Reply #113: Thanks, and Please Note that...

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... former State Street Chairman and CEO Marshall N. Carter is now the head of the NYSE regulatory arm.

His father, Lt. General Marshall S. Carter, was Deputy Director of the CIA and Director of the NSA (and history records that it was he who showed President Kennedy the first photographic evidence of the missile bunkers in Cuba).

The younger Carter refused to let David A. Smith or his partner, Patrick Jorstad, speak at the 2000 Annual Meeting - and the company has refused for more than 6 years to turn over the videotape of Carter's outrageous conduct: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=videotape+carter&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=shareholdersonline.org&as_rights=&safe=images

The younger Carter is co-author, along with State Street executive Bill Shipman, of the principal book on Social Security privatization: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=carter+shipman+%22state+street%22+promises+to+keep+social+security

Shipman, Carter's co-author, is also co-chair of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Privatization: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=cato+shipman+social+security

And Bush has said - as recently as the last month - that he plans to make another go at Social Security.