And it was done.
As a Bush-authorized version puts it, `` One wonders why the Navy relaxed its two years
of college requirement for flight training in George Bush's case. He had built an
outstanding record at school as a scholar [sic], athlete and campus leader, but so had
countless thousands of other youths.
``Yet it was George Bush who appeared to be the only beneficiary of this rule-waiving,
and thus he eventually emerged as the youngest pilot in the Navy--a fact that he can still
boast about and because of which he enjoyed a certain celebrity during the war. ''
Notes for Chapter V
- Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company,
1980), pp. 13-14. - Ibid., p. 19.
- Ibid.
- Joe Hyams, Flight of the Avenger: George Bush at War (New York: Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovitch, 1991), p. 14. - Ibid., p. 17.
- Ibid., pp. 16-17.
- Donnie Radcliffe, Simply Barbara Bush (New York: Warner Books, 1989), p. 132.
- Fitzhugh Green, George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Hippocrene Books,
1989), p. 16. - Radcliffe, op. cit., p. 133.
- King, op. cit, p. 14.
- Hyams, op. cit., pp. 17-19.
- King, op. cit., pp. 10, 20.
- Ibid., p. 21.
- Claude M. Fuess, The Life of Caleb Cushing, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace
and Company, 1923).