor from Genoa, Italy, who migrated to the Netherlands in the 15th century.[4] In 1642, a branch of the Fonda family immigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland on the East Coast of North America.[4][5] They were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, New York.[4] By 1888, many of their descendants had relocated to Nebraska.[
greeks
- Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (Greek: Σπύρος Σκούρας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a GreekAmerican motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, but served as chairman of the company for several years. He also had numerous ships, owning Prudential Lines. Skouras and two brothers came to the United States as immigrants in 1910; Spyros kept such a pronounced Greek accent in English that comedian Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week."[citation needed] Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra(1963) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the development of Century City. His grandchildren include Charles P. Skouras III, a film and television executive. His great-granddaughter Marielle Skouras has produced more than 25 television shows and created Beverly Hills Pawn, a hit reality show on REELZchannel.
Hungarians
- george soros
from eastern europe
- Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and utilize a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His parents were working-class Lemko[9][10] emigrants from Mikó (now called Miková), located in today's northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warhol's father emigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents. Warhol's father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.[11] The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.
armenian background
- Armen Albert Alchian (/ˈɑːltʃiən/; April 12, 1914 – February 19, 2013) was an Americaneconomist and professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
african american
- https://www.ft.com/content/b28e1ff2-07fd-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b
Raphael Bostic, a university professor and former housing official in the Obama administration, has been selected as the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, becoming the first African-American to head one of the Fed’s 12 regional banks.
pakistan related
- Shahid Khan (Urdu: شاہد خان; born July 18, 1950),[2][3] also known as Shad Khan, is a Pakistani-American billionaire and business tycoon. He is the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL), the English Football League Championship team Fulham F.C., and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate in Urbana, Illinois.Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a middle-class family who were involved in the construction industry.[7] His mother (now retired) was a professor of mathematics.[2]He moved to the United States in 1967 at age 16[2] to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Linked to asia
- ross coggins
Taiwan related
- Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economistwho is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University. He left Harvard in 1991, working as the Chief Economist at the World Bank from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentorRobert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin asSecretary of the Treasury. While working for the Clinton administration Summers played a leading role in the American response to the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the Russian financial crisis. He was also influential in the American advised privatization of the economies of the post-Soviet states, and in the deregulation of the U.S financial system, including the repeal of theGlass-Steagall Act.
- 二○一六年美国总统大选，地产商特朗普“逆袭”胜出。他就任后鸡飞狗跳，却激励了一位华裔民主党人宣布二○二○年参选。杨安泽 （Andrew Yang）的父母来自台湾，他一九七五年出生于纽约州北部，在布朗大学读了经济、政治学双学士，又从哥伦比亚大学获得法学博士（JD）。他对当律师没兴 趣，先后从业于网路公司、健保服务公司、补习教材公司，直至创办帮助二○○八年经济萧条中失业者再就业的非营利组织Venture for America。他的竞选口号是“人性至上”，主要政见包括：政府给十八至六十四岁的美国公民每月普遍发放一千美元的基本收入；全国採 用单一模式的健保制度，由政府直接支付公民所有医疗费用；在白宫设立心理医生；高薪养廉，总统年收入四百万美元，内阁成员与政府机构的高管可拿年薪一百 万；设立媒体监管员，惩罚散布假新闻、极端信息的媒体等。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180416/PDF/b5_screen.pdf
hk related
- alex wong
Musk family
- Kimbal Musk (born September 20, 1972) is a South African-born Canadian and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and environmentalist who has invested in several technology and food companies. He owns The Kitchen Cafe, LLC, a family of community restaurants located inBoulder, Fort Collins, Denver, Glendale, and Chicago. He co-founded The Kitchen Community, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings outdoor vegetable gardens called "Learning Gardens" to schoolyards and community spaces. He sits on the boards of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and Chipotle Mexican Grill. He is the younger brother of billionaire businessman Elon Musk.
Elizabeth holmes
- hkej 14nov15 a20 china link
Wall street
- https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/pcb.466497996883309/466497203550055/?type=3&theater部設在達拉斯、由貝斯（Kyle Bass）創辦的海曼資本管理（Hayman Capital Management）已經出清在股票、商品和債券的投資，以便集中全力押注亞幣的貶值，對象包括人民幣和港元。據道瓊斯報道，貝斯相信，人民幣在一段時間內將會貶值40％。報道指出，海曼資本管理多年前曾做空美國房地產市場而獲利，這是多年之後該公司最大的一次賭注。《華爾街日報》報道，海曼資產目前大約有85％的投資組合將押注於預期人民幣和港元在未來3年將貶值的交易上，投資金額有數十億美元之鉅。Kyle Bass最為人知的一役，是在2007至2008年準確預測到美國次按風暴，向投行買入大量信用違約掉期，並在風暴爆發其間獲利。報道並引述Bass指出，「若問有關的規模，（今次）較次按危機（規模）更大。」
Women politician
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born June 28, 1947) is an American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.Tyson was born Laura D'Andrea in New Jersey Her father was Italian American and her mother was of Swedish and Dutch descent. Tyson graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Smith College in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.[3] She joined the faculty of the economics department at Princeton University in 1974 and remained in the position until 1977 when she became a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed a professor of business administration in 1990. She is married to writer Erik S. Tarloff and has one son, Elliot S. Tarloff. Her brother is Alan D'Andrea, an American cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. Her sister is Susan D'Andrea Lee, retired supervising examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York currently a policy advisor at the Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury, Washington DC.From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female Dean of London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was Dean of the Haas School of Business. She served in the Clinton Administration as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995. She was a spokesperson in favour of GATT, arguing with Sir James Goldsmith onCharlie Rose that American jobs will be increased by the trade agreement. Tyson was Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996. Tyson has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1987, a board director of Morgan Stanley since 1997, a board director of AT&T Inc. since 1999, a board director of Eastman Kodak and is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. In December, 2009 it was announced that Tyson will join CB Richard Ellis Board of Directors on March 4, 2010. Tyson also sits on the QFINANCE Strategic Advisory Board.
evangelist, sympathetic to israel
- Rev. Johnnie Moore is an author[1] and the Founder and CEO of The Kairos Company, a public relations and communications consulting firm.[2] He has served as an adviser to multiple presidential candidates. He was previously Chief of Staff and Vice President of Faith Content for Mark Burnett's United Artists Media Group. Moore began his career in higher education where he eventually served as Senior Vice President for Communications at Liberty University[3] and often served as Jerry Falwell's assistant during his travels.[4] He was also a professor of religion, and led the university's popular Convocations, which were North America's largest weekly gatherings of Christians students.Moore was Dr. Ben Carson's "special faith advisor," and Moore currently serves on the evangelical advisory board of Donald Trump. He stated he would have similarly served as an advisory to Sec. Hillary Clinton had he been asked.
From uk
- elizabeth arden
- Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, he published the Book of Mormon, and he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present by the time of his death 14 years later. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont. By 1817, he had moved with his family to the burned-over district of western New York, an area of intense religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. In 1831, Smith and his followers moved west, planning to build a communalistic American Zion. They first gathered in Kirtland, Ohio and established an outpost in Independence, Missouri which was intended to be Zion's "center place". During the 1830s, Smith sent out missionaries, published revelations, and supervised construction of the Kirtland Temple. The collapse of the church-sponsored Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company and violent skirmishes with non-Mormon Missourians caused Smith and his followers to establish a new settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he became a spiritual and political leader. In 1844, Smith and the Nauvoo city council angered non-Mormons by destroying a newspaper that had criticized Smith's power and practice of polygamy. Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois where he was killed when a mob stormed the jailhouse. Smith published many revelations and other texts that his followers regard as scripture. His teachings discuss the nature of God, cosmology, family structures, political organization, and religious collectivism. His followers regard him as a prophet comparable to Moses and Elijah, and several religious denominations consider themselves the continuation of the church that he organized, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Community of Christ.
- John Brendan Kelly Sr. (October 4, 1889 – June 20, 1960), also known as Jack Kelly, was one of the most accomplished American competitors in the history of the sport of rowing. He was a triple Olympic champion, the first to be so in the sport of rowing. The Philadelphia-based Kelly also was a multimillionaire in the bricklaying and construction industry. He was the father of actress Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco (thus maternal grandfather of Albert II, Prince of Monaco), and of John B. Kelly Jr., an accomplished rower in his own right who served as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.Kelly was born in Philadelphia, one of 10 children of Irish immigrants John Henry Kelly (1847–1897), who emigrated from Newport, County Mayo in 1869, and Mary Ann Costello (1852–1926), who arrived in the U.S. in 1867. He attended public schools and at night furthered his education at the Spring Garden Institute.
- James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal was a supporter of naval battle groups centered on aircraft carriers. In 1954, the world's first supercarrier was named USS Forrestalin his honor, as is the James V. Forrestal Building, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy. He is also the namesake of the Forrestal Lecture Series at the United States Naval Academy, which brings prominent military and civilian leaders to speak to the Brigade of Midshipmen, and of the James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey.Forrestal was born in Matteawan, New York, (now part of Beacon, New York), the youngest son of James Forrestal, an Irish immigrant who dabbled in politics. His mother, the former Mary Anne Toohey (herself the daughter of another Irish immigrant) raised him as a devout Roman Catholic.
- Katherine Noel Brosnahan (December 24, 1962 – June 5, 2018), known professionally as Katy Brosnahan, later Kate Spade and Kate Valentine,[1][2][3] was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.Spade was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of June (Mullen) and Earl Francis Brosnahan,[5] who owned a road construction company.[6] Her ancestry was mostly Irish.[5] After graduating from St. Teresa's Academy, an all-girl Catholic high school, she attended the University of Kansas. Later she transferred to Arizona State University, where she joined Kappa Kappa Gamma, and graduated with a journalism degree in 1985.After selling the remaining portion of her ownership stake in the Kate Spade brand in 2006,[4] Spade took time off to raise her daughter. In 2016, she and her business partners launched a new collection of luxury footwear and handbags under the brand name Frances Valentine.[20] The name Frances is a family name on Spade's paternal side; her daughter is named Frances, as were her grandfather, father, and brother. "Valentine" came from Spade's maternal side; it was her grandfather's middle name, given because he was born on Valentine's Day. In 2016, Spade legally changed her surname to Valentine.
