- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (New York: Modern Library,1931), pp. 165-204, passim.
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Charpter - I - The House of Bush: Born in a Bank
Who is George Bush? How did he become the 41st U.S. President?
He is said to be a man of the "old establishment," who "chose to seek his fortune as an independent
oilman...." @s 1
In fact, Bush was never "independent." Every career step in his upward climb relied on his family's
powerful associations. The Bush family joined the Eastern Establishment comparatively recently,
and only as servitors. Their wealth and influence resulted from their loyalty to another, more
powerful family, and their willingness to do anything to get ahead.
For what they did, Bush's forebears should have become very famous, or infamous. They remained
obscure figures, managers from behind the scenes. But their actions--including his father's role as
banker for Adolf Hitler--had tragic effects for the whole planet.
It was these services to his family's benefactors, which propelled George Bush to the top. Prescott
Goes to War
President George Herbert Walker Bush was born in 1924, the son of Prescott S. Bush and Dorothy
Walker Bush. We will begin the George Bush story about a decade before his birth, on the eve ofWorld War I. We will follow the career of his father, Prescott Bush, through his marriage with
Dorothy Walker, on the path to fortune, elegance and power.
Prescott Bush entered Yale University in 1913. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Prescott had spent the
last five years before college in St. George's Episcopal preparatory school in Newport, RhodeIsland.
Prescott Bush's first college year, 1913, was also the freshman year at Yale for E. Roland ( "Bunny"
) Harriman, whose older brother (Wm.) Averell Harriman had just graduated from Yale. This is the
Averell Harriman who went on to fame as the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during WorldWar II, as a governor of New York State, and as a presidential advisor who was greatly responsible (^)
for starting the Vietnam War.
The Harrimans would become the sponsors of the Bushes, to lift them onto the stage of world
history.
In the spring of 1916, Prescott Bush and "Bunny" Harriman were chosen for membership in an elite
Yale senior-year secret society known as Skull and Bones. This unusually morbid, death-celebrating
group helped Wall Street financiers find active young men of "good birth" to form a kind of
imitation British aristocracy in America.