Draft of Nov. 3, 2017 Word count: 5,068 by Mel Rockefeller with Jeff Gates During the week of October 23, 2017, I was twice contacted by the office of the Manhattan District Attorney in response to my attached email of October 16 regarding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and my 2004 encounter with his brother, Bob Weinstein. That ‘chance’ encounter demonstrates…
— by James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller with Jeff Gates More than a half-century ago, my father Nelson Rockefeller, then serving his first of four terms as Governor of New York (1959-1973), saw that education would be democracy’s “last line of defense” against those he described as sharing a “tireless genius for crisis.” The August 12th crisis in Charlottesville offers a…
Protecting the U.S. from the True Extremists by James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller with Jeff Gates NOTE: This lengthy analysis was posted on this site in mid-February 2017 and was quickly “disappeared” by unknown parties. Looking back at this analysis in the post-Charlottesville environment, it seemed for many reasons timely to re-post, including this prediction made six months beforehand (this appears…
