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BUSH FAMILY
MACHINATIONS, 1918-2000
1918 Prescott Bush Sr., leads a raid on a Indian
tomb to secure Geronimo's skull for Skull & Bones.
1937 Prescott Bush's investment firm sets up deal for the Luftwaffe so it
can obtain tetraethyl lead.
1942 Three firms with which Prescott Bush is associated are seized under
the Trading with the Enemy Act.
1953 George Bush and the Liedtke brothers form
Zapata Petroleum. Zapata's subsidiary, Zapata Offshore, later becomes known
for its close ties to the CIA.
1954 The Bush family buys out the Liedtke
brothers.
1955 George Bush sets up a Mexican drilling operation, Permago,
with a frontman to obscure his ownership. The frontman later is convicted of defrauding the Mexican
government of $58 million.
1959 Manuel Noriega recruited as an agent by the US Defense Intelligence
Agency.
1960 Some investigators believe George Bush spent part of this year and
the next in Miami on behalf of
the CIA, organizing rightwing exiles for an invasion of Cuba.
Is said to have worked with later Iran-Contra figure Felix Rodriguez.
1961 According to the Realist, CIA official Fletcher Prouty
delivers three Navy ships to agents in Guatemala
to be used in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Prouty claims he delivered the ships to a CIA agent named
George Bush. Agent Bush named the ships the Barbara, Houston and Zapata.
Bay of Pigs invasion fails. Right-wingers blame Kennedy
for failure to provide air cover. CIA loses 15 men, another 1100 are
imprisoned.
George Bush invites Rep. TL. Ashley -- a fellow Skull & Boner -- down to Texas
for a party in order to meet "an attractive girl." Bush writes that
"she may be accompanied by an Austrian ski instructor but I think we can
probably flush him at the local dance hall." Bush notes that he's had to
unlist his phone because "Jane Morgan keeps
calling me all the time." [From a letter in the Ashley archives
uncovered by Spy magazine.]
Zapata annual report boasts that the company has paid no taxes since it was
founded.
1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Internal FBI memo reports that on
November 22 "reputable businessman" George H. W. Bush reported
hearsay that a certain Young Republican "has been talking of killing the
president when he comes to Houston."
The Young Republican was nowhere near Dallas
on that date.
According to a 1988 story in The Nation, a memo from J. Edgar Hoover states
that "Mr. George Bush of the CIA" had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the
reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami
to the assassination of President Kennedy. George says it ain't
him, admits he was in Texas but
can't remember where.
1964 George Bush runs as a Goldwater Republican for Congress. Campaigns
against the Civil Rights Act.
1966 Bush, runs as a moderate Republican, gets elected to Congress. Robert
Mosbacher chairs Oil Men for Bush.
Apache leader Ned Anderson meets with the Skull & Bones lawyer and George
Bush's brother Jonathan who attempt to return the skull Prescott Bush had
looted in 1933. Anderson refuses
the skull because he says it isn't Geronimo's.
1968 George W. Bush joins Skull & Bones at Yale
1970 Bush loses Senate race to Lloyd Bentsen, despite $112,000 in contributions
from a White House slush fund. Jim Baker is campaign chair. Bush later claims
to have reported correctly all but $6000 in cash --which he denies he got. A
1992 story in the New York Times says the $6000 was listed in records of
Nixon's "townhouse operation" which was designed in part to make
GOP congressional candidates vulnerable to blackmail.
1971 Bush is named UN Ambassador by Nixon. Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs finds enough evidence of Noriega's
involvement in drug dealing to indict him, but US Attorney's office in Miami
considers grabbing Noriega in Panama
for trial here to be impractical. State Department also urges BNDD to back
off.
1972 Bill Liedtke gathers $700,000 in anonymous
contributions for the Nixon campaign, delivering the money in cash, checks
and securities to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (the infamous
CREEP) one day before such contributions become illegal. Bill says he did it
as a favor to George.
1973 Bush is named GOP national chair. Brings into the party the Heritage
Groups Council, an organization with a number of Nazi sympathizers.
