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BUSH FAMILY MACHINATIONS, 1918-2000
1918 Prescott Bush Sr., leads a raid on a Indian tomb to secure
Geronimo’s
skull for Skull & Bones.
1937 Prescott Bush’s investment firm sets up deal for the Luftwaffe so it
can obtain tetraethyl lead.
1942 Three firms with which Prescott Bush is associated are seized under
the Trading with the Enemy Act.
1953 George Bush and the Liedtke brothers form Zapata Petroleum. Zapata’s
subsidiary, Zapata Offshore, later becomes known for its close ties to
the
CIA.
1954 The Bush family buys out the Liedtke brothers.
1955 George Bush sets up a Mexican drilling operation, Permago, with a
frontman to obscure his ownership. The frontman later is convicted of
defrauding the Mexican government of $58 million.
1959 Manuel Noriega recruited as an agent by the US Defense Intelligence
Agency.
1960 Some investigators believe George Bush spent part of this year
and the
next in Miami on behalf of the CIA, organizing rightwing exiles for an
invasion of Cuba. Is said to have worked with later Iran-Contra figure
Felix Rodriguez.
1961 According to the Realist, CIA official Fletcher Prouty delivers
three
Navy ships to agents in Guatemala to be used in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Prouty claims he delivered the ships to a CIA agent named George Bush.
Agent Bush named the ships the Barbara, Houston and Zapata.
Bay of Pigs invasion fails. Right-wingers blame Kennedy for failure to
provide air cover. CIA loses 15 men, another 1100 are imprisoned.
George Bush invites Rep. TL. Ashley — a fellow Skull & Boner — down to
Texas for a party in order to meet "an attractive girl." Bush writes that
"she may be accompanied by an Austrian ski instructor but I think we can
probably flush him at the local dance hall." Bush notes that he’s had to
unlist his phone because "Jane Morgan keeps calling me all the time."
[From
a letter in the Ashley archives uncovered by Spy magazine.]
Zapata annual report boasts that the company has paid no taxes since
it was
founded.
1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Internal FBI memo reports that on
November 22 "reputable businessman" George H. W. Bush reported hearsay
that
a certain Young Republican "has been talking of killing the president
when
he comes to Houston." The Young Republican was nowhere near Dallas on
that
date.
According to a 1988 story in The Nation, a memo from J. Edgar Hoover
states
that "Mr. George Bush of the CIA" had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963
about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the
assassination of President Kennedy. George says it ain’t him, admits
he was
in Texas but can’t remember where.
1964 George Bush runs as a Goldwater Republican for Congress. Campaigns
against the Civil Rights Act.
1966 Bush, runs as a moderate Republican, gets elected to Congress.
Robert
Mosbacher chairs Oil Men for Bush.
Apache leader Ned Anderson meets with the Skull & Bones lawyer and George
Bush’s brother Jonathan who attempt to return the skull Prescott Bush had
looted in 1933. Anderson refuses the skull because he says it isn’t
Geronimo’s.
1968 George W. Bush joins Skull & Bones at Yale
1970 Bush loses Senate race to Lloyd Bentsen, despite $112,000 in
contributions from a White House slush fund. Jim Baker is campaign chair.
Bush later claims to have reported correctly all but $6000 in cash
— which
he denies he got. A 1992 story in the New York Times says the $6000 was
listed in records of Nixon’s "townhouse operation" which was designed in
part to make GOP congressional candidates vulnerable to blackmail.
1971 Bush is named UN Ambassador by Nixon. Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs finds enough evidence of Noriega’s involvement in drug
dealing to indict him, but US Attorney’s office in Miami considers
grabbing
Noriega in Panama for trial here to be impractical. State Department also
urges BNDD to back off.
1972 Bill Liedtke gathers $700,000 in anonymous contributions for the
Nixon
campaign, delivering the money in cash, checks and securities to the
Committee to Re-Elect the President (the infamous CREEP) one day before
such contributions become illegal. Bill says he did it as a favor to
George.
1973 Bush is named GOP national chair. Brings into the party the Heritage
Groups Council, an organization with a number of Nazi sympathizers.
