whenever a situation emerged in which he could improve his image at the expense of
others by lying.
Although perhaps impressive by American standards, George Bush's pedigree displayed
its own grave weaknesses when examined within the frame of reference of the trans-
Atlantic Anglo-American oligarchy of the twentieth century, and this doubtless imparted
extra fanaticism to George's fanatical pursuit of racial purity in the halls of Congress.
In 1969 Bush told the House of Representatives that, unless the menace of human
population growth were "recognized and made manageable, starvation, pestilence and
war will solve it for us." Bush repeatedly compared population growth to a disease. [9
bis] In remarks to the House July 30, 1969, he likened the fight against the polio virus to
the crusade to reduce the world's population. Urging the federal government to step up
population control efforts, he said: "We have a clear precedent: When the Salk vaccine
was discovered, large-scale programs were undertaken to distribute it. I see no reason
why similar programs of education and family planning assistance should not be
instituted in the United States on a massive scope."
As Jessica Mathews, vice-president of one of Washington's most influential zero-growth
outfits, the World Resources Institute, later wrote of Bush in those years: "In the 1960s
and '70s, Bush had not only embraced the cause of domestic and international family
planning, he had aggressively sought to be its champion.... As a member of the Ways and
Means Committee, Rep. Bush shepherded the first major breakthrough in domestic
family planning legislation in 1967," and "later co -authored the legislation commonly
known as Title X, which created the first federal family planning program...."
"On the international front," Mathews wrote, Bush "recommended that the U.S. support
the United Nations population fund.... He urged, in the strongest words, that the U.S. and
European countries make modern contraceptives available "on a massive scale," to all
those around the world who wanted them.
Bush belonged to a small group of congressmen who successfully conspired to force a
profound shift in the official U.S. attitude and policy toward population expansion.
Embracing the "limits to growth" ideology with a vengeance, Bush and his coterie, which
included such ultraliberal Democrats as then- Senator Walter Mondale (Minn.) and Rep.
James Scheuer (N.Y.), labored to enact legislation which institutionalized population
control as U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
Bush began his Malthusian activism in the House in 1968, which was the year in which
Pope Paul VI issued his enyclical "Humanae Vitae," which contained a prophetic
warning of the danger of coercion by governments for the purpose of population control.
The Pope wrote: "Let it be considered also that a dangerous weapon would be placed in
the hands of those public authorities who place no heed of moral exigencies.... Who will
stop rulers from favoring, from even imposing upon their people, the method of
contraception which they judged to be most efficacious?" For poorer countries with a
high population rate, the encyclical identified the only rational and humane policy: "No