Bush, according to Lowell Weicker, inquires as to
whether records of the "townhouse operation" should be burned.
Robert Mosbacher wins an offshore drilling
concession from Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Watergate tapes indicate concern by Nixon and aide HR Haldeman
that the investigation into Watergate might expose the "Bay
of Pigs thing." Nixon also speaks of the "Texans"
and the "Cubans." and mentions "Mosbacher."
In another tape, Nixon decides following his re-election to get signed
resignations from his whole government so he can centralize his power. Says
Nixon to John Erlichman: "Eliminate everyone,
except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause."
1974 Bush is named special envoy to China.
1975 DEA report notes Noreiga's involvement in
drug trade.
George W. Bush graduates from Harvard
Business School
1976 Jerry Ford names George Bush CIA director, his fourth political
patronage job in a little over five years. Bush later claims this is the
first time he ever worked for the CIA. At his confirmation hearings, Bush
says, "I think we should tread very carefully on governments that are
constitutionally elected."
Bush holds first known meeting with Noriega. Noriega starts receiving
$110,000 a year from the CIA.
Noriega found to be working for Cubans as well, but keeps his CIA gig.
Bush sets up Team B within the CIA, a group of neo-conservative outsiders and
generals who proceed to double the agency's estimate of Soviet military
spending.
Senate committee headed by Frank Church proposes revealing size of the
country's black budget -- intelligence spending that, in contradiction to the
Constitution, is kept secret even from the Hill. According to journalist Tim
Weiner, Bush argues that the revelation would be a disaster and would
compromise the agency beyond repair. By a one vote margin the matter is
referred to the Senate. It never reaches the floor.
Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier is assassinated
by Chilean secret police agents. CIA fails to inform FBI of pending plot and
of assassins' arrival in US. CIA claims the hit was the work of left-wingers
in search of a martyr.
Bush writes internal CIA memo asking to see cable on Jack Ruby visiting
Santos Trafficante in jail. In 1992, Bush will deny
any interest in the JFK assassination while CIA head.
Bush claims nuclear war is winnable.
1977 Philippine dictator Marcos buys back Robert Mosbacher's
oil concession. Mosbacher claims he was swindled.
Philippine officials say they never saw any expenditures
by Mosbacher on the project.
1978 Bush, Mosbacher and Jim Baker become
partners in an oil deal.
From a Washington Post article by Bob Woodward and Walter Pincus:
"According to those involved in Bush's first political action committee,
there were several occasions in 1978-79, when Bush was living in Houston and
traveling the country in his first run for the presidency, that he set aside
periods of up to 24 hours and told aides that he had to fly to Washington for
a secret meeting of former CIA directors. Bush told his aides that he could
not divulge his whereabouts, and that he would not be available." Former
CIA chief Stansfield Turner denies such meetings
took place.
George W. Bush declares his candidacy for the Midland
Congressional district. He wins the Republican primary and loses in the
general election.
George W. Bush begins operations of his oil firm, Arbusto
Energy. With the help of Jonathan Bush, he assembles several dozen investors
in a limited partnership including Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman,
William Draper, and James Bath, a Houston
aircraft broker
1980 Bush becomes Reagan's vice presidential candidate. Runs as a rightwinger again.
Mosbacher becomes chief fundraiser for Bush's
presidential campaign. Forms a millionaire's club of 250 contributors, each
of whom cough up $100,000.
William Casey forms a working group to prepare for possible Carter October
political surprise. In early October, an Iranian official meets with three
top Reagan campaign aides. All three deny memory of the meeting in subsequent
proceedings.
On October 21, Reagan hints he has a secret plan to release the hostages.
This is right around the alleged date of a Paris
meeting at which the so-called "October Surprise" was settled. Some
allege that at this meeting it was agreed to end the arms embargo against Iran
if Iran would
release its hostages after the election. While Bush's presence at this
meeting has been denied by the House committee investigating the October
Surprise, Bush's whereabouts at this critical time remain in doubt. The White
House, in fact, has leaked conflicting stories.
