Malcolm "Steve" Forbes, publisher, Presidential candidate
7/18/1947 1:35 AM EDT (05:35 UT), Morristown, NJ: 40N48 74W29
マルコルム・・・フォーブズ、出版者(大統領候補)
チャートの主は出版王であるフォーブス社創業のマルコルム・フォーブスの息子であるマルコルム・スティーブ・フォーブスである。
父親が創り上げた大会社の御曹司であり、父親の死後、その社長の座を譲り受けた。恵まれた環境で苦労知らずに育ったようである。詳しくは英文資料を参照してもらいたい。
ラグナロードの金星と２、５室支配の水星が２室の金銭、富の部屋でコンジャンクトしている。また２室には１１室支配の木星がアスペクトしている。木星は凶星化しているが、１１室の支配星として見ると、富に限っては２室を強化している。木星はドシュタナの支配星で、ドシュタナに在住しており、他の惑星からのアスペクトを受けない為、ヴィーパリータラージャヨーガを形成しているとも取れる。
３室には定座の月と４室支配の太陽、９、１０室支配のラージャヨーガカラカの土星がコンジャンクトしており、３室の象意を良くしている。情報の収集、分配を担う出版（雑誌、新聞）やＴＶ、ラジオなどのマスメディア、その情報のコンテンツを担う芸能関係によい配置である。３室でラージャヨーガを形成していることを考えると、出版界の有力企業を相続したことが分かる。
相続がどこに現われているか考えると、３室は８室から８室目であり、８室の本質を表す為、相続という象意が生じていると考えることができる。これは検証が必要である。
また太陽、月はヴァルゴッタマで、ナヴァムシャでは１、２室支配の土星と４、１１室支配の火星が相互アスペクトでダナヨーガ、３室（出版）で金星が高揚し、３室支配の木星が９室支配の水星と５室でコンジャンクトする。
ラシチャートでは７室の支配星が１室に在住し、配偶者が支配的という配置を形成する。蟹座に３室には父親と母親のカラカである太陽、月、そして、４室と９室の支配星が在住する為、３室はほとんど両親のカラカによって形成されている。彼は恵まれた環境（２室の水星、金星）に生まれ、かなり過保護な環境で生育されたがそれには逆にそうした環境が彼には困難（３室）をもたらしたと思われる。双子座にはもともとコミュニケーション、出版という象意があり、ここで金星と水星とラージャヨーガを形成している為、３室ばかりでなく、２室双子座も情報の媒体である出版業界への適性を示している。
彼についてのデータが不十分で十分に検証できないが彼は大統領候補にもなっている。
更に分割図を見ていくと、ドレッカーナやドヴァダシャームシャで太陽、月が蟹座に在住し、ショダシャームシャやヴィムシャームシャ、トリムシャームシャでは牡牛座に在住で、月が高揚しており、彼が非常に毛並みのよい素直な人物であり、基本的に世間知らずな傾向があることを示している。
彼のデータが少ないので検証材料が少ないが、ここでは出版界の大御所の社長が３室に惑星集中していることに注目したい。
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Malcolm "Steve" Forbes, publisher, Presidential candidate, XI: 2. 7/18/1947 1:35 AM EDT (05:35 UT), Morristown, NJ: 40N48 74W29 マルコルム・・・フォーブズ、出版者(大統領候補)
Steve Forbes' Skeleton Closet Click on the allegation of your choice: Sheltered Rich Kid -- Failed Manager -- Draft Dodger -- Sleazy land deals -- Hiding His Tax Returns -- Waffling Like A Politician -- How Rich Is He? (really, really rich) -- Stalking horse for supply siders -- The Mysterious Break-In -- Self-Interest in Flat Tax Proposal -- Family -- Wilder Stuff: Involved in Vincent Foster Death Coverup? --Quotes -- Sources
Quotes
"My father once spent $5 million on a birthday party for himself in Tangiers. Why can't I spend a few more running for President?" -- Steve Forbes "I am a male. I am white, a Protestant, an Ivy Leaguer, rich, business-oriented, without practical political experience. It couldn't be worse, but at least I'd like to be free to fall down on my own arse, without any help from conservatives." -- Steve Forbes "Nobody wants to get chased down the street by a mad billionaire with a squash racket." -- Alex Castellanos (Phil Gramm's media adviser) "In their late 40s, Forbes mens' hormones seem to change. Pop started riding motorcycles. I would say running for president qualifies." -- Steve Forbes
A Sheltered Life of Wealth
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Jr., (our candidate's full name) grew up on "Timberfield", the family's 40-acre estate in Far Hills, New Jersey. His wealthy and flamboyant father -- Malcolm Forbes -- dabbled in politics (two failed races for Governor) and forced his kids to play the bagipipes -- while wearing kilts -- for guests on Highlander, the family yacht. Steve went to boarding school in Massachusetts (The Brooks School) and then Princeton, the most effete of the Ivy League schools. Steve Forbes, now 48, began working for his father's magazine at age 22, and has been living on the family homestead since 24. He inherited Forbes Magazine and now pays himself over $1.2 million per year. He has never had to work for anyone -- except Dad -- in his life. Father Malcolm was a showman who knew to to make money (off his celebrity and aura of wealth) by very publicly spending money, riding balloons and motorcycles, collecting Faberge eggs and throwing a famous 70th birthday party with 600 belly dancers, 200 Berber horsemen, three jets to bring guests, and pal Elizabeth Taylor in attendance. Less publicly, he was widely rumored to be having homosexual affairs in his later years, not that there's anything wrong with that. (His wife divorced him in 1985.) In fact, a young man named George Warnock, claiming to have slept with Malcolm Forbes, has written allegedly blackmailing letters to Malcolm, and more recently, Steve. Steve Forbes confirms that he received such a letter. (Warnock was sentenced to a year in prison for extortion.)
