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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
 Tufts E-News -- George Bush Sr. Biography
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (R-Senator, CT, 1952-62).
Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1966 from Texas' 7th District.
Bush traveled to Peking, where he served as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office during the critical period when the United States was renewing ties with the People's Republic of China.
enews.tufts.edu /stories/011503BushBio.htm   (780 words)

  
 Bush book: Introduction
The authors observed George Bush very carefully as the Gulf crisis and the war unfolded, and had no doubt that his enraged public outbursts constituted real psychotic episodes, indicative of a deranged mental state that was full of ominous portent for humanity.
If Bush were re-elected, he would view himself as beyond the reach of the voters and the popular will; with the federal deficit rising beyond a billion dollars a day, a second Bush administration would dictate such crushing austerity as to bring the country to the brink of civil war.
Part of the free ride enjoyed by George Bush during the 1988 elections is reflected in the fact that at no point in the campaign was there any serious effort by any of the so-called news organizations to provide the public with something approaching an accurate and complete account of his political career.
www.tarpley.net /bushint.htm   (6215 words)

  
 President George Bush and his Unamerican Bigotry
When George Bush was campaigning for the presidency, as incumbent vice president, one of his stops was in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1987.
On January 9, 1990, George Bush, in signing a proclamation for the Martin Luther King holiday, had the gall to remark that "bigots" must be brought to justice.
President George Bush is herewith censured for his public expression of August 27, 1987, at which time he stated: "I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots.
www.skeptictank.org /gbush.htm   (1478 words)

  
 BUSH FAMILY MACHINATIONS, 1918-2000 : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
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.
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.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/11/1546689.php   (5377 words)

  
 George HW Bush
George Bush is unanimously elected chairman of the Harris County Republican Party.
George Bush is elected Congressman from the 7th District (in Houston).
George Bush describing his wife: "I'm delighted that Barbara Bush is with me today, and I -- she got a good, clean bill of health yesterday from Walter Reed Hospital, I might add -- and then, but I'm taking another look at our doctor.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/presidents/george-hw-bush   (4565 words)

  
 The Kerry Spot on National Review Online
George Bush was a 17-year-old student at Phillips Academy in Andover when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his action at Chichi Jima, but he evidently was filled with the remorse of the survivor.
Bush had related that he had called them three times - and he insisted that before he deserted the cockpit he was convinced that the two men must have been dead.
www.nationalreview.com /kerry/kerry200408231323.asp   (1677 words)

  
 George Bush Sr Is No WWII Hero
Bush said he was hit by anti-aircraft fire and the plane caught fire.
Bush's squadron was primarily used for patrol and saw very little combat.
Bush claimed he warned the crew, over the intercom, to get out - got no answer and he could not yell back because of the armor plate behind him.
www.rense.com /general47/hero.htm   (411 words)

  
 George Bush
Bush's unsuccessful attempt in 1964 to unseat Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough is a matter of fundamental interest to anyone seeking to probe the wellsprings of Bush's actual political thinking.
Bush's cabinet and staff was convinced it boasted the most powerful battery of resumes, the the most consummate experience, the most impeccable credentials, of any management team in the history of the world.
Without a George Bush who was increasingly non compos mentis, the imperialist grand design for the destruction of the leading Arab state and the intimidation of the Third World might have remained on the shelf.
www.the7thfire.com /bushPrefaceTC.htm   (2348 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: George Bush Sr. Talks About his Son's Reelection Bid, and the Republican National Convention -- ...
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH: I stopped doing so well not so many months after the war, and then when you got into the campaign, the Clinton campaign was very effective in saying foreign policy - this is paraphrasing - doesn't matter -- what does is the economy - it's the economy, stupid.
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH: Well, I've always felt that the economy is what determines elections, but that was pre-9/11, so I guess I'd have to say, I don't know, I don't know whether I agree with them or not.
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH: No. I think he'll do it his own way, and sometimes I might do it differently or sometimes I might not, but if I were going to say I might have done it differently or might do something in the future different, I wouldn't discuss it.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/hwbush_09-02.html   (1972 words)

  
 Is George Bush a Moonie?
Bush was supposed to pardon Moon so as to erase his felony conviction but never did.
Bush then travelled with Moon to neighboring Uruguay Sunday to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital Montevideo to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.
So, "I, George Bush, President of the United States, declare to all members of this nation to celebrate this victory by giving thanks to God, by displaying proudly the United States' flag and each congregation meeting in their own places.
www.perkel.com /politics/moonies/bush.htm   (3565 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is my mother's -- my mother's, my late mother's house, which was given to her in -- they got married in 1920, and that was her wedding present from her father, who lived over there.
G. BUSH: And I think that fact that Clinton and I, once opponents -- you remember he defeated me very soundly in 1992 -- we're not talking about that -- but, we come together and, politics is aside, and we're doing the right thing.
G. BUSH: Well, Dan and I have kind of a controversial history, you might say, because we went toe-to-toe back when I was vice president, and that is not a good way to get along with Dan.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0505/31/lkl.01.html   (6476 words)

  
 George Bush Sr.
Daddy George was born on June 12, 1924, at 11:30 am EDT in Milton Mass; he was the 41st president; a Yale graduate....
Bush about it, she was told "don't go there".
Actually, Neptune is in daddy Bush's 5th house right now, finishing up, so that might say the presidency is denied his son, and he goes into despair.
www.acumind.com /News/bushdaddy.html   (1482 words)

  
 George H.W. Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George Walker Bush, Pauline Robinson Bush (“Robin” died at age 4), Dorothy, Marvin, Jeb, Neil Mallon Bush.
Bush’s Defense Secretary, Richard Cheney claimed a death toll of between 500 and 600.
The Bush Nazi Connection," The Dallas Libertarian Post, December 1999; Richard Bartholomew, “Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used in the JFK Conspiracy” (self-published manuscript, 1993, p.
www.famoustexans.com /georgebush.htm   (1101 words)

