George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

Cox, who had attracted 710,000 votes in his 1962 race against Connally for the governorship, was at this point far better known ...

As the runoff vote approached, Cox focused especially on the eastern financing that Bush was receiving. On May 25 in Abilene, Co ...

In public, LBJ was for Yarborough, athe two. Speaking at Stonewall after the Democratic national convention, LBJ had commented:l ...

his Madison Avenue speech writers answer those single sentences." "My opponent is an exponent of extremism, peddling smear and f ...

Bush and Gold, p. 84. John R. Knaggs, Two-Party Texas (Austin, 1985), p. 34. For a summary of the southern strategy, see Garry ...

Cited in Ronnie Dugger, "The Substance of the Senate Contest," The Texas Observer, September 18, 1964. Ibid. Dallas News, Octob ...

appeals had ruled that the state of Texas must be redistricted. Bush called that result "a real victory for all the people of Te ...

On July 1 the Houston papers reported the election of a new, "anti- extremist" Republican countyleader. This was James M. Mayor, ...

Warming to the subject, Bush continued: "Let me give you some examples of this kind of left wing extremism. Averell Harriman-- s ...

Among the older rigs, the NOLA I, the World War II freighter hull with a drilling apparatus built in, was now considered obsolet ...

Annual Report, Zapata's "net profits for 1966 exceeded the net profits of several Fortune 500 companies." The value of Zapata's ...

Congressional candidates of the party out of power. And LBJ in the White House was vulnerable on a number of points, from the es ...

for Bush that caused Briuscoe some difficulty was that of Bush mentor Richard M. Nixon. By 1966, Nixon was on the comeback trail ...

emerging New Left. In Bush's campaign ads he invited the voters to "take a couple of minutes and see if you don't agree with me ...

with due respect. Because of Bush's obsession with birth control for the lower orders, Mills gave Bush the nickname "RubbeBush w ...

Those who wanted to read Bush's lips at a distance back in those days found that he was indeed committed to a kind of austerity. ...

same time shutting down indsutry. In this way the oligarchs sought to return to their bucolic and medieval dream world, and espe ...

American experience itself in its better moments most impressively documents. Indeed, there is no such thing as a race or breed ...

World Resources Institute, later wrote of Bush in those years: "In the 1960s and '70s, Bush had not only embraced the cause of d ...

As a congressman, Bush played an absolutely pivotal role in this shift. Shortly after arriving in Washington, he teamed up with ...