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2. The life and Times of George the First
Time  Subject	After WW 2 and the 50's	The 60's and 70's	Reagan Years 1980-88	President George the Firsts 1988-92
Family	George 1 went to Andover Academy, Yale,  joined Skull and Bones, graduated in 1948, worked in Ohio as treasurer for  subsidiaries of Dresser Industries where his father was a long time board member.  41-43	Unsuccessful U.S. Senate run, 1970  45 Undistinguished UN ambassador, 1971-72   30 Undistinguished Republican Party chairman, 1973-74   31 Chief of US China mission 1974-75   31 Director of CIA  December 1975-76   31 Executive chairman of Dallas's First Bancshares and its London merchant banking Subsidiary 1977-78.  279	George 1 was Vice President.
Oil	George 1 left Dresser in 1951 and started Zapata with $50,000 from dad and  $850,000 from friends of George Herbert Walker Jr. He was principally involved with the investment side of the business.  43,125 Zapata Offshore is formed, operates close to Cuba, and some feel it was CIA supported.	Zapata became Pennzoil  and is later tied to Watergate money.  205, 207 After the 1973 Arab-Israel War , the Arabs quadruple the price of oil and cut off deliveries to the US Another Oil crisis hits in 1979	Ken Lay of Enron fame became involved with George 1 politically and in the oil business. 155 By 1980 US produced under 20% of the worlds oil and imports 30% of its needs. 254	OPEC gave Enron a $56 million loan. George 1 named Lay to organize G-7 Economic Summit in Huston and later to the President's Economic Council.  157
Business	In 1969, Zapata bought the United Fruit that use politics to enhance its Caribbean and Central America business operations. It had a very aggressive business Reputation in places like Guatemala.	U.S. foreign Military arms sale cross the billion dollar mark in 1968 and really jumped after the 1970 OPEC crisis when Washington decided arms sales would be a good way to get some of the dollars back that the Middle East oil producers.  263 Zapata, which provided commercial supplies for the Bay of Pigs invasion, was a CIA part-time purchasing front. 204 Dresser formed Permargo, a Mexican company  with CIA ties. 204	As VP, George 1 played a key role in U.S. supplying arms to Iraq.  264	Secretary of Defense Cheney hired Dallas-based Halliburton's Brown and Roots Services to study how private companies can provide logistics for U.S. military forces around the word. That same year, said company, now Kellogg, Brown and Root, received the first big five-year logistics government support contract. 171 Since 1994, Kellogg, Brown and Root and Virginia-based management and technology consulting Booz, Allen and Hamilton received 75% of the 3,000 government support contracts worth $300 billion.    172
CIA	Arthur Burr Darling, a known intelligence community agent and  George 1's history teacher at Andover, compiled a history of the CIA.  200 Democratically elected Prime Minister deposed because of a 1953 CIA- British intelligence orchestrated coup d'état necessitated by the nationalization of Iranian oil and closed the very profitable British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. 3	1976 George 1 is director of CIA. 31  Bush promoted many covert operations practitioners, protected agents from indictment by the President Ford Justice Department, and protected former CIA Director Richard Helms who was let off with a fine and suspended sentence for lying to Congress.  280 President Carter abruptly fires 800 of 4,000 CIA covert operations, many had  been recently vulnerable to indictment.	Bill Casey, with strong  ties to the CIA,  joined Reagan as his campaign manager and brings along dozens of fired covert operatives. 282 A Failed attempts to rescue Iran Hostages  was run by CIA operatives who in the mid 1980's became prominent Bush operatives. 285	Numerous sources clam George I and his CIA friends delayed the Iran Hostage release until after the 1980 election.   285-290
Political	Prescott Bush from Conn. backed the sovereignty over the submerged offshore oil deposits claimed by Gulf states.	Prescott Bush used influence congress to stop investigating the CIA  31 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger makes it clear in 1976 that the US will go to war to prevent any strangulation of U.S. and world oil supplies, a pledge restated by the 1979 Cater Doctrine. 254 Ronald Reagan reluctantly chooses George  as running mate. 32	249 Team 100 members each donated $100,000 or more to have access to George 1. Sun Belt Presidents, stretching from California through Texas to Florida. Nixon and Reagan were from California, the George 1&2 from Texas. George 3 lives in Florida3 112	Energy act of 1992 deregulated electricity and requires utilities carry privately marketed electricity as was done by Enron. 157 Commodities Future Trading Commission( CFTC), chaired by chaired by Wendy Gramm, wife of Texas Republican Senator Phil, grants Enron's request to exclude energy contract and interest rate swaps from CFTC oversight inn on January 14, 1993. 158 Ken Lay is named cochairman of the Bush I reelection committee and chairman of Republican National Convention. 157-158