  
 George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
1 --- THE HOUSE OF BUSH: BORN IN A BANK
13 -- BUSH ATTEMPTS THE VICE PRESIDENCY, 1974
THE ATTEMPTED COUP D'ETAT OF MARCH 30, 1981
www.tarpley.net /bushb.htm   (83 words)

  
 George Bush Sr In Russia On Carlyle Business
He may be retired from public life but George Bush seems to cause a stir every time he comes to Russia.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow would not comment on Bush's visit, saying only that it was "private." What is known, however, is that he will meet with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Sunday, when he arrives in Moscow from St. Petersburg.
Bush last came to Moscow in June of 1998 -- just two months before the economy imploded -- for the lavish opening of international investment banking giant Goldman Sachs' office here.
www.rense.com /general41/sbu.htm   (1149 words)

  
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Carlyle is a "Washington merchant bank and client of Park Strategies that retains former president George Bush as a senior consultant." In 1991 Bush had appointed Berman to be assistant secretary of commerce.
Bush's fees from Carlyle are poured into his accounts in various Carlyle funds, which lately have yielded up to 40 percent a year in returns." more
Bush tells folks outside of Texas that if they don't know what he's capable of doing, they should just come down to Texas and look around.
www.bushnews.com /bushcarlyle.htm   (1143 words)

  
 The Memory Hole >Reasons Not to Invade Iraq, by George Bush Sr.
The end of effective Iraqi resistance came with a rapidity which surprised us all, and we were perhaps psychologically unprepared for the sudden transition from fighting to peacemaking.
We were disappointed that Saddam's defeat did not break his hold on power, as many of our Arab allies had predicted and we had come to expect.
Occasionally, he indicated that removal of Saddam would be welcome, but for very practical reasons there was never a promise to aid an uprising.
www.thememoryhole.org /mil/bushsr-iraq.htm   (1266 words)

  
 REMARKS BY GEORGE BUSH, 41ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR THE GEORGE BUSH CENTER FOR ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I told Barbara that all of this hoopla was a little overwhelming, and she knew exactly the right thing to say.
So to George Tenet, our great Director, and everyone at CIA, all I can say is that the gratitude in my heart literally knows no bounds.
Because of your support - the same support given to a fledgling DCI 24 years ago - George Tenet is able to do that.
www.cia.gov /cia/public_affairs/speeches/1999/bush_speech_042699.html   (1225 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
The George Bush Library is pleased to welcome eleven modular model railroads to the library during the nine months of the "Trains: Tracks of the Iron Horse" exhibit.
The model railroads will be set up in the rotunda of the library and will be operated on weekends (Saturday 9:30—5:00 and Sunday 12:00—5:00), holidays, and during special museum events.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and her immense devastation, former Presidents Bush and Clinton established the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to raise money for the victims of this disaster.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu   (370 words)

  
 Meet The Carlyle Group - Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Make Billions from the War on Terrorism
For example, it is hard to ignore the fact that Osama bin Laden's family members, who renounced their son ten years ago, stood to gain financially from the war being waged against him until late October, when public criticism of the relationship forced them to liquidate their holdings in the firm.
Or consider that U.S. president George W. Bush is in a position to make budgetary decisions that could pad his father's bank account.
But for the Carlyle Group, walking that narrow line is the art of doing business at the murky intersection of Washington politics, national security, and private capital; mastering it has enabled the group to amass $12 billion in funds under management.
www.hereinreality.com /carlyle.html   (588 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The George Bush Presidential Library Center will be located in College Station on 90 acres of the Texas A&M University campus, offering a central location which is easily accessible from major population centers in Texas.
The academic programs associated with the George Bush Presidential Library Center include the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, the Center for Presidential Studies and the Center for Public Leadership Studies.
This is an excerpt from the George Bush Presidential Library Center brochure.
www.ipt.com /city/cs/bush.htm   (279 words)

  
 Reasons Not to Invade Iraq, by George Bush Sr. - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
On 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract from an essay by George Bush Sr.
Excerpt from "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time (2 March 1998): While we hoped that popular revolt or coup would topple Saddam, neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state.
President Bush repeatedly declared that the fate of Saddam Hussein was up to the Iraqi people.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/history/2003/0419reasonsnot.htm   (1366 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Bush Sr brands Moore 'slimeball'
George Bush Sr dismissed Michael Moore's "lies about my family"
Former US President George Bush, father of the current president, has attacked film-maker Michael Moore as a "slimeball" for Fahrenheit 9/11.
It alleges Saudis, including those with connections to the Bin Laden family, funded oil and arms companies run by the Bush family and their inner circle.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3741954.stm   (283 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | George Bush Sr's plane crashes
Mr Bush, 80, was planning to travel to Ecuador to speak to business leaders, but has now cancelled the trip.
He said he was saddened by the deaths of the crew, whom he knew well.
Mr Bush, who is the father of current US President George W Bush, is a resident of Houston.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4034179.stm   (204 words)

  
 Pravda.RU President George Bush Sr. Talks to ISS Crew
President George Bush Sr., the father of the incumbent US President, and his wife Barbara Bush visited the LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) mission-control center in Houston, Texas, February 3rd, talking to US astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) over a radio hook-up.
President George Bush declared that he had instructed US energy secretary Spenser Abraham to represent the US government at the forthcoming meeting of members of the project to create the international thermonuclear reactor (ITER) to be held in St. Petersburg.
That US President George W. Bush is a fine orator and is backed by an extensive speech-writing outfit of a large nation is a long-known fact.
english.pravda.ru /usa/2003/02/04/42957.html   (2440 words)

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