- brett kavanaugh
from france
- huguenot
Of german descent
- Karl Gustav Pfizer (March 22, 1824 – October 19, 1906), known as Charles Pfizer, was a German-American chemist who founded, with his cousin and future brother-in-law Charles F. Erhart, the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co.
- donald trump
Iran related
- Valerie June Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is an American government official who is currently the Senior Advisor to thePresident of the United States and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration. She is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior to that she served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project.Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was an architect who was the first accredited African American architect, and the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz in 1956 as part of a program where American physicians and agricultural experts sought to help developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five years old, the family moved to London for a year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.
from italy
- Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stageactor[2] with a career spanning five decades. Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. Fonda's patrilineal line originates with an ancestor from Genoa, Italy, who migrated to the Netherlands in the 15th century.[4] In 1642, a branch of the Fonda family immigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland on the East Coast of North America.[4][5] They were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, New York.[4] By 1888, many of their descendants had relocated to Nebraska.[
greeks
- Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (Greek: Σπύρος Σκούρας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a GreekAmerican motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, but served as chairman of the company for several years. He also had numerous ships, owning Prudential Lines. Skouras and two brothers came to the United States as immigrants in 1910; Spyros kept such a pronounced Greek accent in English that comedian Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week."[citation needed] Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra(1963) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the development of Century City. His grandchildren include Charles P. Skouras III, a film and television executive. His great-granddaughter Marielle Skouras has produced more than 25 television shows and created Beverly Hills Pawn, a hit reality show on REELZchannel.
- [sound of music keepsake published by colorama] important in bring the film to production
- 法國巴黎市政府宣布，計劃將英國已故威爾斯王妃戴安娜車禍隧道的上蓋廣場，改名為「威爾斯王妃戴安娜廣場」。是次動議將於本月十一至十四日在首都議會表決。當地政府認為，發生車禍隧道上的廣場已持續吸引眾多巴黎市民和遊客前來，有意為它易名。廣場位於塞納河艾菲爾鐵塔附近的十六區阿爾瑪橋右岸，當地政府為了紀念美籍希臘女高音卡拉絲（Maria Callas），於一九九七年將廣場命名為卡拉絲廣場。但當地亦有紀念卡拉絲的道路，故當局萌生將廣場改名的念頭。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190601/00180_037.html
Hungarians
- george soros
- 索羅斯的 「開放社會基 金會」滲入香港辦課程，又推行中國計劃 ，企圖於兩地建立他的 「開放」社會。據 索羅斯的中國顧問梁恒於2012年著作《和 索羅斯一起走過的日子》，索羅斯早於 1989年已密謀內地設立 「中國改革與開放 基金會」，惟未能成功。2005年後，索羅 斯三度欲進軍內地投資皆失敗，包括曾籌 辦獨資的索羅斯金融學院，因當時中國法 規不准許獨資法人辦大學， 「中國索羅斯 大學」夢碎。索羅斯遂轉移投資方向，欲 染指內地媒體，一度與湖南衛視洽商，欲 於北京開展合作項目，到簽約階段功敗垂 成。書中再透露索羅斯第三次 「進軍」， 欲於內地搞私募基金，最後失敗告終。2010年，索羅斯的對沖基金公司 「索 羅斯基金管理（香港）有限公司」SFM HK Management在港成立分支，由兒子 Robert Daniel Soros坐鎮，多次赴內地考 察。去年初，SFM HK Management基金 資產管理只有九名持牌代表人，今年已增 至十二人。駐香港的索羅斯基金管理公司 「增兵」，加強關注及追蹤中國資金走向 ；持牌人Matthew Fong Apechai曾在twitter 留言 「來自中國的投資者，會如過去數年 進入商品市場般，投資於海外的高科技及 旅遊業。」
from eastern europe
- Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and utilize a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His parents were working-class Lemko[9][10] emigrants from Mikó (now called Miková), located in today's northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warhol's father emigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents. Warhol's father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.[11] The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.
armenian background
- Armen Albert Alchian (/ˈɑːltʃiən/; April 12, 1914 – February 19, 2013) was an Americaneconomist and professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
african american
- https://www.ft.com/content/b28e1ff2-07fd-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b
Raphael Bostic, a university professor and former housing official in the Obama administration, has been selected as the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, becoming the first African-American to head one of the Fed’s 12 regional banks.
pakistan related
- Shahid Khan (Urdu: شاہد خان; born July 18, 1950),[2][3] also known as Shad Khan, is a Pakistani-American billionaire and business tycoon. He is the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL), the English Football League Championship team Fulham F.C., and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate in Urbana, Illinois.Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a middle-class family who were involved in the construction industry.[7] His mother (now retired) was a professor of mathematics.[2]He moved to the United States in 1967 at age 16[2] to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Linked to asia
- ross coggins
- http://www.kalasfuneralhomes.com/book-of-memories/2521754/Coggins-Ross/obituary.php born and spent his formative years in Texas. A graduate of Baylor University and Southwestern Theological Seminary, he excelled in several careers – as a Minister, Missionary to Indonesia, Regional Director for the VISTA Office of Economic Opportunity, Department of State USAID Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (working in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean), and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Administrator. Having traveled to over 70 countries around the world, his life was proof in word and deed that one man really can make a difference. While managing USAID’s grant programs, he dedicated himself to providing food, medicine, education, infrastructure, water purification, job training and hope to countless underprivileged people. He also organized and managed the US Government’s Africa Emergency Office, facilitating disaster assistance during famine outbreaks in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Mozambique. He extended his commitment to humanitarian work into his retirement years while serving with CRS, coordinating assistance programs. Tolerance, compassion, and peace were Ross’ guiding principles. During the turbulent 1960’s, he fought against discrimination and even marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Seems to be linked with/influenced rural sustainability movement, his development set quoted by plenary speaker at hku international symposium of rural sustainability
Taiwan related
- Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economistwho is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University. He left Harvard in 1991, working as the Chief Economist at the World Bank from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentorRobert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin asSecretary of the Treasury. While working for the Clinton administration Summers played a leading role in the American response to the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the Russian financial crisis. He was also influential in the American advised privatization of the economies of the post-Soviet states, and in the deregulation of the U.S financial system, including the repeal of theGlass-Steagall Act.
- 二○一六年美国总统大选，地产商特朗普“逆袭”胜出。他就任后鸡飞狗跳，却激励了一位华裔民主党人宣布二○二○年参选。杨安泽 （Andrew Yang）的父母来自台湾，他一九七五年出生于纽约州北部，在布朗大学读了经济、政治学双学士，又从哥伦比亚大学获得法学博士（JD）。他对当律师没兴 趣，先后从业于网路公司、健保服务公司、补习教材公司，直至创办帮助二○○八年经济萧条中失业者再就业的非营利组织Venture for America。他的竞选口号是“人性至上”，主要政见包括：政府给十八至六十四岁的美国公民每月普遍发放一千美元的基本收入；全国採 用单一模式的健保制度，由政府直接支付公民所有医疗费用；在白宫设立心理医生；高薪养廉，总统年收入四百万美元，内阁成员与政府机构的高管可拿年薪一百 万；设立媒体监管员，惩罚散布假新闻、极端信息的媒体等。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180416/PDF/b5_screen.pdf
hk related
- alex wong
- 美國《台灣旅行法》登場後首名訪問台灣的美國官員－－國務院東亞暨太平洋事務局副助卿黃之瀚（Alex Wong），與香港有深厚淵源，來自香港移民家庭，懂得廣東話；而他曾批評前總統奧巴馬對中國大陸政策軟弱，外界視他為非溫和派。根據相關報道，黃之瀚1980年出生，父母親年幼時從廣東撤到香港，再移民到美國，黃之瀚聽得懂粵語。黃之瀚畢業於賓夕法尼亞州大學，之後取得哈佛法學院法律博士學位。他曾任美國國務院伊拉克法治顧問、參議員柯頓（Tom Cotton）的外交政策和法律顧問；在2012年美國總統大選中，黃之瀚為共和黨總統候選人羅姆尼競選團隊的外交與法律政策總監。https://china.hket.com/article/2034951/訪台美助卿黃之瀚%20來自港移民家庭懂粵語
- 汪胡杏仙 obitruary singtao 11aug17 a14
Musk family
- Kimbal Musk (born September 20, 1972) is a South African-born Canadian and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and environmentalist who has invested in several technology and food companies. He owns The Kitchen Cafe, LLC, a family of community restaurants located inBoulder, Fort Collins, Denver, Glendale, and Chicago. He co-founded The Kitchen Community, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings outdoor vegetable gardens called "Learning Gardens" to schoolyards and community spaces. He sits on the boards of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and Chipotle Mexican Grill. He is the younger brother of billionaire businessman Elon Musk.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cbbd31c2-d0f7-11e5-92a1-c5e23ef99c77.html
Kimbal Musk, farm-to-fork restaurateur, social entrepreneur and younger brother of Tesla founder Elon Musk, has begun a high-profile legal spat with celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck over the naming of his latest restaurant chain.
