presidency might have been avoided. That is certainly true, but it is an objection which should also
be directed to many institutions and agencies whose resources for surpass our modest capabilities.We can only remind our fellow citizens that when he asks for their votes for his re-election, George (^)
Bush also enters that court of public opinion in which he is obliged to answer their questions. They
should not waste 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 toproduce an account of the old Roman Pantheon: SI MINUS BENE DIXERO SALTEM AD
MELIUS DICENDUM PRUDENTIOREM ALTERUM EXCITABO.
BOCCACCIO, GENEALOGIA DEORUM GENTILIUM
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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. SThan a Junkyard Dog," Texas Monthly, April 1991, p. 122 ff. Here Wyatt observes: "I knew fromee also Jan Jarboe, "Meaner (^)
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.