Bush, according to Lowell Weicker, inquires as to whether records of the
"townhouse operation" should be burned.
Robert Mosbacher wins an offshore drilling concession from Philippine
dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Watergate tapes indicate concern by Nixon and aide HR Haldeman that the
investigation into Watergate might expose the "Bay of Pigs thing." Nixon
also speaks of the "Texans" and the "Cubans." and mentions "Mosbacher."
In another tape, Nixon decides following his re-election to get signed
resignations from his whole government so he can centralize his power.
Says
Nixon to John Erlichman: "Eliminate everyone, except George Bush. Bush
will
do anything for our cause."
1974 Bush is named special envoy to China.
1975 DEA report notes Noreiga’s involvement in drug trade.
George W. Bush graduates from Harvard Business School
1976 Jerry Ford names George Bush CIA director, his fourth political
patronage job in a little over five years. Bush later claims this is the
first time he ever worked for the CIA. At his confirmation hearings, Bush
says, "I think we should tread very carefully on governments that are
constitutionally elected."
Bush holds first known meeting with Noriega. Noriega starts receiving
$110,000 a year from the CIA.
Noriega found to be working for Cubans as well, but keeps his CIA gig.
Bush sets up Team B within the CIA, a group of neo-conservative outsiders
and generals who proceed to double the agency’s estimate of Soviet
military
spending.
Senate committee headed by Frank Church proposes revealing size of the
country’s black budget — intelligence spending that, in contradiction to
the Constitution, is kept secret even from the Hill. According to
journalist Tim Weiner, Bush argues that the revelation would be a
disaster
and would compromise the agency beyond repair. By a one vote margin the
matter is referred to the Senate. It never reaches the floor.
Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier is assassinated by Chilean secret
police
agents. CIA fails to inform FBI of pending plot and of assassins’ arrival
in US. CIA claims the hit was the work of left-wingers in search of a
martyr.
Bush writes internal CIA memo asking to see cable on Jack Ruby visiting
Santos Trafficante in jail. In 1992, Bush will deny any interest in
the JFK
assassination while CIA head.
Bush claims nuclear war is winnable.
1977 Philippine dictator Marcos buys back Robert Mosbacher’s oil
concession. Mosbacher claims he was swindled. Philippine officials say
they
never saw any expenditures by Mosbacher on the project.
1978 Bush, Mosbacher and Jim Baker become partners in an oil deal.
From a Washington Post article by Bob Woodward and Walter Pincus:
"According to those involved in Bush’s first political action committee,
there were several occasions in 1978-79, when Bush was living in Houston
and traveling the country in his first run for the presidency, that he
set
aside periods of up to 24 hours and told aides that he had to fly to
Washington for a secret meeting of former CIA directors. Bush told his
aides that he could not divulge his whereabouts, and that he would not be
available." Former CIA chief Stansfield Turner denies such meetings took
place.
George W. Bush declares his candidacy for the Midland Congressional
district. He wins the Republican primary and loses in the general
election.
George W. Bush begins operations of his oil firm, Arbusto Energy. With
the
help of Jonathan Bush, he assembles several dozen investors in a limited
partnership including Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Draper, and
James Bath, a Houston aircraft broker
1980 Bush becomes Reagan’s vice presidential candidate. Runs as a
rightwinger again.
Mosbacher becomes chief fundraiser for Bush’s presidential campaign.
Forms
a millionaire’s club of 250 contributors, each of whom cough up $100,000.
William Casey forms a working group to prepare for possible Carter
October
political surprise. In early October, an Iranian official meets with
three
top Reagan campaign aides. All three deny memory of the meeting in
subsequent proceedings.
On October 21, Reagan hints he has a secret plan to release the hostages.
This is right around the alleged date of a Paris meeting at which the so-
called "October Surprise" was settled. Some allege that at this
meeting it
was agreed to end the arms embargo against Iran if Iran would release its
hostages after the election. While Bush’s presence at this meeting has
been
denied by the House committee investigating the October Surprise, Bush’s
whereabouts at this critical time remain in doubt. The White House, in
fact, has leaked conflicting stories.
