US Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson is known for saying that what's good for which company is also good for his country?
"such a situation ""because for years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa."" That statement has frequently been misquoted as ""What's good for General Motors is good for the country."" Although Wilson tried for years to correct the misquote, he was reported, at the time of his retirement in 1957, to have accepted the popular impression. Wilson was finally confirmed as Secretary of Defense by a Senate vote of 77 to 6 and began his duties in the Pentagon with his standing somewhat diminished by the confirmation debate. Both Wilson and"
"the Chemical Weapons Convention, and catalyzing President Clinton's historic 2000 visit to India, among other priorities. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has cited BENS as a “cutting-edge example as to what can be done when the business community becomes involved in supporting our diplomatic and development efforts,” and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted “BENS has identified problems and proposed solutions that have saved the taxpayers billions of dollars and made our military a more effective fighting force.”[https://fas.org/sgp/news/2010/04/gates-export.html<nowiki>[ii]</nowiki>][http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/01/clintons_remarks_at_business_executives_for_national_security_gala_99352.html<nowiki>[iii]</nowiki>] Weiss started writing on national security issues in 1983 and has continued to write regularly on a wide"
"Charles Erwin Wilson Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961) was an American engineer and businessman who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Known as ""Engine Charlie"", he was previously the president and chief executive officer of General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly. Wilson was born in Minerva, Ohio, the son of Thomas E. and Rosalind (née Unkefer) Wilson. After earning a degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1909, he joined the Westinghouse"
"Charles Erwin Wilson Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961) was an American engineer and businessman who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Known as ""Engine Charlie"", he was previously the president and chief executive officer of General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly. Wilson was born in Minerva, Ohio, the son of Thomas E. and Rosalind (née Unkefer) Wilson. After earning a degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1909, he joined the Westinghouse"
"the military, political, social, and economic climate of countries that affect vital American interests. Our mission is to see that our leaders know about what may happen in the world beyond our borders and about the forces and factors at work there. The American taxpayer should know we do this job well, despite our problems. Wilson is also credited with this statement: ""Ninety percent of intelligence comes from open sources. The other ten percent, the clandestine work, is just the more dramatic. The real intelligence hero is Sherlock Holmes, not James Bond."" Responding to the precarious health condition of his"
"need to stop the war on coal"", in an interview on September 28, 2012. His spokesman said the candidate was being sarcastic, calling the comments ""the farthest thing from the truth. Charlie has fought against both administrations, both the Bush administration and the Obama administration in the battle for coal."" When asked about the Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care law, Wilson said he viewed the tax as a way of encouraging people to buy insurance and was quoted saying: ""I look at it as a way of directing people into what would be a good decision for"
"used by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, Charles Erwin Wilson, in 1954. He used it to describe the New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons, rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check. Today, the phrase is used to mean a greater worth for the money used. William Safire discussed ""bang for the buck"" in his 1968 book, ""New Language of Politics"". Safire stated that U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson used the phrase in 1954 to summarize the New Look policy. The New Look, a 1950s national security policy"
"his reelection, Wilson addressed a conference on social insurance at which he spoke of the issue as ""the dominant interest of our own time"". Wilson praised the conference as exemplifying ""social understanding"", which he identified as ""one of the best elements of social insurance ... an interchange of views and a comprehension of interests which for a long time was only too rare"". Wilson objected to Britain's seizure of mail from neutral ships and its blacklisting of firms that did any business with Germany. Wilson insisted a league of nations was the solution to ending the war. Wilson found it"
"The best defense is a good offense ""The best defense is a good offense"" is an adage that has been applied to many fields of endeavor, including games and military combat. It is also known as the strategic offensive principle of war. Generally, the idea is that proactivity (a strong offensive action) instead of a passive attitude will preoccupy the opposition and ultimately hinder its ability to mount an opposing counterattack, leading to a strategic advantage. George Washington wrote in 1799: ""…make them believe, that offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means"
"not conceive of such a situation ""because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa"". Later this statement was often misquoted, suggesting that Wilson had said simply, ""What's good for General Motors is good for the country."" At the time, GM was one of the largest employers in the world – only Soviet state industries employed more people. In 1955, General Motors became the first American corporation to pay taxes of over $1 billion. By 1958, the divisional distinctions within GM began to blur with the availability of high-performance engines"
"for American Manufacturing. China claims technical cooperation and other economic and trade cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises are completely based on the voluntary principle of contractual behavior and both companies have obtained practical benefits. Former US Treasury Secretary for Clinton and economist Larry Summers once said, “China’s technological progress is coming from terrific entrepreneurs who are getting the benefit of huge government investment in basic science. It’s coming from an educational system that’s privileging excellence, concentrating on science and technology. That’s where their leadership in some technologies is coming from, not from taking a stake in some US company.”"
