Chapter 432 Rabbits Can Be Friends

The 1960s was an era of large-scale industry. Hardy had already laid out its plans in the mining, oil and other industries in advance. It also got involved in the metallurgical industry, but it did not take the route of ore smelting, but the recycling and smelting of scrap metals.

As early as the early 1950s, Hardy had already made his move in the urban waste recycling industry. Not only did he involve Bill, he also invited other Mafia families to join in the business. No one was more suitable for waste recycling than the Mafia.

Don't look down on those who collect broken things.

Collecting scrap is a very profitable business.

In the United States,

You have to pay to throw away the garbage, and the garbage is taken back and sorted. Plastic can be recycled, metal can be recycled, and paper can be recycled.

There's money everywhere.

So in the mid-1950s, Hardy sent people to buy out several small smelting companies and used recycled scrap metal for smelting.

This business was profitable from the beginning.

And Hardy also knew that in the previous life, after the era of big industry, large American steel companies went bankrupt one after another, including dominant companies like Carnegie Steel. However, steel mills that smelted scrap metals were able to make money.

In the United States, 70% of steel is recycled from scrap metal smelting.

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After Nixon took office.

Hardy is more like a fish in water.

Whether in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, or Penang, industries have all grown rapidly.

There was no hindrance at all.

During this time,

Hardy did a lot of things.

A private university was established in the United States, and its name was "Hardy University". This name was not given to it because it was a slut, but because it was a custom.

For example, Harvard University is named after John Harvard, and Stanford University is named after Henry Stanford, the former governor of California and railroad magnate, and his wife.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Hardy establishing a university and naming it Hardy University.

Hardy established this university with clear purposes. First, to build a prestigious university of his own in the United States. Second, to use Hardy University to establish better cooperative relations with universities in the Dominion of Penang, Singapore, and even Hong Kong.

This can improve the teaching capacity there.

Hardy University is located in Los Angeles. It spent a lot of money to purchase an 8,000-acre piece of land in the suburbs of Los Angeles, which includes two small lakes and a river. The natural environment is very good.

Hardy University is a non-profit private university, so the government does not collect taxes, and of course, shareholders don't expect to make a penny from the university.

Almost all prestigious universities in the United States are non-profit private universities.

So at the beginning of the school's establishment, Hardy invited many people to invest. Hardy has always been good at spending other people's money to do his own things.

There are also benefits for investors. If their children want to study at Hardy University in the future, it will be much easier because the school directors can directly send invitation letters.

Famous universities such as Yale, Harvard, and NYU are no exception.

This is also the reason why many people donate money to prestigious schools, just to get their children in.

The main directions of Hardy University are economics, law, sociology, medicine, pharmacology, life sciences, electronic information engineering, computers, communications and media.

While cultivating talents for the society, we can also cultivate talents for the Hadi Group itself.

After the university was built,

Hardy found ways to hire many well-known professors, scholars, and teachers to attract a large number of students and international students. After several years of development, Hardy University has grown in scale.

In recent years,

All of Hardy's industries are developing rapidly.

By the end of the 1960s, some estimated that Hardy's industry might have reached a terrifying figure of 50 billion US dollars.

Hardy's industries are spread across the United States and dozens of countries and regions around the world.

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1968.

The new US presidential election has begun.

The Democratic Party's candidate is Michael Corrion. After more than a decade of whitewashing, the Corrion family has completely transformed into a political family.

Even the former Italian mafia families, under Hardy's leadership, turned to legitimate business and gradually abandoned some of the underworld businesses.

In fact, as long as the gangs don't rob, kill, or oppress the people, business people don't care at all. Even if it's drug trafficking, it's still business.

There are so many businesses in the world. If done well, legitimate business will definitely make more money than shady business. Hardy led them to transformation. Now the Italian Mafia has become more secretive, and many of them have even become groups and companies.

Michael Corrion's opponent was a Republican candidate named Rudolph Ford, whose supporters were the Rockefeller family and other forces.

From the beginning,

The two began a fierce competition.

At the same time, a large-scale publicity campaign was launched. Reports about the two candidates could be seen in newspapers every day. In every city they visited, they would give a speech. Now that the television industry is becoming more and more developed, live broadcasts can be carried out.

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Hardy and the head of the Rockefeller family are now sitting together drinking tea and chatting about the future economic direction of the United States.

Regarding the presidential election, who each side supports does not affect their friendship. They are the financial backers, and no matter who comes to power, they are the spokespersons for their interests. It is just a matter of how much of the pie they get.

During Nixon's administration,

Other large families, including the Rockefellers and the Morgans, also had agents in the inner cabinet.

In this world, no one can eat alone.

