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the “Corporate Citizen”<br />
Excerpted from CONSPIRACY NATION, Vol. <strong>10</strong>, Num. 12, 1/12/97, [quoting:] Internet (Don’t use hyphen at line break.)<br />
In CN <strong>10</strong>.<strong>10</strong> it was noted how “...prominent GOP supporter Dwayne Andreas of Archer Daniels<br />
Midland...donated $<strong>10</strong>0,000 to Bill Clinton’s inaugural in 1993.” It was also noted how Archer Daniels<br />
Midland (ADM) funds the ultra-boring yet oh-so-educational Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS.<br />
Not seen to my knowledge on the “public” television “news” program has been major coverage of what’s<br />
been going on for several decades with Dwayne Andreas, Michael Andreas, ADM, and others. (If PBS<br />
won’t do it, Conspiracy Nation will.)<br />
According to several articles in the New Federalist (7/29/96), ADM and friends are quite a story. Here<br />
are excerpts from the articles:<br />
In 1878, John W. Daniels began selling flaxseed to produce linseed oil and in 1902 formed Daniels Linseed<br />
Company in Minneapolis. George A. Archer, another experienced flaxseed crusher, joined the<br />
company in 1903. In 1923, the company bought Midland Products and adopted the name Archer Daniels<br />
Midland (ADM).<br />
Dwayne Andreas, born in Decatur, Illinois in 1918, joined his father’s R.P. Andreas firm in the mid-1930s.<br />
In 1936, the Andreas family changed the name of the firm to the Honeymead Company. In 1945, [Dwayne<br />
Andreas] sold 60 percent of the family’s Honeymead to Cargill [another food giant].<br />
From 1946 through 1952, Dwayne Andreas worked for Cargill, learning how to hedge and speculate<br />
[a.k.a. rob farmers] in Commodities.<br />
In 1945, Dwayne Andreas met Hubert Humphrey. Andreas contributed $1,000 to Humphrey’s first<br />
senatorial campaign in 1948. Humphrey and Andreas became intimate. Humphrey was godfather to<br />
Andreas’s son. In <strong>197</strong>7, Humphrey, then on the Senate Agriculture Committee, wrote legislation to establish<br />
government supports for sugar, which saved Andreas from huge losses. In the 1980s, Andreas funded<br />
a Hubert Humphrey Room at the Anti-Defamation League’s new headquarters at U.N. Plaza in New York<br />
City. While Humphrey lived, Andreas and Humphrey took 85 trips together.<br />
New Federalist has recently reported on the connections between 1948 GOP presidential candidate and<br />
governor of New York Tom Dewey and Republican Party judge-fixer Roy Cohn. According to a July 14,<br />
1996 cover story in the magazine section of the Sunday Washington Post, Dewey, working during the<br />
1950s as Andreas’s lawyer, set up the Andreas Foundation, to spread Andreas’ influence through<br />
charitable and political contributions. Andreas provided the funds, and Dewey decided where to distribute<br />
the foundation’s largesse. “Give money to both sides [Democratic and Republican]. And give to the<br />
people your friends ask you to give to,” is how the Post described the foundation’s policy.<br />
What did Andreas get in return? For one thing, when Dewey became the governor of New York, he saw<br />
to it that ADM was awarded a lucrative contract to provide soy-based food products to the state’s prison<br />
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