Chapter 1402 – Power Obsession

Nelson Rockefeller nodded his head, and then asked his assistant to show Alan Wilson around Rockefeller Center, with the idea of letting his guest see the old man’s kingdom, not in his mind.

Rockefeller himself is the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, while McCarthy has become the leader of the conservative faction since Taft’s failed campaign during the Eisenhower era.

Of course that doesn’t mean the Tafts have lost their influence, as Alan Wilson, who visited Rockefeller Center, remembers, and the governor of Ohio in the twenty-first century is a descendant of the Tafts.

Do not look at the United States is an electoral system of the country, while the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, but the United States more than a hundred years of political families abound, may be like the Bush father and son of two generations of presidents are not many, but focus on the level of governors and legislators are too many.

McCarthy, the conservative leader, and Rockefeller, the moderate leader, had a good conversation, while not forgetting their friend who was out visiting, “Allen came to the United States this time for the situation in South Asia.”

“I know!” Rockefeller had already heard Kissinger say it, and then got the same answer from McCarthy’s mouth, indicating that he already knew the intention of the visit, “Britain actually has the basis to intervene, and Malaya isn’t that far away from South Asia, but it seems that in the stance of the two countries of India and Pakistan, Britain still tries to stand on the side of India, which isn’t quite the same as us.”

The discussion of the situation in South Asia is not the focus of the two factions of bigwigs, Rockefeller is still more concerned about cooperation in the country, Nixon is also technically a flag of the conservatives, but compared with McCarthy is nothing.

It was only because McCarthy’s remarks were out of the country and out of character that the Electoral Commission supported Nixon, and as for Rockefeller, the leader of the moderates, as he himself said, many people are still Rockefeller, the last name of some fear.

Time to the seventies, the era of the five Rockefeller brothers, the Rockefeller family’s momentum is far more fierce than the old rival Morgan.

It can be said that the Rockefeller family has never, on the Morgan family to establish such a big advantage, which also and this generation of the Morgan family leaders ability is generally related, but no one can deny that the influence of the Rockefeller five brothers is indeed strong enough.

This is just the opposite of the situation during the Great Depression, when Morgan Jr. led the Morgan family into its heyday, but it is also because of this preeminence that Rockefeller’s path to the presidency has seen many obstacles.

In fact, hearing the advice to join if you can’t beat it, Rockefeller was even more surprised, in his knowledge, McCarthy is even worse than himself, obviously in the election with Lyndon Johnson, achieved against the southern states, but still can’t change the Republican Election Committee’s bailout, should be upset.

“Actually, after my conversation with Allen, it’s not impossible to do that. He’s a leader in Whitehall, and is in a position to look at the election from an objective point of view many times.” McCarthy did not hide Allen Wilson’s suggestion that the British political system, although different from the United States, can also be referred to.

Quietly listen to it, Rockefeller also think it makes sense, Nixon is already the incumbent president, in the absence of any important changes, there is no one in the Republican Party party to challenge Nixon’s possibility.

McCarthy has self-congratulatory not to be obsessed with the president, but he can not, still want to try in, even if it is the vice president.

Wealth-wise, as the contemporary leader of the Rockefeller family, who naturally possessed incalculable wealth, his life lacked the authority to stand at the top.

This is different from McCarthy, who came from an average family and had to struggle every step of the way, wealth Rockefeller was born with, which is why he was particularly keen on political positions.

Allen Wilson knows this kind of psychology, history Rockefeller gleefully accepted Ford’s vice presidential appointment, visible to be the president are fast becoming Rockefeller’s obsession.

Otherwise, with Rockefeller’s status as governor of New York State, there is absolutely no yo need to be a mascot in people’s eyes.

There are only a few powerful vice presidents in the United States? Anyway, Alan Wilson thought about it, only Bush Cheney because and Bush’s relationship is very amicable, only to become the real power vice president.

Under normal circumstances the vice president is a mascot, McCarthy’s direct refusal to express disinterest is also logical.

After visiting the Rockefeller Center in a circle, back to the Rockefeller office of Alan Wilson, saw the two faces full of smiles, it seems to talk well. More confirmation of the previous judgment, Rockefeller wants to make political achievements are almost crazy, the positive can not do, the deputy will do.

In this way, if the Watergate scandal still exists, then take over Nixon’s position is Rockefeller, in fact, for Rockefeller, it is not necessarily a bad thing. The laws of history don’t take big twists and turns just because of a change in personnel, and the hundreds of billions of dollars of overissuance would still be a big problem at that point.

Just as Alan Wilson asked himself with the contrast of latter-day memories, he also had to watch British India become independent, and piece by piece, the colonies were packed up and realized. Does he not want to maintain the British Empire’s sphere of influence? Of course he wants to, but it is not yet impossible to do, only to scrape the land with a hard hand to ensure a smooth transition of the mainland.

