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George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. He was a student leader at Phillips Academy in Andover and, on his 18th birthday, he enlisted in Navy. When he received his wings, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy and flew 58 combat missions during World War II. In January 1945, Bush married Barbara Pierce (Barbara Bush) with whom he had six children: George Walker Bush, Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb Bush), Neil Mallon Bush, Marvin Bush, and Dorothy.[1]
Bush attended Yale University, where he was tapped as a member of the Skull & Bones Society and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation, Bush "embarked on a career in the oil industry of West Texas."[2]
"Like his father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, who was elected a Senator from Connecticut in 1952, George became interested in public service and politics. He served two terms as a Representative to Congress from Texas. Twice he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate. Then he was appointed to a series of high-level positions: Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency" from 30 January 1976 (Pres. Ford) to 20 January 1977 (Carter inauguration).[3][4]
"As head of the CIA, Bush was answerable only to President Ford. He was supposedly the first CIA “outsider” to hold the agency's top position. During his tenure as DCI he maintained a policy of disinformation and secrecy, despite a public show of cooperation with congressional investigations of CIA abuses such as assassination plots using Mafia hit men. In September 1976, Chilean dissident leader Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington D.C. by agents of DINA, Chile’s secret police. The CIA knew of such plots, and the two assassins entered the U.S. using fake Paraguayan passports. But the FBI was kept in the dark about this information.
"In 1979, the year before he campaigned for the Republican nomination for president, Bush claimed a nuclear war was winnable. Ronald Reagan won the 1980 nomination and chose Bush as his running mate. As vice president, Bush cast three tie-breaking votes to renew chemical weapons production, supported sale of missiles to “terrorist” Iran and the illegal arming of the Nicaraguan contras and other paramilitary groups he called “freedom fighters. He also chaired The Presidential Task Force on Deregulation which, according to Mary Fricker in her book Inside Job, “set the tone” for bank deregulation which led to the savings and loan financial disaster of the 1980s."[5]
"In 1980 Bush campaigned for the Republican nomination for President. He lost, but was chosen as a running mate by Ronald Reagan. As Vice President, Bush had responsibility in several domestic areas, including Federal deregulation and anti-drug programs, and visited scores of foreign countries. In 1988 Bush won the Republican nomination for President and, with Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate, he defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the general election."[6]
"In 1982, Vice President Bush was personally ordered to stop lobbying the IRS on behalf of the drug companies by the U.S. Supreme Court."[7]
"Bush faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended after 40 bitter years, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union ceased to exist; and reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Bush had supported, resigned. While Bush hailed the march of democracy, he insisted on restraint in U. S. policy toward the group of new nations."[8]
"In other areas of foreign policy, President Bush sent American troops into Panama to overthrow the corrupt regime of General Manuel Noriega, who was threatening the security of the canal and the Americans living there. Noriega was brought to the United States for trial as a drug trafficker."[9]
"Bush's greatest test came when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, then threatened to move into Saudi Arabia. Vowing to free Kuwait, Bush rallied the United Nations, the U. S. people, and Congress and sent 425,000 American troops. They were joined by 118,000 troops from allied nations. After weeks of air and missile bombardment, the 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army."[10]
"Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Jefferson Clinton."[11]
Wikipedia for George Herbert Walker Bush.
Affiliations
- "After leaving the CIA in 1977, Bush was made director of Eli Lilly by none other than Dan Quayle’s father and family, who owned controlling interest in the Lilly company and the Indianapolis Star. Dan Quayle later acted as go-between for drug kingpins, gun runners, and government officials in the Iran-Contra scandals."[12]
- Recipient in 2003 of the mighty prestigious Altschul Award for "enhancing citizen understanding of world affairs."[13]
- Quotes: Reknown for such disingenuous expressions as "read my lips"[14], "a thousand points of light"[15], and "kinder, gentler nation";[16]; ... more earnestly, "October surprise" and "What we say, goes!"[17]
- Associated with the Carlyle Group.
- Implicated in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Other Related SourceWatch Resources
External Links
- CNN Profile: George Walker Bush.
- George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
- 17 October 2003: "Bush Ancestor's Bank Seized by Gov't" by Jonathan D. Salant, AP: "President Bush's grandfather [Prescott Sheldon Bush] was a director of a bank (Union Banking Corp.) seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist (Fritz Thyssen) who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show. ... The new documents were first reported by freelance writer John Buchanan in The New Hampshire Gazette."
