- Hyams, p. 134
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -VII- Skull and Bones: The Racist Nightmare at Yale
``Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some
man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but
white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up
again at the Declaration of Indebegan....''@s1 pendence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers
-- Abraham Lincoln --
Honeymoon
The U.S. Navy delivered George Bush back home for good on Christmas Eve, 1944; the war in the
Pacific raged on over the next half year, with Allied forces taking Southeast Asia, the Netherlands
East Indies (Indonesia), and islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Barbara Pierce quit Smith College in her sophomore year to marry George. Prescott and MotherBush gave a splendid prenuptial dinner at the Greenwich Field Club. The wedding took place
January 6, 1945, in the Rye, New York Presbyterian Church, as the U.S. Third Fleet bombarded the
main Philippine island of Luzon in preparation for invasion. Afterwards there was a glamorous
reception for 300 at Appawamis Country Club. The newlyweds honeymooned at The Cloisters, a
five-star hotel on Sea Island, Georgia, with swimming, tennis and golf.
George's next assignment was to train pilots at Norfolk, Virginia Naval Air Station. George's duty ... was light. As for other young marrieds, whose husbands were between warzone tours, this was kind of an extended (and paid) honeymoon.''@s2 Japan surrendered in August. That fall, George and Barbara Bush moved to New Haven where Bush entered Yale University. He and Barbara moved into an apartment at 37 Hillhouse Avenue, across the street from Yale President Charles Seymour. College life was good to George, what he saw of it. A college career usually occupies four yeBut we know that George Bush is a rapidly moving man. Thus he was pleased with the specialars. arrangement made for veterans, by which Yale allowed him to get his degree after attending classes for only two and a half years. Bush and his friends remember it all fondly, as representatives of the Fashionable Set:[M]embersof [Bush's] class have since sighed with nostalgia for those days of the late 1940s.... Trolley cars
still rumbled along the New Haven streets. On autumn afternoons they would be crowded with
students going out to football games at the Yale Bowl, scattering pennies along the way and
shouting `scramble' to the street kids diving for them''[emphasis added].@s3
In 1947, Barbara gave birth to George W. Bush, the President's namesake.
By the time of his 1948 graduation, he had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, an honor traditionally
associated with academic achievement. A great deal is known about George Bush's career at Yale,
except the part about books and studies. Unfortunately for those who would wish to consider his