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15 unusual facts about Steve Forbes


Bill Baroni

He was a driver for Assembly Speaker Chuck Haytaian in his campaign for U.S. Senator against Frank Lautenberg in 1994 and worked on the advance staff for the 1996 presidential campaign of Steve Forbes.

Comedy Central's Indecision 2008

Two guests appeared: Steve Forbes, former GOP candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000, and Charles Ogletree, Jr., teacher of both Barack and Michelle Obama (Michelle Robinson at the time) when they were both students at Harvard Law School.

Eliot Crawshay-Williams

In June 2010, a letter written by Crawshay-Williams to Churchill, pleading with the prime minister to come to terms with Adolf Hitler, was sold by New York publishing executive Steve Forbes.

Flat tax

Four years later, Republican candidate Steve Forbes proposed a similar idea as part of his core platform.

Flat tax plans that are presently being advanced in the United States also seek to redefine "sources of income"; current progressive taxes count interest, dividends and capital gains as income, for example, while Steve Forbes's variant of the flat tax would apply to wages only.

Gretchen Morgenson

In mid-1993, she left Forbes magazine to become the executive editor at Worth magazine but in September 1995 took on the job of press secretary for the Presidential election campaign of Steve Forbes following which she was appointed assistant managing editor at Forbes magazine.

Iowa Republican caucuses, 2000

George W. Bush finished first with 31% of the vote, followed by Steve Forbes (21%), Elizabeth Dole (14%), and Gary Bauer (9%).

Ivy Council

Past speakers have included Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO of Forbes magazine; Nasreen Berwari, Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and General Works; Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to the UN’s Millennium Development; Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and prominent environmentalist; and Dov Zakheim, US Undersecretary of Defense.

Kristin Mayes

Following graduate school, Mayes returned to The Arizona Republic, where she was assigned to cover the 2000 presidential campaigns of Senator John McCain, former Vice President Dan Quayle, publisher Steve Forbes and then-Governor George W. Bush.

Mosunmola Abudu

Steve Forbes was on stage to present deserving Nigerians the awards.

Republican Party presidential primaries

However, his campaign stumbled in the first few contests as it fell behind conservative insurgent Pat Buchanan in New Hampshire and publishing magnate Steve Forbes in Delaware and Arizona.

He faced early opposition from the well-organized campaign of wealthy businessman Steve Forbes, who quickly fizzled.

Robert V. Keeley

The press's first publication was a pamphlet entitled D.C. Governance: It's Always Been a Matter of Race and Money, issued in December 1995, and the second was a booklet with the title Annals of Investing: Steve Forbes vs. Warren Buffett, published in March 1996.

Shawn Baldwin

In 2007, Steve Forbes invited Baldwin to the Forbes CEO Middle East Conference in Doha, Qatar in May 2007.

United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 2006

Steve Laffey, however, picked up many endorsements from Republican town committees throughout Rhode Island, the national group Club for Growth, and former candidate for the party's Presidential nomination Steve Forbes.


Forbes on Fox

Regular Panelists include: Steve Forbes, Rich Karlgaard, Bill Baldwin, Mike Ozanian, Quentin Hardy, Neil Weinberg, Elizabeth MacDonald, Victoria Barret, Jack Gage, John Rutledge, Josh Lipton, Lacey Rose, Evelyn Rusli, Michael Maiello, Stephane Fitch

Liz MacDonald

MacDonald has appeared on television with former presidential candidates, Congressmen and Senators, as well as notables such as Pat Buchanan, Ben Stein, Robert Reich, Art Laffer, Stephen Moore, Steve Forbes, energy expert Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, and Adam Posen, co-author with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Frederic Mishkin of a book about inflation-targeting.