Rep. Dan Quayle goes on a Florida golfing vacation with seven other
men and
Paula Parkinson — an insurance lobbyist who later posed nude for
Playboy.
Parkinson describes Quayle as a husband on the make, but says she turned
him down because she was already having an affair with another
congressman.
Marilyn Quayle says, "anybody who knows Dan Quayle knows he would rather
play golf than have sex."
The Reagan-Bush campaign receives stolen copies of Carter’s briefing
books.
Bush’s campaign manager, James Baker, forces the dismissal of Bush aide
Jennifer Fitzgerald, described in a 1982 Time story as having "much to
say
about where Bush goes, what he does and whom he sees." Bush continues to
pay Fitzgerald out of his own pocket.
1981 Reagan-Bush inaugurated. Hostages released moments before. Shortly
thereafter, arms shipments to Iran resume from Israel and America. In
July,
an Argentinean plane chartered by Israel crashes in Soviet territory.
It is
found to have made three deliveries of American military supplies to
Iran.
In a 1991 story in Esquire, Craig Unger quotes Alexander Haig as
saying "I
have a sneaking suspicion that someone in the White House winked." Says
Unger: "This secret and illegal sale of military equipment continued for
years afterwards."
James Baker named Reagan’s chief of staff.
SEC filings for Zapata Oil for 1960-66 are found to have been
"inadvertently destroyed."
Reagan authorizes CIA assistance to Contras.
1982 CIA director William Casey begins Operation Black Eagle to expand US
role in Central America. Urges use of "selected Latin American and
European
governments, organizations and individuals" in the project.
Inslaw, a computer software company, signs a $10 million contract to
install a case-tracking program in 94 US Attorney’s offices. Four months
later, after obtaining a copy of Inslaw’s proprietary version of the
program, the government cancels the contract and begins an aggressive
campaign to force the company into bankruptcy. Later sources claim
that the
program was installed by the CIA and sold to various foreign intelligence
agencies.
After $3 million is poured into Arbusto with little oil and no profits,
just tax shelter George W. Bush changes the company name to Bush
Exploration Oil Co. Subsequently he is kept afloat by an investment from
Philip Uzielli, a Princeton friend of James Baker III. For the sum of $1
million, Uzielli bought 10% of the company at a time in 1982 when the
entire enterprise was valued at less than $400,000. Subsequently, to save
the company George W. Bush merges with Spectrum 7, a small oil firm owned
by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. DeWitt had graduated from Yale
a few
years earlier than Bush and was the son of the former owner of the
Cincinnati Reds. Bush becomes president of Spectrum 7. He also gets
14% of
the Spectrum’s stock. Meanwhile, 50 original investors in Arbusto get
paid
off at about 20 cents on the dollar.
1983 Noriega meets again with George Bush.
Bush presents an autographed photo to a WWII Ukrainian leader under the
Nazis, whose regime killed 100,000 Jews.
KAL 007 crashes under circumstances that remain suspicious to this day.
Bush promotes Jennifer Fitzgerald from appointments secretary to
executive
assistant. Seven staffers resign in protest. Fitzgerald tells the New
York
Post: "Everyone keeps painting me as this old ogre. I really don’t worry
about it. All these bizarre things just simply aren’t true."
Neil Bush forms his first oil company. He puts in $100, his partners
contribute $160,000 and Neil is named president of the firm, JNB
Exploration.
Jeb Bush’s business partner, Alberto Duque, goes bankrupt, is eventually
convicted of fraud and is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
1984 Jeb Bush lobbies the Department of Health & Human Services on behalf
of Cuban—American businessman Miguel Recarey, Jr., whose medical firm
later collapses. Recarey, who was close to mobster Santos Trafficante,
later disappears with at least $12 million in federal funds.
George Bush takes part in meetings to plan increased "third country"
aid to
the Contras..
CIA mines Nicaraguan harbors.
1985 Jennifer Fitzgerald is sent to work on Capitol Hill after stories
arise linking her romantically with George Bush.