Elizabeth holmes
- hkej 14nov15 a20 china link
Wall street
- https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/pcb.466497996883309/466497203550055/?type=3&theater部設在達拉斯、由貝斯（Kyle Bass）創辦的海曼資本管理（Hayman Capital Management）已經出清在股票、商品和債券的投資，以便集中全力押注亞幣的貶值，對象包括人民幣和港元。據道瓊斯報道，貝斯相信，人民幣在一段時間內將會貶值40％。報道指出，海曼資本管理多年前曾做空美國房地產市場而獲利，這是多年之後該公司最大的一次賭注。《華爾街日報》報道，海曼資產目前大約有85％的投資組合將押注於預期人民幣和港元在未來3年將貶值的交易上，投資金額有數十億美元之鉅。Kyle Bass最為人知的一役，是在2007至2008年準確預測到美國次按風暴，向投行買入大量信用違約掉期，並在風暴爆發其間獲利。報道並引述Bass指出，「若問有關的規模，（今次）較次按危機（規模）更大。」
報道引述消息人士稱，除了海曼，身家數十億美元的交易商STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER，以及對沖基金經理DAVID TEPPER也已經對做空人民幣設定好投資水位。另外，DAVID EINHORN旗下的綠燈資本公司（GREENLIGHT CAPITAL INC.）也把人民幣貶值做為投資選項。
Women politician
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born June 28, 1947) is an American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.Tyson was born Laura D'Andrea in New Jersey Her father was Italian American and her mother was of Swedish and Dutch descent. Tyson graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Smith College in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.[3] She joined the faculty of the economics department at Princeton University in 1974 and remained in the position until 1977 when she became a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed a professor of business administration in 1990. She is married to writer Erik S. Tarloff and has one son, Elliot S. Tarloff. Her brother is Alan D'Andrea, an American cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. Her sister is Susan D'Andrea Lee, retired supervising examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York currently a policy advisor at the Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury, Washington DC.From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female Dean of London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was Dean of the Haas School of Business. She served in the Clinton Administration as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995. She was a spokesperson in favour of GATT, arguing with Sir James Goldsmith onCharlie Rose that American jobs will be increased by the trade agreement. Tyson was Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996. Tyson has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1987, a board director of Morgan Stanley since 1997, a board director of AT&T Inc. since 1999, a board director of Eastman Kodak and is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. In December, 2009 it was announced that Tyson will join CB Richard Ellis Board of Directors on March 4, 2010. Tyson also sits on the QFINANCE Strategic Advisory Board.
evangelist, sympathetic to israel
- Rev. Johnnie Moore is an author[1] and the Founder and CEO of The Kairos Company, a public relations and communications consulting firm.[2] He has served as an adviser to multiple presidential candidates. He was previously Chief of Staff and Vice President of Faith Content for Mark Burnett's United Artists Media Group. Moore began his career in higher education where he eventually served as Senior Vice President for Communications at Liberty University[3] and often served as Jerry Falwell's assistant during his travels.[4] He was also a professor of religion, and led the university's popular Convocations, which were North America's largest weekly gatherings of Christians students.Moore was Dr. Ben Carson's "special faith advisor," and Moore currently serves on the evangelical advisory board of Donald Trump. He stated he would have similarly served as an advisory to Sec. Hillary Clinton had he been asked.
From uk
- elizabeth arden
- From cornwall, rival with helena rubinstein
- Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, he published the Book of Mormon, and he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present by the time of his death 14 years later. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont. By 1817, he had moved with his family to the burned-over district of western New York, an area of intense religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. In 1831, Smith and his followers moved west, planning to build a communalistic American Zion. They first gathered in Kirtland, Ohio and established an outpost in Independence, Missouri which was intended to be Zion's "center place". During the 1830s, Smith sent out missionaries, published revelations, and supervised construction of the Kirtland Temple. The collapse of the church-sponsored Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company and violent skirmishes with non-Mormon Missourians caused Smith and his followers to establish a new settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he became a spiritual and political leader. In 1844, Smith and the Nauvoo city council angered non-Mormons by destroying a newspaper that had criticized Smith's power and practice of polygamy. Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois where he was killed when a mob stormed the jailhouse. Smith published many revelations and other texts that his followers regard as scripture. His teachings discuss the nature of God, cosmology, family structures, political organization, and religious collectivism. His followers regard him as a prophet comparable to Moses and Elijah, and several religious denominations consider themselves the continuation of the church that he organized, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Community of Christ.
- John Brendan Kelly Sr. (October 4, 1889 – June 20, 1960), also known as Jack Kelly, was one of the most accomplished American competitors in the history of the sport of rowing. He was a triple Olympic champion, the first to be so in the sport of rowing. The Philadelphia-based Kelly also was a multimillionaire in the bricklaying and construction industry. He was the father of actress Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco (thus maternal grandfather of Albert II, Prince of Monaco), and of John B. Kelly Jr., an accomplished rower in his own right who served as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.Kelly was born in Philadelphia, one of 10 children of Irish immigrants John Henry Kelly (1847–1897), who emigrated from Newport, County Mayo in 1869, and Mary Ann Costello (1852–1926), who arrived in the U.S. in 1867. He attended public schools and at night furthered his education at the Spring Garden Institute.
- James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal was a supporter of naval battle groups centered on aircraft carriers. In 1954, the world's first supercarrier was named USS Forrestalin his honor, as is the James V. Forrestal Building, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy. He is also the namesake of the Forrestal Lecture Series at the United States Naval Academy, which brings prominent military and civilian leaders to speak to the Brigade of Midshipmen, and of the James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey.Forrestal was born in Matteawan, New York, (now part of Beacon, New York), the youngest son of James Forrestal, an Irish immigrant who dabbled in politics. His mother, the former Mary Anne Toohey (herself the daughter of another Irish immigrant) raised him as a devout Roman Catholic.
- Katherine Noel Brosnahan (December 24, 1962 – June 5, 2018), known professionally as Katy Brosnahan, later Kate Spade and Kate Valentine,[1][2][3] was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.Spade was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of June (Mullen) and Earl Francis Brosnahan,[5] who owned a road construction company.[6] Her ancestry was mostly Irish.[5] After graduating from St. Teresa's Academy, an all-girl Catholic high school, she attended the University of Kansas. Later she transferred to Arizona State University, where she joined Kappa Kappa Gamma, and graduated with a journalism degree in 1985.After selling the remaining portion of her ownership stake in the Kate Spade brand in 2006,[4] Spade took time off to raise her daughter. In 2016, she and her business partners launched a new collection of luxury footwear and handbags under the brand name Frances Valentine.[20] The name Frances is a family name on Spade's paternal side; her daughter is named Frances, as were her grandfather, father, and brother. "Valentine" came from Spade's maternal side; it was her grandfather's middle name, given because he was born on Valentine's Day. In 2016, Spade legally changed her surname to Valentine.
- brett kavanaugh
from france
- huguenot
- Mareen Duvall (1625–1699)[1] was a French Huguenot and an early American settler. He was born Marin Duval, at Nantes, France in 1625 and arrived in the Province of Maryland on August 28, 1650. He eventually received a patent from the first proprietors of the Maryland Colony, the Calvert family for La Val, possibly named after his family's estate in the County of Laval. an independent county created in the 15th century. This property was on the south side the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He became quite prosperous and his Middle Plantation in Davidsonville, Maryland and La Val were "as luxurious and courtly as any of the manors of the English gentry." He died in 1699 and his third and final wife, Mary Stanton, administered his substantial estate.[2][4] Duvall had purchased sizeable tracts of land, including Catton,later known as Belair[5] as well as owning Middle Plantation in Davidsonville, Maryland. Combined, he owned several thousand acres in Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties.[2] It is believed that the original house called Middle Plantation was located somewhere along Rutland Road. In 1705, his son, John Duvall and his wife Mary deeded land to Queen Anne Parish to construct St. Barnabas Church.[2] Mareen Duvall's widow, Mary went on to marry Colonel Henry Ridgley (1635-1710) and later after his death, Reverend Jacob Henderson.In genealogies, he is often called "The Emigrant" to distinguish him from several descendants also named Mareen Duvall.[6] His notable descendants include U.S. Presidents John Tyler, Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama, American Vice-President Dick Cheney,[6][7][8] Wallis Simpson (for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne), and actor Robert Duvall. Other descendants include U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Duvall, billionaire Warren Buffett, Confederate General Bradley Tyler Johnson,[9] and Confederate spy Betty Duvall.
- hkej 21feb19 shum article on dick cheney
- Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806 – February 1, 1873) was an American astronomer, United States Navy officer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator. He was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology" and later, "Scientist of the Seas" for his extensive works in his books, especially The Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), the first such extensive and comprehensive book on oceanography to be published. Maury made many important new contributions to charting winds and ocean currents, including ocean lanes for passing ships at sea. Maury was a descendant of the Maury family, a prominent Virginia family of Huguenot ancestry that can be traced back to 15th-century France. His grandfather (the Reverend James Maury) was an inspiring teacher to a future US president, Thomas Jefferson. Maury also had Dutch-American ancestry from the "Minor" family of early Virginia. He was born in 1806 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg; his parents were Richard Maury and Diane Minor Maury. The family moved to Franklin, Tennessee, when he was five.
Of german descent
- Karl Gustav Pfizer (March 22, 1824 – October 19, 1906), known as Charles Pfizer, was a German-American chemist who founded, with his cousin and future brother-in-law Charles F. Erhart, the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co.
