The latter gentleman had been on the staff of the Yale University establishment in China in 1921-
- Yale and the Rockefellers were breeding a grotesque communist insurgency with British Empireideology; another Yale staffer there was Mao Zedong, later the communist dictator and mass
murderer. While he was over in China, Papa Godfrey's cousin Isabel had been the bridesmaid at the
wedding of George Bush's parents. His Uncle Percy had co-founded the Harriman bank with
George Walker, and backed George Bush's father in several Nazi German enterprises. His
grandfather had been the founding treasurer of the Standard Oil Company, and had made theHarrimans (and thus, ultimately, George Bush) rich.
Faculty adviser to A.U.V. in those days was Norwood Penrose Hallowell; his father by the same
name was chairman of Lee, Higginson & Co. private bankers, the chief financiers of Boston's
extreme racialist political movements. The elder Hallowell was based in London throughout1930s, on intimate terms with Montagu Norman and his pro-Hitler American banking friends. the
But this kind of backing, by itself, cannot ensure that a person will rise to the top, to authentic big-shot '' status. You have to want it very, very badly. One of Poppy Bush's teachers at Andover, now in retirement, offered to an interviewer for this book, a striking picture of his former pupil. How was the President as a student? He never said a word in class. He was bored to death. And other teachers told me Bush was the
worst English student ever in the school. ''
But was this teenager simply slow, or dull? On the contrary.
`He was the classicBMOC' (Big Man On Campus). A great glad-hander. Always smiling.
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Leaving academic studies aside, George Bush was the most insistent self-promoter on the campus.
He was able to pursue this career, being fortunately spared from the more mundane chores some
other students had to do. For example, he mailed his dirty laundry home each week, to be done by
the servants. It was mailed back to him clean and folded.@s2@s2
Student records show a massive list of offices and titles for Poppy, perhaps more than for any other
student:
A.U.V.
President of Senior Class (1 term)
Secretary of Student Council (1 term)
Student Council (1941-42) (surveillance of students during tests, keeping order in the movies,
investigating student thieves)
President of Society of Inquiry (1941-42)
Senior Prom Committee
Chairman of Student Deacons (1941-42)
Advisory Board (management of sports, choosing of P.A. Police to control student body, choosing