George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

arbecues." Bush gave one of his palm cards to a man who conceded that he had heard of
Bush, but quickly added that he could never support him. Bush thought this was because
he was running as a Republican. "But," [Bush] then realized, "my being a Republican
wasn't the thing bothering the guy. It was something worse than that." Bush's interlocutor
was upset over the fact that Zapata Offshore had eastern investors. When Bush whined
that all oil companies had eastern investors, for such was the nature of the business, his
tormentor pointed out that one of Bush's main campaign contributors, a prominent
Houston attorney, was not just a "sonofabitch," but also a member of the New York
Council on Foreign Relations.
Bush explains, with the whine in his larynx in overdrive: "The lesson was that in the
minds of some voters the Council on Foreign Relations was nothing more than a One
World tool of the Communist-Wall Street internationalist conspiracy, and to make
matters worse, the Houston lawyer had also worked for President Eisenhower-- a known
tool of the Communists, in the eyes of some John Birch members." Further elucidation is
then added in a footnote: "A decade and a half later, running for President, I ran into
some of the same political types on the campaign trail. By then, they'd uncovered an
international conspiracy even more sinister than the Council on Foreign Relations-- the
Trilateral Commission, a group that President Reagan received at the White House in
1981." This,which included the exposure of Bush's membership not just in David
Rockefeller's Trilateral, but also in Skull and Bones, about which Bush always refuses to
comment. When Ronald Reagan and other candidates took up this issue, Bush ended up
loosing the New Hampshire primary and with it his best hope of capturing the Presidency
in 1980. Bush, in short, has been aware since the early sixties that serious attention to his
oligarchical pedigree causes him to lose elections. His response has been to seek to
declare these very relevant matters off limits, and to order dirty tricks and covert
operations against those who persist in making this an issue. [fn 7]
Part of the influence of the Birch Society in those days was due to the support and
financing afforded by the Hunt dynasty of Dallas. In particular, the fabulously wealthy
oilman H.L. Hunt, one of the richest men in the world, was an avid sponsor of rightwing
propaganda which he put out under the name of LIFE LINE. On at least one occasion
Hunt called Bush to Dallas for a meeting during one of the latter's Texas political
campaigns. "There's something I'd like to give you," Hunt told Bush. Bush appeared with
remarkable alacrity, and Hunt engaged him in a long conversation about many things, but
mentioned neither politics nor money. Finally, as Bush was getting ready to leave, Hunt
handed him a thick brown envelope. Bush eagerly opened the envelope in the firm
expectation that it would contain a large sum in cash. What he found instead was a thick
wad of LIFE LINE literature for his ideological reformation. [fn 8]
It was in this context that George Bush, mediocre oilman, fortified by his Wall Street and
Skull and Bones connections, but with almost no visible qualifications, and scarcely
known in Texas outside of Odessa, Midland, and Houston, decided that he had attained
senatorial caliber. In the Roman Empire, membership in the Senate was an hereditary
attribute of patrician family rank. Prescott Bush had left the Senate in early January of