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Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965





Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965



By Edward Ngai



Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s love of practical jokes has been well-documented: he’s admitted to playing “a lot of pranks in high school” and his family teased him for it on late-night television.



As a freshman at Stanford in fall 1965, Romney put his pranking skills to work in service of one of the nation’s great college rivalries.



Romney is named and quoted in this Daily article from November 18, 1965. In it, he details foiling Cal's planned Big Game pranks. (The Stanford Daily)





In his one year at Stanford, Romney was very involved in the Axe Committee, tasked with guarding the Axe, which goes to the Big Game winner, and promoting school spirit.



According to a Stanford Daily  article from 1965, Romney, then an 18-year-old living in the freshman dorm Rinconada, went to the UC Berkeley campus on the night of November 16, four days before the 68th Big Game.



Impersonating members of Rally Committee, Cal’s student support club similar to Stanford’s Axe Committee, Romney and two of his freshman dormmates successfully diverted the attention of Cal fans away from their original plan to paint Hoover Tower blue and gold.



Romney, thinly veiling his identity by using the pseudonym Tim Yenmor, instead proposed stealing a wheel for the Stanford cannon. One dormmate who remembers the scene recalls that he made that wheel out to be far more sacred to the Stanford faithful than it actually was.



“We learned all their plans,” Romney is quoted as saying. “Even if they found out we were from Stanford, we still have the advantage. They will either have to change their plans or risk being caught.”



After Romney’s efforts, security was stepped up around the Band Shack, where the cannon was kept, and precautions were taken to guard against some other pranks, or RFs, that Cal’s Rally Comm was planning. It’s not clear whether Cal students followed through with those plans.



In their book, “The Real Romney,” authors Michael Kranish and Scott Helman discuss the events leading up to the 1965 Big Game.



“[Romney] figured the axe heist might be discussed and decided to go undercover,” they wrote. “In faded Levi’s jeans, a heavy wool work jacket, and well-worn moccasins, Mitt infiltrated the rival campus.”



Referred to in the 1965 article as the “head of the Stanford special police force,” the young Romney apparently returned to Stanford with some vital intelligence before hitting the beat himself, guarding the Axe and the Lake Lagunita bonfire leading up to the Big Game.











Ted Rudow III



Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff."

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Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.

Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth. "Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club.  While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. Bohemian Club members as former President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff.    

Both my Grandfather were Masons. The highest, Mason 33 Degrees, Grand Cross included James McCurdy, my Grandfather, Eugene Rudow, best friend.They both went to M.I.T. and built their houses side by side on Mercer Island in Lake Washington near Seattle,Wash. He built the first floating bridge in America. Some noted leaders reported are: Norman Vincent Peale, (Scottish Rite) George Washington, Harry Truman, Newt Gingrich(33)Skull and Bones), Bill Clinton