Personal	George 1displayed preppie, adolescent personality (30,31), and a striking ability to remember names.  44 George I lived in upscale side of Midland, Texas, kind of a southern Cambridge where many Ivy League graduates lived.  42	George 1 worked for the CIA in 1960 or 1961 according to The Nation magazine 205 George 1 announced he was running for president in 1978. People were taken aback and asked President of what ?  32	George 1 made the big leap from CIA director to VP and a Dynasty bringing a new and unfamiliar mind-set to the elective executive office had begun. 207	Wendy Gramm resigned a week after CFTC ruling and a month later was named to Enron's board of directors. She received an estimated $912,000 to  $1,853,000 compensation package between 1993 and 2001.  158 Dick Chaney took over Halliburton in 1995 and the company's political contributions, lobbying outlays, government contracts, Export-Import Bank loans increased almost as fast as those of Huston based Enron.  During Cheney's five-year reign, federal contacts were  $2.3 billion compared to $1.2 billion for the previous five years. 172
Time	After WW 2	The 70's	Reagan Years	President George 1
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Part 3 The Revival of George II
Time	The 70's	The 80's	The 1990's	2000 -
Family	George 2 worked in father's unsuccessful senate bid in 1970-73, traveled for a business run by former Skull and Bonesman Richard Gow, helped in losing effort for a Alabama U.S. Senate seat, and worked for  Professionals United for Leadership League, which his dad chaired. Graduated Harvard Business School in 1975 and moved to Midland, Texas, soon to be America's richest town.  45	George 1 was Vice President and then  President of the United States	George 2 was Governor of Texas Bush 3 became Governor of Florida3	George 2 became President of the United States
Oil/ Energy	1977- Starts Arbusto Energy, Spanish for Bush, got married and didn't drill till 1979. Didn't go well despite $565,000 from Uncle Jonathan's investors.  46	Dad election win made money plentiful, but another 4.7 million from family and friends didn't help.  Arbusto referred to as Ar-Bust-o by investors took nominal losses of $3 million with George 2 ion salary. 46 1986 Harken Energy of Texas bought Arbusto and George 2 receives $500,000 in stock, a Harken directorship, and consecutive annual consulting salaries of $80,000 and $120,000. 47	Over a Decade government agencies gave Enron $7.2 billion in financing. 160 Enron President Kinder served on a committee that recommended Governor Bush ease taxes by $3 billion dollars on the capital intensive industries was accepted but the law failed. The tax  burden was not passed to services and professionals. 160 California opened it energy markets and 24 states follow by end of 2000. 161	2001 VP Chaney's energy task force predicted a 12% decline in U.S. oil production by 2020 which would compel the U.S. to import two-thirds of its needs.  255 Enron had sales $31 billion in 1998 and 139 billion in 2001.  164 California faced serious blackouts as prices spike to 50 times normal. 167 Enron executive began quietly unloading Enron stock which hit $80 per share right after the Bush II's inaugural and was 50 by June. Stock fell to 20 in October as administration efforts like refusing to cap energy prices in California and pressure on India to pay Enron failed. 168 The Enron scandal resulted in a late 2001 bankruptcy declaration. 169
Politics	George II does well but loses a 1978 bid for U.S. House of Representatives. 45-46	Harken Energy had links to Saudi money, CIA connected  Filipinos, the Harvard Endowments, the emir of Bahrain, and the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International. 47	Enron's President and CO Richard Kinder became George 2's chief Huston fund raiser.  159 Enron has $5.3 million in federal campaign contributions, 40% more then second place.  161	In December of 2000, Senator Gramm spearheaded a successful effort for a new round of energy futures deregulation.  165
Yale	George II graduating from Andover Academy went to Yale, joined Skull and Bones and graduated.. 44
Personal	George 2 looked and acted like George 1. Like his father he played baseball at Yale (though not as well),  bent the rules to become a fighter pilot (though his service record is  questioned), and generally  followed in his father's footsteps. Both mix up sentences having kind of a verbal dyslexia which may run in the family.  43-44.	With Harken money and little to do other than attend meeting, George II decides to help dad run for president. George II gave up Wild Turkey bourbon and became born again sometime around 1986, right after his 40th birthday and the year oil went below $9 a barrel.  48

Military

An Islamic Dodge City has been created in the Middle East by arms selling nations mostly from the West3. 265  1984-88 arms sales swollen by the Iraqi-Iranian war to Middle Eastern countries accounted for 48% of the third world total. 264   A Christian- Muslim civil war gutted Beirut. It killed forty-sixty thousand people which was more than the four Arab-Israeli wars combined. 265  $42 billion in arms sales from 1990-97 were made to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. 265  Why aren't they helping the US fight? 3 War in Afghanistan killed 1.5 million people and caused another 5 million to flee as refugees to India and Pakistan.

Life in the Middle East

Corruption increased because of oil money, covert operations, and commissions from arms deals. Ballooning Drug Business for Afghanistan and Pakistan developed. Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism occurred after the U.S. and Britain foster a cope to the democratically elected government and put the Shaw of Iran in charge. Success of Islamic Revolution caused the overthrow of the shah of Iran, ascent of the  Taliban in Afghanistan, and Saudi support for Al Qaeda. Pakistan Frontier Religious Party was successful.  Islamic Victories occurred in Nearby Turkey  266 Much of this happened because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld failed to follow the long believed military practices when managing an occupied country. See The War  On Terror: Who Are We Fighting.

Bush 3 and 4 Unless We Close the Door
Time	The 80's	The 90's	2000's
Neil Bush	Silverado S&L made him a director in 1985 after Neil conjoined them with his 1983 startup JN Exploration. 131 During Jeb's tenure, Silverado loaned over $200 million dollars to Neil's partners in JNB, most of which was defaulted upon. Neil, who did not tell Silverado about his close business dealings with  the partners. Jeb received $100,000 loan from one partner with no obligation for repayment . Another partner's bank gave JNB a $1.5 million line of credit from which JNB paid the then vice president's son $550,000 between 1983 and 1988.  131 Set Apex Energy with a $3, 000 investment plus a $2.3 million dollar loan from the SBA. It went belly- up with few assets to pay back SBA.  133 Forget Bush 43	Neil, acting as an oil lobbyist, tags along with his father  on a trip to Kuwait.139	In 2002, now a educational software entrepreneur, made his forth trip to the Middle East since his brother won the presidency. He met with the Saudi royal family and software firms in Dubai 309
Jeb Bush	Jeb arrived in Miami in 1980 and was soon involved with GOP politics, Cuban immigrants, and real estate. Business contacts were well-heeled Nicaraguan contras or CIA-connected Cubans. 130 Some feel Jeb received at least $300,000 for presidential influence in relation to a $74 million U.S. Export Import loan to a business partner. 132 Two principal business partners were indicted in the late 1980's, one pleaded guilty and the other fled to Venezuela. 134		Editors Note: The former governor of Florida, 1999 - 2007 is considered by many, a Republican  favorite for the presidential election of 2012.
Bush Law	Jeb Bush was not indicted for his the Silverado money maker, and there were no criminal charges against him. However a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court. Bush was fined $50,000 as a consequence of his actions and he was restricted from undertaking future banking activity 3. Wikipedia	SEC internal documentation prepared in 1991 suggested George II had violated federal security law at least four times in late 80's and early 90's. 134 Harken lawyers advised George II of the insider trading violations a week before the his mid 90's sale of $848,000 of their stock.  134	In 2002, Bush signed a consulting contract that paid $2 million dollars in stock over five years to work for Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, plus $10,000 for every board meeting he attends.[17] Bush serves as co-chairman of a company called Crest Investment. Crest pays him $60,000 a year to provide miscellaneous consulting services.[16][18] Bush frequently travels to the Middle East, Europe and Asia to negotiate deals and raise capital for various businesses. According to court filings from his divorce, in 2000 he was paid $1.3 million for such work. This includes $642,500 as a commission for introducing an Asian investor to the owners of an American high-tech company.[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush