Yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle surveyed the most exclusive clubs in San Francisco, from the San Francisco Golf Club (with an alleged "no Jews, no people-of-color" policy) to the shadowy Bohemian Grove, a frat party playground for the conservative rich white guys running our shadow government:
"In 1971, President Richard Nixon, a member (of the Bohemian Grove) since 1953, was to be the lakeside speaker, but reporters had finally raised a ruckus about a sitting president giving an off-the-record speech at the Grove. Nixon sent sugary regrets in a telegram that hangs in the city clubhouse today, saying that anyone could be president of the United States, but only a few could aspire to be president of the Bohemian Club.
Privately, he said to domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman (and the hidden tape recorder) in the Oval Office that May: 'The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.'"
