York Council on Foreign Relations, which he described as a "black-tie dinner group." [fn
23] The pro-Cox letters also asserted that Bush's Zapata Offshore Company had a history
of bidding on drilling contracts for Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey.
One anti-Bush brochure preserved among the Yarborough papers at the Barker Center in
Austin is entitled "Who's Behind the Bush?" , published by the Coalition of
Conservatives to Beat the Bushes, with one Harold Deyo of Dallas listed as chairman.
The attack on Bush here centers on the Council on Foreign Relations, of which Bush was
not at that time a public member. The brochure lists a number of Bush campaign
contributors and then identifies these as members of the CFR. These include Dillon
Anderson and J.C. Hutcheson III of Baker and Botts, Andrews and Shepherd, Leland
Anderson of Anderson, Clayton and Company, Lawrence S. Reed of Texas Gulf
Producing, Frank Michaux, W.A. Kirkland of the board of First City National Bank. The
brochure then focuses on Prescott Bush, identified as a "partner with Averell Harriman in
Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Company. Averell Harriman is listed as a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. "Could it be that Prescott S. Bush, in concert with his
Eastern CFR friends, is raising all those 'Yankee Dollars' that are flowing into George's
campaign? It is reliably reported that Mr. George Bush has contracted for extensive and
expensive television time for the last week of the Runoff." The brochure also targets Paul
Kayser of Anderson, Clayton and Bush's Harris County campaign chairman. Five officers
of this company, named as W.L. Clayton, L. Fleming, Maurice McAshan, Leland
Anderso, and Syndor Oden, are said to be members of the CFR.
On the CFR itself, the brochure quotes from Helen P. Lasell's study entitled "Power
Behind Government Today," which found that the CFR "from its inception has had an
important part in planning the whole diabolical scheme of creating a ONE WORLD
FEDERATION of socialist states under the United Nations." "These carefully worked
out, detailed plans, in connection with the WORLD BANK and the use of billions of tax-
exempt foundation dollars, were carried out secretively over a period of years. Their
fruition could mean not only the absolute destruction of our form of government, national
independence and sovereignty, but to a degree at least, that of every nation in the world."
The New World Order, we see, is really nothing new. The brochure further accuses one
Mrs. M. S. Acherman, a leading Bush supporter in Houston, of having promoted a write-
in campaign for liberal, Boston Brahmin former Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts in the Texas presidential primary. Lodge had won the 1964 New
Hampshire primary, prompting Bush to announce that this was merely a regional
phenomenon and that he was "still for Goldwater."
As the runoff vote approached, Cox focused especially on the eastern financing that Bush
was receiving. On May 25 in Abilene, Cox assailed Bush for having mounted "one of the
greatest spending sprees ever seen in any political campaign." Cox said that he could not
hope to match this funding "because Jack Cox is not, nor will ever be, connected in any
manner with the Eastern kingmakers who seek to control political candidates.
Conservatives of Texas will serve notice on June 6 that just as surely as Rockefeller's
millions can't buy presidential nomination, the millions at George Bush's disposal can't