A Failed Manager With No Real World Experience
No job requires more management skills than the presidency. But at the only two positions where Steve has managed people, his efforts have been controversial at best. His main experience, of course, has been running Forbes Magazine. (His brother took over during the 1996 race.) Steve increased the number of ad pages at Forbes past competitors such as Fortune, through deep discounts and aggressive salesmanship. However, in 1992, a magazine article charged that Forbes Magazine was actually losing money, a charge that Steve denied. Since then, everyone agrees that Forbes Magazine is the industry leader in ad sales -- in fact it sells more ad pages (4,500) than any other magazine in the world. On the other hand, Fortune Magazine (which sells 3,200 pages a year and is "very profitable") charged in a 1996 article that Forbes got those ads with a policy of not printing bad news about companies that advertise. They document several stories that Forbes or his publisher rewrote or killed to avoid offending big advertisers. That doesn't bode well for his independence from the influence of big money interests. Forbes also fired his secretary of 13 years, Ann Barton, just before her 65th birthday, and has written editorials in favor of allowing forced retirement at that age. When she sued him for age discrimination, he responded viciously, giving a long deposition attacking her competence and attitude, even though she had been his personal secretary for 13 years. When the judge ruled against Forbes in a preliminary hearing, he settled out of court. This isn't a big scandal, as some of the press implies, but it shows a heavy hand in managing people. His mean streak also shows in his choice of campaign staffers -- notably Carter Wrenn and Tom Ellis, two men behind years of Jesse Helms' most vicious campaigns until Wrenn fell out with Helms in 1994. Forbes' heavily negative campaign ads show their strong influence. His resume trumpets the fact that "Mr. Forbes is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. This prize was given by USX Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved to be most accurate." Competitor Fortune Magazine brought that claim down to earth in an article pointing out that the award was for a gag competition after an annual banquet USX threw, where people guess at certain economic indicators. They quote two 2-time winners who thought the whole thing was a joke and thought it was pretty funny for Forbes to brag about it. The award is no longer given, incidentally. Steve's other managerial experience was in the mid-80s, when his Republican connections got him appointed head of the board that oversaw Radio Free Europe. According to an inspector general's report cited in Newsweek, the agency was "rife with uncontrolled spending and lax management." Forbes claims that real spending was reduced, but Bob Dole remembers that Forbes "was always coming and asking me for money [for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.]
Draft Dodger
In the fall of 1969, Forbes knew he would graduate within the year from Princeton. He says he thought the war was a "mistake", though he never protested it, and knew he faced three choices: if he were drafted, he'd get two years of active duty; if he enlisted, he faced 3 years of active duty; and if he joined the National Guard, he'd get 6 months of active duty and then five and a half years of reserves. Of course, he "avoided duty" (his words) by joining the National Guard, the same dodge that other rich kids Dan Quayle and George Bush, Jr. used.
