George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

"Zapata Petroleum Corp.," Fortune, April, 1958. Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward, "Doing Well With Help From Family, Friends," Wa ...

Senate on a platform that was a harbinger of the Goldwater movement. Tower was once asked if there was a single domestic legisla ...

One of the continuing projects of George Bush's life has been the extirpation of precisely this populist and sometimes dirigist ...

against Yarborough. From the vantage point of the police state conditions of the early 1990's, we can discern a further implicat ...

1931 to 1934. After that, he was a founding director of the Lower Colorado River Authority, a major water project in central Tex ...

annum. This bill was finally passed after years of dogged effort by Yarborough against the opposition of Presidents Eisenhower, ...

under O'Donnell was able to mount a more formidable bid than previously for the state house in Austin. The Republican candidate ...

Part of the influence of the Birch Society in those days was due to the support and financing afforded by the Hunt dynasty of Da ...

several weeks. Then, under the urging of Goodearle, the assembled group turned to Bush: could he be prevailed on to put his hat ...

themselves by tossing darts at a balloons suspended in front of a photograph of President Johnson. Bush told the Chronicle: "I s ...

the state Republican organization and its chairman, Peter O'Donnell, who according to some accounts had encouraged Bush to run. ...

had given Yarborough a payment of $50,000 on Nov. 6, 1960. But later, after a thorough investigation, the Department of Justice ...

primary) using racist and states' rights backlash, but most of all in order to express the deepest tenets of the philosophical w ...

style." [fn 18] This coverage reveals traits of the narcissistic macho in the 40-year old plutocrat: "he is the sort of fellow t ...

leader that the Soviets had position missles on the ocean floor off Cuba, with the missles pointed at the United States, and tha ...

of the British Confederation of Malaya. Part of Sukarno's blocking manuever was the deployment of pro-Indonenorthern Bornesian g ...

prosperity. A controlled economy means loss of freedom and bureaucratic bungling." On April 21 Bush told the voters: "We must be ...

attacking the civil rights bill. But the alliance between Yarborough and big labor was one of his favorite themes. The standard ...

Yarborough'fanatically committed to wage war in the Gulf to restore the degenerate, slaveholding Emir ofs counterattack on this ...

Following in Prescott Bush's footsteps, George Bush was implacably hostile to government- sponsored infrastructure projects. Suc ...