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"LawsonE" wrote in message link.net...
"R. David Steele" /OMEGA wrote in message [...] And if GWB had been a Missile officer, we would be hearing how his daddy arranged that he could sit out the war in Montana...... Sorry but a one term republican congressman in a Texas controlled by democrats does not have that type of power. LBJ had power. Senator Gore, D-TN, had power. Congressman Bush did not. I do believe that you are incorrect about how powerful and influential Congressman Bush was: http://www.usa-presidents.info/bush.htm http://www.who2.com/prescottbush.html W.'s Grandfather, Prescott Bush, served as Senator from Connecticut from 1952 (mid-term election) to 1963. W.'s Father, GW Bush, served TWO terms as Congressman from the 7th District of Texas, 1966 to 1969. Both Father and Grandfather Bush were members of the Yale Skull and Bones Society, just like W. I would think that the son a two-term Congressman and grandson of a 1.5 term Senator could rightfully be said to be "connected," at least compared to most of us. BTW, Prescott Bush, according to legend, was said to be involved in one of the most famous of all Skull and Bones Society pranks, the theft of Geronimo's skull, so even in that circle, he's literally something of a mythical creatu http://www.post-gazette.com/columnis...00923roddy.asp W.'s general family background is a bit more connected than I realized: http://archive.salon.com/politics200...sh/index1.html [...] "In the 20th century, Bush's family didn't hobnob with kings, but they certainly mingled with presidents before taking over the White House themselves. Bush's great-grandfather was a steel and railroad magnate who became a personal advisor to President Hoover, who was in fact a distant relative. Grandfather Prescott Bush, the Connecticut senator, was a favored golf partner of President Eisenhower (not a relative). Grandmother Dorothy Walker Bush's father founded a Wall Street investment house and was a close advisor to FDR, another Bush relative. George W. Bush spent his childhood between the Bush homes in New York, Long Island and Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; the 10,000-acre plantation in South Carolina; and the island retreat in Florida, where their neighbors were Doubledays, Fords, Roosevelts and Vanderbilts." Here's what one former professor has to say about W: Originally published on Friday, July 16, 2004 in the News section of The Harvard Crimson. Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON Crimson Staff Writer As the race for the White House heats up and the nation's left-leaning heads come together to unearth potential skeletons in President Bush's closet, one line in his resume has avoided major scrutiny: the time Bush spent just across the Charles River, earning an MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS) in the 1970s. Now, as some fervently question the commander-in-chief's performance in the Texas National Guard decades ago and more current-minded politicos take aim at the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq, one former HBS professor is doing his best to publicize his recollections of what he calls a sarcastic, mediocre student who went on to lead the United States. Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush's current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on "Environment Analysis for Management," incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week. Tsurumi-now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York-said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class. Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush's statements and behavior-"always very shallow"-still stand out in his mind. "Whenever [Bush] just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make," said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. "The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice." The White House did not reply to requests for comment on Bush's time at HBS. Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush's right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with "an enemy of capitalism." "I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they're lazy," Tsurumi said. Tsurumi also said Bush displayed a sense of arrogance about his prominent family, including his father, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. "[George W. Bush] didn't stand out as the most promising student, but...he made it sure we understood how well he was connected," Tsurumi said. "He wasn't bashful about how he was being pushed upward by Dad's connections." Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father's political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China. In addition, Tsurumi is still sore about what he recalls as Bush's slight to his cinematic taste. When he arranged for students to view the film of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath during their study of the Great Depression, Tsurumi said, Bush derided the film as "corny." Well, that's always a touchy issue with Republicans, since they wiped out their own states with they're own oil and farming policies in 1930s. And then they decided on the ingenious solution to elect General "Plastic Wall" Johnson as their historic revenge on California Energy policy. |
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