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INDEX
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ABC News, 164, 175, 198, 233
Abu Dhabi projects, United Arab Emirates, 304
Adelson, Sheldon, 299, 300
AEC. See Atomic Energy Commission
Afghanistan, 2
60
Aguas del Tunari, 222
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 281
airport construction projects, 5, 9, 10, 58, 60, 61, 122, 127, 208, 211, 235, 304, 305
Aitken, Robert, 269
Albania, 304, 306
Alexander, Donald A., 261
Algeria, 9, 78, 95, 101, 102, 103, 123, 305
Allard, Wayne, 171
Allende, Salvador, 97, 98, 118
Al Qaeda, 3, 228, 231, 242
American Enterprise Institute, 239, 309
American exceptionalism, 24, 74
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 41
Americans for Tax Reform, 11
Anderson, Eric, 295
Anderson, Jack, 79, 80, 82, 87, 97, 318, 329n80
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 125, 126
Anti-Terrorist Alert Center (ATAC), 181
antiwar protests, 84, 126, 267
Aqaba pipeline proposal
investigation of, 191
Iran-Contra affair and, 191–92
Rumsfeld as Shultz’s envoy to Saddam to lobby for, 168–71, 172–73, 188
Saddam’s rejection of, 192, 194, 197, 200–01, 202, 213
Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco), 53, 62, 63, 131
Arab League, 125, 127
Arab Spring, 5, 96
Arco, Idaho, National Reactor Testing Station, 10
Argentina, 98, 225
Armour Research Foundation, 84
Asian Development Bank, 112
Aspin, Les, 102, 161
Associated General Contractors of America, 27
Associated Press, 147, 271
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 209
Athens, Greece, subway system, 208
Atlantic (magazine), 280
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 68, 70–71, 72, 74, 104, 105, 120, 153, 154, 156, 157
Augustine, Norman, 292
Aziz, Tariq, 169
B-1 bombers, 160
Bacevich, Andrew J., 79
Baer, Robert, 99, 113
Baker, Howard, 131
Balfour, Guthrie and Company, 56
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, 307
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), 197–99, 200, 201
Barcelona, Summer Olympics (1992) in, 208
Barlett, Donald L., 244
Barraza, Marian, 264–65
Baum, Dan, 233
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, California, 9, 87
Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba, 78
Beard, Susan, 294
Becon Construction, 135, 204
Bechtel, Alice Elizabeth, 8, 23, 43–44
Bechtel, Brendan
background of, 295
as Bechtel head, 9, 295–96, 304
Bechtel, Clara Alice West, 20, 21, 43, 45–46
Bechtel, Elizabeth Bentz, 19
Bechtel, Elizabeth (“Betty”) Hogan, 92, 93
Bechtel, Gary, 93, 204, 207
Bechtel, John Moyer, 19
Bechtel, Kenneth, 8, 21, 22, 45, 53, 117
Bechtel, Laura Adeline Peart, 46, 55
Bechtel, Lauren, 93, 204–05
Bechtel, Nonie, 93, 205
Bechtel, Riley P., 93
ASEAN countries and, 209–10
background of, 205
Bechtel Enterprises Holdings (BEn) and, 218–19, 221, 225, 227
as Bechtel head, 9, 192, 197, 200, 204
Bechtel’s image and, 213
Bechtel stock value decline and, 226–28
biotech company Theranos and, 305
Boston’s Big Dig project and, 207, 208, 221–22
business philosophy of, 209
Clinton administration and, 214–15
criticism of, 223–24
diversification plan of, 217, 219
employees as hostages in Iraq and, after US invasion, 202
Export Council membership of, 229
hurricane Katrina cleanup and, 246, 247
international business sought by, 208–09
Iraq projects and, 192, 197, 200
Kuwait reconstruction and, 202–03
organizational changes by, 204–05, 212–13, 217–18, 219
partnerships and, 220–21
planetary exploration and, 295
privatization and, 202–03, 216–17
son Brendan as successor to, 9, 295
success of, 211
telecom and Internet start-ups and, 221, 226
wealth of, 9, 262
Bechtel, Shana, 93, 204
Bechtel, Stephen Davison (“Steve Sr.”)
ant-Communist views of, 64, 75, 84
anti-Jewish sentiment of, 124–25
as Bechtel head, 8, 44, 45, 50
Bechtel-McCone Corporation formed by, 49–50
birth and childhood of, 20, 21, 22, 45–46
business philosophy of, 49, 53, 59, 74, 85, 86, 109
business reputation of, 47, 95
as business visionary, 46–47, 49
as chief administrator of Six Companies, 47
Casey and, 132
Cold War arms race and, 70
college traffic accident and, 46
Colley’s murder in Iraq and, 77
cost-plus model of business contract invented by, 49, 262
death of, 204
difference between father and, 47
energy industry as focus of, 46–47, 48–49
Export-Import Bank position of, 95, 101, 102
father’s death and, 44
government contacts of, 58, 68, 74, 105
government regulation and, 149
growth of Bechtel under, 86
Hoover Dam construction and, 6, 38, 48
intelligence community and, 8, 61, 64, 65, 75–76
international business sought by, 53, 58, 59, 85, 208–09, 215
King Faisal of Iraq and, 5
marriage and family of, 46, 204
McCone’s bond with, 48, 49–50, 68, 82
military contracts and, 47–48, 83
military-industrial complex and, 83
Nixon and, 75, 95, 101
nuclear energy and, 70, 71
oil industry and, 48–49, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 124
Pacific Rim strategy of, 84
personality of, 45, 49–50
relationship between US presidents and, 8
Saudi Arabian projects and, 58, 59–62, 63, 75, 124, 209
Shultz and, 109, 112, 129, 135
son Steve Jr. as successor to, 8, 86
son Steve Jr. compared to, 91–92
son Steve Jr.’s relationship with, 93
SRI’s research and, 84
stock investments of, 53–54, 59, 219
turnkey contract used by, 49
wartiime experience of, 46, 47
Weinberger and, 117
Bechtel, Steve Jr., 11–12
antilabor stance of, 87
background and education of, 86, 92–93
as Bechtel head, 8–9, 86, 91–92, 93–94, 138, 143
business philosophy of, 91–92, 97, 104–05, 150, 159, 212, 213, 220, 309
Casey and, 132
Connally’s campaign against Reagan and, 130–32
Dad Bechtel’s biography as a self-made man embraced by, 11–12
energy industry as focus of, 86–87
father Steve Sr. compared to, 91–92
father Steve Sr.’s relationship with, 93
government contacts of, 99, 104–05
Iran-Contra affair and, 192
Iraq pipeline project and, 192
Jubail new city project, Saudi Arabia, and, 122–23
Libya and, 94
marriage and children of, 92, 93, 197, 204
Middle East projects and, 87
multinational approach to projects under, 151–52, 153
Nixon and, 87–88, 89, 90, 104, 143
nuclear plant contracts under, 151
nuclear power safety and, 149–50
persona
lity of, 86, 91, 92, 212
Reagan and, 130, 133, 135, 143, 150, 152, 151, 158–59, 214
rebuff of an interview request by, 11
retirement of, 204
revolving door with Washington and, 148–49, 152, 158–59
Shultz and, 110, 113–14, 121–22, 127, 129, 135, 143, 148
son Riley as successor to, 9, 192, 197, 200, 204
stock ownership by, 227
Treasury Department position of, 95
wealth of, 262
Weinberger and, 117, 119, 148
Bechtel, Warren Augustine (“Dad”)
background and childhood of, 19–20
birth of the modern Bechtel company and, 22, 23
business reputation of, 25–26, 38, 42, 47
cattle business and, 20, 23
children and family life of, 20, 21, 22, 23–24, 45–46
death of, 8, 43–44
difference between son Steve Sr. and, 47
early construction work of, 19, 20, 21, 22
first railroad subcontract of, 22–23
founding of Bechtel by, 8
Hoover Dam project and, 26–27, 38, 40, 41, 42
Horatio Alger–like biography of being a self-made man used for, 11–12, 24
marriage of, 20
move west by, 20–22
new western industrialism and, 12, 22–23
oil and gas construction contracts of, 26
partners of, 22–23, 26
railroad construction work of, 19, 20–23, 24, 26, 47, 217
road and highway construction by, 24–26, 46, 53, 60, 61, 122, 306–07, 308
son Steve Sr. as successor to, 8, 44, 45
Southern Pacific Railroad job of, 20, 21
Soviet visit of, 42–44
success of, 23–24, 26, 45
Bechtel, Warren Jr., 8, 20, 21, 22, 45
Bechtel (Bechtel corporation in general)
American exceptionalism belief of, 24, 74
antiregulatory, antigovernment stance of, 11
Arab boycott of trade with Israel and, 125–27, 128–29, 146
bad publicity for, 120–21, 123–24, 127, 147–49, 213
as company that can “build anything, any place, any time,” 6
conflict-of-interest questions about, 72, 102, 103, 147–49, 173, 192, 199, 207, 237, 307
cost-plus model of business contract used by, 49, 63, 233, 262
criminal cases connected with employees of, 120
Dad Bechtel’s first subcontract and birth of, 22