More than two billion dollars of debt are fast to the British forced to hang, Alan Wilson really bar the Indians forced to hang. Not to mention that the dollar overissuance is now on the order of four or five hundred billion dollars.

“Alan, you have a good friend.” Rockefeller is obviously in a good mood, expressed to see in McCarthy part, and the Mountbatten Group cooperation expressed a good attitude.

Rockefeller is an American, everything he accepts is American, in his eyes wealth is more important than power, except that he was born with wealth, only extraordinarily pursuing power.

Although he himself is a special, but think Alan Wilson also received the instructions of the richest woman, come over to talk about cooperation.

“I’m sure Pamela will be very happy.” Although Allen Wilson was also a person who valued power over wealth, but if people misunderstood, then so be it.

He also really wanted to know that the day Rockefeller became president, what would be different in the world, but it was estimated that the impact would be limited, after all, it was the Republican Party’s candidate, and it would surely still adopt a contraction policy.

In fact, it is very simple, look at the United States to participate in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the four wars with the highest casualties, who is in power to know.

Respectively, Wilson, Roosevelt Jr, Truman and Lyndon Johnson, what they have in common is that they all come from the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party in the matter of foreign wars, far more radical than the Republican Party, and do not fight small wars, specializing in picking the big one.

Until leaving Rockefeller Center, Allen Wilson is still thinking about if Rockefeller as president, the world situation will not have a big change, and finally still confused, “Forget it, Watergate is not necessarily happen yet, really happen and then continue to think down.”

“Followed you out and you don’t see anyone.” Opening the door, Monroe jumped into the man’s arms at a trot, her mouth full of complaints, asking Alan Wilson where he had gone.

“I went to talk to the American diplomatic officials about returning to the United Nations.” Alan Wilson lied in all seriousness, he didn’t talk about even a single word because the other person wasn’t Kissinger. Anyhow, he was also the Secretary General of the British Joint Intelligence Committee, and some sense of secrecy existed.

What’s more, Monroe had an opinion about McCarthy, and although it wasn’t prejudice and McCarthy did give off an image, Allen Wilson and McCarthy were friends, so it was important to hide the fact that he was meeting with McCarthy.

“To be honest, a country of 800 million people is really hard to justify when the US always keeps it out. Sometimes I hate the American government.” Monroe said with feeling.

The corner of Alan Wilson’s mouth twitched as he laughed bitterly, “You know what, you’re lucky that you’re a permanent resident of the UK, otherwise I really can’t imagine what you’d be facing.”

“But you said that you were able to protect me.” Monroe slightly angled her head and came in front of Alan Wilson, their cheeks were only a finger’s distance away, and they could feel each other’s breath.

“Of course!” Allen Wilson replied with a firm and decisive answer, waking up with the power of the world, drunkenly lying on the knees of a beautiful woman, that’s all he had for a cheesy pursuit.

Britain is now simultaneously following up on the diplomatic work of the two Asian powers, after returning to London, Allen Wilson received the South Asian side of the reform of the Indian army by the Chief of General Staff of India, and he was mainly concerned about the welfare of the Indian army to improve the content, “This is not the policy that the old fairy has taken great pains to abolish?”

He couldn’t help but think of it, Modi’s old fairy repealing the Indian army’s long service reforms, Indian soldiers have a long history of long service, but many of the special welfare policies were formulated by Sam Manekshaw. Certainly judging from the outcome of the Indo-Pakistani war, the care of the army was effective and ensured victory in this Indo-Pakistani war.

While visiting the shipyards with the Chief of Defense Staff, Sir Charles, Alan Wilson also talked about India’s military preparedness, asking what this for the current full-time British Commander-in-Chief was thinking.

“That India has such financial resources?” Field Marshal Charles was surprised, it was not the right India he remembered.

“What about a country of this size. In how it can be squeezed out of expenditure. It’s like the current shipbuilding industry, with the current shipyard facilities we could still start work on eleven aircraft carriers at the same time. It’s just not necessary!” Alan Wilson had a look of pride on his face, it was better than even the U.S. Military shipbuilding was all that was left of U.S. shipbuilding, there were simply no civilian shipyards to utilize.

The other country in the world right now that can utilize civilian shipyard facilities to build heavy aircraft carriers to share the cost is Japan, but Japan can’t do that at all, Japan’s military shipbuilding industry is gone, and the U.S. can’t do a military-to-civilian conversion because there aren’t any civilians.

Japan can’t do civilian to military because there is no military shipbuilding experience, only the UK can do that.

“Allen, don’t worry, I’m not going to stand in the way of the repulsor fleet building program even though I come from the Air Force, although I don’t know exactly what the shield ships you are talking about are.” Field Marshal Charles heard the words and said that he had absolutely no problem on his side, it was mainly up to the government side to say what they wanted.