- donald trump
- http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21692909-how-german-heritage-he-has-hidden-shaped-donald-trump-kallstadts-king Mr Trump is descended from German immigrants who arrived in America penniless and succeeded quickly through hard work, a free relationship with the truth, opportunism, shrewd business tactics and a great sense of family loyalty. Fred Trump, Donald’s father, who was a strict taskmaster with all his five children, told his three sons to be “killers”. Fred Trump’s father, Friedrich Trump, came to America in 1885 as a 16-year-old from Kallstadt, a village in Rhineland-Palatinate, a region known for wine and stuffed pig’s stomach. After working for a few years as a barber in New York, he headed west and opened a restaurant in a mining town in Washington state where workmen were treated to hearty food, liquor and assignations with women in the back rooms of the establishment. Having amassed a nest-egg, Friedrich returned to Kallstadt to marry Elisabeth Christ, the girl next door, whom he took with him to America. Elisabeth was homesick, so they soon went back to Germany. Yet the authorities refused to let them repatriate because they said Friedrich, who was an American citizen by then, had dodged his military service. The young Trumps were thus forced to emigrate to America. In 1905 their first son, Fred, was born in New York.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160314/00180_004.html 雖然美國共和黨總統提名戰參選人特朗普曾多次批評中國，媒體卻揭發他與華裔商人關係密切。在中國有龐大商業集團的泰國華僑富商嚴彬及其女兒沃攀德，早前便曾到紐約與特朗普會面。英國《每日電訊報》報道，廿五歲的嚴彬女兒沃攀德（Woraphanit Ruayrungruang，音譯），今年一月曾在社交網站上載和特朗普並肩站立的照片，特朗普還豎起大拇指，狀甚友好。相中的沃攀德還手持一張兩父女與特朗普的合照。據悉，嚴彬父女當時是到紐約特朗普大樓與對方會面，顯示他們私交甚篤。嚴彬一九五四年出生於山東，八十年代赴泰國創業，建立華彬集團，主要業務如紅牛維他命飲料有限公司等是在中國營運。
- https://www.scottishroots.com/people/donald.php Donald Trump is the son of a Scotswoman. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod was from the hebridean Island of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland, from where she emigrated to America and met and married Frederick Trump, of German origin. At that time, MacLeod was the most common surname in the island and is well represented there to this day.
- Scmp 15oct16 links with hk
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161110/00176_041.html 曾有報道指他與中國商界有一定聯繫。媒體過往曾揭發，至少有八間以特朗普姓名命名的公司與中國企業有合作關係，而特朗普財務系統中，貸款方傳聞包括中國其中一家銀行。特朗普另被指與一名在中國有龐大商業集團的泰國華裔商人關係密切。法新社上月引述消息稱，特朗普○六年起謀求在中國做生意，○八年曾與中國恒大集團合作。特朗普酒店集團前年與中國國家電網合作，在北京投資豪華住宅和酒店，但最終項目被凍結。英國《每日電訊報》曾報道，泰國華僑富商嚴彬的女兒沃攀德（Woraphanit Ruayrungruang，音譯），今年一月在社交網站上載和特朗普合照，特朗普豎起大拇指示好，而沃攀德則手持一張兩父女與特朗普的合照。資料顯示，一九五四年出生於山東的嚴彬，八十年代赴泰國創業，建立華彬集團。不過，他的主要業務如紅牛維他命飲料有限公司等，是在中國營運。嚴彬的生意還包括物業、旅遊、貿易等。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161110/00176_049.html特朗普早在一九九四年美國地產市場崩潰時債台高築，面臨破產危機，邀請香港富豪注資，一同開發位於曼哈頓的項目Riverside South，剛好鄭家純、羅康瑞等有意投資美國房地產，特朗普遂專程飛到香港與鄭家純、羅康瑞二人會面，期間曾一齊打高爾夫球，又造訪鄭裕彤家與彤叔一同用膳。在這頓飯之後，他們便合作做生意，特朗普為遷就鄭家純和羅康瑞，還放棄了在項目中採用自己最喜歡的大理石和金色裝飾。但到二○○五年，鄭家純和羅康瑞出售項目，特朗普認為他們賤賣了資產，在美國興訟與鄭家純等對簿公堂，但特朗普最終被判敗訴，彼此不歡而散。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20161125/00202_021.html 話說九四年特朗普陷入財困，四出搵好友支持佢喺曼哈頓上城區商業地皮發展計劃，最終搵到遠東發展有份嘅財團。點知到○五年，特朗普入稟美國法院，控告財團賤賣上城區項目，要求分紅以外嘅額外補償。最終官司打咗一年，法院判特朗普敗訴，冇得賠。
- http://www.economist.com/news/business/21710314-even-miners-are-pooh-poohing-post-election-metals-rally-vein-hope DONALD TRUMP’S grandfather, Fred, got his start in the hotel industry at the turn of the 20th century supplying rooms, food, booze and female company to prospectors flocking to north-western Canada in the so-called Klondike gold rush. http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161123/00180_015.html 德國《圖片報》圖文並茂報道，特朗普的祖父弗里德里希‧特朗普因為無服兵役，而被德國遞解出境。他於一九○五年寫信予巴伐利亞盧伊特波爾德王子求情，在信中讚揚盧伊特波爾德是深受愛戴、高貴、睿智又公正的領袖，乞求對方不要遞解他。可惜，縱使落足鞋油「擦鞋」，盧伊特波爾德仍拒絕了其請求。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170215/00180_014.html美國總統特朗普去年十一月當選後，一樁他在中國纏訟了數十年的商標官司隨即獲判勝訴，令旗下商業王國獲利不少。但這同時惹來道德爭議，指他涉嫌違反憲法，收受中國利益。有官員直斥特朗普的做法非常不合適。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170317/00180_015.html美國華裔女商人陳曉燕（Angela Chen）早前斥資一千五百八十萬美元（約一億二千萬港元），購下美國總統特朗普公司名下一間頂層公寓。英國傳媒指稱，陳曉燕旗下基金會與中國已故領導人鄧小平之女鄧榕有關聯，而鄧榕執掌的中方組織疑與情報機關有聯繫，質疑是「中國間諜買下特朗普物業」。中國藝術基金會與CAIFC有關係的消息傳出後，前者的網頁已被刪除。特朗普集團及白宮未有回應報道。
- ivanka trump
- Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka was a trustee for a large bloc of shares in 21st Century Fox and News Corp that belongs to Rupert Murdoch’s two youngest daughters, underscoring the close ties between the US president’s family and the mogul behind the Fox News Channel. https://www.ft.com/content/a615f0ce-ed90-11e6-930f-061b01e23655
- Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal-welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her first hit recording being "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. After leaving Brown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio,[5] the daughter of Alma Sophia (née Welz; 1895–1976), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff (1892–1967), a music teacher and choir master.[6][7] All of her grandparents were German immigrants.[8] For most of her life, Day reportedly believed she had been born in 1924 and reported her age accordingly; it was not until her 95th birthday — when the Associated Press found her birth certificate, showing a 1922 date of birth — that she learned otherwise.
- Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. Thiel was born in Frankfurt, and holds German citizenship. He moved with his family to the United States as an infant, and spent a portion of his upbringing in Africa before returning to the United States. He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a B.A. in 1989. He then went on to the Stanford Law School, and received his J.D. in 1992. After graduation, he worked as a judicial clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former-U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse prior to founding Thiel Capital in 1996. He then co-founded PayPal in 1999, and served as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
- famous songs - que sera sera
- Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. Thiel was born in Frankfurt, and holds German citizenship. He moved with his family to the United States as an infant, and spent a portion of his upbringing in Africa before returning to the United States. He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a B.A. in 1989. He then went on to the Stanford Law School, and received his J.D. in 1992. After graduation, he worked as a judicial clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former-U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse prior to founding Thiel Capital in 1996. He then co-founded PayPal in 1999, and served as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
- 彼得蒂爾（Peter Thiel）眼光獨到，旗下創投基金早於二○一二年開始投資比特幣（Bitcoin），當年約2,000萬美元的比特幣，已升值至數億美元。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20180104/00202_018.html
from former east germany
- Rüdiger Frank (born in 1969) is a German economist and internationally renowned expert on North Korea and East Asia. He currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria, as a tenured full professor of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna. Frank also serves as the Head of the Department of East Asian Studies in Vienna and is an adjunct professor at Korea University and at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. Born and raised in East Germany and the Soviet Union, and having spent one semester as a language student at Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang in 1991/1992, Frank is one of very few experts on North Korea who have lived in and experienced German, Soviet, and North Korean socialist systems for a substantial period of time.Frank is regularly consulted by governments, media, and business on North Korea and East Asia. This included consultancy work and a background policy paper for the visit by President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and President of Ireland Mary Robinson to the Korean Peninsula and China.
of italian origin
- Michael Richard "Mike" Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party. Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace.[] In 2006 he sold his interest in Thayer (which was renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace). He became the President of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company. Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (née Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo. He is of Italian ancestry. His paternal grandmother was born in Caramanico Terme.In 1998, along with other West Point alumni, Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace and Private Security, which received a 2% investment from Koch Industries. In 2006, he sold his interest in Thayer, which was renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace, and became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company, which was also a partner with Koch Industries. On March 13, 2018, Trump announced his intention to nominate Pompeo as the new United States Secretary of State, succeeding Rex Tillerson after March 31, 2018.
- Rüdiger Frank (born in 1969) is a German economist and internationally renowned expert on North Korea and East Asia. He currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria, as a tenured full professor of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna. Frank also serves as the Head of the Department of East Asian Studies in Vienna and is an adjunct professor at Korea University and at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. Born and raised in East Germany and the Soviet Union, and having spent one semester as a language student at Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang in 1991/1992, Frank is one of very few experts on North Korea who have lived in and experienced German, Soviet, and North Korean socialist systems for a substantial period of time.Frank is regularly consulted by governments, media, and business on North Korea and East Asia. This included consultancy work and a background policy paper for the visit by President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and President of Ireland Mary Robinson to the Korean Peninsula and China.
- hkej monthly jul18 issue commented that n korea could be 亞洲新小龍
of italian origin
- Michael Richard "Mike" Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party. Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace.[] In 2006 he sold his interest in Thayer (which was renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace). He became the President of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company. Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (née Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo. He is of Italian ancestry. His paternal grandmother was born in Caramanico Terme.In 1998, along with other West Point alumni, Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace and Private Security, which received a 2% investment from Koch Industries. In 2006, he sold his interest in Thayer, which was renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace, and became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company, which was also a partner with Koch Industries. On March 13, 2018, Trump announced his intention to nominate Pompeo as the new United States Secretary of State, succeeding Rex Tillerson after March 31, 2018.