"instead he said, ""There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right"". He realized he had chosen the wrong words when critics lashed out at his rhetoric. Wilson sent a protest to Germany which demanded that the German government ""take immediate steps to prevent the recurrence"" of incidents like the sinking of the ""Lusitania"". In response, Bryan, who believed that Wilson had placed the defense of American trade rights above neutrality,"
"workplace safety, but also the minimum wage, the eight-hour day, workers' compensation, Social Security the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. American corporations responded by shifting production to developing nations where such protections did not exist. Loomis elaborates: In 1997, economist Jeffrey Sachs said, ""My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few."" Sachs and other proponents of free trade and the global movement of capital cite the economic theory of comparative advantage, which states that international trade will, in the long run, make all parties better off. The theory holds"
"father: Charles Edward Wilson Pierce. Charles Wilson died in Westchester County, New York, in 1972, and his remains are interred in a private mausoleum in the Kensico Cemetery. He was nicknamed ""Electric Charlie"" to avoid being confused with Charles Erwin Wilson, US Secretary of Defense under President Dwight Eisenhower and earlier the Chairman of the General Motors Corporation, who was nicknamed ""Engine Charlie."" (This nicknaming meme included at least one other contemporary American industrialist, Charles E. Sorensen, who was ""Cast-Iron Charlie."") Charles Edward Wilson (businessman) Charles Edward Wilson (November 18, 1886 in New York City – January 3, 1972 in"
"] <nowiki>http://www.bens.org/about-bens/our-mission</nowiki> ] Weiss, ""Being Dead is Bad for Business"", 322. ] Weiss, ""Being Dead is Bad for Business"", 355. ] Stanley A. Weiss, “Chemical Weapons: A Valuable Treaty to Ratify,” ""International Herald Tribune"" (September 11, 1996) ] Stanley A. Weiss, “Don’t Let The Crisis in Ukraine Damage Decades of Nuclear Cooperation,” ""The Huffington Post"" (May 18, 2015) ] Weiss, ""Being Dead is Bad for Business"", 356. ]<nowiki>https://books.google.com/books?id=0TTfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA337&lpg=PA337&dq=business+executives+for+national+security+india&source=bl&ots=JLvxrZG4bM&sig=QZxsa7Ut2trU2dc5zf9i7ATSXac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik5fWbgODQAhUFDcAKHRLJBHwQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=business%20executives%20for%20national%20security%20india&f=false</nowiki> ] <nowiki>http://www.beocalliance.org/nj-business-force</nowiki> ] <nowiki>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanley-weiss/hiroshima-saved-my-life_b_10147908.html</nowiki> ] Weiss, ""Being Dead is Bad for Business"", 311 ] <nowiki>http://time.com/4584919/barry-commoner-shocking-ad/</nowiki> ] <nowiki>http://educationnext.org/unrequited-promise/</nowiki> ] Weiss, ""Being Dead is Bad for Business"", 209-221 ] <nowiki>http://www.inc.com/magazine/19830301/9828.html</nowiki> ] <nowiki>https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/28/opinion/28iht-edstan.html</nowiki> ] <nowiki>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/burma-myanmar/2014-01-17/how-invest-myanmar</nowiki>"
"to Germany. Wilson coined the phrase ""pretty good club"" while describing the foreign service. When he was the ambassador to Germany he sought to emphasize the positive aspects of Nazi Germany. He accused the American press of being ""Jewish controlled"" and of singing a ""hymn of hate while efforts are made over here to build a better future."" He praised Hitler as the man who has pulled his people from moral and economic despair into the state of pride and evident prosperity they now enjoyed."" Yale awarded Wilson an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1939. Bryant College awarded him"
"insisted that all government actions be neutral, and that the belligerents must respect that neutrality according to the norms of international law. Wilson told the Senate in August 1914 when the war began that the United States, ""must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another."" He was ambiguous whether he meant the United States as a nation or meant all Americans as individuals. Wilson has been accused of violating his"
"to the U.S. State Department, ""Democracy is the one national interest that helps to secure all the others. Democratically governed nations are more likely to secure the peace, deter aggression, expand open markets, promote economic development, protect American citizens, combat international terrorism and crime, uphold human and worker rights, avoid humanitarian crises and refugee flows, improve the global environment, and protect human health."" According to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, ""Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other."" In one view"