Begging Money From Special Interests
Forbes claims he isn't beholden to money interests because he is so rich. Think again. Early in the 1996 race, he started hosting $1,000 a plate fundraisers for big money supporters: one meeting alone (at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel) raised $1.2 million, and all told he received $4.2 million in that campaign. Should he win, he could raise unlimited money from special interests, since he didn't have to accept the legal limits to qualify for matching funds. And he could use that money to pay himself back. That's right, pay himself back. Unlike Ross Perot, Steve Forbes did not contribute a penny to his campaign. He LOANS it money ($39,400,000 as of 9/30/98) so that if he is elected or comes close enough to have clout, various big money interests can pay him back. And they've already begun. After all, Forbe's is an expert at wheedling and cajoling the wealthy for money, as his ad page sales prove. With no political experience, we can't show that he has done political favors for contributors. But his magazine has certainly given editorial favors to big advertisers, which is a good predictor of Forbes' political approach. Forbes is the only mainstream magazine (as opposed to small trade journals) whose advertising executives -- led by Forbes himself -- review every article. On several occasions, he has ordered his editors to rewrite or kill stories that were unflattering to Forbes' major advertisers. They don't do it all the time -- Forbes Magazine is in fact famous for some viciously nasty articles on big companies, including some advertisers - but then politicians don't reward every contributor, either. Otherwise, they wouldn't have an incentive to keep giving..
Waffling Like A Politician
Though he brags about being an outsider, Forbes quickly was waffling on the issues with the best of them. In the 1980s, he attacked proposals to crack down on illegal immigrants by sanctioning employers who hired them. "An important portion of this country's prosperity is now dependent on illegals," he wrote. In 1996, when the public mood had shifted against immigrants, he made cracking down on immigrants a big campaign issue. This year, with George Bush Jr. pulling major Hispanic votes, he'll probably switch back. Forbes also repeatedly opposed a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, and in fact never felt a balanced budget was as important as lowering taxes. But in December 1995, as his campaign began to get attention, he came out in favor of a balanced budget amendment. Now that he has figured out that Republican stalwarts are very conservative, he has shifted far to the right, challenging Dan Quayle and John Ashcroft for the title of the most conservative Republican presidential candidate.
Sleazy Land Development
Forbes Inc. has a land development branch that owns 4 developments -- three in Colorado, and one called Land Of The Ozarks in Warsaw, Missouri -- about 150 miles from the Whitewater development. The land business was started by Steve's father Malcom in 1971 and has advertised in the magazine since, with ads making pitches like "own your own ranch in the Colorado Rockies." The problem is, buyers DON'T really own the land. Forbes, Inc. uses a largely discredited form of contract called the "installment contract for deed." Purchasers buy their land on a contract that only gives them the deed after 10 years of payments - and heft interest charges. What that means is, if they miss even one payment, Forbes can (and does) take it back without any need for foreclosure proceedings. And if the person wants to sell the land before 10 years is up? Too bad. At least 237 buyers missed payments and lost their property back to Forbes. To settle a lawsuit, Forbes eventually refunded the money paid in by all 237. That isn't the only problem with the land developments. Another large group, who actually completed their contracts, is suing over the annual $216,000 in fees that just one of the developments - Forbes Park - charges its residents. And others who have moved onto their land complain that rules for garbage disposal and maintenance aren't enforced, so that ruins of half-built homes and outhouses litter the development. A group drove down to a Steve Forbes campaign rally in Colorado during the last campaign and gave him a letter detailing their complaints. No agreement has been reached and at last report they were planning a lawsuit.
How Rich Is He?
Very, Very Rich. Steve is worth AT LEAST $439 million, according to Fortune Magazine, and is heir to a fortune of perhaps $1.4 billion. He owns an island in Fiji, a Boeing 727, a chateau in France and of course a major league yacht. This gives him major advantages as a candidate. Not only does it free him from the frantic money begging of Dole, Gramm, Alexander and Lugar, but he is also free of the spending limits they agreed to in order to get federal matching funds. Those limits prevent them from spending more than the limit in each state, including New Hampshire and Iowa which have disproportionate impact. In 1996 Forbes spent well more than the limit in each. In 1996 he spent just under $38 million on a very short campaign. This time, he's gearing up for even more.
Hiding His Tax Returns
Unlike other 1996 candidates, Forbes refused to release his tax returns. (Clinton and Dole released decades of tax returns.) While we can sympathize -- who wants reporters critiquing your tax deductions? Remember Clinton's donated underwear? -- released returns and required financial reports have in fact revealed a number of the best known financial scandals out there. Without them, we wouldn't know about Hillary's $100,000 commodities gain, Lamar Alexander's many financial fast deals, or how much Elizabeth Dole earned speaking to companies that lobbied her husband. If Steve Forbes wants to play in the political world, he should play by the same rules.
