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dgauss

(1,482 posts) Mon Dec 26, 2016, 02:19 AM Dec 2016

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Rex Tillerson's favorite book in college: Atlas Shrugged [View all]

Not a good sign.

Mentioned in this artical in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/rex-tillerson-from-a-corporate-oil-sovereign-to-the-state-department

And also in this book:
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

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Rex Tillerson's favorite book in college: Atlas Shrugged [View all] dgauss Dec 2016 OP

So greed safeinOhio Dec 2016 #1

Another version of kipling's "the white man's burden" bhikkhu Dec 2016 #2

Not fair Bucky Dec 2016 #8

In context, it was about playing the suffering unappreciated hero bhikkhu Dec 2016 #9

Yeah, I teach that poem every year in my world history class Bucky Dec 2016 #13

Of course MFM008 Dec 2016 #3

oy vey. how twisted is his soul? pansypoo53219 Dec 2016 #4

It only takes two eyes and a brain to read Atlas Shrugged. Gravitycollapse Dec 2016 #5

It's such a bad book MountCleaners Dec 2016 #6

well, of course it is Bucky Dec 2016 #7

What do all the Trump nominees have in common? smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #10

He'll find a soul mate in Paul Ryan lunatica Dec 2016 #11

Selfishness. Objectivism. Lack of empathy. Roland99 Dec 2016 #12

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