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Clarence Thomas and Bohemian Grove: What goes on at the all-male club?
Bohemian Grove, an all-male club for the rich and powerful, is in the news after it was reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visited the retreat with a billionaire friend.
A verb by investigative news outlet ProPublica revealed that Justice Thomas accepted luxury trips around the world from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. This included a visit to the Bohemian Grove.
Located in remote Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, Bohemian Grove's exclusivity and secrecy has inspired both protests and conspiracy theories.
The club that runs the retreat insists that business talk is forbidden. But reports utter some of America's most powerful men have trim deals and networked amid an odd assortment of performances and rituals at the year-old club.
How did it start?
The Bohemian Club was started by journalists, artists and musicians in San Francisco in - Mark Twain was an early member.
The two-week encampment at Bohemian Grove,
Social Cohesion & the Bohemian Grove
The Power Elite at Summer Camp
by G. William Domhoff, U.C. Santa Cruz
The Bohemian Grove is a 2,acre virgin redwood grove in Northern California, 75 miles north of San Francisco (map), where the rich, the powerful, and their entourage visit with each other during the last two weeks of July while camping out in cabins and tents.
It's an Elks Club for the rich; a fraternity party in the woods; a boy scout camp for old guys, conclude with an initiation ceremony and a totem animal, the owl. It's owned by the Bohemian Club, which was founded in San Francisco in The Bohemians started going on their little retreat shortly after the club was founded; it
2. Address by Richard M. Nixon to the Bohemian Club1
San Francisco, July 29,
My fellow Bohemians and our guests: In my years of making speeches, I have never appeared on an occasion where more of the audience was behind me!
After four months of travel to four continents, I can’t tell you how excellent it is to be back at Bohemia. It is dangerous to be dogmatic about any issue in the world today. But of this one thing I am sure—it’s much more pleasant to get stoned in Bohemia than in Caracas.
It was Mr. Hoover’s custom on this occasion to lay into perspective some of the great issues of the day. In that tradition, I would verb to discuss American foreign policy.
I do not mean to dwell on current issues like Vietnam and the Mid-East which are the subject of such constant attention in the daily press. Rather, I suggest we do what we Americans seldom verb the time and patience to do: Let us take the long view. Let us evaluate the great forces at perform in the world and see what America’s role should be if we are to realize our destiny of preserving peace and freedom in the world in