Stalking horse for supply siders
Steve has said he has no burning desire to be president. By all accounts, he was talked into it by a group of friends who are true believers in supply side economics, including Jude Wanninski (whom Steve hired as an editor), millionaire financier Ted Forstmann, and National Review editor Larry Kudlow. Even as Republicans were hugely successful in 1994, supply siders were falling out of favor. No other declared candidate carried their banner, and supply side favorites such as Jack Kemp sat out (though of course he was picked as Dole's VP). It's always sad to see someone used for their money, but it's also scary to think of a possible president with no strong feelings about politics, who already is letting a small clique with fairly radical economic ideas pull his strings. Of course, as the national enjoys the achievement and results of a balanced budget for the first time in a generation, even spending cuts are not a guaranteed popularity booster. But if Forbes does win, expect to see these theories become policy.
Self-Interest in Flat Tax Proposal
Forbes has gained a lot of attention with his radical flat tax proposal. He would also gain about $200,000 a year in tax savings if the plan passed.
The Mysterious Break-In
This isn't a mark against Forbes, but it is an intriguing incident that could become someone else's scandal. On November 25, 1995, Forbes' New York campaign headquarters were burglarized. Computers in the office were turned on, and computer disks were 'rifled through". The campaign staff claimed that it 'appeared to be an effort to obtain information relating to Forbes' effort" to get on the NY ballot, though a police detective said "it was not a sophisticated break-in. This is not a semi-Watergate."
Wilder Accusations: Involved in Vincent Foster Death Coverup?
Out on the fringes, Steve Forbes is considered part of the effort to coverup to "murder" of Vince Foster. It's kind of hard to explain, as it's a classic conspiracy tale linking Foster, the Israeli spies, Swiss Bank Accounts, the Inslaw company, and of course the CIA. The short story is summarized in a Fortune magazine article: an investigative reporter for Forbes wanted to publish the full tale in Steve's magazine, but was turned down and forced to resign. Why? Probably because the writer went off the conspiracy deep-end. But his supporters will tell you it's because the story listed Caspar Weinberg, Chairman of Forbes and one of Steve Forbes' friends, as one of several Republicans who keep chunks of money in Swiss Bank Accounts -- just like Vincent Foster allegedly did. With Forbes about to run for President, the theory goes, this was too hot to publish in his own magazine. If you like this kind of stuff, you can read the actual article, which was published in the August 1995 issue of Media Bypass, a small conspiracy zine.
Family: Wife Sabina, 5 children ranging from 22 to 8 years old.
Steve met Sabina at a debutante party in 1970 while he was a Princeton undergraduate. He offered her a cigar, years before Clinton popularized their erotic uses, and she took it. Five weeks later they were engaged.
Sources
"Forbes' Candidacy Appeals to Bankers", American Banker, September 29, 1995 p3 "Richie Rich On the Stump", Newsweek, July 24, 1995 p47 "What Makes Steve Run?", Jeanie Russel Kasindorf, Fortune, February 5, 1996 "That Prestigious Silver Owl Award", Fortune magazine, by james Aley, March 4, 1996 p58 "Forbes: Dropping Big Bucks in IA", "Forbes Record Is In His Writings", Ronald Brownstein, LA Times News Service, The Record, January 25, 1996 pA18 "Buying Power", Howard Fineman and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, January 29, 1996 p21 "Knock 'Em Flat", Nancy Gibbs, and "Rich Man's Game", Richard Lacayo, Time, January 29, 1996 p22 "Forbes Settled Bias Suit Before Start of Candidacy", Douglas Frantz, The New York Times, January 28, 1996 FECInfo Web Page -- Candidate Contribution and Expenditure Reports BACK TO SKELETON CLOSET Paid for by Real People For Real Change and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Copyright 1998 Real People For Real Change Forbes, Malcolm Related: Publications Biographies 1919-90, American publisher, b. Englewood, N.J. The third son of a Scottish immigrant who founded Forbes magazine in 1917, he graduated from Princeton Univ. (1941), and became publisher of the magazine on his father's death (1954). Under his leadership, the publication became one of America's most successful business magazines, with a circulation of 735,000. Its annual list of the richest 400 people in America is one of the most widely quoted sources on the subject of wealth in the United States. Forbes ran unsuccessfully for governor of New Jersey (1957) and used his magazine and numerous books to praise the virtues of laissez-faire capitalism. He was worth at least $400 million at his death. The family continues to run the magazine. Bibliography: See A. Jones, Malcolm Forbes (1977); C. Winans, The Man Who Had Everything (1990). Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr. (born July 18 July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. Events 64 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance. 1830 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution. ..... Click the link for more information. , 1947 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 - 1947 - 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
