Chapter 561 Mutual Help with Reagan
Weinberger even planned that, starting from fiscal year 1982, when formulating the military budget, the net increase in inflation, economic recovery surcharges and other additions would also be included, and the military budget would achieve a continuous real growth of 7% per year in the next five years.

In the following five years, US military spending actually increased by an average of 5% per year, accounting for about 7.8% of GDP. This was the longest and largest period of military spending growth in the United States during peacetime in the 6.6th century.

So at this point, Reagan knew that the Department of Defense had plenty of money. A little bit of it would be enough for Blackwater to make a fortune.

This is what Blackwater deserves.

As for the Blackwater mercenaries on board, hey, the captain and officers are all American soldiers.

Adam may have some small ideas, but the Reagan family has gained a lot from Adam.

The eldest son (adopted son) Michael is preparing to enter politics and will soon run for California Senator. Los Angeles Communications has given Michael a huge influence in California, which Reagan could not have achieved on his own.

In the original time and space, the eldest son had to wait until Reagan became president before he was invited by a medium-sized company to be the vice president, in the hope that he would use his father's influence to win more orders for the company.

But in this time and space, with the help of Adam, his wealthy son-in-law, the eldest son had already achieved something before running for president.

At that time, we talked about how the Reagan family would become a political family in America, like the Kennedy family!
Now, we have this foundation.

After serving as a senator for a few years, Michael can run for governor after Reagan steps down, and everything will fall into place.

The younger son, who was originally going to learn dancing, was forced by Adam to play basketball again. Although the achievement may not be that high, playing basketball sounds more manly than dancing, doesn't it?
The boy is young and not interested in politics, but he will mature in a few years.

At that time, Michael and Adam will support him to go further.

When the youngest son gets married and has children, the family line will continue!

It’s just that the two daughters are a source of worry.

The eldest daughter, Maureen, had been married three times, divorced twice, and had no children. Now that she was over 40, it was hard for her to have children again. Maureen tried to develop in the political field and wanted to seek nomination as a senator from California. Given her lack of success and her son Edward also wanting to follow this path, how could Reagan support her attempt?

[Sister-in-law, Wang Yuanchao did not provide any help, because the two sisters are of the same character, and it is already very difficult for him to deal with Patricia]

Let alone his youngest daughter Patricia. Before the divorce, she looked like a superstar. After the divorce, she was still okay. But after he became president, this girl started to get cocky and acted out of her mind. As an old father, he didn't know what to say. Even her biological mother Nancy didn't think highly of her. After all, no one knows a daughter better than her mother.

But at least Patricia left two direct descendants to the Reagan family.

[Historically, none of Reagan's three biological children left any offspring, only his adopted son had two children]

Not only the children, but also Reagan himself, wasn't it because of Adam's persistence that he avoided an assassination attempt?
Although no one died in such a close-range assassination, two people were injured.

At Reagan's age, he couldn't even imagine the consequences of being shot.

Throughout history, too many presidents have been assassinated, especially because of a famous curse - the Tekoma curse!
Also known as the "Tippecanoe Curse", "Presidential Curse" or "Year 0 Curse".

According to American folklore, in 1811, the army led by American General William Henry Harrison (a future presidential candidate) defeated the famous American Indian leader Tecoma and his army in the Battle of Tippecanoe and carried out a brutal massacre of the Indians. The angry Tecoma cast a spell on the Americans, predicting that a US president would die in office every years.

Coincidentally, this prophecy has been fulfilled since 1840:
Many presidents, including Harrison, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, died in office every 20 years.

In the past, Reagan would have scoffed at this. After all, among so many presidents, Harrison died of pneumonia and Roosevelt died of a stroke, not all of them were assassinated.

However, starting from 1980, this rule has tended to be broken. At least in such a close-range assassination attempt, President Reagan was safe and sound.

Because of this incident, President Reagan’s security has been stepped up several notches.

So now, haha, Reagan didn't say it, but in his heart he had already begun to regard Adam as the key to breaking the curse. Otherwise, why would Adam arrange Blackwater security for his family so early? It's not just Reagan. Before Reagan became president, Adam had arranged security for his family very specially, and Adam's family in Hong Kong had arranged it as early as the 1960s. This information is not a secret to the President of the United States.

