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some kind of destiny and I was being spared for something on earth." / Note
#1 / Note #3
After having deliberately ignored the relevant dissenting views about the
heroism of his patron, Hyams chooses to conclude his book on the following
disturbing note:
"When flying his Avenger off the deck of the San Jac, Bush was responsible
for his own fate as well as his crewmen's. As President he is responsible
for the fate of all Americans as well as that of much of the world."
And that is precisely the problem.
Notes
* Would to the gods that this be the last of his crimes!
1. For details of Bush's Navy career, see Joe Hyams, "Flight of the
Avenger: George Bush at War" (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch,
1991), "passim."
2. George Bush and Victor Gold, "Looking Forward," (New York: Doubleday,
1987), p. 36.
3. Hyams, "op. cit.," pp. 106-7.
4. "Ibid.," p. 111.
5. Nicholas King, "George Bush: A Biography" (New York: Dodd, Mead &
Company, 1980), pp. 30-31.
6. Fitzhugh Green, "George Bush: An Intimate Portrait" (New York:
Hippocrene Books, 1989), pp. 36-37.
7. Richard Ben Cramer, "George Bush: How He Got Here," "Esquire," June 1991.
8. Allan Wolper and Al Ellenberg, "The Day Bush Bailed Out," "New York
Post," August 12, 1988, p. 1 "ff."
9. Bush and Gold, "op. cit.," p. 36.
10. "Washington Post," August 7, 1988. For the Skull and Bones Society and
its "life history" self-exposure, see Chapter 7.
11. Hyams, "op. cit.," p. 143.
12. Bush and Gold, "op. cit.," pp. 40-41.
13. Hyams, "op. cit.," p. 134.
Correction
Corrections to errors in Chapter 3, in volume 6, No. 1, Jan. 6, 1992:
There was an extraneous footnote ("1") following the first paragraph, which
might have made that quote appear to be from George Bush, rather than
Hitler. Bush's (similar) quote in fact follows that one.
"After his 1948 graduation ... George Bush flew down to Texas on a
corporate jet" should have read "on a corporate aircraft."
The U.S. Navy delivered George Bush back home for good on Christmas Eve
1944; the war in the Pacific raged on over the next half year, with Allied
forces taking Southeast Asia, the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), and
islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Barbara Pierce quit Smith College in her sophomore year to marry George.
Prescott and Mother Bush gave a splendid prenuptial dinner at the Greenwich
Field Club. The wedding took place January 6, 1945, in the Rye, New York
Presbyterian Church, as the U.S. Third Fleet bombarded the main Philippine
island of Luzon in preparation for invasion. Afterwards there was a
glamorous reception for 300 at Appawamis Country Club. The newlyweds
honeymooned at The Cloisters, a five-star hotel on Sea Island, Georgia,
with swimming, tennis, and golf....
Japan surrendered in August. That fall, George and Barbara Bush moved to
New Haven where Bush entered Yale University. He and Barbara moved into an
apartment at 37 Hillhouse Avenue, across the street from Yale President
Charles Seymour.
College life was good to George, what he saw of it. A college career
usually occupies four years. But we know that George Bush is a rapidly
moving man. Thus he was pleased with the special arrangement made for
veterans, by which Yale allowed him to get his degree after attending
classes for only two and a half years....
In 1947, Barbara gave birth to George W. Bush, Jr.
By the time of his 1948 graduation, he had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
an honor traditionally associated with academic achievement. Not a great
deal is known about George Bush's career at Yale, especially the part about
books and studies. Unfortunately for those who would wish to consider his
intellectual accomplishment, everything about "that" has been sealed shut
and is top secret. The Yale administration says they have turned over to
the FBI custody of all of Bush's academic records, allegedly because the
FBI needs such access to check the resumes of important office holders.
>From all available testimony, his mental life before college was anything
but outstanding. His campaign literature claims that, as a veteran, Bush
was "serious" at Yale. But we cannot check exactly how he achieved election
to Phi Beta Kappa, in his abbreviated college experience. Without top
secret clearance, we cannot consult his test results, read his essays, or
learn much about his performance in class. We know that his father was a
trustee of the university, in charge of "developmental" fundraising. And
his family friends were in control of the U.S. secret services.
A great deal is known, however, about George Bush's "status" at Yale.
His fellow student John H. Chafee, later a U.S. senator from Rhode Island
and secretary of the navy, declared: "We didn't see much of him because he
was married, but I guess my first impression was that he was -- and I don't
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