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``Prescott <strong>Bush</strong> had a colorful side. In 1988 the press revealed the complaint of an<br />

Apache leader about <strong>Bush</strong>. This was Ned Anderson of San Carlos, Oklahoma [sic], who<br />

charged that as a young army officer <strong>Bush</strong> stole the skull of Indian Chief [sic] Geronimo<br />

and had it hung on the wall of Yale's Skull and Bones Club. After exposure of `true facts'<br />

by Anderson, and consideration by some representatives in Congress, the issue faded<br />

from public sight. Whether or not this alleged skullduggery actually occurred, the mere<br />

idea casts the senior <strong>Bush</strong> in an adventurous light''@s1@s1[emphasis added].<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>'s crowning as a Bonesman was intensely, personally important to him.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se men were tapped for the Class of 1948:<br />

Thomas William Ludlow Ashley<br />

Lucius Horatio Biglow, Jr.<br />

<strong>George</strong> Herbert Walker <strong>Bush</strong><br />

John Erwin Caulkins<br />

William Judkins Clark<br />

William James Connelly, Jr.<br />

<strong>George</strong> Cook III<br />

David Charles Grimes<br />

Richard Elwood Jenkins<br />

Richard Gerstle Mack<br />

Thomas Wilder Moseley<br />

<strong>George</strong> Harold Pfau, Jr.<br />

Samuel Sloane Walker, Jr.<br />

Howard Sayre Weaver<br />

Valleau Wilkie, Jr.<br />

Survivors of this 1948 Bones group were interviewed for a 1988 Washington Post<br />

campaign profile of <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>. <strong>The</strong> members described their continuing intimacy with<br />

and financial support for <strong>Bush</strong> up through his 1980s vice-presidency. <strong>The</strong>ir original<br />

sexual togetherness at Yale is stressed:<br />

<strong>The</strong> relationships that were formed in the ``Tomb'' ... where the Society's meetings took place each<br />

Thursday and Sunday night during the academic year, have had a strong place in <strong>Bush</strong>'s life,<br />

according to all 11 of his fellow Bonesmen who are still alive.<br />

Several described in detail the ritual in the organization that builds the bonds. Before<br />

giving his life history, each member had to spend a Sunday night reviewing his sex life in<br />

a talk known in the Tomb as CB, or ``connubial bliss''....<br />

``<strong>The</strong> first time you review your sex life.... We went all the way around among the 15,''<br />

said Lucius H. Biglow Jr., a retired Seattle attorney. ``That way you get everybody<br />

committed to a certain extent.... It was a gradual way of building confidence.''<br />

<strong>The</strong> sexual histories helped break down the normal defenses of the members, according<br />

to several of the members from his class. William J. Connelly, Jr. ... said, ``In Skull and

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