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esources for surpass our modest capabilities. We can only remind our fellow citizens that<br />

when he asks for their votes for his re-election, <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> also enters that court of<br />

public opinion in which he is obliged to answer their questions. <strong>The</strong>y should not waste<br />

this opportunity to grill him on all aspects of his career and future intentions, since it is<br />

<strong>Bush</strong> who comes forward appealing for their support.<br />

We do not delude ourselves that we have said the last word about <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>. But we<br />

have for the first time sketched out at least some of the most salient features and gathered<br />

them into a comprehensible whole. We encourage an aroused citizenry, as well as<br />

specialized researchers, to improve upon what we have been able to accomplish. In so<br />

doing, we recall the words of the Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio when he reluctantly<br />

accepted the order of a powerful king to produce an account of the old Roman Pantheon:<br />

NOTES:<br />

SI MINUS BENE DIXERO SALTEM AD MELIUS DICENDUM PRUDENTIOREM ALTERUM<br />

EXCITABO.<br />

BOCCACCIO, GENEALOGIA DEORUM GENTILIUM<br />

1. <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> and Vic Gold, Looking Forward, (New York: Doubleday, 1987), p. 47.<br />

2. Fitzhugh Green, Looking Forward, (New York: &Hippocrene, 1989), p. 53.<br />

3. Harry Hurt III, "<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>, Plucky Lad," Texas Monthly, June, 1983, p. 142.<br />

4. Richard Ben Cramer, "How He Got Here," Esquire, June, 1991, p. 84.<br />

5. Joe Hyams, Flight of the Avenger (New York, 1991), p. .<br />

6. Nicholas King, <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>: A <strong>Biography</strong> (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1980), p. xi.<br />

7. Donnie Radcliffe, Simply Barbara <strong>Bush</strong>, (New York: Warner, 1989), p. 103.<br />

8. Rainer Bonhorst,<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>, Der neue Mann im Weissen Haus, (Bergisch Gladbach: Gustav Luebbe<br />

Verlag, 1988), pp. 80- 81.<br />

9. See "<strong>The</strong> Roar of the Crowd," Texas Monthly, November, 1991. See also Jan Jarboe, "Meaner Than a<br />

Junkyard Dog," Texas Monthly, April 1991, p. 122 ff. Here Wyatt observes: "I knew from the beginning<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> came to Texas only because he was politically ambitious. He flew out here on an airplane<br />

owned by Dresser Industries. His daddy was a member of the board of Dresser."<br />

10. Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979), p. 233.<br />

11. John Selby Watson (translator), Sallust, Florus, and Velleius Paterculus (London: <strong>George</strong> Bell and Son,<br />

1879), pp. 542-546.

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