Stuart Spencer’s public relation firm starts receiving over $350,000 from
Panama to improve Noriega’s image.
CIA starts using BCCI as a conduit.
George Bush thanks Oliver North for "dedication and tireless work with
the
hostage thing, with Central America." Bush will later deny knowing about
the Contra effort until late 1986.
Neil Bush joins the board of Silverado S&L, serves until 1988. Silverado
loans his partners in JNB $132 million which they never repay. Silverado
will eventually collapse at a taxpayer cost of $1 billion.
408 TOW anti-tank missiles are shipped from Israel to Iran. A day
later, US
hostage Benjamin Weir is released.
1986 VP Bush goes to Honduras to promote support for the Contras. Takes
along baseball players Nolan Ryan and Gary Carter.
Contra figure Felix Rodriguez meets with Donald Gregg, Bush’s national
security advisor, to complain about Iran-Contra operatives skimming funds
from the Contras.
Bush may have made several secret visits to Damascus between 1986-88
according to a 1992 report in Time, which said two senior GOP senators
were
pressing for a probe. The allegation is that Bush went to negotiate the
release of hostages in Lebanon but in fact stonewalled Syria, "playing
for
campaign timing. Republicans want to get to the bottom of intelligence-
community suspicions that the US somehow blew a chance to free Terry
Anderson and his fellow captives."
Iranian arms runner Manucher Ghorbanifar proposes "diversion" of profits
from Iran arms sales to Contras.
George W. Bush and partners receive more than $2 million of Harken Energy
stock in exchange for a failing oil well operation, which had lost
$400,000
in the prior six months. After Bush joined Harken, the largest stock
position and a seat on its board were acquired by Harvard Management
Company. The Harken board gave Bush $600,000 worth of the company’s
publicly traded stock, plus a seat on the board plus a consultancy that
paid him up to $120,000 a year. When Harken runs short of cash it
hooks up
with investment banker Jackson Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas, who
arranges a $25 million stock purchase by Union Bank of Switzerland. Sheik
Abdullah Bakhsh, who joins the board as a part of the deal, is
connected to
the infamous BCCI.
1987 Bush’s former chief of staff, Daniel Murphy, flies to Panama with
South Korean influence peddler Tongsun Park on a private plane owned by
arms dealer Sargis Soghnalian to meet with Noriega. Murphy later tells a
Senate subcommittee that he informed Noriega that he need not resign
before
the 1988 election despite the Reagan administration public pressure to
the
contrary.
Bill Casey dies.
Lee Atwater accuses Robert Dole of spreading stories about Bush and
Jennifer Fitzgerald. An agreement is worked out, as reported by Sidney
Blumenthal in the Washington Post: "The Dole people didn’t spread any
rumors and promised not to do it again. And the Bush people haven’t
spread
rumors about the Dole people spreading rumors and won’t do it again."
Harken Energy project gets rescued by aid from the BCCI-connected Union
Bank of Switzerland in a deal brokered by Jackson Stephens, later to show
up as a key supporter of Bill Clinton.
1988 Dan Quayle is named VP candidate. Stuart Spencer is assigned to
improve Dan Quayle’s image, the same job he handled for Noriega and Nixon.
Quayle embarrasses campaign by such statements as "[The Holocaust] was an
obscene period in our nation’s history," adding that "I didn’t live in
this
century."
Prisoner who claimed he sold marijuana to Quayle is put into solitary
confinement by the head of federal prisons, aborting a planned news
conference shortly before the election.
Silverado S&L goes under after receiving 126 cease & desist orders in
past
four years from the Topeka office of the Office of Thrift Supervision.
These orders found conflict of interests, insider abuse and other
violations.
Dwight Chapin, ex-Nixon dirty trickster, gets job in Bush campaign.
Rudi Slavoff becomes head of Bulgarians for Bush. In 1983, Slavoff
organized an event honoring Austin App, promoter of the theory that the
Holocaust was a hoax.
Slavoff joins other GOP ethnic leaders in the Coalition of American
Nationalities co-chaired by Edward Derwinski. Among them is a former
member
of an Hungarian pro-Nazi party. After press revelations, eight of the
leaders accused of anti-semitism resign from the campaign. Bush says:
"Nobody’s giving in... These people left of their own account."