Rep. Dan Quayle goes on a Florida
golfing vacation with seven other men and Paula Parkinson -- an insurance
lobbyist who later posed nude for Playboy. Parkinson describes Quayle as a
husband on the make, but says she turned him down because she was already
having an affair with another congressman. Marilyn Quayle says, "anybody
who knows Dan Quayle knows he would rather play golf than have sex."
The Reagan-Bush campaign receives stolen copies of Carter's briefing books.
Bush's campaign manager, James Baker, forces the dismissal of Bush aide
Jennifer Fitzgerald, described in a 1982 Time story as having "much to
say about where Bush goes, what he does and whom he sees." Bush
continues to pay Fitzgerald out of his own pocket.
1981 Reagan-Bush inaugurated. Hostages released moments before. Shortly
thereafter, arms shipments to Iran
resume from Israel
and America.
In July, an Argentinean plane chartered by Israel
crashes in Soviet territory. It is found to have made three deliveries of
American military supplies to Iran.
In a 1991 story in Esquire, Craig Unger quotes Alexander Haig
as saying "I have a sneaking suspicion that someone in the White House
winked." Says Unger: "This secret and illegal sale of military
equipment continued for years afterwards."
James Baker named Reagan's chief of staff.
SEC filings for Zapata Oil for 1960-66 are found to have been
"inadvertently destroyed."
Reagan authorizes CIA assistance to Contras.
1982 CIA director William Casey begins Operation Black Eagle to expand US
role in Central America. Urges use of "selected
Latin American and European governments, organizations and individuals"
in the project.
Inslaw, a computer software company, signs a $10 million contract to install a case-tracking
program in 94 US Attorney's offices. Four months later, after obtaining a
copy of Inslaw's proprietary version of the
program, the government cancels the contract and begins an aggressive campaign
to force the company into bankruptcy. Later sources claim that the program
was installed by the CIA and sold to various foreign intelligence agencies.
After $3 million is poured into Arbusto with little
oil and no profits, just tax shelter George W. Bush changes the company name
to Bush Exploration Oil Co. Subsequently he is kept afloat by an investment
from Philip Uzielli, a Princeton
friend of James Baker III. For the sum of $1 million, Uzielli
bought 10% of the company at a time in 1982 when the entire enterprise was
valued at less than $400,000. Subsequently, to save the company George W.
Bush merges with Spectrum 7, a small oil firm owned by William DeWitt and
Mercer Reynolds. DeWitt had graduated from Yale a few years earlier than Bush
and was the son of the former owner of the Cincinnati Reds. Bush becomes
president of Spectrum 7. He also gets 14% of the Spectrum's stock. Meanwhile,
50 original investors in Arbusto get paid off at
about 20 cents on the dollar.
1983 Noriega meets again with George Bush.
Bush presents an autographed photo to a WWII Ukrainian leader under the
Nazis, whose regime killed 100,000 Jews.
KAL 007 crashes under circumstances that remain suspicious to this day.
Bush promotes Jennifer Fitzgerald from appointments secretary to executive
assistant. Seven staffers resign in protest. Fitzgerald tells the New York
Post: "Everyone keeps painting me as this old ogre. I really don't worry
about it. All these bizarre things just simply aren't true."
Neil Bush forms his first oil company. He puts in $100, his partners
contribute $160,000 and Neil is named president of the firm, JNB Exploration.
Jeb Bush's business partner, Alberto Duque, goes bankrupt, is eventually convicted of fraud
and is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
1984 Jeb Bush lobbies the Department of Health
& Human Services on behalf of Cuban--American businessman Miguel Recarey, Jr., whose medical firm later collapses. Recarey, who was close to mobster Santos Trafficante, later disappears with at least $12 million
in federal funds.
George Bush takes part in meetings to plan increased "third
country" aid to the Contras..
CIA mines Nicaraguan harbors.
1985 Jennifer Fitzgerald is sent to work on Capitol Hill after stories
arise linking her romantically with George Bush.
Stuart Spencer's public relation firm starts receiving over $350,000 from Panama
to improve Noriega's image.
CIA starts using BCCI as a conduit.
George Bush thanks Oliver North for "dedication and tireless work with
the hostage thing, with Central America." Bush
will later deny knowing about the Contra effort until late 1986.
Neil Bush joins the board of Silverado S&L, serves until 1988. Silverado
loans his partners in JNB $132 million which they never repay. Silverado will
eventually collapse at a taxpayer cost of $1 billion.
408 TOW anti-tank missiles are shipped from Israel
to Iran. A
day later, US
hostage Benjamin Weir is released.
1986 VP Bush goes to Honduras
to promote support for the Contras. Takes along baseball players Nolan Ryan
and Gary Carter.
Contra figure Felix Rodriguez meets with Donald Gregg, Bush's national
security advisor, to complain about Iran-Contra operatives skimming funds
from the Contras.
Bush may have made several secret visits to Damascus
between 1986-88 according to a 1992 report in Time, which
said two senior GOP senators were pressing for a probe. The allegation
is that Bush went to negotiate the release of hostages in Lebanon
but in fact stonewalled Syria,
"playing for campaign timing. Republicans want to get to the bottom of
intelligence-community suspicions that the US
somehow blew a chance to free Terry Anderson and his fellow captives."
Iranian arms runner Manucher Ghorbanifar proposes
"diversion" of profits from Iran
arms sales to Contras.
George W. Bush and partners receive more than $2 million of Harken Energy stock in exchange for a failing oil well
operation, which had lost $400,000 in the prior six months. After Bush joined
Harken, the largest stock position and a seat on
its board were acquired by Harvard Management Company. The Harken board gave Bush $600,000 worth of the company's
publicly traded stock, plus a seat on the board plus a consultancy that paid
him up to $120,000 a year. When Harken runs short
of cash it hooks up with investment banker Jackson Stephens of Little
Rock, Arkansas, who arranges
a $25 million stock purchase by Union Bank of Switzerland.
Sheik Abdullah Bakhsh, who joins the board as a
part of the deal, is connected to the infamous BCCI.
1987 Bush's former chief of staff, Daniel Murphy, flies to Panama
with South Korean influence peddler Tongsun Park
on a private plane owned by arms dealer Sargis Soghnalian to meet with Noriega. Murphy later tells a
Senate subcommittee that he informed Noriega that he need not resign before
the 1988 election despite the Reagan administration public pressure to the
contrary.
Bill Casey dies.
Lee Atwater accuses Robert Dole of spreading stories about Bush and Jennifer
Fitzgerald. An agreement is worked out, as reported by Sidney Blumenthal in
the Washington Post: "The Dole people didn't spread any rumors and
promised not to do it again. And the Bush people haven't spread rumors about
the Dole people spreading rumors and won't do it again."
Harken Energy project gets rescued by aid from the
BCCI-connected Union Bank of Switzerland
in a deal brokered by Jackson Stephens, later to show up as a key supporter
of Bill Clinton.
1988 Dan Quayle is named VP candidate. Stuart Spencer is assigned to
improve Dan Quayle's image, the same job he handled for Noriega and Nixon.
Quayle embarrasses campaign by such statements as "[The Holocaust] was
an obscene period in our nation's history," adding that "I didn't
live in this century."
Prisoner who claimed he sold marijuana to Quayle is put into solitary
confinement by the head of federal prisons, aborting a planned news
conference shortly before the election.
Silverado S&L goes under after receiving 126 cease & desist orders in past four years from the Topeka
office of the Office of Thrift Supervision. These orders found conflict of
interests, insider abuse and other violations.
Dwight Chapin, ex-Nixon dirty trickster, gets job in Bush campaign.
Rudi Slavoff becomes head of Bulgarians for Bush.
In 1983, Slavoff organized an event honoring Austin
App, promoter of the theory that the Holocaust was a hoax.
Slavoff joins other GOP ethnic leaders in the
Coalition of American Nationalities co-chaired by Edward Derwinski.
Among them is a former member of an Hungarian
pro-Nazi party. After press revelations, eight of the leaders accused of
anti-semitism resign from the campaign. Bush says:
"Nobody's giving in... These people left of their own account."
GOP flier warns that "all the murderers, rapists and drug pushers and
child molesters in Massachusetts
vote for Michael Dukakis."
Bush establishes Team 100, which will eventually grow to 249 individuals who
contribute nearly $25 million in soft money to help the GOP cause. The
contributions also apparently help the contributors, various
of whom get ambassadorial appointments, legislative favors, and intervention
on regulatory and criminal matters.
Bush denies knowledge of Noriega's involvement in
drug dealing.
The Willie Horton ad is aired. Credit for similar tactics is given to
campaign guru Lee Atwater, whose PR firm had represented drug-connected Bahamian
prime minister Oscar Pinding and the Philippines'
Marcos. Atwater himself had
represented UNITA, the CIA-backed Africa rebel group.
Fred Malek, ex-Nixon aide, resigns from the Bush
campaign after it's revealed that he compiled a list of Jews in the Labor
Dept. as part of a Nixon investigation of a "Jewish cabal."
A few days before the supposedly surprise arrest of five BCCI officials, some
of the world's most powerful drug dealers quietly withdraw millions of
dollars from the bank. Some government investigators believe the dealers were
tipped off by sources within the Bush administration.
Although Felix Rodriguez, former leading cop under Batista, claims he left
the CIA in 1976, Rolling Stone reports that he is still going to CIA
headquarters monthly to receive assignments and get his bulletproof Cadillac
serviced.
Bankruptcy judge George Bason Jr. concludes that
the government stole Inslaw's software through
"trickery, fraud and deceit."
Stock market drops 43 points on false rumor that Washington Post was about the publish the Bush-Fitzgerald story.
1989 Bush inaugurated. Aides tell the press that the new administration
would rather "stay one step behind than be one
step ahead."
Bush authorizes CIA support to Noriega's
opposition, giving Noriega an excuse to annul Panama's
elections.
Bush claims executive privilege to avoid testifying in the Oliver North
trial, thus becoming first president to use this power to keep his acts as
vice president under wraps.
Dan Quayle declares changes in Soviet Union "just
a public relations extravaganza."
Bush brother Prescott flies to Shanghai
after the Tiananmen Square massacre to close a deal
for an $18 million resort there, despite his brother's ban on high-level
Chinese contacts. Prescott says,
"We aren't a bunch of carrion birds coming in to pick the carcass. But
there are big opportunities in China,
and America
can't afford to be shut out."
Prescott Bush also visits Japan,
searching for consulting contracts just ten days before his brother arrives
on a presidential tour. The Japanese firm that paid Prescott
a quarter-million dollar consulting fee comes under investigation for
exchange law violations and links to the Japanese mob.
C. Boyden Gray, the president's top ethics
official, corrects his 1985 and 1986 financial disclosure forms. He forgot to
include $98,000 in income.
George Bush signs the S&L bailout bill promising that "these
problems will never happen again."
The Chicago Tribune reports: "After 14 fishing outings, the President
has failed to catch a single fish."
At White House behest, the DEA lures drug dealer to Lafayette
Park to make arrest in front of
presidential home for the benefit of Bush's upcoming drug speech. At first,
drug dealer is dubious, asks DEA agent, "Where the fuck is the White
House?"
Defense secretary nominee John Tower
runs into confirmation troubles when it is revealed that he has received
hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from defense contractors.
Runs into more trouble with revelations of womanizing and drinking. His nomination
is rejected.
The sale of three communications satellites to China
is announced. Prescott Bush is a $250,000 consultant in the deal.
GOP memo is leaked implying that House Speaker Tom Foley is a homosexual.
President Bush signs a top-secret directive ordering closer ties with Iraq,
which opens the way for $1 billion in new aid just a little more than a year
before Bush goes to war against that country. The agricultural credit allows
Saddam Hussein to use his hard currency for a massive military buildup.
A second judge concurs that the government stole Inslaw's
software.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published by the US
government, reports that the GNP of East Germany during the 1980s was greater
than that of West Germany. The figures come from the CIA.
Bahrain
officials suddenly break off offshore drilling negotiations with Amoco and
decide to deal with Harken Energy, George Bush Jr.'s firm. Harken has had a
series of failed ventures and no cash, so the Bass brothers are brought in to
finance Harken's efforts at a cost of $50 million.
Neil Bush bails out of JNB Exploration, the firm where he became president
with a $100 ante, leaving his partners to worry about its debt. Days earlier
he forms Apex Energy with a personal investment of $3000. The rest of the
money -- $2.7 million -- comes from an SBA program designed to help
"high risk start-up companies." Like JNB, it proves to be just
that. Apex will later go belly-up with no assets.
Two months after his father's inauguration, George W. Bush announces that he
and a syndicate of investors have purchased the Texas Rangers. The investors
are Edward "Rusty" Rose, Richard Rainwater, Bill DeWitt, Roland
Betts (a former Yale frat brother) and Tom Bernstein (Bett's
partner in a film investment concern). While Bush appears to lead the group,
Rainwater makes clear that Rose is to control how the business is run. Bush's
stake in the $86 million deal is 2%, financed with a $500,000 loan from a
Midland Bank of which he had been a director and $106,000 from other sources.
Rainwater and Rose put up 14.2 million, Betts and Bernstein invested about $6
million and the balance comes from smaller investors and loans. Bush will
eventually sell his share for $15 million.
1990 Federal regulators give Bush son Neil the mildest possible penalty in
the $1 billion failure of the Silverado S&L. The deal is so good that
Bush drops his appeal. Among other things, Neil, as a Silverado director,
voted to approve over $100 million in loans to his business partners.
January: Bahrain
awards exclusive offshore drilling rights to Harken
Oil. This is a surprise as Harken is in very shaky
financial condition, has never drilled outside of Texas,
Louisiana and Oklahoma
and had never drilled undersea at all. The Bass brothers are brought in by Harken for sufficient equity to proceed with the effort. Harken's stock price increases from $4.50 to $5.50.
George W. Bush sells two-thirds of his Harken
Energy stock at the top of the market for $850,000, a 200% profit, but makes
no report to the SEC until March 1991. Bush Jr. says later the SEC misplaced
the report. An SEC representative responds: "nobody ever found the
'lost' filing." One week after Bush's sale, Harken
reports an earnings plunge. Harken stock falls more
than 60%. Bush uses most of the proceeds to pay off the bank loan he had
taken a year earlier to finance his portion of the Texas Rangers deal.
August: Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait.
Harken's stock price drops substantially. Two
months after Bush sells his stock, Harken posts
losses for the 2nd quarter of well over $20 million and is shares fall
another 24 %, by year end Harken is trading at
$1.25. Bush has insisted that he did not know about the firm's mounting
losses and that his stock sell-off was approved by Harken's
general counsel.
George W. Bush is asked by Carlyle Group to serve on the board of directors
of Caterair, one of the nation's largest airline
catering services which it had acquired in 1989. The offer is arranged by
Fred Malek, long time Bush associate who is then an
advisor to Carlyle.
October: Arlington, Texas
Mayor Richard Greene signs a contract that guarantees $135 million toward the
new Texas Ranger Stadium's estimate price of $190 million. The Rangers put up
no cash but finance their share through a ticket surcharge. From the team's
operating revenues, the city will earn a maximum of $5 million annually in
rent, no matter how much the Rangers reap from ticket sales and television (a
sum that will rise to $100 million a year). Another provision permitts the franchise to buy the stadium after the
accumulated rental payments reached a mere $ 60 million. The property
acquired so cheaply by the Rangers includes not just a fancy new stadium with
a seating capacity of 49,000 but an additional 270 acres of newly valuable
land. Legislation is passed and signed that authorizes the Arlington Sports
Facilities Development Authority with power to issue bonds and exercise
eminent domain over any obstinate landowners. Never before had a Texas
municipal authority been given the license to seize the property of a private
citizen for the benefit of other private citizens. A recalcitrant Arlington
family refuses to sell a 13 acre parcel near the stadium site for half its
appraised value. The jury awards more than $4 million to the family.
