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	Rohatyn's family lived in ] from 1934 to 1942. They fled the ] occupation, escaping the country with forged papers. He claims he is alive today because a guard chose to light his ] and wave his family on rather than scrutinize their paperwork.		Rohatyn's family lived in ] from 1934 to 1942. They fled the ] occupation, escaping the country with forged papers. He claims he is alive today because a guard chose to light his ] and wave his family on rather than scrutinize their paperwork.

	He received his ] degree in ] from ] in ] in 1949 following which he joined the New York office of the investment bank ] under ]. He was made partner in the firm in 1961 and later became Managing Director. Rohatyn became widely known in the 1970s for successfully restructuring New York City's debt and resolving the city's fiscal crisis.		He received his ] degree in ] from ] in ] in 1949 following which he joined the New York office of the investment bank ] under ]. He was made partner in the firm in 1961 and later became Managing Director. Rohatyn became widely known in the 1970s for successfully restructuring New York City's debt and resolving the city's fiscal crisis.

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	]Today, U.S. 2004 Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. issued a world-wide challenge to former U.S. Ambassador to France, banker Felix Rohatyn, to state whether his use of LaRouche's widely circulated proposal for "A New Bretton Woods" means that he is supporting LaRouche's proposal, or attempting to make a delphic end-run against LaRouche's growing influence world-wide on this matter.
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	To understand the significance of Rohatyn's action, the reader will need to know the following essential facts about Rohatyn himself.

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	As the global economic system careens out of control in a systemic breakdown crisis, a paradoxical, but most lawful phenomenon has begun to occur. Leading figures in the Anglo-American establishment have determined, that they must steal some of the fundamental policies put forward by Lyndon LaRouche, and put the policies forward publicly, in a twisted and delphic form, while excluding LaRouche from active participation in relevant deliberations. LaRouche is the one man who had forecast this systemic crisis, more than seven years ago. His policies would work, solving the crisis in the interest of the General Welfare as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, but his personal involvement in such deliberations will be critical to their ultimate success.

	On Aug. 4, an insightful figure in the British institutional establishment, had tipped EIR off, that precisely this would happen. According to this figure, the highest levels of the Anglo-American establishment are resolved that "LaRouche must be traduced, traduced, and traduced again," since he "represents the reality of the economic situation which they are determined to deny. They cannot afford to praise even the slightest thing LaRouche does, because then the totality of what he is doing, might become credible." Yet at the same time, he went on, "they will have no problem in stealing this or that item from LaRouche, while denying him any credit. Paradoxically, this will increase his influence."

	So, on Aug. 18, top Wall Street banker Felix Rohatyn, Clinton's Ambassador to France, authored a commentary, in the City of London's main daily, the Financial Times, entitled "Back to Bretton Woods." In it, he called for "a new Bretton Woods, convened by the President of the U.S.," the which would be "a serious response to real issues." Any informed reader would have known, that Lyndon LaRouche has been intensively organizing precisely for such an initiative, even naming his Year 2000 Presidential campaign organization, "LaRouche's Committee for a New Bretton Woods." The LaRouche "New Bretton Woods" has been formally backed by leading national legislators in Italy, by state legislatures in several American states, and by prominent economists and political figures in countries around the world.

	Since Rohatyn is undoubtedly such an informed reader, and is aware of LaRouche's global impact, his omission of the name "LaRouche" from his commentary is perhaps more important than the text itself, and a sure indication that what Rohatyn is intending is something less than kosher.

	That Felix Rohatyn himself would be doing this, is a most telling sign of the desperation in Wall Street-City of London circles, who can no longer deny the extent of the global collapse. This is a time when it is being openly acknowled

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Felix G. Rohatyn (born May 29, 1928 in Vienna, Austria) is a Jewish-American businessman and investment banker with a long and distinguished career in public service. He is married to Elizabeth Fly Rohatyn and has three children.

Career in finance

Rohatyn's family lived in France from 1934 to 1942. They fled the Nazi occupation, escaping the country with forged papers. He claims he is alive today because a guard chose to light his cigarette and wave his family on rather than scrutinize their paperwork.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1949 following which he joined the New York office of the investment bank Lazard Frères under André Meyer. He was made partner in the firm in 1961 and later became Managing Director. Rohatyn became widely known in the 1970s for successfully restructuring New York City's debt and resolving the city's fiscal crisis.

Diplomacy and foreign policy credentials

Rohatyn served as United States Ambassador to France from 1997 to 2000 during the second Clinton Administration and is a Commander in the French Legion of Honor. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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