It has to be admitted that Adam has made great contributions to the Reagan family.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Reagan giving some reasonable and legal return.

Wang Yuanchao did not tell Reagan about Sarawak. It was not the right time. Before Reagan, the US did not have a big voice in Asia because it lost the Vietnam War.

However, he and the Bush family had invested in a refinery and chemical plant there, Blackwater had a base there, and Reagan knew that they had obtained a lot of equipment from South Vietnam. Especially those equipment, they had "legal" procedures from South Vietnam at the beginning, and now, no matter how many years have passed and Reagan is in power, it is even more legal.

But Reagan still asked Wang Yuanchao for help:

“Adam, you know.

Maureen and Edward both want to pursue a career in politics. Edward has been with you and has gained a lot of experience. We all support him to make a bold attempt. I feel a little sorry for Maureen. As a father, I didn't give her much support. She must resent me in her heart.

Can you help her find a suitable job and improve her resume?"

No matter what, as a father, Reagan still wanted to help his children more, even though his two daughters seemed to have the same character.

Wang Yuanchao thought about it. Maureen was similar to Patricia. She had a changeable personality and was impatient. She wanted to achieve something, but her ambitions were too high. Reagan was the governor of California before. If she had a little ability, she wouldn't be like this now. Or if she had come to her brother-in-law Wang Yuanchao more often, Wang Yuanchao would help her.

My brother-in-law Michael is not very capable, but he is obedient. He is doing a great job as the president of Los Angeles Communications. Otherwise, how could he have the confidence to compete for the position of California Senator?

But since his father-in-law had begged him so much, Wang Yuanchao felt that everyone has a place where he can shine and make a difference, and feces and urine can also fertilize the soil, right?

He took inventory of the companies under his control and immediately had an idea.

Investment company!

His current investment company has made an initial foray into the UK and purchased a number of shares in British state-owned enterprises, but it has not yet made large-scale investments to completely control one or several companies.

Because he was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for Mrs. Thatcher's victory in the Falklands War. At that time, Mrs. Thatcher, with the supreme glory of the empire, would start selling in a big way. It would be a good time for large-scale acquisitions.

As we all know, even with such an opportunity to sell, not everyone is qualified to buy.

Not to mention the British, there are already several examples among our hungry wolf colleagues on Wall Street alone.

The investment company, with a brainless and arrogant goddess like Maureen, not to mention how she scolds her competitors on Wall Street, when she wants to do something, buy some items on the shelves in the UK, and ask the uncles in the Reagan cabinet to help her out, everyone can't just give her face, right?

Isn’t this better than Wang Yuanchao going to call out?
[With the boss gone, the No. 2 automatically becomes the boss, and the West has always needed such an opponent to unite its small circle]

"No problem. I can let her come to my investment company as vice president and be responsible for European investment business."

Reagan's eyes lit up. Of course he knew about Adam's investment company. It was very large and should be considered an investment group!
Mergers and acquisitions, futures, stocks, bonds, funds, banks, and even some other industries all belong to this investment group.

Many "good friends" follow me in investing in investment companies to get clean and substantial returns.

And Maureen's personality, well, I have to say, is very suitable for giving people the cold shoulder and losing her temper in this regard.

In the United States, people will not look at her differently because she is the president's daughter, because the American people can even bring down the president. But to the outside world, especially a bunch of European brothers, haha, that's perfect.

He knew the abilities of his eldest son Edward, which were average, but now he was quite famous in California, all thanks to Adam.

Then, the eldest daughter can completely copy the development path of the eldest son!

As long as she achieves a few results and wants to go into politics in the future, will my brother and I still not support her?
Yes, Maureen did not get the support of her father Reagan, so she turned to seek help from her uncle Neil, but her uncle did not support her either. She was a niece, so she could not ruin the reputation of the Reagan family, right? Her brother Reagan had just come to power and was ambitious. He was thinking about re-election, so he could not do such foolish things.

"I'll convince her!" Reagan said confidently, "By the way, how long will you stay here? I've finished talking to her so she can find you."

Wang Yuanchao said:

"As long as Maureen is OK, I can fly over anytime."

Reagan thought for a moment and said:
"You know, in addition to your support, the California Consortium has also been providing me with considerable assistance. To be honest, the current economy is not very good, and they have been in trouble recently. Do you have any chance to cooperate with me?"

(End of this chapter)