"$22.7 million"", yet after the war, GM collected some $33 million in ""war reparations"" because the Allies had bombed its German facilities. At one point GM had become the largest corporation registered in the United States, in terms of its revenues as a percent of GDP. In 1953, Charles Erwin Wilson, then GM president, was named by Eisenhower as Secretary of Defense. When he was asked during the hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee if as secretary of defense he could make a decision adverse to the interests of General Motors, Wilson answered affirmatively but added that he could"
"that the United States, ""must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another."" He was ambiguous whether he meant the United States as a nation or meant all Americans as individuals. Wilson has been accused of violating his own rule of neutrality. Later that month he explained himself privately to his top foreign policy advisor Colonel House, who recalled the episode later: Apart from an Anglophile element supporting Britain, public opinion"
"that for the last eight years, we've had that philosophy very much prevalent in the Bush administration that if you're on the side of good, at least as you perceive it, then you can do no evil ... That's what's so great about this character or about this movie for me and why I wanted to do it ... This is a guy who recognizes his own capacity for evil and I think that's exciting in a sort of popular culture kind of way. After all, the most famous line from Wolverine, the comics, is ""I am the best there"
"Bad for Business"", 242 ] <nowiki>http://www.bens.org/Leadership/StanleyWeiss</nowiki> ] <nowiki>http://americanditchley.org/advisory.htm</nowiki> ] <nowiki>http://www.bens.org/Leadership/StanleyWeiss</nowiki> ] <nowiki>http://www.bens.org/Leadership/StanleyWeiss</nowiki> Stanley A. Weiss Stanley A. Weiss is an American business executive, founder of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a writer on international affairs. He has been described as a “self-made man” and a “multi-faceted . . . multi-movied bon vivant.”[https://www.amazon.com/Being-Dead-Business-Stanley-Weiss/dp/1633310124/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479854588&sr=8-1- <nowiki>[i]</nowiki>] Inspired by the film ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"" to search for gold in Mexico in the 1950s, Weiss became a successful entrepreneur in the mining industry before turning to civic engagement as co-founder of the Citizen's Party and founder of BENS. Under Weiss,"
"less by conquering states than we are by failing ones. We are menaced less by fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies in the hands of the embittered few,"" and required ""defending the United States, the American people, and our interests at home and abroad by identifying and destroying the threat before it reaches our borders."" Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld remarked thus in 2006, in a statement taken to reflect his view of the Doctrine's efficacy: ""If I were rating, I would say we probably deserve a D or D+ as a country as how well we're doing in the"
"it his business to study the state in theory and in practice. The person who is in the weakest position to attack the state is he who has largely ignored its potential for evil while strongly backing its expansion on humanitarian grounds and is only stirred to protest when he falls foul of it through his own negligence. That exactly describes Wilson's position. In his book he tried to evade his own inconsistencies by arguing that most of his income tax went on defence spending induced by Cold War paranoia. But then he had not paid his state income taxes"
"The United States had a moral responsibility to enter the war, he proclaimed, to make the world safe for democracy. The future of the world was being determined on the battlefield, and American national interest demanded a voice. Wilson's definition of the situation won wide acclaim, and, indeed, has shaped America's role in world and military affairs ever since. Wilson saw that if Germany would win, the consequences would be bad for the United States. Germany would dominate Europe, which in turn controlled much of the world through colonies. The solution was ""peace without victory"" Wilson said. He meant a"