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Events January ..... Click the link for more information. , years after the death of his father Malcolm Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1917 - February 24, 1990), known as Malcolm Forbes, was publisher of the magazine Forbes, founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes. Malcolm Forbes was legendary for his lavish lifestyle, his private "Capitalist Tool" jet, ever larger Highlander yachts, huge art collection, substantial collection ..... Click the link for more information. , he changed the name credited to him on the Forbes Forbes magazine is a well-known American business and financial magazine founded in 1917 by B.C. Forbes. After his death in 1954 and his son Bruce's death in 1964, it was long synonymous with flamboyant second son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, better known as Malcolm Forbes (1917-1990). Today the company and magazine are headed by Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr., better known as Steve Forbes (1948-), and his brothers. ..... Click the link for more information. Magazine masthead from Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. to Steve Forbes. Only 16 when the death of his uncle Bruce Forbes left his father in sole control of the company, young Steve has spent essentially his whole career there, becoming President of Forbes Inc. in 1980 and succeeding as Editor-in-Chief on his father's death in 1990. His brothers Christopher Forbes, vice chairman, Robert Forbes, and Timothy Forbes have all long worked for the magazine or at least the parent company as well. Malcolm Forbes left Steve 51% of the voting shares, but a minority of the non-voting shares, in Forbes Inc., and announced this well in advance, as he wanted the company to have a clear leader. However, when Steve Forbes ran for President of the United States Alternate meaning: Presidents of the United States of America (band) The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. Under the U.S. Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and commander in chief of the armed forces. Requirements to hold office Section one of Article II of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President: The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, 35 years of age, and a resident of the United States for 14 years. ..... Click the link for more information. in 1996 and 2000, he sold some of his voting shares to other family members to help finance his run. He did not come close to securing the Republican The Republican Party (often GOP for Grand Old Party) is a United States political party that was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party against the expansion of slavery. It is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson. The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. Many of its initial policies were inspired by the defunct Whig Party. Since its inception, its chief opponent has been the Democratic Party. ..... Click the link for more information. nomination, despite some significant shares of the vote in some primaries, and returned to heading the magazine and company. preview not available. Click the link for more information. Malcolm Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1917 - February 24, 1990), known as Malcolm Forbes, was publisher of the magazine Forbes, founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes. Malcolm Forbes was legendary for his lavish lifestyle, his private "Capitalist Tool" jet, ever larger Highlander yachts, huge art collection, substantial collection of Harley Davidson motorbikes, French Chateau, collection of special shape hot air balloons, and opulent birthday parties....his 70th in Morocco. After dabbling in politics, including a term in the state legislature and candidacy for Governor of New Jersey, he committed to the magazine fulltime by 1957, three years after his father's death, and after the death of elder brother Bruce Forbes in 1964 acquired sole control of the company. The magazine grew steadily under his leadership, and he diversified into real estate sales and other ventures. He died suddenly in 1990. The nine Faberge eggs he acquired will be auctioned in April 2004 by Sotheby's, with a presale estimate that they will sell for an average of $10 million apiece. Malcolm S. 'Steve' Forbes, Jr. Running for president is becoming more and more like writing a book: Everybody thinks they can do it. Take publishing mogul Steve Forbes. He's never sought political office, he's got no real political organization, but he decided to join the crowded field of GOP candidates. Even though the cards were stacked against him--all he really had was a lot of money and a simplistic flat tax platform--Steve didn't enter the game empty-handed. His seat on top of the Forbes empire has brought him national recognition, a forum to express his ideas, and a great deal of money. The voters know where Forbes stands, on economic issues at least. He's on the record on a lot of hot-button issues: free trade, tax cuts, and lower interest rates. And his position has brought him political allies as well. He's worked with Jack Kemp, and he played an important role in the campaign of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. But Kemp and Whitman are no longer GOP luminaries, go-to people in the world of wonkism, and Forbes couldn't parlay a huge bankroll into any real influence, either on the party, or a constituency; after a poor Super Tuesday showing, he left the race. Like Ross Perot and newcomer Morry Taylor, Steve believes that the country should be run like a business, managed by a profit-minded CEO rather than an ideological leader. And like any good businessman, he abandoned ship when the Law of Diminishing Returns kicked in.