- hkej 17jan18 shum article
east european
- Milan Mandarić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Мандарић; born 5 September 1938) is a Serbian-American business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and association football clubs, including Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday. He is currently the owner of Slovenian club NK Olimpija Ljubljana. He was born near Gospić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (today Croatia), on 5 September 1938, and grew up in Novi Sad, Serbia. In 1969, worried by the Yugoslav government's view of his business, Mandarić left Yugoslavia and settled in the United States. He had to leave most of his fortune behind, and got a job for an American computer component manufacturer in California. When two of the senior managers left to start their own firm, Mandarić was invited to be their third partner. The firm was successful, but disagreements over manufacturing processes led to Mandarić leaving to form his own company, Lika Corporation, in 1971. In 1976, he became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. By 1976, Lika Corp. was the largest manufacturer of computer components in the U.S., and Mandarić was pioneering the boom that led to the creation of California's Silicon Valley.[2] He sold the company to the Tandy Corporation in 1980 and set up a new company, Sanmina, which manufactured printed circuit boards. In 2001, the company acquired SCI Systems] a much larger competitor, becoming Sanmina-SCI Corporation. Mandarić also began branching out into investment banking operations, such as Behrman Capital.
Of hungarian origin- Milan Mandarić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Мандарић; born 5 September 1938) is a Serbian-American business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and association football clubs, including Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday. He is currently the owner of Slovenian club NK Olimpija Ljubljana. He was born near Gospić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (today Croatia), on 5 September 1938, and grew up in Novi Sad, Serbia. In 1969, worried by the Yugoslav government's view of his business, Mandarić left Yugoslavia and settled in the United States. He had to leave most of his fortune behind, and got a job for an American computer component manufacturer in California. When two of the senior managers left to start their own firm, Mandarić was invited to be their third partner. The firm was successful, but disagreements over manufacturing processes led to Mandarić leaving to form his own company, Lika Corporation, in 1971. In 1976, he became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. By 1976, Lika Corp. was the largest manufacturer of computer components in the U.S., and Mandarić was pioneering the boom that led to the creation of California's Silicon Valley.[2] He sold the company to the Tandy Corporation in 1980 and set up a new company, Sanmina, which manufactured printed circuit boards. In 2001, the company acquired SCI Systems] a much larger competitor, becoming Sanmina-SCI Corporation. Mandarić also began branching out into investment banking operations, such as Behrman Capital.
- Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grove (bornAndrás István Gróf; 2 September 1936 – 21 March 2016) was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a science pioneer in thesemiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He was one of the founders and the CEO of Intel Corporation, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors. As a result of his work at Intel, along with his books and professional articles, Grove had a considerable influence on the management of modern electronics manufacturing industries worldwide. He has been called the "guy who drove the growth phase" of Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs, when he was considering returning to be Apple's CEO, called Grove, who was someone he "idolized," for his personal advice. In 1997 Time magazine chose him "Man of the Year", for being "the person most responsible for the amazing growth in the power and the innovative potential of microchips.". One source notes that by his accomplishments at Intel alone, he "merits a place alongside the great business leaders of the 20th century."
from cuba
- Marco Antonio Rubio (/ˈruːbioʊ/; born May 28, 1971) is an American politician, attorney, and the junior United States Senator for Florida. A Republican Party member, he was previously Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Rubio is a Cuban American from Miami, with a B.A. from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law.
- Andrew Hevia is a Cuban American filmmaker from Miami, Florida.He holds a Master's Degree in Media Entrepreneurship from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong.
arab linked
- Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg (April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951), was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and practiced vegetarianism as a dietary principle taught by his church. Later, he founded the Kellogg Arabian Ranch and made it into a renowned establishment for the breeding of Arabian horses. Kellogg started the Kellogg Foundation in 1934 with $66 million in Kellogg company stock and investments.
- Alex Michael Azar II (/ˈeɪzər/ born June 17, 1967) is a former government official and is the current nominee for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, after being selected by President Donald Trump on November 13, 2017. He was formerly the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007.[1] From 2012 to 2017, Azar was President of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly and Company, a major pharmaceutical drug company, and was a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby. Azar was born on June 17, 1967 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He attended Parkside High School in Salisbury, Maryland from 1981-1985. He received a B.A. degree summa cum laude with highest honors in government and economics from Dartmouth College in 1988, where he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He earned a J.D. degree at the Yale Law School in 1991, where he served as a member of the executive committee of the Yale Law Journal.[2] His father, also named Alex Azar, is a retired doctor of ophthalmology and teacher at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His grandfather emigrated from Lebanon in the early 20th century.
japanese
- Harry Binkley Harris Jr. (born August 4, 1956) is an Admiral in the United States Navy who currently serves as the 24th Commander, United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). He is the first Asian-American to achieve the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and the highest-ranking Japanese American.[3][4] He is also the first 4-star admiral to have participated in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC)[5] and the first officer from the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime patrol aviation community to achieve 4-star rank. He was Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii from 2013–2015.[6] While a Vice Admiral, he served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Harris' prior operational command was in 2011, when he was commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. He is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Harris is the U.S. Navy's current "Old Goat" – the longest-serving Naval Academy graduate on active duty. He is also the Navy's current "Gray Owl" – the Naval Flight Officer on active duty who has held this designation the longest period. Harris took command of USPACOM on May 27, 2015.[3][8] On February 9, 2018, Donald Trump announced Harris as the U.S ambassador to Australia.He was born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1956.[9][4] His father was a U.S. Navy chief petty officer and his mother was Japanese. After his family's move to the United States, Harris grew up in Crossville, Tennessee and Pensacola, Florida, where he attended local public schools.
korea linked
- Walton Harris Walker (December 3, 1889 – December 23, 1950) was a United States Army four-star general who served as a commander in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, where he commanded the Eighth United States Army before dying in a jeep accident. He received two Distinguished Service Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II and the Korean War.Walker was born in Belton, Texas, on December 3, 1889. His parents, Sam and Lydia Walker were both college graduates whose fathers had been officers in the Confederate Army. His father, a merchant, taught him how to ride a horse and to hunt and shoot. He graduated from the Wedemeyer Academy, a school which operated in Belton from 1886 to 1911. From a young age, he desired to go to West Point and hoped to be a general.Walker was killed in a traffic accident on December 23, 1950, near Uijeongbu, South Korea, when his north-bound command jeep collided with a south-bound weapons carrier from a South Korean army division that had swung out of its lane.[18] His body was escorted back to the United States by his son Sam Sims Walker, then a battalion commander with the 19th Infantry Regiment, who was also serving in Korea. On January 2, 1951, he was posthumously promoted to full general[19] and his body was interred in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery.Promoted posthumously to 4-star General, Walker's memory was much honored in the years immediately following the Korean War. The Army chose his name (and his other nickname), for its next light tank, the M41 Walker Bulldog. The M41 Tank was already nicknamed the Little Bulldog before Gen. Walker's death. The Army dropped the word Little and retained the name Bulldog as part of the new nickname for the M41 Tank. In Dallas, Texas, the western segment of Texas State Highway Loop 12 was named after him (the portion going through neighboring Irving, Texas continues the naming convention). One of the largest Armed Forces Recreation Center's hotels, the General Walker Hotel in Berchtesgaden (now demolished), was also named in his honor. Camp Walker in Daegu, South Korea, is named in his honor. In 1963, South Korea President Park Chung-hee honored Walker by naming a hill in the southern part of Seoul after him. Today, Walker Hill is the site of the Sheraton Walker Hill, a five-star international resort and hotel. Also, Walker Hill Apartment is located in Gwangjin-gu. In December 2009, the mayor of Dobong-gu district, Choi Sun-Kil, unveiled the Walton Harris Walker monument to mark the site of his death. The memorial, which is near Dobong subway Station, pays tribute to Walker and to all those who defended South Korea in the Korean War. Walker Intermediate School which is located on the Ft. Knox Army Garrison, was named after Walker and opened in 1962.[22] His picture hangs in the school lobby.
koreans
- Joseph Yuosang Yun (born 1954) is the United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy and, concurrently, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan in the US State Department. He was appointed October 17, 2016. His previous assignment was as the United States Ambassador to Malaysia, nominated by President Barack Obama on July 23, 2013 and confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and from 2010 to 2011 as Deputy Assistant Secretary.[3] His overseas postings include the Republic of Korea, Thailand, France, Indonesia and Hong Kong. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor.Born in Seoul, South Korea, Yun left Korea for Nigeria in 1964 at the age of 10, following his father, Dr. Suk Woo Yun, who was a doctor with the World Health Organization. Yun was educated from middle school on in the United Kingdom, earning his bachelor's degree from Cardiff University in 1976, and Master of Science (1977) and Master of Philosophy (1981) degrees from the London School of Economics. He met his wife, Melanie Billings-Yun, at LSE and they were married in 1977. They have one son, Matthew Yun. Before joining the Foreign Service, Yun was a senior economist for Data Resources, Inc., in Lexington, Massachusetts.
-Victor D. Cha (born December 8, 1959) is an American academic, author and former national foreign policy advisor.He is a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.[1] He was George W. Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs.[2] He currently holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and is the Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Cha is also senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Company
- mbna
- burt's bees
Journalists
- brian williams
Asian Politicians
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145624/asian-americans-join-politics-rise-against-donald Dozens of Asian-Americans are running for federal office in the US as Democratic candidates, deliberately playing up their Asian roots in a battle against President Donald Trump, who they say demonises the immigrants who make America great.
- 劉雲平Ted W. Lieu (/luː/; born March 29, 1969) is an American politician and US Air Force Reserve colonel, currently serving as the US Representative for California's 33rd congressional district, since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was California State Senator representing the 28th Senate district from February 2011 to November 2014, after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Senator Jenny Oropeza. Lieu was also a California State Assemblyman, representing the 53rd Assembly district from September 2005 to November 2010 after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Assemblyman Mike Gordon. Lieu actively served in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1995 to 1999 and since 2000 has served in the reserve with his current rank of colonel upon his promotion in December 2015. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Lieu Assistant Whip of the 115th Congress starting in 2017.
