politicians that George Bush may achieve a commanding position within the next three
weeks in the contest for the Republican nomination. And those with unresolved
reservations about Bush are beginning to wonder privately if it is even possible to keep
an alternative politically alive for the late primaries."
Robert Healy of the Boston Globe stuck his neck out even further for the neo-Harrimanite
cause with a forecast that "even though he is still called leading candidate in some places,
Reagan does not look like he'll be on the Presidential stage much longer." It was even
possible, Healy gushed that Bush "will go through 1980...without losing an important
Presidential primary." William Safire of the New York Times claimed that his contacts
with Republican insiders across the country had yielded "a growing suspicion that
Reagan may once again be bypassed for the historic role...a general feeling that he may
be a man whose cause may triumph, but whose own time may never come." [fn 17]
NBC's Brokaw started calling Reagan the "former front-runner." Tom Petit of the same
network was more direct: "I would like to suggest that Ronald Reagan is politically
dead." Once again the choice of pictures made Bush look good, Reagan bad.
The Eastern Liberal establishment had left no doubt who its darling was: Bush, and not
Reagan. In their arrogance, the Olympians had once again committed the error of
confusing their collective patrician whim with real processes ongoing in the real world.
The New Hampshire primary was to prove a devastating setback for Bush, in spite of all
the hype the Bushman networks were able to crank out. How did it happen?
George Bush was of course a life-long member of the Skull and Bones secret society of
Yale University, through which he advanced towards the freemasonic upper reaches of
the Anglo-American establishment, towards those exalted circles of London, New York,
and Washington in which the transatlantic destiny of the self-styled Anglo-Saxon master
race is elaborated. The entrees provided by Skull and Bones membership would always
be, for Bush, the most vital ones. But, in addition to such exalted feudal brotherhoods as
Skull and Bones, the Anglo-American Establishment also maintains a series of broader-
based elite organizations whose function is to manifest the hegemonic Anglo-American
policy line to the broader layers of the establishment, including bureaucrats, businessmen,
bankers, journalists, professors, and other such assorted retainers and stewards of power.
George Bush had thus found it politic over the years to become a member of the New
York Council on Foreign Relations. By 1979, Bush was a member of the board of the
CFR, where he sat next to his old patron Henry Kissinger. The President of the CFR
during this period was Kissinger clone Winston Lord of the traditional Skull and Bones
family.
George was also a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, which had been
founded by Ambrose Bierce after the Civil War to cater to the Stanfords, Huntingtons,
Crockers, Hopkins, and the other nouveau-riche tycoons that had emerged from the gold
rush. The Bohemian Club made a summer outing every year to its camp at Bohemian
Grove, a secluded, 2,700 acre stand of majestic redwoods about 75 miles from San