Re: Support for Hy from on-high

[RC Macaulay]

Jones Beene wrote.. >Perhaps Richard -our Texas colleague, who is an ethical businessman and closer to this than anyone I know of, can set me straight if I have been too harsh on EDS. Jones, at 78 years , I question my sense of ethics more than in the past .We do have a "code of conduct and ethics" published on our website more as a reminder to ourselves that the world is watching rather than convince anyone else. I gather that there is an objection to Vernon Jordan serving on the board of BLP. Mike Carrell makes a good case for his support for BLP. They need all the help they can get in encouragement. Personally, I would have looked at marketing the ideas different but , who am I to question sucess in venture start-ups. BLP has their own dragons to slay to maintain focus and credibility and PRODUCE!!.The first thing I would do with BLP is CHANGE THEIR NAME PRONTO!  Negative connotations within the name is gonna kill them. EDS was a Ross Perot venture. Had good success and profits from a well managed firm. Sold to General Motors and later spun off as a stand alone firm. Ross Perot ran a spoiling campaign for Prez. He lost .but, what the heck. He wound up cashing in EDS to GM. Started the Reliance venture in Ft. Worth and wound up with the numero uno commercial airport plus all the land goodies surrounding the airport. Plus some heavy Clinton influence with FAA and all the helpings that FAA money can throw at something like Stapelton, Reliance , et/al. with the attendant liscenses for commercial airports which makes WalMart smile. Meanwhile back at the ranch, Vernon Jordan , the consumate politico buddy of Clinton, sits like a 1000 # gorilla . on any board he choses while he is not finding a job for Monica Lewinski. I would say that if Jones was a bit of a skeptic on the matter of musical chairs of board member at BLP.  Who am I to question ?Down here in Texas, where no man's life nor property is safe while the legislators are in session, nothing much happens outside of a good barroom brawl with shotguns, machetes and pistolas. .. err ..well ... maybe a gal may bite you on the leg.. but that comes with hanging out in saloons.  We tried to make Enron operate like the rest of the US corporations and all we got for it was bad press. Nobody appreciated our 21st century Enron version of Jesse James old time train robbery thrills. Richard