power brokers" led by David Rockefeller whose "purpose is to control the American
government, regardless of which political party--Democrat or Republican-- wins the
presidency this coming November!" "The Trojan horse for this scheme," the ad went on,
"is Connecticut-Yankee-turned-Texas oilman George Bush- the out-of-nowhere
Republican who openly admits he is using the same "game-plan" developed for Jimmy
Carter in the 1976 presidential nomination campaign." The ad went on to menmtion the
Council on Fopreign Relations and the "Rockefeller money" that was the lifeblood of
Bush's effort. [fn 20]
On February 24, Loeb trotted out Gen. Danny Graham, part of Bush's Team B operation,
to talk about "George Bush's weakness as the head of the CIA and his complete failure to
estimate correctly the Soviet threat." Bush had "stacked" the Team A-Team B debate,
Graham was now claiming. Brent Scowcroft, Lt. Gen. Sam Wilson and Ray Cline all
rushed to Bush's defense. "Any inference that George was too soft in his analysis of the
Soviet Union was just dead wrong," responded Cline. "George is probably more skeptical
and concerned about Soviet behavior than anyone in town." "Baloney!" was Graham's
rejoinder.
Loeb hyped a demand from the National Alliance of Senior Citizens that Bush repudiate
and apologize for a remark that Social Security had "become largely a welfare program."
Here Bush was scourged for his "insensitivity to the independence of Social Security
recipients." Right underneath was another article from a Union-Leader special
correspondent in New York City reporting that Bush's delegates had been thrown off the
ballot there by the Board of Elections because Bush's petitions "were illegal."
While all this was going on, Bush was prating about his "momentum" with campaign
statements that focussed exclusively on technicalities rather than offering reasons why
anybody should support Bush. Right after the Iowa victory, here was Bush: "Clearly,
we're going to come out of here with momentum...We appear to have beaten both
Connally and Baker very, very badly. The numbers look substantial. And they are going
to have to get some momentum going, and I'm coming out of here with momentum." A
few weeks later, Bush was still repeating the same gibberish. Bush told Bob Schieffer of
CBS about his advantage for New Hampshire:
What we'll have, you see, is momentum. We will have forward "Big Mo" on our side, as they say
in athletics.^Big Mo?Yeah, Bush said. "Mo," momentum.^While campaigning, Bush was asked once again about the money he received from
Nixon's 1970 Townhouse slush fund. Bush's stock reply was that his friend Jaworski had
cleared him: "The answer came back, clean, clean, clean," said Bush.
By now the Reagan camp had caught on that something important was happening,
something which could benefit Reagan enormously. First Reagan's crony Edwin Meese