George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

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  1. Bush and Gold, Looking Forward, p. 130.

  2. Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward, "Presidential Posts and Dashed Hopes," Washington Post,
    August 9, 1988.

  3. Washington Post, September 16, 1974.

  4. Washington Post, December 2, 1974.

  5. See Hassan Ahmed and Joseph Brewda, "Kissinger, Scowcroft, Bush Plotted Third World
    Genocide," Executive Intelligence Review, May 3, 1991, pp. 26-30.

  6. Russell R. Ross ed., Cambodia: A Country Study (Washington, 1990), p. 46.

  7. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval (Boston, 1982), p. 341. This second volume of Kissinger's
    memoirs, published when his close ally Bush had already become vice president, has much less to
    say about George's activities, with only one reference to him in more than 1200 pathat Bush prefers that most of his actual record remain covert. ges. We see again

  8. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 367.

  9. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 681.

  10. See William Shawcross, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (New
    York, 1987), pp. 360-361.

  11. Lt. Gen. Sak Sutsakhan, the leader of the last Cambodian government before the advent of theKhmer Rouge, argues that the victory of the communists was not a foregone conclusion, and that
    modest American aid, in the form of 20 aircraft and a few dozen obsolescent tanks waiting for
    delivery in Thailand, could have materially changed the military outcome. See Sutsakhan's The
    Khmer Republic at War and the Final Collapse (Washington, DC), pp. 163, 166. 1

  12. Shawcross, Sideshow, p. 360.

  13. Shawcross, Sideshow, p. 361.

  14. Cambodia: A Country Study, p. 51.

  15. Forbes, September 4, 1978.

  16. See Bush and Gold, pp. 145-149 for Bush's account of his alleged first meeting with Mao.

  17. New Orleans Times-Picayune, December 3, 1975.

  18. Bush and Gold, p. 157.

  19. Bush and Gold, pp. 157-158.

  20. Bush and Gold, p. 153.
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