GOP flier warns that "all the murderers, rapists and drug pushers and
child
molesters in Massachusetts vote for Michael Dukakis."
Bush establishes Team 100, which will eventually grow to 249 individuals
who contribute nearly $25 million in soft money to help the GOP cause.
The
contributions also apparently help the contributors, various of whom get
ambassadorial appointments, legislative favors, and intervention on
regulatory and criminal matters.
Bush denies knowledge of Noriega’s involvement in drug dealing.
The Willie Horton ad is aired. Credit for similar tactics is given to
campaign guru Lee Atwater, whose PR firm had represented drug-connected
Bahamian prime minister Oscar Pinding and the Philippines’ Marcos.
Atwater
himself had represented UNITA, the CIA-backed Africa rebel group.
Fred Malek, ex-Nixon aide, resigns from the Bush campaign after it’s
revealed that he compiled a list of Jews in the Labor Dept. as part of a
Nixon investigation of a "Jewish cabal."
A few days before the supposedly surprise arrest of five BCCI officials,
some of the world’s most powerful drug dealers quietly withdraw
millions of
dollars from the bank. Some government investigators believe the dealers
were tipped off by sources within the Bush administration.
Although Felix Rodriguez, former leading cop under Batista, claims he
left
the CIA in 1976, Rolling Stone reports that he is still going to CIA
headquarters monthly to receive assignments and get his bulletproof
Cadillac serviced.
Bankruptcy judge George Bason Jr. concludes that the government stole
Inslaw’s software through "trickery, fraud and deceit."
Stock market drops 43 points on false rumor that Washington Post was
about
the publish the Bush-Fitzgerald story.
1989 Bush inaugurated. Aides tell the press that the new administration
would rather "stay one step behind than be one step ahead."
Bush authorizes CIA support to Noriega’s opposition, giving Noriega an
excuse to annul Panama’s elections.
Bush claims executive privilege to avoid testifying in the Oliver North
trial, thus becoming first president to use this power to keep his
acts as
vice president under wraps.
Dan Quayle declares changes in Soviet Union "just a public relations
extravaganza."
Bush brother Prescott flies to Shanghai after the Tiananmen Square
massacre
to close a deal for an $18 million resort there, despite his brother’s
ban
on high-level Chinese contacts. Prescott says, "We aren’t a bunch of
carrion birds coming in to pick the carcass. But there are big
opportunities in China, and America can’t afford to be shut out."
Prescott Bush also visits Japan, searching for consulting contracts just
ten days before his brother arrives on a presidential tour. The Japanese
firm that paid Prescott a quarter-million dollar consulting fee comes
under
investigation for exchange law violations and links to the Japanese mob.
C. Boyden Gray, the president’s top ethics official, corrects his 1985
and
1986 financial disclosure forms. He forgot to include $98,000 in income.
George Bush signs the S&L bailout bill promising that "these problems
will
never happen again."
The Chicago Tribune reports: "After 14 fishing outings, the President has
failed to catch a single fish."
At White House behest, the DEA lures drug dealer to Lafayette Park to
make
arrest in front of presidential home for the benefit of Bush’s upcoming
drug speech. At first, drug dealer is dubious, asks DEA agent, "Where the
fuck is the White House?"
Defense secretary nominee John Tower runs into confirmation troubles when
it is revealed that he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in
consulting fees from defense contractors. Runs into more trouble with
revelations of womanizing and drinking. His nomination is rejected.
The sale of three communications satellites to China is announced.
Prescott
Bush is a $250,000 consultant in the deal.
GOP memo is leaked implying that House Speaker Tom Foley is a homosexual.
President Bush signs a top-secret directive ordering closer ties with
Iraq,
which opens the way for $1 billion in new aid just a little more than a
year before Bush goes to war against that country. The agricultural
credit
allows Saddam Hussein to use his hard currency for a massive military
buildup.
