disclosure." But after he was elected to the vice presidency, Bush stopped disclosing his
investments in detail. He stated his net worth, which had risen to $2.1 m1984 election, representing an increase of some $300,000 over the previous five years. Bushillion by the time of the
justified his refusal to disclose his investments in detail by saying that he didn't know himself just
what securities he held, since his portfolio was now in the blind trust mentioned above. The blind
trust was administered by W.S. Farish & Co. of Houston, owned by Bush's close crony William
Stamps Farish III of BeHeinrich Himmler and the Waffen SS. [fn 13] eville, Texas, the descendant of the Standard Oil executive who had backed
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NOTES:
- Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward, "Doing Well With help From Family, Freinds," Washington
Post, August 11, 1988. - Houston Chronicle, February 21, 1963. See clippings available in Texas Historical Society,
Houston. - Thomas Petzinger, Oil and Honor (New York, 1987), pp. 244-245.
- See Washington Post, February 5, 1989.
- For the relation between George Bush and Henry Kravis, see Sarah Bartlett, The Money
Machine: How KKR Manufactured Power & Profits (New York, 1991), pp. 258-259 and 267-270. - Roy C. Smith, The Money Wars (New York, 1990), p. 106.
- Bartlett, pp. 269-270.
- Washington Post, September 29, 1988.
- Judy Mann, "Bush's Top Achievement," Washington Post, November 2, 1988.
- William Greider, Rolling Stone, April 12, 1984.
- "Bush Denies Influencing Drug Firm Tax Proposal," Washington Post, May 20, 1981.
- Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, "The Bush-Lorenzo Connections," Washington Post,
December 21, 1989. - James Ridgway, The Tax Records of Reagan and Bush, Texas Observer, September 28, 1984.
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -XX- The Phony War on Drugs
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