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  Prescott Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio to Flora Sheldon and a steel company president and later a U.S. government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors during World War I.
Bush was introduced to William Paley, founder of CBS, by Averell Harriman, who in 1929 had represented CBS in a merger with Paramount Studios.
Bush was an acquaintance of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and herself an avowed eugenicist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prescott_Bush   (2073 words)

  
 George W. Bush - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bush became President on January 20, 2001 as the winner of one of the closest general elections in U.S. history, and the first one to turn on a Supreme Court decision.
Bush was the first presidential candidate since his father in 1988 to win a majority of the popular vote, but his margin over Kerry of about 3 percent was the smallest victory margin for a sitting President since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
Bush has met with the National Urban League as President, but has not yet met with the NAACP as President, though he did address the NAACP at their 2000 convention in Baltimore as a presidential candidate.
open-encyclopedia.com /George_W._Bush   (6019 words)

  
 Powerful alliance aids Bushes' rise
Bush, a 6-foot-4 baseball standout at Yale, was elegant, charming, and outgoing, liking nothing better than to sing with the university's Whiffenpoof chorus, a college glee club that typically consisted of four to seven people singing cheerful tunes.
Bush labeled himself a ''moderate progressive,'' foreshadowing the way his son would run as the candidate for ''a kinder, gentler nation'' and his grandson would portray himself as a ''compassionate conservative.'' In fact, Prescott Bush was sometimes too liberal for his party's conservative leaders, incurring no end of trouble within the GOP.
Prescott Bush was not a party leader or the prime author of well-known legislation, focusing mostly on local issues instead.
www.angelfire.com /hi3/pearly/htmls2/bush-dynasty.html   (4905 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
Bush Sr and his relatives have turned that open invitation into a family franchise over the years, setting themselves up as gatekeepers between lucrative business opportunities created by the opening up of China's economy and the US corporate and political establishment.
Bush Sr replied, according to Xinhua, that Bush Jr "highly valued the important role that China has made in the efforts for peaceful solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula".
Prescott Bush Resources, his consulting company, has put together more than 30 joint ventures in China since 1978, according to the website of Global Access, a US consulting company active in China, which retains Prescott as chairman of its advisory board.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FE21Ad01.html   (2416 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - President's uncle shares Bush family ties to China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Prescott Bush, now 79, also developed a close working relationship with Rong Yiren, a former trade minister and vice president, who in 1993 introduced Bush to a group of Chinese business leaders as "an old friend." In 2000, Forbes publications reported that Rong, who has retired from government, was the richest man in China.
Bush says opportunities abound now that the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis is in the past: "The Chinese are very much interested in getting foreign capital in.
Bush denies any involvement in the diplomatic settlement that ended the crisis.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm   (914 words)

  
 Prescott Bush, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(born August 10, 1922) is the older brother of former President George H.W. Bush.
Prescott Bush Jr., a graduate of Yale University, was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
An unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from Connecticut in 1982, Bush has had extensive business relations in China since 1988 and admits that his name helped open doors there and elsewhere in Asia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prescott_Bush,_Jr.   (112 words)

  
 village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway
If Bush really wanted to address the situation, all he'd have to do is to pick up the phone, call Attorney General John Ashcroft, and ask him to launch an investigation of any one of these CEOs for fraud, conspiracy, theft, obstruction of justice, or perjury.
The ensuing investigation, handled by an agency whose director was a Bush appointee and whose general counsel was Bush the younger's own former attorney, was dropped.
Prescott Bush Jr., a brother of Bush Senior, was reported in 1989 to have arranged investments in two U.S. firms by an alleged front company for the Japanese mob, a task for which he was allegedly paid $500,000.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0228/ridgeway.php   (1432 words)

  
 Articles - Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bush is a family name, and also the name of places and things.
The Bush is Australian English for rural, undeveloped land or country areas, as distinct from the outback.
A Bush is a mechanical fixing designed to minimise wear between moving parts, or for providing a strengthened fixing point such as in the suspension of a car or other vehicle.
www.awningz.com /articles/Bush   (393 words)

  
 Prescott Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio to Flora Sheldon and Samuel P. Bush, a steel company president and later a U.S. government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors during World War I.
Seven months later, on June 12, 1924, future President George H. Bush was born (had Prescott Bush's business in Columbus not failed, his son would have been born in Ohio, the 8th of that state; hence, President Bush was merely 'conceived' in Columbus, Ohio).
Toby Rogers has claimed that Bush's connections to the Silesian-American Corporation makes him complicit with the corporation's mining operations in Poland which used slave labor out of Oswiecim, where the Auschwitz concentration camp was later constructed.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Prescott-Bush.htm   (1928 words)