- candidates of city government elections
- 熊玠
Asian Women in Government
-Tina Tchen 陳遠美 Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
- Jane Chu http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1532198/jane-chu-head-us-national-endowment-arts
- elaine chao 趙 小 蘭 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
Gerald Tsai http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akJQeQcWrgCY
Linda Chen
- Linda Chen: Building a multi-billion dollar 'Las Vegas of the east'
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/business/linda-chen-building-a-multi-billion-dollar/index.html
Robert Wang
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1592008/hong-kongs-graft-busters-model-asia-pacific-says-us-official
- Marco Antonio Rubio (/ˈruːbioʊ/; born May 28, 1971) is an American politician, attorney, and the junior United States Senator for Florida. A Republican Party member, he was previously Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Rubio is a Cuban American from Miami, with a B.A. from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law.
- hkej 6feb18 shum article
- Andrew Hevia is a Cuban American filmmaker from Miami, Florida.He holds a Master's Degree in Media Entrepreneurship from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong.
arab linked
- Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg (April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951), was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and practiced vegetarianism as a dietary principle taught by his church. Later, he founded the Kellogg Arabian Ranch and made it into a renowned establishment for the breeding of Arabian horses. Kellogg started the Kellogg Foundation in 1934 with $66 million in Kellogg company stock and investments.
- Kellogg had a longtime interest in Arabian horses. In 1925, he purchased 377 acres (1.5 km2) for $250,000 in Pomona, California, to establish an Arabian horse ranch. Starting with breeding stock descended from the imports of Homer Davenport and W.R. Brown, Kellogg then looked to England, where he purchased a significant number of horses from the Crabbet Arabian Stud, making multiple importations during the 1920s. The Kellogg ranch became well known in southern California not only for itshorse breeding program but also for its entertaining, weekly horse exhibitions, open to the public and frequently visited by assorted Hollywood celebrities. Among many other connections to Hollywood, the actor Rudolph Valentino borrowed the Kellogg stallion, "Jadaan," for use in his 1926 movie, Son of the Sheik,[9] along with a Kellogg employee, Carl Raswan, who rode in certain scenes as Valentino's stunt double. In 1932, Kellogg donated the ranch, which had grown to 750 acres (3 km²), to the University of California. During World War II, the ranch was taken over by the U.S. War Department and was known as the Pomona Quartermaster Depot (Remount). In 1933, the ranch obtained some of the horses sold in the dispersal of Brown's Maynesboro stud. In 1948, the ranch was transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and in 1949, the land was deeded to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Later in 1949, title to the then 813-acre (3.3 km2) ranch and horses was passed to the State of California, with the provision that the herd of Arabian horses must be maintained. The ranch became part of the Voorhis unit of what was then known as the California Polytechnic State College in San Luis Obispo. This became known as the Kellogg Campus, and in 1966, it was separated to form California State Polytechnic College Pomona (now California State Polytechnic University, Pomona). The ranch was also the location of the W.K. Kellogg Airport (not to be confused with the W. K. Kellogg Airport in Battle Creek, Michigan). It operated from 1928 to 1932, and was then the largest privately owned airport in the country.
- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan, who ran a sanitarium usingholistic methods. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism for health, and the Battle Creek Sanitarium emphasized nutrition, enemas, and exercise. Many of the vegetarian foods that Kellogg offered his patients were marketed: Kellogg is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg led in the establishment of the American Medical Missionary College. The College, founded in 1895, operated until 1910 when it merged withIllinois State University.John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent rights, he had to once again change the name to Corn Flakes.Kellogg invented a method for making peanut butter,[24] developed the first acidophilus soy milk,[25] and developed imitation meats variously made from nuts, grains, and soy. Kellogg also sold yogurt, soy flour, and soy bread.
- Alex Michael Azar II (/ˈeɪzər/ born June 17, 1967) is a former government official and is the current nominee for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, after being selected by President Donald Trump on November 13, 2017. He was formerly the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007.[1] From 2012 to 2017, Azar was President of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly and Company, a major pharmaceutical drug company, and was a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby. Azar was born on June 17, 1967 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He attended Parkside High School in Salisbury, Maryland from 1981-1985. He received a B.A. degree summa cum laude with highest honors in government and economics from Dartmouth College in 1988, where he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He earned a J.D. degree at the Yale Law School in 1991, where he served as a member of the executive committee of the Yale Law Journal.[2] His father, also named Alex Azar, is a retired doctor of ophthalmology and teacher at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His grandfather emigrated from Lebanon in the early 20th century.
japanese
- Harry Binkley Harris Jr. (born August 4, 1956) is an Admiral in the United States Navy who currently serves as the 24th Commander, United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). He is the first Asian-American to achieve the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and the highest-ranking Japanese American.[3][4] He is also the first 4-star admiral to have participated in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC)[5] and the first officer from the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime patrol aviation community to achieve 4-star rank. He was Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii from 2013–2015.[6] While a Vice Admiral, he served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Harris' prior operational command was in 2011, when he was commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. He is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Harris is the U.S. Navy's current "Old Goat" – the longest-serving Naval Academy graduate on active duty. He is also the Navy's current "Gray Owl" – the Naval Flight Officer on active duty who has held this designation the longest period. Harris took command of USPACOM on May 27, 2015.[3][8] On February 9, 2018, Donald Trump announced Harris as the U.S ambassador to Australia.He was born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1956.[9][4] His father was a U.S. Navy chief petty officer and his mother was Japanese. After his family's move to the United States, Harris grew up in Crossville, Tennessee and Pensacola, Florida, where he attended local public schools.
- 哈里斯多次發表對華強硬的言論，曾以「沙長城」形容中國在南海建設的島嶼，影響區內航行自由，更斥中國在區內是「破壞力量」及「信任赤字」的國家。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180211/00180_011.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-southkorea-harris/trump-administration-plans-to-nominate-harry-harris-as-south-korea-envoy-idUSKBN1HV2OI The Trump administration plans to nominate Admiral Harry Harris, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command already nominated to be the next U.S. ambassador to Australia, to fill the long-vacant post of ambassador to South Korea instead, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
- Paul Miki Nakasone (born November 19, 1963)[3] is a four-star general in the United States Army who currently serves as the third commander of the United States Cyber Command and the first commander of the same as a unified combatant command. He is also Chief of the Central Security Service and director of the National Security Agency.[4][5] Previously, he was a senior officer in the United States Army and the commander of the United States Army Cyber Command.[6][7] Nakasone was also the commander of the United States Second Army prior to its inactivation on March 31, 2017.[8] He took command of the Second Army and Cyber Command on October 14, 2016, from Lieutenant General Edward C. Cardon.[7] On February 13, 2018, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as head of the National Security Agency, the Central Security Service and the U.S. Cyber Command. He assumed his current assignment on May 4, 2018.
- http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/2143205/australia-feeling-second-class-ally-after-us-redirects
- Nakasone was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Edwin M. Nakasone, a retired Army Colonel who served in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II, and Mary Anne Nakasone (née Costello).[2][3][9][10] Nakasone's father is a second-generation Japanese American.
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- Walton Harris Walker (December 3, 1889 – December 23, 1950) was a United States Army four-star general who served as a commander in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, where he commanded the Eighth United States Army before dying in a jeep accident. He received two Distinguished Service Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II and the Korean War.Walker was born in Belton, Texas, on December 3, 1889. His parents, Sam and Lydia Walker were both college graduates whose fathers had been officers in the Confederate Army. His father, a merchant, taught him how to ride a horse and to hunt and shoot. He graduated from the Wedemeyer Academy, a school which operated in Belton from 1886 to 1911. From a young age, he desired to go to West Point and hoped to be a general.Walker was killed in a traffic accident on December 23, 1950, near Uijeongbu, South Korea, when his north-bound command jeep collided with a south-bound weapons carrier from a South Korean army division that had swung out of its lane.[18] His body was escorted back to the United States by his son Sam Sims Walker, then a battalion commander with the 19th Infantry Regiment, who was also serving in Korea. On January 2, 1951, he was posthumously promoted to full general[19] and his body was interred in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery.Promoted posthumously to 4-star General, Walker's memory was much honored in the years immediately following the Korean War. The Army chose his name (and his other nickname), for its next light tank, the M41 Walker Bulldog. The M41 Tank was already nicknamed the Little Bulldog before Gen. Walker's death. The Army dropped the word Little and retained the name Bulldog as part of the new nickname for the M41 Tank. In Dallas, Texas, the western segment of Texas State Highway Loop 12 was named after him (the portion going through neighboring Irving, Texas continues the naming convention). One of the largest Armed Forces Recreation Center's hotels, the General Walker Hotel in Berchtesgaden (now demolished), was also named in his honor. Camp Walker in Daegu, South Korea, is named in his honor. In 1963, South Korea President Park Chung-hee honored Walker by naming a hill in the southern part of Seoul after him. Today, Walker Hill is the site of the Sheraton Walker Hill, a five-star international resort and hotel. Also, Walker Hill Apartment is located in Gwangjin-gu. In December 2009, the mayor of Dobong-gu district, Choi Sun-Kil, unveiled the Walton Harris Walker monument to mark the site of his death. The memorial, which is near Dobong subway Station, pays tribute to Walker and to all those who defended South Korea in the Korean War. Walker Intermediate School which is located on the Ft. Knox Army Garrison, was named after Walker and opened in 1962.[22] His picture hangs in the school lobby.
koreans
- Joseph Yuosang Yun (born 1954) is the United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy and, concurrently, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan in the US State Department. He was appointed October 17, 2016. His previous assignment was as the United States Ambassador to Malaysia, nominated by President Barack Obama on July 23, 2013 and confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and from 2010 to 2011 as Deputy Assistant Secretary.[3] His overseas postings include the Republic of Korea, Thailand, France, Indonesia and Hong Kong. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor.Born in Seoul, South Korea, Yun left Korea for Nigeria in 1964 at the age of 10, following his father, Dr. Suk Woo Yun, who was a doctor with the World Health Organization. Yun was educated from middle school on in the United Kingdom, earning his bachelor's degree from Cardiff University in 1976, and Master of Science (1977) and Master of Philosophy (1981) degrees from the London School of Economics. He met his wife, Melanie Billings-Yun, at LSE and they were married in 1977. They have one son, Matthew Yun. Before joining the Foreign Service, Yun was a senior economist for Data Resources, Inc., in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 尹汝尚周一傍晚突宣布，以私人原因為由，自願在本周末退休。尹汝尚的宣布令人意外，俄羅斯副外長莫爾古洛夫上周六才向俄羅斯官媒表示，邀請了尹汝尚到莫斯科與北韓官員會談。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180228/00180_005.html
- 雖然世界銀行行長金墉於特朗普政府在氣候變化和能源政策等方面理念不合，但「第一女兒」伊萬卡卻與金墉交情匪淺。金墉曾幫助伊萬卡於2017年在世界銀行啟動了一個婦女創業基金會，目標是向企業家和小企業家提供總計超過10億美元的融資，這也被外界理解為伊萬卡與金墉親密關係的產物。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190109/PDF/a11_screen.pdf
-Victor D. Cha (born December 8, 1959) is an American academic, author and former national foreign policy advisor.He is a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.[1] He was George W. Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs.[2] He currently holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and is the Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Cha is also senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
- In December 2004, Dr. Victor D. Cha joined the National Security Council as Director for Asian Affairs (Japan/Korea/Australia/New Zealand). Before entering government, Dr. Victor Cha (Ph.,D. Columbia, BA/MA Oxford) held the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press) (winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize) and co-author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Strategies of Engagement (Columbia University Press, 2003). Dr. Cha has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, and Survival.
- "Powerplay" is a term coined by Cha in his article "Powerplay Origins of the U.S. Alliance System in Asia" in the journal "International Security," which explains the reason behind the United States’ decision of pursuing a series of bilateral alliances with East Asian countries such as Republic of Korea, the Republic of China, and Japan instead of multilateral alliances like NATO with European countries under liberal institutionalism.
- hkej 11jul17 shum article
- 美國國務院的翻譯部主管李潤香（Lee Yun-hyang，音譯）。她自二○○九年起在華府全職工作，曾擔當前總統小布殊、奧巴馬及前國務卿希拉妮的翻譯員。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20180613/00176_006.html; http://time.com/5309282/lee-yun-hyang-trump-kim-translator/Lee earned a master’s degree in interpretation and translation from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul and recieved a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva in 2009. She taught at the Monterey Institute of International Studies at Middlebury College in California and Ewha University in Seoul, and is a member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters.
- 美國共和黨明尼蘇達州韓裔主席卡納漢近日在社交網透露每日遭種族及性別歧視，包括有民主共和兩黨高層及網民曾以「非在美國出生的愚蠢亞洲人」、「一文不值」等形容其身世及種族。與卡納漢有類似經歷的日裔夏威夷州眾議院議員福本原為共和黨人，惟特朗普當選總統後她辭職加入民主黨。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180628/00180_010.html
Company
- mbna
- http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21679771-charles-cawley-credit-card-billionaire-and-saviour-mid-coast-maine-died-november-18th
- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/09/douglas-tompkins-billionaire-behind-north-face-dies-after-kayak-accident The pioneering clothing and equipment designer, who also co-founded the Esprit apparel brand, had for the last quarter of a century spent millions of dollars financing national parks. He and wife Kristine saved an estimated two million acres of pristine South American ecosystems. In 1989 Tompkins abandoned his wealthy corporate lifestyle and estate in San Francisco as he moved to the wilds of Patagonia. Spending months hiking, kayaking and exploring the southern rainforests, Tompkins adopted the values of the deep ecology movement and commenced a determined conservation battle. Beginning in Chile and then in Argentina, he campaigned with coalitions of environmental activists as he battled to stop developers churning through pristine forests, wetlands and coastal prairies.
- burt's bees
- http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21659686-burt-shavitz-co-founder-burts-bees-died-july-5th-aged-80-buzz-buzz?fsrc=rss
Journalists
- brian williams
- http://rt.com/usa/229451-brian-williams-nbc-retraction/, http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--brian-williams-recants-story-iraq-helicopter-after-soldiers-protest-231038729.html, http://www.wsj.com/articles/nbcs-brian-williams-recants-tale-1423101759
Asian Politicians
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145624/asian-americans-join-politics-rise-against-donald Dozens of Asian-Americans are running for federal office in the US as Democratic candidates, deliberately playing up their Asian roots in a battle against President Donald Trump, who they say demonises the immigrants who make America great.
- 劉雲平Ted W. Lieu (/luː/; born March 29, 1969) is an American politician and US Air Force Reserve colonel, currently serving as the US Representative for California's 33rd congressional district, since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was California State Senator representing the 28th Senate district from February 2011 to November 2014, after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Senator Jenny Oropeza. Lieu was also a California State Assemblyman, representing the 53rd Assembly district from September 2005 to November 2010 after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Assemblyman Mike Gordon. Lieu actively served in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1995 to 1999 and since 2000 has served in the reserve with his current rank of colonel upon his promotion in December 2015. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Lieu Assistant Whip of the 115th Congress starting in 2017.
- 首代移民劉雲平有望當選http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20141103/PDF/a10_screen.pdf
- http://dailybruin.com/2018/05/11/ted-lieu-no-longer-to-speak-at-ucla-school-of-law-commencement/ Congressman Ted Lieu pulled out of the UCLA School of Law’s commencement Friday because of the University of California’s ongoing labor dispute. The law school announced Lieu, who represents the congressional district that includes UCLA and Westwood, would be its commencement speaker in March. However, Lieu’s office informed the law school Thursday that he would not be able to attend, said Bill Kisliuk, a spokesperson for the school. Instead, Chancellor Gene Block is scheduled to give the commencement address during the ceremony in Dickson Court on Friday.
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145624/asian-americans-join-politics-rise-against-donald
- http://council.nyc.gov/d20/html/members/home.shtml
- singtao 22nov14 a22 support obama's policy towards illegal immigrants
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3235713/Five-arrested-including-congresswoman-s-brother-37-people-charged-fraternity-hazing-death-college-freshman.html Five people, including the former national president of a fraternity, have been charged in the death of a New York City college freshman during a hazing ritual in Pennsylvania, police said Tuesday. Fraternity members at Baruch College physically abused Chun 'Michael' Deng, then tried to cover it up as the 19-year-old lay dying in their rented house in the Pocono Mountains, police said. Pocono Mountain Regional police planned to arrest suspects in waves, moving from least to most culpable, after a grand jury recommended charges for 37 people in Deng's December 2013 death. The first five suspects, including former Pi Delta Psi President Andy Meng, were charged with hazing, conspiracy and hindering apprehension and were making arrangements Tuesday to turn themselves in. Meng, 30, of Queens, allegedly received calls from frat members asking for guidance after Deng started having trouble breathing. Meng, who is the younger brother of U.S. Congresswoman from New York Grace Meng, was serving as the fraternity's national president at the time of Deng's death. According to the New York Post, police say Meng instructed the brothers to hide any items that might implicate the fraternity.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160107/00180_003.html 美國波士頓三十歲台灣移民後代吳弭（Michelle Wu），日前當選為波士頓市議長，成為該市一百零六年來首位亞裔市議長，也是美國歷來第三位女性市議長。吳弭的父母均為台灣移民，她則在芝加哥郊區長大，於哈佛大學畢業
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160519/00180_022.html 美國加州華裔財政部長江俊輝（John Chiang）周二正式宣布，將會參加一八年州長選舉，並公開呼籲籌募選舉經費。現年五十三歲的江俊輝，生於紐約一個台灣移民家庭，並於芝加哥長大。他承諾一旦當選，將會加強基建、為新一代建立更可靠的退休保障，以及重建中產階層。
- 唐鳳巧（Nancy Tong）