If you are too independent and selfish in your life and work, you will definitely not have a good ending and will be attacked by everyone.

Therefore, even though they have all launched agents, it does not affect their relationship. No matter whose people come to power, they can share a part of the profits.

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During the election campaign, a major event occurred in the United States. J. Edgar Hoover, the powerful intelligence chief and the director of the FBI who terrified countless people, died in his own home.

After testing, the cause of death was myocardial infarction.

Historically,

Hoover died several years later than this world, and no one knows the real cause of his death.

Hardy finished reading the report in the newspaper and closed it silently.

This Hoover rose to power during the Roosevelt era, and then gradually became omnipotent. No one dared to provoke him because he knew the secrets of the president, congressmen, officials, and wealthy businessmen.

Hoover was not touched during the Johnson period.

Eisenhower could not move Hoover.

During the Nixon era, Hoover remained in a secure position.

And this time.

Hardy was ready to kill him.

Because Henry learned from someone planted next to Hoover that Hoover and Mike's opponents had formed an alliance and were preparing to report Mike's dirt.

Although MacCorrion himself had no problems, he was born into a mafia family after all. The Italian Mafia was not yet exposed to the public. It was not until the 1970s that a major member of a mafia family was arrested and the mafia's affairs were exposed, which made the world know about the mafia.

If Hoover revealed Mike's situation, Mike's competitors would definitely make a big fuss about it, which would embarrass Mike.

We used to be at peace.

Hardy had never responded to Hoover, but now he decided to take action.

Since Hardy first saw Hoover in the White House during the Johnson era in the 1950s, he arranged for Henry to place someone to investigate Hoover.

More than a decade has passed in a flash.

According to Henry, the person he placed in the FBI has now reached a very high position.

Henry had reported this before, and Hoover had sent someone to investigate Hardy's situation. Of course, a lot of it was destroyed by Henry.

Henry to Hoover.

The clash of two intelligence chiefs.

Although the FBI seems very powerful to outsiders, Hoover may not be able to defeat Hardy's intelligence organization. Hardy has invested a lot in the intelligence organization.

Hoover was in the office.

Someone put a drug in the water cup.

This drug is very concealed, specially formulated, extremely difficult to detect, and is not a toxin. It only causes changes in heart rate and will not cause an immediate attack.

The person who performed the autopsy on Hoover was a senior executive appointed by Henry.

After Hoover's death,

Another major event happened within the FBI. The FBI's second-in-command, Deputy Director Clyde Tolson, was under investigation. Who was Tolson? He was once Hoover's assistant, and later became the department head and deputy director. He was the person with second most power within the FBI, second only to Hoover.

His other identity is the man behind Hoover.

Historically, after Hoover's death, Tolson took over as director, but in this life, this would never happen, and he was taken away directly for investigation.

The reason for the investigation was the funding of the Corruption Investigation Bureau.

In fact, the real reason is that he was in control of Hoover's secret files. The reason why Hoover could remain standing and make so many people afraid of him was because Hoover used the FBI's investigative function to investigate the privacy of the president and senior officials in order to take advantage of them.

Anyone who dares to touch him will certainly be retaliated by him. It is very likely that Hoover will not step down, but the president may step down in disgrace.

Now that Hoover is dead, these legacies are left to Tolson. How could Hardy allow him to expand his business?

The man who arrested Tolson was George Hance, who was also the deputy director of the FBI. There were a total of eight deputy directors in the FBI, each managing a dozen departments. Previously, George Hance was in charge of the FBI's internal investigation committee and did not have much real power.

Thorson was very angry about George Hans arresting him. He originally wanted to fight, but George Hans would never give him a chance. He took out the evidence he had prepared long ago and slapped it directly in front of Thorson.

You know,

Henry had been watching him for more than ten years, and the evidence was sufficient and impeccable.

"You must let me go, otherwise many people will suffer, I promise." Thorson looked at Hans and said.

Hans smiled and whispered in Thorson's ear, "Are you talking about the data hidden in the insurance vault of the suburban villa?"

Thorson was stunned and looked at Hans in disbelief.

He never expected that the other party even knew those things.

Now his amulet is gone.

Not long after, Tolson committed suicide in prison, and the information was nowhere to be found, after all, very few people knew about it.

Five days after Hoover's death, Nixon appointed George Hance as the new FBI director, and people outside the FBI were completely unaware of the struggle within the agency.

George Hans is the man Henry planted in the FBI, which means he is Hardy's man.

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As the election day approaches.

People are looking forward to the new president.

Naturally, Las Vegas opened the odds again. This time, the outside world said that the two candidates were basically evenly matched, but in the eyes of many people, Michael Corrion still had the upper hand, so Mike had the lowest odds on the odds.

