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24. Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon, p. 352.
25. Lewis Chester et al., The Presidential Campaign of 1968 (London: Deutch, 1969), p. 622.
26. Chester et al., p. 763.
27. Houston Post, October 29, 1970.
28. New York Times, May 13, 1969.
29. New York Times, Sept, 27, 1969.
30. Bush and Gold, Looking Forward, pp. 98-103.
31. Houston Chronicle, October 6, 1970.
32. See "Tubing with Lloyd/George," The Texas Observer, October 30, 1970.
33. Knaggs, Two-Party Texas, p. 148.
34. Houston Post, November 5, 1970.
35. Bush and Gold, Looking Forward, page 102.
Chapter -XI- United Nations Ambassador, Kissinger
Clone
At this point in his career, George Bush entered into a phase of close association with
both Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. As we will see, Bush was a member of the
Nixon cabinet from the spring of 1971 until the day that Nixon resigned. We will see
Bush on a number of important occasions literally acting as Nixon's speaking tube,
especially in international crisis situations. During these years, Nixon was Bush's patron,
providing him with appointments and urging him to look forward to bigger things in the
future. On certain occasions, however, Bush was upstaged by others in his quest for
Nixon's favor. Then there was Kissinger, far and away the most powerful figure in the
Washington regime of those days, who became Bush's boss when the latter became the
US Ambassador to the United Nations in New York City. Later, on the campaign trail in
1980, Bush would offer to make Kissinger Secretary of State in his administration.
Bush was now listing a net worth of over $1.3 million [fn 1], but the fact is that he was
now unemployed, but anxious to assume the next official post, to take the next step of
what in the career of a Roman Senator was called the cursus honorum, the patrician
career, for this is what he felt the world owed him.
Nixon had promised Bush an attractive and prestigious political plum in the Executive
branch, and it was now time for Nixon to deliver. Bush's problem was that in late 1970
Nixon was more interested in what another Texan could contribute to his Administration.