"Eisenhower selected him as Secretary of Defense in January 1953. Wilson's nomination sparked a controversy that erupted during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, based on his large stockholdings in General Motors. Reluctant to sell the stock, valued at the time at more than $2.5 million (or about $24 million in 2018), Wilson agreed to do so under committee pressure. During the hearings, when asked if he could make a decision as Secretary of Defense that would be adverse to the interests of General Motors, Wilson answered affirmatively. But he added that he could not conceive of"
"on his work on nuclear non-proliferation at Harvard, in 1982, Weiss founded Business Executives for National Security (BENS),[http://www.bens.org/about-bens/our-mission <nowiki>[xiv]</nowiki>] a non-partisan organization that represents the perspective of business leaders on national security issues, and whose membership includes a number of leading American CEOs, entrepreneurs, and policy analysts. In a February 2, 1983 interview on the ""Today"" show, host Jane Pauley asked Weiss why senior business leaders were raising their voices on issues related to nuclear war.[xv] His reply later became his signature catchphrase: “Being dead is bad for business.” BENS initially focused largely on arms control and defense procurement. In"
"when a society is in crisis and public goods such as defense are most needed. Wartime leaders invoke their God's protection and claim that their society's most hallowed traditions are at stake. For example, according to President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address during the American Civil War, the Union was fighting so ""that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"". Such voluntary, if exaggerated, exhortations complement forcible measures—taxation and conscription—to motivate people to make sacrifices for their cause. The Pareto optimum provision of a public good in a society is where the"
"but found spotty compliance in actual Pentagon research. After he left the Pentagon, Wilson returned to Michigan, where he devoted his time to business and family affairs. He died in Norwood, Louisiana, and was interred at the Acacia Park Cemetery, a Masonic cemetery in Beverly Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Charles Erwin Wilson should not be confused with Charles Edward Wilson, who was the CEO of General Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The two were respectively nicknamed ""Engine Charlie"" and ""Electric Charlie"" so that they could be more easily distinguished."
"determined to kill it off once and for all in Britain. As Energy Minister, Wilson always advocated what he termed a ""balanced"" power generation policy—including nuclear, coal pollution mitigation, natural gas and renewables—which eventually became the catch-phrase of government after his departure. Speaking at the Institution of Civil Engineers in June 2008, he joked that if he had remained in politics, he would have been ""knocked down in the rush"" as his former foes on the nuclear issue—including the likes of Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett—adopted the same position. As trade minister and subsequently, Wilson took a great deal of"
"security is a world of well-governed democratic states."" Tony Blair has also claimed the theory is correct. Some fear that the democratic peace theory may be used to justify wars against nondemocracies in order to bring lasting peace, in a ""democratic crusade"" (Chan 1997, p. 59). Woodrow Wilson in 1917 asked Congress to declare war against Imperial Germany, citing Germany's sinking of American ships due to unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann telegram, but also stating that ""A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations"" and ""The world must be made safe"
"cure the nation's ills, and especially against the idea that zero net economic growth might be a means to save society and protect the environment."" Perhaps the most accurate prediction was made by Roy Ash, co-founder and president of Litton Industries, during a spirited discussion with Peter G. Peterson, Robert Roosa and Roberto Campos. He proclaimed, ""state capitalism may well be a form for world business in the world ahead; that the western countries are trending toward a more unified and controlled economy, having a greater effect on all business; and that the communist nations are moving more and more"
"Mill) and in the United States for much of the 20th century (e.g., Henry Ford and Secretary of State Cordell Hull), believed that free trade promoted peace. Woodrow Wilson included free-trade rhetoric in his ""Fourteen Points"" speech of 1918: According to economic historian Douglas Irwin, a common myth about U.S. trade policy is that low tariffs harmed American manufacturers in the early 19th century and then that high tariffs made the United States into a great industrial power in the late 19th century. A review by the ""Economist"" of Irwin's 2017 book ""Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade"