GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH  (S&B 1948)

*  13th cousin of King Henry III, twice removed from Queen Elizabeth
* Skull & Bones member. (Ini. 1948)
*  Married to Barbara Pierce, daughter of publisher Marvin Pierce of McCalls Corp.
*  Fathered 5 children ; Jonathan "Jeb" Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush Jr.,
    Neil Mallon Bush, Marvin Bush, Dorothy Bush LeBlond
*  1948-50 - Worked for Dresser Industries under Neil Mallon.
*  1951-53 - Co-Founder/Pres. of Bush/Overby Development Co.
*  1953 (Around) - Co-Founder, Dir. Zapata Petroleum Corp. / 1955 merged with Walker Bush Co.
*  1953 Co-Founded and Pres. of Zapata Offshore Co. 1954-56 , J. H. Liedtke as Treasurer,
    Chairman 1964-66. (Bk-45, 4, 25)
*  1963 - Chairman of the Republican Party, Harris County, Texas.
*  1966 - Republican Congressman in Texas. (Bk-45, 31)
*  1969, Aug. 5 - Congressman Bush held hearings on the threat posed by black babies and birthrates.
*  1971-73 - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. (Bk-45, 33)
*  1973-74 - Chairman of the Republican National Committee. (Bk-45, 34)
*  Envoy to People's Republic of China for 1 Yr. (Bk-45, 4) During this time, Bush worked for admission
    of Communist China into the United Nations. (Bk-45, 35)
*  1976-77 - Dir. of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - At this time, Nugan Hand Bank (Heroin)
    in Tailand was located in the same office as the DEA. (Bk-45, 75-Sourced from Jonathan Kwitney, investigative
      reporter for Wall Street Journal and written in Mother Jones magazine)
*  1977 - Member of Executive Committee of First International Bankshores Inc.. (Largest Texas Bank
    Holding Co.) (Bk-45, 36)
*  1979 - Dir. of Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals, appointed by Dan Quayle's father. (Bk-46)
*  By Dec. 31, 1979, no less than 15 members of the Trilateral Commission had donatedsubstantial sums
    to the Bush for President campaign, 7 of which were Rockefellers (Bk-45, 51)
*  1980-88 - V.P. of the United States
*  Member of the Trilateral Commission. (Bk-45, 39)
*  Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Bk-44, 38)
*  Member of the National Security Council & head of Anti-Terrorism Unit. (Bk-45, 4)
*  As V.P., Bush was Director of National Narcotics Border Interdiction System. In 1972, heroin flow
    into the U.S. was 60 tons per year. After Bush's program in 1986, it was 600 tons.
*  1984 - Francis M. Mullen Jr., then head of the DEA, called Bush's program an intellectual fraud and a
    liability rather than an asset. (Bk-45, 70-71)
*  At the time of V.P., the Tai government, with U.S. assistance, built a 2-lane highway into the golden
    triangle. (Source of approx. 600-900 tons of opium per year) - This made it possible for ten-ton trucks
    to transport it instead of horse and mule. (Bk-45, 72)
*  Appointed J. Hugh. Liedke as Pres. of Zapata when Bush was V.P. (Bk-45, 25)
*  In a speech Bush gave, speaking of Robert Mugabe, he stated : "I do want to say on behalf of the
    Reagan Administration that we support - we strongly support - the policy of reconciliation to which you
    have committed yourself..we believe Zimbabwe represents a noble experiment...we have supported your
    country because it's success is consistant with U.S. principles and U.S. interests. I will report to President
    Reagan that Zimbabwe continues to deserve our support because America is committed to backing
    peaceful change."  (Bk-45, 44)
* 1987, May 11, Spanish police in Madrid arrested Conan David Owen on charges of being a drug courier.
    Owen was arrested at Barcelona airport with a suitcase containing 2 kilos, or 4 pounds of cocaine. The
    arrest was pursued by Spanish police and the DEA.
      The Vice President's Office in Washington D.C. immediately intervened on his behalf on the grounds that
    Conan David Owen had bene duped into carrying the suitcase through Spanish customs. Owen was on the
    Bush personal staff in 1984. (Bk-45, 80)