George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

Bush left Langley with Carter's inauguration, leaving Knoche to serve a couple of months
as acting DCI. In early February Bush wrote again to Leo Cherne, with whom he was
now on a first-name basis:

Thanks for that lovely letter you sent me on Feb. 2nd. I already miss our contacts a lot. I will be

leaving for Houston a week from today. [...]

Should you get down that way it would be great to see you. I am joining a couple of Boards that

will bring me East from time to time. I hope to keep up my interest in foreign affairs and in

national politics. It is quite unclear at the moment how to do these things.^

The past has been fantastic; but now I am determined to look to the future. I know it will be full of

challenge. I hope it holds frequent contacts with Leo Cherne.

I will follow with interest the President's decisions on PFIAB. Holler if I can ever be of help to

you. I value our friendship.

Sincerely, George [fn 65]

Carter abolished PFIAB and fired Cherne from the IOB. George Bush now turned to his
family business of international banking.

NOTES:

1. Nathan Miller, Spying for America, (New York, 1989), p. 399.


2. Gerald R. Ford Library, Richard B. Cheney Files, Box 5.


3. See Loch K. Johnson, A Season of Inquiry:The Senate Intelligence Investigation (University Press of
   Kentucky, 1985), pp. 108-109.


4. Johnson, A Season of Inquiry, pp. 115-116.


5. Gerald R. Ford Library, Philip Buchen Files, Box 24. Article is from Houston Post, November 8, 1975.


6. Newhouse News Service article by Saul Kohler, November, 1975, with letter from Ford's press secretary
   Ron Nessen, at Gerald R. Ford Library, William T. kendall Files, Box 7.


7. Letter from Bush to Stennis, December 12, 1975 in Ford Library, Philip W. Buchen Files, Box 37.


8. Ford Library, Presidential Handwriting File, Box 9.


9. Ford Library, Presidential Handwriting File, Box 9.


10. Collins to Ford, November 12, 1975, Ford Library, John O. Marsh Files, Box 1.


11. Nedzi to Ford, December 12, 1975, Ford Library, John O. Marsh Files, Box 1.


12. Roth to Bush, November 20, 1975, Ford Library, John O. Marsh Files, Box 1.