  
 The Bush Family Preys Together   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Prescott Bush, Jr., the president's older brother, also has a knack for nailing down "incredible deal[s]." Prescott took advantage of his brother's first presidential visit abroad in February 1989 to schedule a business trip to the same countries-China, Japan and South Korea.
Prescott said he was dealing with four Japanese companies wanting to do business in the U.S. From Japan, Prescott went to China, where he had a joint partnership with Akoi Corporation to develop an $18 million golf course and resort near Shanghai.
Prescott, as head of Prescott Bush & Co., received a $250,000 "finder's fee" from West Tsusho when the deal was closed and was promised an annual retainer of $250,000 over the next three years as a "consultant." Asset Management, however, went bankrupt in March 1991.
mediafilter.org /caq/BushFamilyPreys.html   (5548 words)

  
 the DRAHEIM REPORT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
No, George "I'm No Longer Drunk" Bush's support is because the Bush family fortune is old, and it's big, and comes from a century old alliance with the most powerful interests on Wall Street and in industry.
Prescott Bush was also a director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, (this one owned largely by Roland's brother, Averell Harriman), which owned about a third of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, the rest owned by Friedrich Flick, (a member of Himmler's "Circle of Friends" who donated to the S.S.).
The elder George Bush continued the family tradition of support for totalitarian governments by supporting the Communist Chinese in the UN, and by directly aiding its military as President.
www.lpdallas.org /features/draheim/dr991216.htm   (823 words)

  
 Bush Family Values Photo Album
In 1918 it is said that he robbed the grave and stole the skull of the Native American warrior Geronimo as part of an initiation into Yale's Skull and Bones Society.
Prescott Bush had a bit of trouble back in the 1940s.
Besides their last names, George W and Jeb Bush have this in common: All of their children have been in trouble with the law.
www.hereinreality.com /familyvalues.html   (668 words)

  
 The Wedding Invitation: A Possible "Conventional Explanation" for Bush's "Courier Mission"?
Given the Bush family's ties to Standard Oil and Allen Dulles (given the latter two's now demonstrated illegal activities during the War), much has been speculated on, as to the meaning of any discrepancies or "funny looking" qualities about or in records pertaining to GHW Bush in that War.
Bush, says Stinnett, was thankful that the Navy Pacific Fleet's destroyer, the CK Bronson had picked he and his crew up and gotten them to safety during the Battle of the Philippines Sea on June 19, 1944.
Prescott, Jr., had officially been exempt from direct military service due to an eye problem, but had served his country by helping install such new security apparatus on US tankers that would make them less vulnerable to submarine attack.
home.att.net /~m.standridge/wedinvit.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Bush Hitler Family Values -- Eugenics of Prescott Bush & George Herbert Walker
Prescott [Bush’s] partner [Lawrence]Tighe was a Connecticut director of the league, and the Connecticut league's medical advisor was eugenics advocate Dr. Winternitz of Yale Medical School.
What the Harrimans, Rockefellers, and people like Prescott Bush were funding and supporting before and during the war, their successors have continued to promote under the cover of 'acceptable' language.
Prescott was a director of the society in Connecticut; Carpenter was a director in Delaware.
ecosyn.us /Bush-Hitler/Bush_Eugenics.html   (10466 words)

  
 Bush Family Values Photo Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For more than a half century, members of the Bush family have been setting policy and making decisions for all Americans.
Prescott Bush got into a little bit of trouble back in the 1940s.
For more than a decade, thousands of tons of cocaine poured onto the streets of America through the Panama Canal while the US government looked the other way.
www.mindtoysrus.com /dontlook/bushfamily/bushalbum.htm   (579 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Prescott Bush, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 BUSH POLITICAL ITEMS COLLECTORS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Site for collectors of all types of political campaign memorabilia relating to President Bush, President George W. Bush, Governor Jeb Bush, Prescott Bush, Jr.
-- JOHN ELLIS (JEB) BUSH (Son of President Bush -- Candidate for Governor of Florida (R) 1994 -- Elected Governor of Florida (R) 1998.
Membership is free to all interested collectors of Bush Political Memorabilia or admirers of President George Bush, Governors George W. Bush & Jeb Bush, and anyone else in promoting the study of political memorabilia associated with their campaigns.
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 U.S. Politics Today - Political News Media Monitoring
Molly Ivins: Bush Administration, Dead to Morality, Says Torture Is the American Way
What the U.S. Press didn't tell you today.
At Newspapers That Backed Bush in 2004: New Worries, But Few Regrets (For Now)
www.uspoliticstoday.com   (645 words)

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