A second judge concurs that the government stole Inslaw’s software.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published by the US
government, reports that the GNP of East Germany during the 1980s was
greater than that of West Germany. The figures come from the CIA.
Bahrain officials suddenly break off offshore drilling negotiations with
Amoco and decide to deal with Harken Energy, George Bush Jr.’s firm.
Harken
has had a series of failed ventures and no cash, so the Bass brothers are
brought in to finance Harken’s efforts at a cost of $50 million.
Neil Bush bails out of JNB Exploration, the firm where he became
president
with a $100 ante, leaving his partners to worry about its debt. Days
earlier he forms Apex Energy with a personal investment of $3000. The
rest
of the money — $2.7 million — comes from an SBA program designed to
help
"high risk start-up companies." Like JNB, it proves to be just that. Apex
will later go belly-up with no assets.
Two months after his father’s inauguration, George W. Bush announces that
he and a syndicate of investors have purchased the Texas Rangers. The
investors are Edward "Rusty" Rose, Richard Rainwater, Bill DeWitt, Roland
Betts (a former Yale frat brother) and Tom Bernstein (Bett’s partner in a
film investment concern). While Bush appears to lead the group, Rainwater
makes clear that Rose is to control how the business is run. Bush’s stake
in the $86 million deal is 2%, financed with a $500,000 loan from a
Midland
Bank of which he had been a director and $106,000 from other sources.
Rainwater and Rose put up 14.2 million, Betts and Bernstein invested
about
$6 million and the balance comes from smaller investors and loans. Bush
will eventually sell his share for $15 million.
1990 Federal regulators give Bush son Neil the mildest possible
penalty in
the $1 billion failure of the Silverado S&L. The deal is so good that
Bush
drops his appeal. Among other things, Neil, as a Silverado director,
voted
to approve over $100 million in loans to his business partners.
January: Bahrain awards exclusive offshore drilling rights to Harken Oil.
This is a surprise as Harken is in very shaky financial condition, has
never drilled outside of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma and had never
drilled undersea at all. The Bass brothers are brought in by Harken for
sufficient equity to proceed with the effort. Harken’s stock price
increases from $4.50 to $5.50.
George W. Bush sells two-thirds of his Harken Energy stock at the top of
the market for $850,000, a 200% profit, but makes no report to the SEC
until March 1991. Bush Jr. says later the SEC misplaced the report. An
SEC
representative responds: "nobody ever found the ’lost’ filing." One week
after Bush’s sale, Harken reports an earnings plunge. Harken stock falls
more than 60%. Bush uses most of the proceeds to pay off the bank loan he
had taken a year earlier to finance his portion of the Texas Rangers deal.
August: Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. Harken’s stock price drops
substantially. Two months after Bush sells his stock, Harken posts losses
for the 2nd quarter of well over $20 million and is shares fall
another 24
%, by year end Harken is trading at $1.25. Bush has insisted that he did
not know about the firm’s mounting losses and that his stock sell-off was
approved by Harken’s general counsel.
George W. Bush is asked by Carlyle Group to serve on the board of
directors
of Caterair, one of the nation’s largest airline catering services
which it
had acquired in 1989. The offer is arranged by Fred Malek, long time Bush
associate who is then an advisor to Carlyle.
October: Arlington, Texas Mayor Richard Greene signs a contract that
guarantees $135 million toward the new Texas Ranger Stadium’s estimate
price of $190 million. The Rangers put up no cash but finance their share
through a ticket surcharge. From the team’s operating revenues, the city
will earn a maximum of $5 million annually in rent, no matter how much
the
Rangers reap from ticket sales and television (a sum that will rise to
$100
million a year). Another provision permitts the franchise to buy the
stadium after the accumulated rental payments reached a mere $ 60
million.
The property acquired so cheaply by the Rangers includes not just a fancy
new stadium with a seating capacity of 49,000 but an additional 270 acres
of newly valuable land. Legislation is passed and signed that authorizes
the Arlington Sports Facilities Development Authority with power to issue
bonds and exercise eminent domain over any obstinate landowners. Never
before had a Texas municipal authority been given the license to seize
the
property of a private citizen for the benefit of other private
citizens. A
recalcitrant Arlington family refuses to sell a 13 acre parcel near the
stadium site for half its appraised value. The jury awards more than $4
million to the family.