The U.S. gambling industry

After Hardy's hard work and development over the years, more than 30 states have now liberalized lotteries, and the odds are also part of the lottery.

After buying lottery tickets, people pay more attention to the election.

This election,

Prepare to broadcast live throughout the event.

We have already entered the era of color television, and ABC TV was the first TV station to launch television programs. Under Hardy's deliberate guidance, American television programs have become more abundant and have become the most common form of entertainment for the American people.

ABC TV now has 5 channels.

Early November 1968.

Today is voting day.

ABC TV station has specially occupied a channel and set up a live broadcast room to broadcast the results of each state live. Signals from each state will be sent over so that audiences across the United States can know the results as quickly as possible. There will be a group of guests in the live broadcast room who are constantly analyzing the results.

The results are coming out state by state.

The atmosphere in the live broadcast room became more and more heated.

With the announcement of the results from the last few continents, the election that lasted more than 20 hours finally came to an end. The final result was that Michael Corrion defeated his opponent with a decent advantage and became the next president.

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new york.

Corrion Estate.

When the election results were announced on TV, everyone in the Corrion family cheered excitedly, and Mike jumped in front of Hardy and hugged him tightly.

"Hadi, we did it, thank you." Mike said while hugging Hardy.

"Don't say thank you, have you forgotten what we are?" said Hardy.

"brother."

Mike squeezed Hardy's hand hard.

Mike's wife and children also came to congratulate their father. Mike has three children. The eldest son Anthony is 20 years old this year and is still in college. He is Hardy's godson. The daughter Jane is 17 years old and very beautiful. The youngest son Jon is 14 years old.

Mike and Hardy came to the study.

Mike specifically asked his eldest son to come in.

Anthony came in and respectfully called Hardy "Godfather", then looked at Mike and said, "Father, what is the matter that you asked me to come in for?"

"Now that the election results are out, you should be more careful about your words and actions in the future. You are still in college, especially in school. I don't want you to behave differently from others."

Anthony nodded. "I know my father. I won't become arrogant or overconfident."

"Well, go out and tell Jane and Jon too," Mike said.

"Okay father, father, godfather, I'm out." Anthony said goodbye politely and left.

After Anthony left, Hardy said to Mike, "Anthony has been well educated by you. There is hope that he will continue to make the Corrion family glorious."

"I hope so. Where are your little guys?" Michael handed Hardy a cigar.

Hardy thought of his children and smiled. "They are all good and lively. Each of them has his or her own interests and hobbies. My hope for them is to develop freely."

Mike smiled and said, "It is lucky for those 14 children to have a father like you."

"No, 15."

Mike was stunned.

"Another one?!"

"Well, a few months ago, we had a new son, haha." Hardy said with a smile.

Mike was speechless and could only admire.

Then the two talked about other things. They talked about a lot of things, including the candidates for cabinet members, the positions of various forces, how to govern in the future, the direction of the US economy, international relations and foreign policy, etc.

When talking about international relations, the Soviet Union is naturally an unavoidable focus.

Hardy said: "Nicholson has had many assumptions about the Soviet Union in recent years. In fact, the Eastern countries next to them are a good breakthrough point."

"The relationship between them is not good now. There are many differences and even confrontations. In recent years, Nixon has established communication channels through several countries. After you take office, you can do more work in this regard."

"Our first target is the Soviet Union. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We have many chips to use. They are not yet a member of the United Nations, but they can even become a permanent member."

"Establish diplomatic relations."

"We can also develop technical cooperation, including weapons and equipment, production technology, and electronic technology, and invest in building factories in their countries."

There was also a honeymoon period between China and the United States back then.

Hadi's proposal was only a few years ahead of schedule.

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February 1969.

Mike was sworn in on Capitol Hill and became the new President of the United States. In this life, there was no Watergate incident. With Hardy around, such a thing would not have happened. After a smooth handover between Nixon and Mike, he quietly retreated behind the scenes.

Not long after,

Nicholson became the honorary president of Hardee University and used his status to increase the popularity of Hardee University. Nicholson could receive a generous bonus from the Hardee Group every year, as well as various benefits provided by the group.

Mike enters the White House.

The cabinet members have been confirmed.

Andy was once again included in the cabinet list and became the US Secretary of State. Many people were not surprised by this appointment.

George Hance was reappointed Director of the FBI.

As for the other candidates,

It encompasses many forces.

Dr. Key, who was later called "the old friend of the Chinese", became Assistant to the President for Security Affairs and concurrently served as Director of the National Security Council.

He was promoted by the Rockefeller family.

Just two months after Mike became president,

Dr. Key travels in secret.