Fred Malek returns to power with ambassador status
to head up planning for the economic summit.
S&L industry is losing money at the rate of $3 million a minute. Bailout
chief estimates total cost at $325-500 billion.
Some 200 young soccer players have their games canceled for security reasons
because Bush wants to go fishing on the Potomac
nearby. Says one seven-year-old player: "We had a tough soccer game and
he's just going fishing. He could play somewhere else."
Bush son Jeb gets the federal government to pay off
the $4 million he owed to a failed Florida
thrift.
Bush brother Jonathan's east coast brokerage fined in two states for
violating laws and Jonathan is barred from public trading in Massachusetts.
Bush's attorney general, Richard Thornberg, is
warned about BCCI but does nothing.
Federal court of appeals throws out the Inslaw case
on the grounds that it did not belong in bankruptcy court.
Bush says, "The economy is headed in the right direction."
1991 Former top aide to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu goes to
work for a prominent figure in the BCCI scandal less than a month after
leaving the Bush administration. Edward Rogers Jr. signs a $600,000 contract
to give legal advice to Sheik Kamal Adham, an ex-Saudi intelligence officer who is being
investigated for his role in BCCI's takeover of
First American Bancshares.
The Miami acting US Attorney is
allegedly rebuffed by the Justice Department in his efforts to indict BCCI
and some of its principal officers on tax fraud charges. Justice Department
later denies this occurred.
Danny Casolaro, a reporter investigating the Inslaw story, is found dead in a motel room bathtub, the
day after he met a key source. The death was ruled a suicide. Perhaps he is
despondent over the loss of his briefcase, which is missing from the room.
George Bush spends three nights in a Houston
hotel so he can claim Texas
residency. Texas has no income
tax.
Neil Bush bails out of Apex Energy after collecting $320,000 in salary plus
expenses. Bill Daniels, cable-TV magnate who has been lobbying against
regulation of the cable industry, offers Neil a job. According to a
representative, he "thought Neil deserved a second chance."
1992 New York Times reports that three of Bush's top fundraisers are being
sued in connection with bank failures and another pleaded guilty to mail
fraud in connection with an S&L. These men include the GOP national
finance chair, vice chair and two co-chairs of the President's Dinner, which
raised $9 million for Republican causes.
Former US
Attorney General Elliot Richardson, representing the owners of Inslaw, tells Mother Jones, "I don't know any case
where the government has stonewalled like this."
First of Harken Energy's wells off Bahrain
comes up dry. George W. Bush takes a leave of absence from the firm to work
in his father's campaign, saying "I don't want to involve this company
in any kind of allegations of conflicts or whatever may arise."
Village Voice reports that President Bush has taken at least 76 partisan
flights during his term, at a cost to the taxpayers of over $6 million.
Nixon's Jew hunter Fred Malek is back as Bush's
campaign manager.
Campaign sells photo opportunities with the president at a fundraiser for
$92,000 each.
Washington, DC,
loses $52,000 in taxes because Bush claims to be a Texas
resident.
Donald H. Alexander contributes $100,000 to Team 100; shortly thereafter he's
named ambassador to the Netherlands.
Bush says: "I will do what I have to do to be reelected."
1993 With the new Ranger stadium being readied to open the following
spring, George W. Bush announces that he would be running for governor. He is
says his campaign theme will be self-reliance and personal responsibility
rather than dependence on government.
1994 George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas, defeating Ann Richards
53 to 46 %.
1999 George W. Bush executes his 99th prisoner.
George W. Bush celebrates the Martin Luther King holiday by staying inside
the Governor's Mansion with the windows closed so he wouldn't hear the
thousands of Martin Luther King celebrants listening to speeches right
outside his window on the Texas capitol grounds [across the street].
