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9. On <strong>Bush</strong>'s drive to become Harris County chairman, it is instructive to compare his Looking Forward<br />

with the clippings from the Houston Chronicle of those days preserved on microfiche in the Texas<br />

Historical Society in Houston. <strong>Bush</strong> says that he decided to run for the post in the sping of 1962, but the<br />

Houston press clearly situates the campaign in the spring of 1963. <strong>Bush</strong> also claims to have been county<br />

chiarman for two years, whereas the Houston papers show that he served from February 20 1963 to around<br />

December 5 1963, less than one year.<br />

10. Harry Hurt III, "<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>, Plucky Lad," Texas Monthly, June, 1983, p. 196.<br />

11. Houston Chronicle, 21 February 1963.<br />

12. For Anthony Farris in the Pennzoil vs. Texaco case, see below and also Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Oil and<br />

Honor (New York, 1987), passim.<br />

13. Boston Globe, June 12, 1988, cited in Michael R. Beschloss, <strong>The</strong> Crisis Years, p. 581.<br />

14. See Barbara <strong>Bush</strong>, C. Fred's Story (New York, 1984), p.2. This is an example of Mrs. <strong>Bush</strong>'s singular<br />

habit of composing books in which she speaks through a canine persona, a feat she has repeated for the<br />

current family pet and public relations ploy, Millie. In her account of how C. Fred the dog got his name,<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> is heard ruling out usual dog names with the comment: "Not at all. We <strong>Bush</strong>es have always<br />

named our children after people we loved." So, writes C. Fred, "I am named after <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>'s best<br />

friend, C. Fred Chambers of Houston, Texas. I have met him many times and he doesn't really seem to<br />

appreciate the great honor that the <strong>Bush</strong>es bestowed upon him."<br />

15. See Ronnie Dugger, "<strong>The</strong> Four Republicans," in <strong>The</strong> Texas Observer, April 17, 1964.<br />

16. Quotations from <strong>Bush</strong> and Yarborough campaign material, except as otherwise indicated, are from<br />

Senator Yarborough's papers on deposit in the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center at the University of<br />

Texas in Austin.<br />

17. See Ronnie Dugger, "<strong>The</strong> Substance of the Senate Contest," in <strong>The</strong> Texas Observer, September 18,<br />

1964.<br />

18. See "<strong>The</strong> Historic Texas Senate Race," in <strong>The</strong> Texas Observer, October 30, 1964.<br />

19. Cited in Ronnie Dugger, "<strong>The</strong> Substance of the Senate Contest," <strong>The</strong> Texas Observer, September 18,<br />

1964.<br />

20. Ibid.<br />

21. Dallas News, October 24, 1964.<br />

22. Dallas News, October 3, 1964.<br />

23. An untitled report among the Yarborough papers in the Barker Texas History Center refers to "Senator<br />

<strong>Bush</strong>'s affiliation in a New York knife-and-fork-club type of organization called, '<strong>The</strong> Council on Foreign<br />

Relations.' In a general smear--mainly via the "I happen to know' letter chain of communication--the elder<br />

<strong>Bush</strong> was frequently attacked, and the younger <strong>Bush</strong>es were greatly relieved when Barry Goldwater<br />

volunteered words of affectionate praise for his former colleague during a $100-a-plate Dallas dinner."<br />

24. Just how far these efforts might have gone is a matter of speculation. Douglas Caddy in his book, <strong>The</strong><br />

Hundred Million Dollar Payoff (New Rochelle), p. 300, reprints an internal memorandum of the machinists<br />

Non-Partisan Political League which expresses alarm about the election outlook for Yarborough, who is

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