The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

260 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHtook power and swiftly set out on a new “neoconservative” path for theparty. John W. Dean, former Nixon counsel, who was jailed for feloniescommitted at the time of Watergate, referred to this new Republican conservatismin his 2007 book Broken Government: How Republican RuleDestroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches: “It has beennew on Capitol Hill since about 1997, about three years after the GOPgained control of the House; it has been new to the White House since2001, with the arrival of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, althoughits roots first emerged during the Nixon presidency and beganblossoming in the Reagan and Bush Senior [sic] years.” Although Deannever quite identifies the origin of this “new Republican way of thinking,”it is possible that it stemmed from the National Socialist philosophybrought into this country after World War II.BUT NOT ONLY the grandson of financier Prescott Bush, Nixon cronies,or the neoconservatives have shown sympathy for National Socialistideals.Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born former bodybuilder turnedactor turned governor of California, has a background of pro-Nazi statementsand friends. In a 1977 interview, Schwarzenegger was asked whichperson he admired. His response: “I admire Hitler, for instance, becausehe came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up topower. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what hedid with it.”His admiration for Hitler may have come from sitting at his father’sknee. In 1938, Hitler’s Nazis took control of Austria in an Anschluss, unifyingthat country with Germany. Arnold’s father, Gustav, one year laterjoined Hitler’s infamous Sturmabteilung storm troopers (SA), known asthe Brown Shirts. Gustav even sported a Hitler-like mustache.Schwarzenegger also caught flak because of his friendship with KurtWaldheim, former secretary general of the United Nations, who lost thepresidency of Austria in 1992, after his Nazi past was revealed. Recordsshowed that Waldheim had hidden his role as a member of the Nazi SA.According to the 1991 book Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography by