From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
Subject: Re: Masons
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:33:40 GMT

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In <1j4cq2INN35c@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> der2@po.CWRU.Edu (David E. Rives) writes:

>I am asking the audience of these two newsgroups about the 
>"secret" organization of the Masons. There was some discussion of this
>group last year in one of these two newsgroups (as these are the only 2
>that I read) and I am interested in the information again. 

>It seems that someone posted information clearing up some of the myths 
>about the Masons. If anyone knows ANYTHING about the Masons, or has
>some of those previous articles, I would appreciate it if they forwarded 
>the articles or the info to me. As to not clutter the newsgroups with
>perhaps "dated" discussion, I would like to re-emphasize forwarding the 
>info to me... unless someone truly wants to post. 

    Hmm... I think that that was something I wrote. If you're really
interested, I could try to dig it up again. If you have any specific
questions, just write me. (ptrei@mitre.org)

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In <1993Jan19.174117.2914@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu 
writes:

>David, I don't know much about the Masons except for the ffact that it seems
>as though every President of the US has been one. It also has been documented,
>can't remember where though, that the Masons have a major controlling factor 
>in America.(eg. Rockfellers, etc.)

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In <1993Jan20.163855.9773@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
(Ted Frank) writes:

>I'm not a big Mason fan, but this is completely false.  No one has
>thought this since the racist Know-Nothings in the 1840's.

By no means all, but a non-trivial proportion:

George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan,
Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, 
William Howard Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford.
 
    Ford never went past the first degree (if he was made a 33rd, it
was in name only.) 

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In article <1993Jan20.221430.21840@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> johnson@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (Art Johnson) writes:

>     So what degree Mason is Bill Clinton? Al Gore? George Bush? And if  
>both Republican and Democratic high government officials all belong to the  
>secret society of Masons, does that mean that both parties are nothing  
>more than elaborate front organizations used (founded?) by the Masons to  
>hide their secret machinations? But wait! If we know about it, how can it  
>be secret anymore? But what if that's exactly what the Masons _want_ us to  
>think?........ :-)

     Clinton has never been a Mason, but as a teenager was a member of
DeMolay, the male youth auxilary.

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					W .'. Peter Trei
					ptrei@mitre.org

					Presiding Master of Wilder Lodge,
					Leominster, MA 

					Editor: Masonic Digest

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