The Trilateral Commission held its first organization on July 23-24 in 1972 at the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, a subdivision of Tarrytown, New York.
A paper published by the Trilateral Commission, "The Crisis of Democracy", was written in 1975 by Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. In the paper, Huntington stated that America needed "a greater degree of moderation in democracy." The paper then suggested that leaders with "expertise, seniority, experience and special talents" were needed to "override the claims of democracy." Three years after this paper was published, Huntington was named coordinator of security planning for Carter's National Security Council. While appointed to this position, Huntington prepared Presidential Review Memorandum 32, which lead to the 1979 presidential order creating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a civilian organization with the power to take totalitarian control of government functions in the event of a national emergency.
Researcher Laurie K. Strand was able to publish her thoughts in the "Peoples Almanac #3" which state "The Trilateral Commission's tentacles have reached so far afield in the political and economic sphere that it has been described by some as a cabal of powerful men out to control the world by creating a supernational community dominated by multinational corporations."
In early 1977, the Washington Post published some thoughts, "But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission. [Carter] is a member. So is Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale. So are the new secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, Cyrus R. Vance, Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal. So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral director and Carter's national security advisor, also a bunch of others who will make foreign policy for America in the next four years."
H. W. Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. As it is known, before H. W. Bush became president, he was appointed as Reagan's Vice President. Just two months after assuming office of the presidency, Ronald Reagan was struck by an assassin's bullet which would have propelled H. W. Bush into the Oval Office seven years before his time if it weren't for 1/4 of an inch. The odd thing about this was that the would-be assassin, John W. Hinckley had scheduled dinner with Bush's son, Neil Bush, the very night that Reagan was shot. In addition to the irony, John W. Hinckley's father, a Texas oilman, was a long time friend of H. W. Bush. And while on the subject, it should be interesting to note that Bush's name, along with his then little-publicized nickname "Poppy", along with his address and phone number were found in the personal notebook of oil geologist George DeMohrenschildt, the last known close firend of Lee Harvey Oswald. Bush was director of the CIA for a year during the 1970's.
Senator Barry Goldwater warned in his 1979 book "With No Apologies", "David Rockefeller's newest international cabal [the Trilateral Commission]... is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States."
