George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

Prescott's son George, the future U.S. President, was also safe. Three days before this
note to Moscow was written, George Bush had parachuted from a Navy bomber airplane
over the Pacific Ocean, killing his two crew members when the unpiloted plane crashed.
Five months later, in February 1945, Prescott's boss, Averell Harriman, escorted
President Franklin Roosevelt to the fateful summit meeting with Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin at Yalta. In April Roosevelt died. The agreement reached at Yalta, calling for free
elections in Poland once the war ended, was never enforced.
Over the next eight years (1945 through 1952), Prescott Bush was Harriman's anchor in
the New York financial world. The increasingly powerful Mr. Harriman and his allies
gave Eastern Europe over to Soviet dictatorship. A Cold War was then undertaken, to ``
counterbalance '' the Soviets.
This British-inspired strategy paid several nightmarish dividends. Eastern Europe was to
remain enslaved. Germany was `` permanently '' divided. Anglo-American power was
jointly exercised over the non-Soviet `` Free World. '' The confidential functions of the
British and American governments were merged. The Harriman clique took possession of
the U.S. national security apparatus, and in doing so, they opened the gate and let the
Bush family in.
Following his services to Germany's Nazi Party, Averell Harriman spent several years
mediating between the British, American and Soviet governments in the war to stop the
Nazis. He was ambassador to Moscow from 1943 to 1946.
President Harry Truman, whom Harriman and his friends held in amused contempt,
appointed Harriman U.S. ambassador to Britain in 1946.
Harriman was at lunch with former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill one day in
1946, when Truman telephoned. Harriman asked Churchill if he should accept Truman's
offer to come back to the U.S. as Secretary of Commerce. According to Harriman's
account, Churchill told him: `` Absolutely. The center of power is in Washington. ''@s1
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The reorganization of the American government after World War II--the creation of the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency along British lines, for example--had devastating
consequences. We are concerned here with only certain aspects of that overall
transformation, those matters of policy and family which gave shape to the life and mind
of George Bush, and gave him access to power.
It was in these postwar years that George Bush attended Yale University, and was
inducted into the Skull and Bones society. The Bush family's home at that time was in
Greenwich, Connecticut. But it was just then that George's parents, Prescott and Dorothy
Walker Bush, were wintering in a peculiar spot in Florida, a place that is excluded from
mention in literature originating from Bush circles.