Fred Malek returns to power with ambassador status to head up planning
for
the economic summit.
S&L industry is losing money at the rate of $3 million a minute. Bailout
chief estimates total cost at $325-500 billion.
Some 200 young soccer players have their games canceled for security
reasons because Bush wants to go fishing on the Potomac nearby. Says one
seven-year-old player: "We had a tough soccer game and he’s just going
fishing. He could play somewhere else."
Bush son Jeb gets the federal government to pay off the $4 million he
owed
to a failed Florida thrift.
Bush brother Jonathan’s east coast brokerage fined in two states for
violating laws and Jonathan is barred from public trading in
Massachusetts.
Bush’s attorney general, Richard Thornberg, is warned about BCCI but does
nothing.
Federal court of appeals throws out the Inslaw case on the grounds
that it
did not belong in bankruptcy court.
Bush says, "The economy is headed in the right direction."
1991 Former top aide to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu goes to
work
for a prominent figure in the BCCI scandal less than a month after
leaving
the Bush administration. Edward Rogers Jr. signs a $600,000 contract to
give legal advice to Sheik Kamal Adham, an ex-Saudi intelligence officer
who is being investigated for his role in BCCI’s takeover of First
American
Bancshares.
The Miami acting US Attorney is allegedly rebuffed by the Justice
Department in his efforts to indict BCCI and some of its principal
officers
on tax fraud charges. Justice Department later denies this occurred.
Danny Casolaro, a reporter investigating the Inslaw story, is found
dead in
a motel room bathtub, the day after he met a key source. The death was
ruled a suicide. Perhaps he is despondent over the loss of his briefcase,
which is missing from the room.
George Bush spends three nights in a Houston hotel so he can claim Texas
residency. Texas has no income tax.
Neil Bush bails out of Apex Energy after collecting $320,000 in salary
plus
expenses. Bill Daniels, cable-TV magnate who has been lobbying against
regulation of the cable industry, offers Neil a job. According to a
representative, he "thought Neil deserved a second chance."
1992 New York Times reports that three of Bush’s top fundraisers are
being
sued in connection with bank failures and another pleaded guilty to mail
fraud in connection with an S&L. These men include the GOP national
finance
chair, vice chair and two co-chairs of the President’s Dinner, which
raised
$9 million for Republican causes.
Former US Attorney General Elliot Richardson, representing the owners of
Inslaw, tells Mother Jones, "I don’t know any case where the
government has
stonewalled like this."
First of Harken Energy’s wells off Bahrain comes up dry. George W. Bush
takes a leave of absence from the firm to work in his father’s campaign,
saying "I don’t want to involve this company in any kind of
allegations of
conflicts or whatever may arise."
Village Voice reports that President Bush has taken at least 76 partisan
flights during his term, at a cost to the taxpayers of over $6 million.
Nixon’s Jew hunter Fred Malek is back as Bush’s campaign manager.
Campaign sells photo opportunities with the president at a fundraiser for
$92,000 each.
Washington, DC, loses $52,000 in taxes because Bush claims to be a Texas
resident.
Donald H. Alexander contributes $100,000 to Team 100; shortly thereafter
he’s named ambassador to the Netherlands.
Bush says: "I will do what I have to do to be reelected."
1993 With the new Ranger stadium being readied to open the following
spring, George W. Bush announces that he would be running for
governor. He
is says his campaign theme will be self-reliance and personal
responsibility rather than dependence on government.
1994 George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas, defeating Ann
Richards 53
to 46 %.
1999 George W. Bush executes his 99th prisoner.
George W. Bush celebrates the Martin Luther King holiday by staying
inside
the Governor’s Mansion with the windows closed so he wouldn’t hear the
thousands of Martin Luther King celebrants listening to speeches right
outside his window on the Texas capitol grounds [across the street].
Bush claims to be reading four serious books while campaigning for
president. Total pages of the four books: 1,762
* "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly
who
they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we
are not so sure who the they are, but we know they’re there." — Texas
Gov.
