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Chapter 363: They are all just nobody (Second update, please subscribe)

After meeting with Truman, in the next few days, Li Nian met with many American officials and held a banquet at the embassy to entertain guests from all walks of life. These guests included both powerful figures and some ordinary people. MP.

Just after Li Yi'an finished a brief chat with several powerful people in Washington, a young man walked up to him and said.

"Hello, Your Majesty, I am John F. Kennedy, and it is an honor to receive your invitation."

Kennedy!

Looking at the young man in front of him who would have a lot of imagination in more than ten years, Li Yian just exchanged a few words with him.

Now Mr. Kennedy is just a congressman. In Washington, he is just a nobody worth mentioning. However, even a simple greeting makes the other party feel flattered. After all, as we all know, this king from Southeast Asia also He has the status of "a close friend of the president" and is also a close friend of the two presidents before and after him.

People in Washington who wanted to get to know him lined up in a long line. Being invited to a banquet by him was something worth showing off in itself.

"Mr. Kennedy, if you have time, you are welcome to visit Nanyang."

Now it was just a familiarity. The real friendship between the two people would have to wait until later. Later, under the introduction of others, Li Yi'an turned to chat with Senator Johnson. Well, after Kennedy's idea came to him, he took the oath on the plane. That one. As for the person who sat in the corner at Watergate later, as a member of the House of Representatives, Nixon also had to stand in line.

As for Ford and Carter, they have not yet entered the political arena, but Reagan... is still working as a second-rate actor in Hollywood.

Simply put, this party has one purpose, and that is... My friends are the presidents.

In the future, and still in need of a spiritual mentor.

If it weren't for the "grievance" with Eisenhower, and that guy was now the principal, Li Yian wouldn't mind developing a friendship with him, but... he's not bad now.

President of Columbia University, that's a sight to behold.

Friendship is always a good help in times of need.

Therefore, you should invest as early as possible, but not too early, and you must grasp the timing carefully.

After the banquet, in the hotel room, Li Yian flipped through the American political intelligence provided by the embassy page by page.

It’s not just Democratic and Republican foreign policy analysis and election intelligence analysis, but also specific political figures.

Compared to the former, Li Yi'an valued the latter more - the intelligence of Washington politicians.

In addition to extracting separate information on Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, he also found a document on Republican Senator McCarthy.

Many people are familiar with this name. Even though McCarthy has never been president, who knows the famous "McCarthyism"?

Judging from the information, McCarthy is a typical American politician - born in a small farm family in Appleton, Wisconsin, and studied law in college. After graduation, he began practicing law.

Before the war he secured a position as judge of the Circuit Court for the Seventh District of Wisconsin, where he became famous as "the youngest judge in the history of that district." During World War II, he joined the United States Marine Corps. After retiring, he was elected to the Senate with a narrow majority due to his outstanding eloquence.

What is the embassy’s analysis behind the McCarthy document?

"An ordinary politician who did nothing, although he had excellent eloquence, was a very ordinary figure from any angle, and his media exposure was very low. He quickly disappeared from the Washington political scene."

A little-known little person!

"What a little person! He's unknown!"

Li Yi'an held documents about McCarthy in both hands, a little-known figure!

It should be true that he is a little person, but it should also be true that he is unknown, but that is only for now.

He has met a lot of little-known people these days.

The intelligence stated that apart from his low media exposure, McCarthy was considered qualified in other aspects, such as his eloquence.

"This is very important. Eloquence is the basic quality for the main course, and everything else is secondary."

Because he is unknown, McCarthy, who has excellent eloquence, will not waste this talent. He will definitely do everything possible to increase his media exposure. How to increase media exposure?

That’s creating a topic!

For the sake of the topic, and also to attract attention, he will definitely put on a political show at any cost, and he will use any means. To a certain extent, what he will do in the future is to use any means to increase his exposure and create topics. .

But now McCarthy is still a very ordinary senator with no future. For such an unknown person, he can get to know him in advance.

Just write his name on the notepad. Simply put, anyone who writes his name on it will be Li Yi'an's friend.

In the coming days, Harry, as Li Yi'an's lobbyist, will be responsible for turning the people on the list into his friends.

Of course, Li Nian still has some old friends in Washington, such as Major General Leto John. When Li Nian was a contractor for the Department of Defense, he established a profound friendship with him when he was just a colonel.

Although John is only a major general, he has great power - he is the director of WAA, which is the English abbreviation of "War Assets Administration Agency". It was responsible for managing astronomical postwar surplus supplies. These things are worth over $340 billion.

He does not have a high military rank, but he has a lot of power. He holds the "Sword of Shangfang" personally given by President Truman, and has full authority to deal with remaining supplies.

In the past few years, Borneo spent only more than 10 million U.S. dollars to purchase materials worth more than one billion U.S. dollars, including some materials that are relatively popular in the market. Of course, John's help is indispensable. ——Many supplies did not appear on the public list at all, and were directly given to Nanyang at a low price.

Such an old friend who can bring real money, of course, must be met in person. Don't look down on him because of his low military rank.

It was natural to be very happy to meet old friends. Recalling Li Yian's confusion when he first arrived at the Pentagon, John was not only filled with emotion but also grateful.

"Thank you, my friend. If it weren't for you, I might never be a brigadier general. Because of you, I got to know the president when he was a senator, and now..."

John laughed.

"I have another star and I am in charge of WAA."

The former is military rank, but what about the latter?

It's power!

With the power of US$340 billion, who wouldn’t be grateful?

"Opportunities are for those who are prepared. Leto, when I was in Borneo, I also knew that the exhibition you held in front of the Parliament Building was very successful. Harry chose you to be responsible for WAA. He definitely made the right choice. people."

When Li Yi arranged the exhibition in front of the Capitol Building, Major General John was inevitably a little proud. Who in the world had ever set up a stall in front of the Capitol Building? Not only did he put it on, but it was also very successful - in a few days of exhibitions, he sold more than 20 billion US dollars in supplies.

Feeling proud, John couldn't help talking proudly about his experience of setting up a stall in front of the Capitol, and of course, more importantly, his campaign to promote surplus military supplies around the world. Now he has 5 people under his command, and all of them are sales experts.

“When it comes to military surplus materials, the best things to sell are jeeps, typewriters, military blankets and the like, but these things only account for 1/7 of the total, and there are a lot of leftover things that you can’t name. It’s very difficult to sell paramilitary supplies with names like these, and now a lot of them are backlogged in warehouses and have no use at all.”

John shrugged his shoulders helplessly and complained.

"Just like those 1.5-horsepower two-stroke gasoline generators. It was originally used to power radio stations, but now it has no use at all. Who can use it? There is only a small 1.5-horsepower generator."

Small generator?

John's complaint made Li Yian's eyes light up and he asked.

"I can help with this. How many small generators like that are there?"

"Help? No, no, my friend, I'm just complaining. Now we are dealing with those things that are difficult to dispose of little by little. If you can't dispose of them, just throw them in the warehouse."

"I mean seriously, how many are those little generators?"

Li Yian said with a smile.

"I want them all!"

(End of this chapter)