Bush claims to be reading four serious books while campaigning for president.
Total pages of the four books: 1,762
* "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly
who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we
are not so sure who the they are, but we know
they're there." -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, presidential candidate.
* "Food on the family." -- George W. Bush listing one of the
priorities of his future administration.
* "This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what
you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." -- George W.
Bush to several hundred children at an elementary school in Nashua
that was celebrating what it called Perseverance Month (not Preservation
Month).
* "Is your children learning?" -- George W. Bush on education.
* "Some people have too much freedom." -- George W. Bush
* "The Grecians." -- George W. Bush on Greek people.
* "What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that
basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I
think, vulcanize society." -- George W. Bush, meaning to say
"balkanize," not "vulcanize" --
we think -- and something about quotas (Austin American-Statesman 3/23/99).
* "Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy or
philosophy or something." -- George W. Bush when asked to name something
he isn't good at (Talk magazine, September 1999).
* "Please! Don't kill me." -- George W. Bush to Larry King, mocking
what Karla Faye Tucker said when asked "What would you say to Governor
Bush?" prior to her execution by lethal injection (as reported by Talk
magazine, September 1999).
* "Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have
made." -- George W. Bush
2000 "Jeb's the smart one" -- George
Bush Sr. to dinner partner
Former President George Bush tries to block Gen. Manuel Noriega's
release from a US prison because he fears the Panamanian strongman wants to
kill him. Noriega attorney Frank Rubino says the
assertion was made by Assistant US Attorney Pat Sullivan, who represented the
government at a parole hearing for Noriega.
Copyright 2000 The Progressive
Review Also,'Sam Smith's Great American
Political Repair Manual' is published by WW Norton.
2000 (continued) Al Gore gets more popular votes than George W. Bush in
the November presidential elections, but a winner is unable to be declared
because the outcome depends upon a state of Florida recount that must made,
according to Florida law, since the eventual winner will have a majority of
less than 1% of the vote. Many of the counties do not do a recount, but simply
re-report their first results. Other counties decide to accept late overseas
ballots, contrary to Florida
law. Bush enlists James Baker to oversee his post-campaign Florida
campaign. Although Jeb, as Florida
governor, recuses himself from official state
participation in the recount, phone records later made public lead observers
to question that statement. The Florida Supreme Court directs that the entire
state must physically recount all of the votes, but the U.S. Supreme Court
overrules, declaring George W. Bush the victor in order to protect our
tradition of the smooth transition of power. The vote was 5-4. Although the
court ruled that the decision could never be used as precedent in any future
legal case, it was determined that allowing the State of Florida to recount
its votes, even though it is legally required to do so, would not be in the
best interest of George W. Bush's presidential aspirations. On the basis of
the Supreme Court's decision, Bush was declared the victor in Florida,
thus winning the majority of electoral votes and thus being elected the
nation's 43rd president.
2001 Bush is sworn in as president and Dick Cheney, Sec. of Defense under
Poppy, is sworn in as vice-president. Numerous key members of the Regan-Bush and
Bush-Quayle administrations, including those who left under a Contra cloud,
are brought back into the new administration.
With Bush as front man and Cheney as the brains behind the throne, Bush
begins to consolidate power with fast-track plans to weaken government
regulations of corporations, begin drilling on previously out of bounds
environmentally fragile sites, place greater world trade powers in the White
House, establish formal governmental funding of religions, allow greater
civil rights discrimination in the name of freedom, shift more of the
nation's wealth away from the middle class and into the hands of the wealthy
through changes in the tax laws, further establish military dominance in the
world and in space through missile defense, and weaken international compacts
protecting the environment and controlling small arms.
79 year old Andrew Marshall, a colleague of Herman "Dr.
Strangelove" Kahn at the Rand think tank in the 50's appointed head of
the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment and major speechwriter of Bush's Missle Defense System speeches.
Taking a cue from the Bush Administration, Japan
deals with Iran
to provide oil field studies, indicating that the Clinton Sanctions Act will
no longer be enforced against Iran.
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