said: "Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns." Buffett was also "one of the major voices in Congress opposed to the Korean adventure," and "was convinced that the United States was largely responsible for the eruption of conflict in Korea; for the rest of his life he tried unsuccessfully to get the Senate Armed Services Committee to declassify the testimony of CIA head Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, which Buffett told [Rothbard] established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak." The CIA failed to predict the Marxist invasion of the Republic of Korea in 1950, just as it had failed to predict the Soviet Atomic Bomb the previous year - 1949, it was these intelligence failures that Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter testified about. Speaking on the floor of Congress, he opposed military interventionism: In the summer of 1962, he wrote "an impassioned plea... for the abolition of the draft" in the New Individualist Review. Buffett wrote: In addition to non-interventionism overseas, Howard Buffett strongly supported the gold standard because he believed it would limit the ability of government to inflate the money supply and spend beyond its means. His son Warren Buffett is not an advocate of the gold standard. Personal life Buffett married Leila Stahl Buffett (March 18, 1904 – August 30, 1996), who was of German and English descent; they had three children: Warren Buffett (son): businessman, investor, and philanthropist, Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Peter Buffett (grandson): musician, composer, and producer Howard Graham Buffett (grandson): Corporate board member of Berkshire Hathaway Howard Warren Buffett (great-grandson): Public relations professor at Columbia University Susan Alice Buffett (granddaughter) Doris Buffett Bryant (daughter) Roberta Buffett Bialek (daughter) Publications Buffett, Howard Homan. Human Freedom Rests on Gold Redeemable Money, Financial Chronicle 5/6/48 Buffett, Howard Homan. The Evil Men in the Kremlin Must Be Chortling as Militarism Runs Wild in America. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952. References External links "Howard Homan Buffett: Old Rightist Extraordinaire" by Joseph R. Stromberg "Howard Buffett: A Man of the Old Right" by Noah M. Clarke |- 1903 births 1964 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American politicians 20th-century Presbyterians American chief executives of financial services companies American investors American libertarians American people of Scandinavian descent American Presbyterians American stockbrokers Howard Buffett Businesspeople from Omaha, Nebraska Christian libertarians John Birch Society members Monetary reformers Non-interventionism Old Right (United States) Republican Party members of the