Otherwise Bush was a businessman of very mediocre success, kept afloat by constant
capital infusions from his doting Uncle Herbie.
NOTES:
- Harry Hurt III, "George Bush, Plucky Lad," Texas Monthly, June 1983.
- See Sarah Bartlett, The Money Machine: How KKR Manufactured Power and Profits (New York, 1991),
pp. 9-12. - Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc., 1880-1978 (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1979), p. 232 ff. - Bartlett, The Money Machine, p. 268.
- Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy, p. 232-233.
- Harry Hurt III, "George Bush, Plucky Lad," Texas Monthly, June 1983.
- Harry Hurt III, "George Bush, Plucky Lad," Texas Monthly, June 1983.
- "Bush Battle the 'Wimp Factor', Newsweek, October 19, 1987.
- See Richard Ben Kramer, "How He Got Here," Esquire, June 1991.
- See Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Oil and Honor: The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars (New York, 1987), p. 37 ff.
- Petzinger, p. 93.
- Petzinger, p. 40.
- See Zapata Petroleum annual reports, Library of Congress Microform Reading Room.
- Petzinger, p. 41.
- See Zapata Petroleum Corporation annual report for 1956, Microform Reading Room, Library of
Congress. - Harry Hurt III, p. 194.
- "Zapata Petroleum Corp.," Fortune, April, 1958.
- Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward, "Doing Well With Help From Family, Friends," Washington Post,
August 11, 1988. - Petzinger, p. 63.
- "Love Her And Leave Her," Forbes, September 15, 1974, pp. 54-5.