Senate race in 1950, a defeat his son has always blamed on the Catholic Church, and which is at the
root of George's lifelong vendetta against the Papacy.
Prescott's 1950 defeat still rankled, as shown by Bush's extraordinary gesture in evoking it during
testimony he gave on the other side of Capitol Hill before Senator Gruening's subcommittee of the
Senate Government Operations Committee on November 2, 1967. Bush's vengeful tirade is worth
quoting at length: "I get the felling that it is a little less unfashionable to be in favor of birth control and planned
parenthood today than it used to be. If you will excuse one personal reference here: My father,
when he ran for the US Senate in 1950, was defeated by 600 or 700 votes. On the steps of several
Catholic Churches in Connecticut, the Sunday before the election, people stood there passing out
pamphlets saying, 'Listen to what this commentator has to say tonight. Listen to what thiscommentator has to say.' That night on the radio, the commentator came on and said, "Of interest to (^)
voters in Connecticut, Prescott Bush is head of the Planned Parenthood Birth Control League,' or
something like this. Well, he lost by about 600 votes and there are some us who feel that this had
something to do with it. I do not think that anybody can get away with that type of thing any more."
The Harriman family sponsored the creation of the eugenics movement in the United States, which
successfully campaigned for the mass sterilization of the "feeble-minded" and "racially inferior"
during the 1920s--practices later copied, not originated, by the Nazis. As part of this campaign, the
Harrimans helped organize a series of international eugenics conferences. At the 1932 conference,
held at the Museum of Natural History in New York, the guest of honor wErnst Rudin, the head of the German Society for Racial Hygiene, who, just a few years later, draftedas none other than Dr. (^)
the Nazi miscegenation laws against te Jews, gypsies, and Slavs.
Among the Americans who rubbed shoulders with Rudin at the 1932 conference was Gen. William
Draper, a New York investment banker and close personal friend of Prescott Bush, who became oneof the most influential crusaders for radical population control measures. He campaigned endlessly
for zero population growth, and praised the Chinese Communists for their "innovative" methods of
achieving that goal. Draper's most influential outlet was the Population Crisis Committee (PCC)-
Draper Fund, set up in 1965 by Hugh Moore, who had taken over the Human Betterment
Association, a leading eugenics outfit, in 1937, reSterilization. naming it the Association for Voluntary
In 1967-68, a PCC-Draper Fund offshoot, the Campaign to Check the Population Explosion, ran a
nationwide advertising campaign hyping the population explosion fraud, and attacking those--
particularly at the Vatican--who stood in the way of radical population control.
In a 1971 article, Draper likened the developing nations to an animal reserve,'' where, when the animals become too numerous, the park rangersarbitrarily reduce one or another species as
necessary to preserve the balanced environment for all other animals. But who will be the park ranger for the human race?,'' he asked.Who will cull out the surplus in this country or that countrywhen the pressure of too many people and too few resources increases beyond endurance? Will the
death-dealing Horsemen of the Apocalypse--war in its modern nuclear dress, hunger haunting half
the human race, and disease--will the gaunt and forbidding Horsemen become Park Ranger for the
two-legged animal called man?''
Draper collaborated closely with George Bush during the latter's congressional career. As noted
above, Bush invited Draper to testify to his Task Force on Earth Resources and Population;
reportedly, Draper helped draft the Bush-Tydings bill.
Bush felt an overwhleming affinity for the bestial and degraded image of man reflected in the