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Chapter - V - Poppy and Mommy<br />

``Oh Mother, Mother! What have you done? Behold! the heavens do ope. <strong>The</strong><br />

gods look down, and this unnatural scene they laugh at. ''<br />

Coriolanus, Shakespeare.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Silver Spoon<br />

<strong>George</strong> Herbert Walker <strong>Bush</strong> was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924.<br />

During the next year the family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and established their<br />

permanent residency.<br />

Prescott and Dorothy Walker <strong>Bush</strong> had had a son, Prescott, Jr., before <strong>George</strong>. Later<br />

there was a little sister, Nancy, and another brother, Jonathan; a fourth son, William (``<br />

Bucky ''), was born 14 years after <strong>George</strong>, in 1939.<br />

<strong>George</strong> was named after his grandfather, <strong>George</strong> Herbert Walker. Since <strong>George</strong>'s mother<br />

called Grandfather Walker `` Pop, '' she began calling her son, his namesake, `` little Pop,<br />

'' or `` Poppy. '' Hence, Poppy <strong>Bush</strong> is the name the President's family friends have called<br />

him since his youth.<br />

Prescott, Sr. joined W.A. Harriman & Co. May 1, 1926. With his family's lucrative<br />

totalitarian projects, <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>'s childhood began in comfort and advanced<br />

dramatically to luxury and elegance.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>es had a large, dark-shingled house with `` broad verandas and a portecochere ''<br />

(originally a roofed structure extending out to the driveway to protect the gentry who<br />

arrived in coaches) on Grove Lane in the Deer Park section of Greenwich.@s1

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