if it is even possible to keep an alternative politically alive for the late primaries."
Robert Healy of the Boston Globe stuck his neck out even further for the neo-Harrimanite cause
with a forecast that "even though he is still called leading candidate in some places, Reagan does
not look like he'll be on the Presidential stage much longer." It was even possible, Healy gushed
that Bush "will go through 1980...without losing an important Presidential primary." William Safire
of the New York Times claimed that his contacts with Republican insiders across the country hadyielded "a growing suspicion that Reagan may once again be bypassed for the historic role...a
general feeling that he may be a man whose cause may triumph, but whose own time may never
come." [fn 17]
NBC's Brokaw started calling Reagan the "former front-runner." Tom Petit of the same networkwas more direct: "I would like to suggest that Ronald Reagan is politically dead." Once again the (^)
choice of pictures made Bush look good, Reagan bad.
The Eastern Liberal establishment had left no doubt who its darling was: Bush, and not Reagan. In
their arrogance, the Olympians had once again committed the error of cpatrician whim with real processes ongoing in the real world. The New Hampshire primary was toonfusing their collective (^)
prove a devastating setback for Bush, in spite of all the hype the Bushman networks were able to
crank out. How did it happen?
George Bush was of course a life-long member of the Skull and BoneUniversity, through which he advanced towards the freemasonic upper reaches of the Anglo-s secret society of Yale
American establishment, towards those exalted circles of London, New York, and Washington in
which the transatlantic destiny of the self-styled Anglo-Saxon master race is elaborated. The entrees
provided by Skull and Bones membership would always be, for Bush, the most vital ones. But, in
addition to such exalted feudal brotherhoods as Skull and BoneEstablishment also maintains a series of broader-based elite organizations whose function is tos, the Anglo-American (^)
manifest the hegemonic Anglo-American policy line to the broader layers of the establishment,
including bureaucrats, businessmen, bankers, journalists, professors, and other such assorted
retainers and stewards of power.
George Bush had thus found it politic over the years to become a member of the New York Council
on Foreign Relations. By 1979, Bush was a member of the board of the CFR, where he sat next to
his old patron Henry Kissinger. The President of the CFR during this period was Kissinger clone
Winston Lord of the traditional Skull and Bones family.
George was also a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, which had been founded by
Ambrose Bierce after the Civil War to cater to the Stanfords, Huntingtons, Crockers, Hopkins, and
the other nouveau-riche tycoons that had emerged from the gold rush. The Bohemian Club made a
summer outing every year to its camp at Bohemian Grove, a secluded, 2,700 acre stand of majestic
redwoods about 75 miles from San Francisco. A sign over the gate advises: "Spiders Weave NotHere." Up to 1,600 members, with the occasional foreign guest like German Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt, gather in mid-summer for freemasonic ceremonies featuring the ritual interrment of "dull
care", cavort in women's panty hose in femme impersonatuer theatricals, or better yet frolic in the
nude near the banks of the Russian River. Herbert Hoover was a devoted regular, Eisenhower and
Allen Dulles made cold war speeches there; Nixon and Reagan had discussed prospects for the1968 election; Bechtel was always big; and Henry Kissinger loved to pontificate, all at the Grove.
Then there was the Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller in 1973-74. One branch
from North America, one branch from Europe, one branch from Japan, with the resulting organism
a kind of policy forum aiming at an international consensus among financier factions, under overall