George W. Bush, presidential candidate.
* "Food on the family." — George W. Bush listing one of the
priorities of
his future administration.
* "This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what
you
do when you run for president. You’ve got to preserve." — George W. Bush
to several hundred children at an elementary school in Nashua that was
celebrating what it called Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month).
* "Is your children learning?" — George W. Bush on education.
* "Some people have too much freedom." — George W. Bush
* "The Grecians." — George W. Bush on Greek people.
* "What I’m against is quotas. I’m against hard quotas, quotas that
basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate,
quotas, I
think, vulcanize society." — George W. Bush, meaning to say "balkanize,"
not "vulcanize" — we think — and something about quotas (Austin
American-
Statesman 3/23/99).
* "Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy or
philosophy
or something." — George W. Bush when asked to name something he isn’t
good
at (Talk magazine, September 1999).
* "Please! Don’t kill me." — George W. Bush to Larry King, mocking what
Karla Faye Tucker said when asked "What would you say to Governor Bush?"
prior to her execution by lethal injection (as reported by Talk magazine,
September 1999).
* "Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made." —
George W. Bush
2000 "Jeb’s the smart one" — George Bush Sr. to dinner partner
Former President George Bush tries to block Gen. Manuel Noriega’s release
from a US prison because he fears the Panamanian strongman wants to kill
him. Noriega attorney Frank Rubino says the assertion was made by
Assistant
US Attorney Pat Sullivan, who represented the government at a parole
hearing for Noriega.
Copyright 2000 The Progressive Review Also,’Sam Smith’s Great American
Political Repair Manual’ is published by WW Norton.
2000 (continued) Al Gore gets more popular votes than George W. Bush
in the
November presidential elections, but a winner is unable to be declared
because the outcome depends upon a state of Florida recount that must
made,
according to Florida law, since the eventual winner will have a
majority of
less than 1% of the vote. Many of the counties do not do a recount, but
simply re-report their first results. Other counties decide to accept
late
overseas ballots, contrary to Florida law. Bush enlists James Baker to
oversee his post-campaign Florida campaign. Although Jeb, as Florida
governor, recuses himself from official state participation in the
recount,
phone records later made public lead observers to question that
statement.
The Florida Supreme Court directs that the entire state must physically
recount all of the votes, but the U.S. Supreme Court overrules, declaring
George W. Bush the victor in order to protect our tradition of the smooth
transition of power. The vote was 5-4. Although the court ruled that the
decision could never be used as precedent in any future legal case, it
was
determined that allowing the State of Florida to recount its votes, even
though it is legally required to do so, would not be in the best interest
of George W. Bush’s presidential aspirations. On the basis of the Supreme
Court’s decision, Bush was declared the victor in Florida, thus
winning the
majority of electoral votes and thus being elected the nation’s 43rd
president.
2001 Bush is sworn in as president and Dick Cheney, Sec. of Defense under
Poppy, is sworn in as vice-president. Numerous key members of the Regan-
Bush and Bush-Quayle administrations, including those who left under a
Contra cloud, are brought back into the new administration.
With Bush as front man and Cheney as the brains behind the throne, Bush
begins to consolidate power with fast-track plans to weaken government
regulations of corporations, begin drilling on previously out of bounds
environmentally fragile sites, place greater world trade powers in the
White House, establish formal governmental funding of religions, allow
greater civil rights discrimination in the name of freedom, shift more of
the nation’s wealth away from the middle class and into the hands of the
wealthy through changes in the tax laws, further establish military
dominance in the world and in space through missile defense, and weaken
international compacts protecting the environment and controlling small
arms.
79 year old Andrew Marshall, a colleague of Herman "Dr. Strangelove" Kahn
at the Rand think tank in the 50’s appointed head of the Pentagon’s
Office
of Net Assessment and major speechwriter of Bush’s Missle Defense System
speeches.
Taking a cue from the Bush Administration, Japan deals with Iran to
provide
oil field studies, indicating that the Clinton Sanctions Act will no
longer
be enforced against Iran.
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