Khaled bin Abdullah bin Abdel-Rahrnan
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 99
al Saud, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 210
Loesh and Osborne Motor Company, 154
Killian, Lou, 117
Loevinger, Lee, 189-90, 192
Kishi Nobosuke, 155
London, Jack, 21, 64
Kissinger, Henry, 14-15, 172-73, 198,
Long, Augustus (“Gus”), 138-39, 157
203, 206, 238
Look, 140
Arab Boycott and, 188-89, 194
Loomis, Francis B., 82
Klamath River Highway, 26
Lynch, John L. (“Jack”), 149, 171-72, Knowland, William, 98
180
267
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Philips Electronics, 209-10
Broadway Tunnel construction and,
Pickens, T. Boone, 220
50-51
Post, A. Alan, 176
Reed, Philip D., 14-15
President’s Productivity Commission, 168
Regan, Donald T. , 184
press corps, 168, 198-99, 214
Reinsch, Harry, 224-25, 230n
Arab Boycott and, 189-90
Republican National Finance
Bechtel’s economic problems and,
Committee, 154-55
231-33
Rhee, Syngman, 105
Bechtel’s privacy and, 12-13, 17
Ribicoff, Abraham, 104, 193
on Bechtel’s violation of conflict of
Richmond Belt Railroad, 21
interest laws, 190-91
Rickover, Hyman, 107, 110
on Boulder Dam construction, 36,
Riyadh International Airport, 209, 211—
37n, 40
212
Eisenhower’s candidacy announced to,
Roach, Alden G., 95
99-100
British ship construction and, 56-58
on Jubail project, 208
road building:
on nuclear power, 206-7, 225
Bechtel’s contracts for, 26, 27-28
on Savannah affair, 110
Kaiser’s contracts for, 27-28, 29-30,
Shultz and, 13n, 219-20, 221-22
32
Steve senior interviewed by, 164
Rockefeller, David, 238
Steve senior’s pedestrian killing covered
Rockefeller, Nelson, 177
by, 47-48
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
on Willow Run abuses, 67, 69
Company, 20
Pressler, Larry, 222-23
Rogers, John, 90-92
Proxmire, William, 163
Rogers, William P., 198
Public Services Commission, Miss., 227
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 34n, 56, 203-4
Public Utilities Commission (PUC),
Boulder Dam construction and, 40-42
Calif., 215
Roosevelt, Kermit, 122-23
Roosevelt, Theodore, 122-23
Rosendahl, Van, 84, 91, 124
Qaddafi, Muhammar al-, 12, 17,
Rosenthal, Benjamin, 193-94
150
Rosenthal, Douglas E., 193
Qasim refinery, 230
Rosenthal Amendment, 193-94
Qatar, 238
Ross, Leonard, 206
Quenon, James, 225-26
Sadat, Anwar al-, 188
Radio Free Asia (RFA), 119
Safire, William, 214
Ramsey, Nonie Bechtel, 234-35
San Francisco, Calif., 21-22, 25
Ramsey, Sheldon, 235
San Francisco Examiner, 21, 219
Ras Tanura, 113
Sanger, Richard, 121-22
Ray, Dixie Lee, 206
Sanifold Manufacturing Company, 25
Reagan, Ronald, 14, 17, l59n, l73n,
Sante Fe Railroad, 21
238
Sarbanes, Paul, 223
favors to Bechtel from, 16
Saudi Arabia, 80, 146, 167
1980 campaign of, 213-16, 225-26
Bechtel’s intelligence activities in,
nuclear power promoted by, 225-28,
113-15, 118, 121-22, 124
229-30
Bechtel’s lobbying activities on behalf
Shultz and, 215-18, 221-22, 223
of, 92, 222-23
Weinberger and, 177, 214, 216-18
Bechtel’s operations in, 12, 78n,
Reclamation Department, U.S.:
81-8� 85-9�95-9� 121, l88n,
Boulder Dam construction and,
208-12, 222, 230
30-32, 35-36
British oil concessions in, 82
270
INDEX
Israel boycotted by, 183, 190, 195
in Treasury Department, 169, 172,
pipeline construction in, 8 3-88, 121
178
railroad construction in, 84-86, 88,
Weinberger and, 174-75, 177-79,
91
181, 212-13, 217-18
sale of AWACS to, 222
Shultz, Helena (“Obie”) O’Brien, 170
U.S. oil concessions in, 82-83, 85
Siam Kraft, 155, 163-64
Sauer, Walter C., 156-57
Simon, William, 174n, 187, 194-95,
Savannah affair, 110
238
Saxbe, William, 163n
Simpson, Grete, 98
Scheuer, James, 189
Simpson, John L., 98
Schmidt, Helmut, 14-15, 173n
Allen Dulles’s relationship with,
Schroder, Bruno von, 74n
74-75, 115-18
Schroder, Helmut von, 74n
background of, 73-75
J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation,
doors opened for Steve senior by,
74-75
75-76
Science, 206
intelligence activities of, 115-19
Sea Wolf, The (London), 21
John Foster Dulles’s relationship with,
Securities and Exchange Commission
74-75, 115, 117-18
(SEC), 12-13, 215, 233
Steve junior’s succession and, 132-3 3
Seidman, William, 203-4
Six Companies, 53-54
Senate, U.S., 166
Boulder Dam construction and, 33-42
Shultz’s confirmation hearings before,
Broadway Tunnel construction and,
206-7, 222-23
50-51
see also Congress, U.S.
dissension among partners in, 37-38
Sequoia Ventures, 220
as financial partnership, 44n
Shakespeare, William, 179
financial successes of, 39-40, 43-44,
Shapiro, Irving, 195, 232
51
Shaw, A. J., 92
fines levied on, 41
Shea, Charles A. , 44n
laborers mistreated by, 38-41
Boulder Dam construction and,
New Deal-sponsored projects of,
31-34, 37n, 38,48-49
43-45
Shelbi, Omar, 144, 150
in shipbuilding, 57
Sherman Antitrust Act, 185, 187, 190
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 142
shipbuilding, 75, 110
Slusser, Willis, 73n, 171-72, 175,
during World War II, 56-62, 70, 95
178-81, 213
Shivers, Allen, 157
Smith, A. Howard, 190-91
Shorenstein, Walter, 195
Smith, Gordon Paul, 177
Shorrock, Tim, l58n-59n
Smith, William French, 14-15
Shultz, George P., 14-15, 54, 159
Smithsonian Institution, 42
Arab Boycott and, 185,192,194-95
Snodgrass, C. Stribling:
as Bechtel executive, 169-73, 174,
background of, 120
178-79, 181, 186, 206, 211-13,
intelligence activities of, 119-24
217-18, 219-22, 231
Socony Mobil, 77
Bechtels and, 166-67, 169-73, 179,
Sofar, Sidney, 187-88
181, 217, 219, 221, 238
Somervell, Brehon:
Bechtel’s economic problems and,
aircraft industry and, 67
231-32
Alaska pipeline and, 61-66
Bechtel’s press relations supervised by,
atomic power and, 65n, 101
13n
background of, 62
in Labor Department, 165-68
Sonatrach, 159, 164, 169, 220-21
Reagan and, 215-18, 221-22, 223
South Africa, 12
State Department appointment of, 17,
Southern California Edison, 215
206-7, 221-24, 227-28
Bechtel’s work for, 15-16, 76-77
271
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Southern Pacific Railroad:
Suez Crisis, 145
Bechtel Group’s work for, 15
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