- 同日現身的三藩市市議員余鼎昂，宣布支持江俊輝參選 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171210/00180_022.html
- 在香港出生、7歲移民美國的唐鳳巧（Nancy Tong），將參加市議會選舉。http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170817/20124269
- Liza Lau Normandy has been elected mayor of South San Francisco, the first Chinese-American to be elected in the city's 110 years history, according to World Journal.Liza said her father was born in Guangdong province of China, and immigrated to Los Angeles when he was young, and her mother came from the Republic of Korea.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/11/WS5a2e2643a310eefe3e9a28fd.html
- candidates of city government elections
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20151104/19359483 美國洛杉磯縣（Los Angeles County）市政綜合選舉在11月3日（周二）舉行，將選出新一屆市議員、學區教委及水區理事等。今次共有19名華人、兩名華人女婿及一名華人媳婦參選。哈岡學區教委郭志（Gino Kwok）及嘉偉學區教委羅霈霆（Henry Lo）均是尋求連任的候選人，郭志表示，部份由他提出的校園建設項目，包括興建高中足球場等仍在進行，故希望成功連任完成有關項目；爭取第四度連任的羅霈霆則強調，會致力加強學區的教學質素及社區服務。同樣競爭激烈的「戰場」還有羅蘭崗聯合學區的教委選舉，五名候選人爭兩個名額。參選的兩名華人包括尋求連任的聶曼麗（Judy Nieh），她已出任該區教委12年，熟悉該區情況。聶曼麗表示，當區學生有36%為華裔，惟華裔教職員的比例卻遠遠不及，若連任將改善有關問題。她續稱，學區去年有不少新管理層加入，希望藉自己的豐富經驗協助新舊班子溝通，又指當地不少學校設備陳舊，若能連任會致力更新教學設施及配套。至於在聖安東尼奧學院（Mt. San Antonio College）第五區的理事選舉則上演新舊大戰。曾兩度競選教委、今次轉戰理事的華人陳介飛（Jay Chen），將與新人特羅內斯（Garrett Terrones）挑戰資深理事希爾（Frederick Chyr）。已連任多屆的希爾在參選截止日前一天才報名，似乎胸有成竹。首次參選公職、競逐格蘭多拉學區教委的華人媳婦陳琳達（Linda Chan），其丈夫是馬來西亞華僑，目前在西勒斯社區學院（Citrus College）擔任講師。她專責教授理科，有30年教學經驗，承諾改善教育質素，並將所有教育經費用於學生身上。核桃谷水區的兩名華裔候選人伍立倫（Allen Wu）及鄺趙百淳（Scarlett Kwong）則在無對手下，自動當選理事。洛杉磯縣的選民可於早上7時至晚上8時到指定票站投票。
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20151104/19359482美國紐約周二（3日）舉行普選，選出司法界、教育界及市議員等多個民意代表及地方性職位。布魯克林華人聯合會成員Wilson Cheung鼓勵華裔選民踴躍投票，讓政府聽到華人的聲音，「幫我們華人得到更多資源」。華人聚居地皇后區（Queens）及布魯克林區（Brooklyn）將選出多名市議員、眾議員及州參議員。其中皇后區內第23選區將進行市議員補選，候選人郭登祺（Barry Grodenchik）是現任皇后區區長，與亞裔及華人社群關係友好。不過郭登祺的選情一點也不輕鬆，因其對手包括土生土長、熟悉社區事務的紐約市前社區事務局助理局長林奇（Rebecca Lynch），以及有30年打擊罪惡經驗的紐約州前警察局分局局長康坎諾（Joseph Concannon）。由於該選區內超過三分之一選民為亞裔，亦是傳統華埠，華人手中一票成為致勝關鍵。郭登祺近月先後拜訪法拉盛華人工商促進會（The Flushing Chinese Business Association）及華人家長會，又表示州政府應為移民提供英語教育，尋求華裔選民支持。華人家長會會長朱寶玲相信郭登祺「可以幫助我們，讓華裔子弟得到更好的教育，爭取更多的福利」。
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20151104/19359484 美國三藩市聯合市政選舉11月3日舉行，選民要就7個市縣職位及11個地方選票提案投票；其中市長一職多達6人競逐，但分析認為李孟賢連任機會甚高。需投票選出的7個市縣職位，分別為市長、市府律師、地方檢察官、縣警長、財政官、市參議員及社區大學董事會成員。
在市長的競逐上，尋求連任的李孟賢（Ed Lee）將面對葛蘭姆（Kent Graham）、艾雷拉（Francisco Herrera）、馬丁（Reed Martin）、舒夫曼（Stuart Schuffman）及維絲（Amy Farah Weiss）五人挑戰。屬於民主黨的李孟賢2011年當選為首位民選華裔市長，其在任四年的「成績表」包括復蘇經濟、創造就業致失業率大跌，均獲不少好評。雖然有批評指他的政策只傾向大財團大企業，忽略低收入家庭及勞工階層，惟他今次的五名對手均無從政背景，也欠缺足夠財力，故分析相信李孟賢可輕鬆擊敗五人，難怪他自己也對連任充滿信心。另一個競爭較激烈的「戰場」是第三選區市參議員一職，華裔音樂教授彭德慧（Wilma Pang）及前市議長佩斯金（Aaron Peskin）會挑戰尋求連任的冀芷欣（Julie Christensen）。彭德慧曾稱，參選是希望為唐人街的長者發聲，並為保護三藩市藝術家及文化出一分力。
Asian academics
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160521/00180_015.html美國加州三藩市近月發生連串警方槍殺黑人事件，引發民眾絕食抗議及多次衝突，要求警察局長蘇爾（Greg Suhr）下台，惟華裔市長李孟賢一直拒絕將他撤職。當地時間周四早晨再爆出警員射殺手無寸鐵的黑人女子，同日下午李孟賢宣布，蘇爾已應要求辭去局長一職。
- 熊玠
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/01/16/a11-0116.pdf 今年踏入 80歲的熊玠在訪問中指出，傳統「地緣政治」由意識形態和領土控制兩大元素組成，當今「地緣經濟」則着眼於經濟安全，而它比軍事安全更重要，一個大國需擁有充裕資金、龐大勞動力和本國市場。根據上述條件來判斷，中國、美國、俄羅斯都是「21世紀大國」。
Asian Women in Government
-Tina Tchen 陳遠美 Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
- Jane Chu http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1532198/jane-chu-head-us-national-endowment-arts
- elaine chao 趙 小 蘭 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150108/PDF/a19_screen.pdf 麥康奈爾早前在參議院多數黨領袖投票中輕鬆獲勝，成為國會山風頭躉，正式成為參議院所有議事議程的 「掌門人」、博納在黨內的最重要合作對象、奧巴馬在國會山的頭號夥伴兼政治對手。在副總統兼參議院議長拜登的主持下，麥康奈爾當天宣誓就職。他的妻子趙小蘭攜父親、妹妹等全家16位成員來到現場見證這一時刻。拜登甚至非常親暱地俯身親吻了趙小蘭妹妹趙小美的女兒，送上祝福。
- https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/03/politics/elaine-chao-china/index.html The Times investigation outlined Chao's ties to Foremost Group, her family's shipping business. The report noted that while Chao "has no formal affiliation or stake" in the company, she and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have received millions in gifts from Chao's father, who used to run the company, along with political donations from her family. Chao, according to the report, has boosted the company in China, whose government runs a bank that has loan commitments from the shipping company in the order of "hundreds of millions of dollars." The report said in addition to the shipping company, Chao's family has other ties to official China, including board positions in state companies and a close relationship between Chao's father and former Chinese President and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
Gerald Tsai http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akJQeQcWrgCY
Linda Chen
- Linda Chen: Building a multi-billion dollar 'Las Vegas of the east'
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/business/linda-chen-building-a-multi-billion-dollar/index.html
Robert Wang
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1592008/hong-kongs-graft-busters-model-asia-pacific-says-us-official
方李邦琴
- hket 12sept14 full page feature on her involvement in US China relations
Chen Guangbiao
- http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/25/world/asia/chen-guangbiao-profile
corporate communications
- al golin
- Hoyt Brian Yee is a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service, currently assigned to Washington, D.C. as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, responsible for U.S. relations with the countries of Central Europe and South Central Europe. Before assuming his current duties in September 2013, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia from 2010 to 2013. He served in Kabul, Afghanistan as Director of the State Department’s Office of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT), from 2009 to 2010. From 2006-2009, he was Consul General in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Principal Officer in Podgorica, Montenegro from 2002 to 2005. He was Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council from 1999 to 2001, and from 1996 to 1999 worked at NATO Headquarters as Deputy Director of the Private Office of NATO Secretary General Javier Solana. Other Foreign Service positions Hoyt has held include Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and at U.S. Embassy Paris, and Special Assistant to the U.S. Special Envoy for the Former Yugoslavia. Hoyt was born in Redwood City, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Diego and has taught courses on International Relations at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Chen Guangbiao
- http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/25/world/asia/chen-guangbiao-profile
corporate communications
- al golin
- Al Golin, who made one of the most famous cold calls in public relations history when he rang up McDonald's founder Ray Kroc 60 years ago, died April 8 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 87 and had been treated for prostate cancer. From that gutsy call, Golin built a PR agency, with 1,200-plus employees, $200 million in annual revenue and a corporate roster that includes Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Unilever and Wal-Mart Stores while retaining McDonald's as its sentimental client. Golin had been a Chicago-based publicist for MGM Studios and small local enterprises like the Blue Note jazz club when he joined PR firm Max Cooper & Associates in 1956. Within a year he reached out to Kroc, then struggling to build a hamburger chain from offices at 222 N. LaSalle St. "It was a cold call, which should give hope to anyone selling. He said 'Come on over,' we talked and I started on Monday," he told PR Week in 2001. Kroc, who wasn't drawing a salary, put Golin on retainer for $500 per month.http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170410/NEWS06/170419985/al-golin-pr-counsel-who-helped-ray-kroc-build-mcdonalds-dies-at-87
dubious
- David Madden is an Australian entrepreneur associated with progressive causes. He is a co-founder of GetUp! a web-based political movement, and Avaaz, a global advocacy movement.Madden grew up in Canberra and served as an Army officer before studying Arts and Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Madden served as president of the University of New South Wales Student Guild. After winning the University Medal in History, Madden was awarded Fulbright and Frank Knox scholarships to study at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University, where he completed his master's degree in public policy. He met Jeremy Heimans, with whom he would later co-found GetUp and Avaaz, waiting for a scholarship interview panel while studying at Harvard.[1][3][4] Madden and Heimans became involved in the Harvard Living Wage campaign in 2001, and Madden credits it as their first political collaboration.Madden has worked for the World Bank in Timor Leste, and for the United Nations in Indonesia. He is the co-author of Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future (Allen & Unwin, 2004), with economist turned federal MP Andrew Leigh, Macgregor Duncan, and Peter Tynan. In 2004, Madden was one of the founders of Win Back Respect, a web-based campaign against the foreign policy of United States President George W. Bush. The following year, together with Jeremy Heimans, he co-founded GetUp, a similar campaign against the recently re-elected Howard government in Australia, inspired by what he had seen with MoveOn in the United States.
- in 2014 launched Phandeeyar (business incubator) in Myanmar hkej 5apr17 shum article
- spoken on row regarding university backed by soros in Hungary
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