Cox, who had attracted 710,000 votes in his 1962 race against Connally for the governorship, was
at this point far better known around the state than Bush. Cox haWalker, who had made a bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1962 hid the backing of Gen. Edwinmself and (^)
gotten some 138,000 votes. Cox also had the backing of H.L. Hunt.
Morris had carried Dallas County, and he urged his supporters to vote against Bush. Morris told the
Dallas Morning New of May 5 that Bush was "too liberal" and that Bush's strength in the primarywas due to "liberal" Republican support.
Between early May and the runoff election of June 6, Cox mounted a vigorous campaign of
denunciation and exposure of Bush as a creature of the Eastern Liberal Establishment, Wall Street
banking interests, and of Golwater's principal antagonist for the GOP Presidential nomination, thehated Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. According to a story filed by Stuart Long of the Long (^)
News Service in Austin on May 25 and preserved among the Yarborough papers in the Barker
Texas History Center in Austin, Cox's supporters circulated letters pointing to Prescott Bush's role
as a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman as the basis for the charge that George Bush was the tool
of "Liberal Eastern Kingmakers." According to Long, the letters also include references to the NewYork 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 paentitled "Who's Behind the Bush?" , published by the Coalition of Conspers at the Barker Center in Austin iservatives 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 BaLeland Anderson of Anderson, Clayton and Company, Lawrence S. Reed of Texas Gulf Producing,ker and Botts, Andrews and Shepherd, (^)
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 withthe 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 hawrite-in campaign for liberal, Boston Brahmin former Senator Henry Cabot Lodge ofving prom oted a
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."