this opportunity to grill him on all aspects of his career and future intentions, since it is
Bush who comes forward appealing for their support.
We do not delude ourselves that we have said the last word about George Bush. But we
have for the first time sketched out at least some of the most salient features and gathered
them into a comprehensible whole. We encourage an aroused citizenry, as well as
specialized researchers, to improve upon what we have been able to accomplish. In so
doing, we recall the words of the Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio when he reluctantly
accepted the order of a powerful king to produce an account of the old Roman Pantheon:
SI MINUS BENE DIXERO SALTEM AD MELIUS DICENDUM PRUDENTIOREM
ALTERUM EXCITABO.
BOCCACCIO, GENEALOGIA DEORUM GENTILIUM
NOTES:
- George Bush and Vic Gold, Looking Forward, (New York: Doubleday, 1987), p. 47.
- Fitzhugh Green, Looking Forward, (New York: &Hippocrene, 1989), p. 53.
- Harry Hurt III, "George Bush, Plucky Lad," Texas Monthly, June, 1983, p. 142.
- Richard Ben Cramer, "How He Got Here," Esquire, June, 1991, p. 84.
- Joe Hyams, Flight of the Avenger (New York, 1991), p..
- Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1980), p. xi.
- Donnie Radcliffe, Simply Barbara Bush, (New York: Warner, 1989), p. 103.
- Rainer Bonhorst,George Bush, Der neue Mann im Weissen Haus, (Bergisch Gladbach:
Gustav Luebbe Verlag, 1988), pp. 80- 81. - See "The Roar of the Crowd," Texas Monthly, November, 1991. See also Jan Jarboe,
"Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog," Texas Monthly, April 1991, p. 122 ff. Here Wyatt
observes: "I knew from the beginning George Bush came to Texas only because he was
politically ambitious. He flew out here on an airplane owned by Dresser Industries. His
daddy was a member of the board of Dresser." - Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979), p. 233.
- John Selby Watson (translator), Sallust, Florus, and Velleius Paterculus (London:
George Bell and Son, 1879), pp. 542-546. - Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin, 1962), pp. 193-221.