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primarily by their desire to get the unpopular and erratic Roosevelt out of the state at any
cost. They told Hanna that unless Roosevelt were on the ticket, McKinley might loose the
vital New York electoral votes. McKinley and Hanna capitulated, and Theodore
Roosevelt joined the ticket. [fn 34]
Within one year, President McKinley was assassinated at Buffalo, and Theodore
Roosevelt assumed power in the name of the fanatical and imbecilic Anglo-Saxon
imperial strategy of world domination which helped to precipitate the First World War.
Did Bush's professed admiration for Theodore Roosevelt include a desire to seize the
presidency via a similar path? The events of March, 1981 will give us cause to ponder.
As the Detroit convention cam to a close, the Reagan and Bush campaign staffs were
merged, with James Baker assuming a prominent position in the Casey-run Reagan
campaign. The Ray Cline, Halper, and Gambino operations were all continued. From this
point on, Reagan's entourage would be heavily infiltrated by Bushmen.
The Reagan-Bush campaign, now chock full of Bush's Brown Brothers, Harriman/Skull
and Bones assets, now announced a campaign of espionage. This campaign told reporters
that it was going to spy on the Carter regime.
Back in April, Carter had taken to live television at 7 AM one morning to announce some
ephemeral progress in his efforts to secure the release of State Department officials and
others from the US Embassy in Teheran that were being held as hostages by the
Khomeini forces in Iran. This announcement was timed to coincide with Democratic
primaries in Kansas and Wisconsin, in which Carter was able to overwhelm challenges
from Teddy Kennedy and Jerry Brown. A memo from Richard Wirthlin to Casey and
Reagan initiated a discussion of how the Carter gang might exploit the advantages of
incumbency in order to influence the outcome of the election, perhaps by attempting to
stampede the public by some dramatic event at the last minute, such as the freeing of the
hostages in Teheran. Casey began to institute counter-measures even before the Detroit
GOP convention.
During the convention, at a July 14 press conference, Casey told reporters of his concern
that Carter might spring an "October surprise" in foreign or domestic policy on the eve of
the November elections. He announced that he had set up what he called an "incumbency
watch" to monitor Carter's activities and decisions. Casey explained that an "intelligence
operation" directed against the Carter White House was functioning "already in germinal
form." Ed Meese, who was with Casey at this press conference, added that the October
surprise "could be anything from a summit conference on energy" or development in
Latin America, or perhaps the imposition of "wage and price controls" on the domestic
economy.
"We've talked about the October surprise and what the October surprise will be," said
Casey. "I think it's immoral and improper."