- ""Bush Aide Invokes Executive Privilege," Washington Post, May 20, 1988.
- American Leviathan, pp. 41-42.
- "Ex-Bush Aide Is Said to Have Advised Noriega," Washington Post, January 22, 1989.
- "Bush Presses to Cut Off Talks with Noriega," Washington Post, May 20, 1988.
- Bob Woodward, The Commanders, (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1991), p. 89.
- See "Fact Sheet on the US Invasion of Panama," American Leviathan, p. 46.
- The Commanders, p. 161.
- Text of President Bush's Address, Washington Post, December 21, 1989.
- Text of Bush press conference, Washington Post, December 22, 1989.
- What Does Candidate LaRouche Think of Bush's Mental Health? (Washington: Democrats for
Economic Recovery-LaRouche in '92), p. 7.
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -XXIV- The New World Order
Roma caput mundi regit orbis frena rotundi
(Rome, the chief of the world, hold the reins of this round orb.)
Inscription on the imperial crown of Diocletian.
During late 1989 and 1990, George Bush traversed a decisive watershed in his political career and
in his own personal mental life. Up until this transition, Bush had attempted to secure advancementthrough an attitude of deference and propitiation, currying favor with a series of politicians and
power brokers whom he despised as his social inferiors, and whom he never hesitated to stab in the
back once he got the chance to do so. This was the old duplicitious "have half" persona of his early
childhood. During the long years of Bush's quest for the vice presidency, and during the eight long
years of his tenure in that office, the public face of Bush was that of dog-lorthodoxy. During these years Bush exhibited the same relative cognitive impairment which he hadike fidelity and Reaganite (^)
exhibited since his Andover days. On the surface, he was a top-level bureuacratic functionary of the
US police state, sharing the moral insanity of the policy committments of the government apparatus
which he represented.
Severe and debilitating mental strains had been evident in Bush's personality from his earliest years.
Such tensions were an inevitable result of the inhuman self-discipline demanded by his mother,
Dorothy Walker Bush, whose regimen combined the most ruthless pursuit of personal affirmation
for its own sake, with the imperative that all this single-minded striving be dissembled behind the
elaborate pose of fairness and concern for the rights of others. During 1989 and 1990, the tensions