George H. W. Bush

**George Herbert Walker Bush** (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993, and a member of the Republican Party. Bush also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence.

George H. W. Bush Files

## Skull and Bones

George H. W. Bush is a member of the Bush family. His father is Prescott Bush. Like his father, George H. W. Bush enrolled at Yale College, where he took part in an accelerated program that enabled him to graduate in two and a half years rather than the usual four. Bush was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was elected its president. Bush also captained the Yale baseball team and played in the first two College World Series as a left-handed first baseman. Like Prescott, George W. H. Bush was a member of the Yale cheerleading squad and was initiated into the Skull and Bones secret society. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in economics and minoring in sociology.

## CIA

George H. W. Bush was the 11th Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald Ford, from January 30, 1976 – January 20, 1977. He was named its director in 1975.

The *Nation* published an article in 1988 alleging that George H. W. Bush worked as an operative for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the early 1960s. The claim is based on a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memorandum found in a 98,755 page dossier on the Kennedy assassination. The dossier was released in 1977-78, in connection with lawsuits brought under FOIA. The memo is dated Nov. 29, 1963, from J. Edgar Hoover, the bureau's Director at the time. The memo was addressed to the State Department concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. According to the memo, Hoover states that the bureau briefed a Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency on the reaction of Cuban exiles in Miami in the wake of the assassination. The State Department was worried that anti-Castro groups in Miami might stage another invasion of Cuba in the aftermath of the JFK murder.

Bill Devine, a spokesman for the central intelligence agency, declined to comment on the possibility that Mr. Bush, or someone else with that name, worked for the agency in the 1960s. Mr. Devine responded with, "We neither confirm nor deny." The New York Times also reports that Bush denied this claim through a spokesman.

In the early 1960s, Bush was an oilman running for the Senate. Bush ran for the chairmanship of the Harris County Republican Party, winning election in February 1963. Bush's voting record in the House was generally conservative. Like other Texas Republicans, Bush supported conservative Senator Barry Goldwater over the more centrist Nelson Rockefeller in the 1964 Republican Party presidential primaries. Bush also supported Richard Nixon's administration on Vietnam policies.

## Motive: Jodie Foster

### Position

Motive: 25 year old John Hinckley Jr. loved Jodie Foster so much, he thought it be cool to get her attention by assassinating a President.

## Proficiencies

### Majic

MKUltra

On March 30, 1981, three months after his inauguration, United States President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. The attack occurred when Reagan was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. George H. W. Bush was Vice President at the time.

Alfred Antenucci, a Cleveland, Ohio labor official, was standing nearby when he saw John Hinckley Jr. fire the first two shots. Upon hearing the shots, Special Agent in Charge Jerry Parr almost instantly grabbed Reagan by the shoulders and dove with him toward the open rear door of the limousine. Agent Ray Shaddick trailed just behind Parr to assist in throwing both men into the car. The third round overshot the president, instead hitting the window of a building across the street. Parr pushed Reagan into the limousine, while Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy put himself in the line of fire. McCarthy was struck in the lower abdomen by the fourth round.

The fifth round hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the open rear door of the limousine as Reagan and Parr were passing behind it. The sixth and final bullet ricocheted off the armored side of the limousine, passed between the space of the open rear door and vehicle frame, and hit the president in the left underarm. The round grazed a rib and lodged in his lung, causing it to partially collapse before stopping less than an inch (25 mm) from his heart.

Clevland, Ohio Labor officials Alfred Antenucci and Frank J. McNamara saw an opportunity to engage Hinckley. They started punching Hinckley in the head, wrestling him to the ground. They struck Hinckley so hard he drew blood. Secret Service agent Dennis McCarthy later reported that he had to "strike two citizens" to force them to release Hinckley. Alfred Antenucci and Frank McNamara both became ill following the assassination attempt. McNamara died a few months later. Antenucci died in 1984.

John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21, 1982. Hinckley was confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Hinckley's gun was given to ATF to trace its origin. In 16 minutes, agents determined that the gun had been purchased at Rocky's Pawn Shop in Dallas, Texas. It had been loaded with six "Devastator" brand cartridges, which contained small aluminum and lead azide explosive charges designed to explode on contact; the bullet that hit White House Press Secretary James Brady was the only one that exploded.

George H. W. Bush's handling of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, and its aftermath, made a positive impression on the President. Reagan recovered and returned to work within two weeks of the shooting.

## Reagan presidency

In the Presidency of Reagan's first term, Vice President George H. W. Bush was assigned by Reagan to chair two special task forces: one on deregulation and one on international drug smuggling. Both were popular issues with conservatives, and Bush was largely a moderate.

The Reagan administration's focus on deregulation policies had the greatest impact on broadcasting, finance, and resource extraction.

Vice President Bush also oversaw the administration's national security crisis management organization: the National Security Advisor (NSA). The US Defense Intelligence Agency ran a number of Remote Viewing programs, one in which involved Mars Exploration in 1984.

On July 13, 1985, Bush became the first vice president to serve as acting president when Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon; Bush served as the acting president for approximately eight hours.

In 1986, Reagan's second term, the administration was shaken by a scandal when it was revealed that administration officials secretly arranged weapon sales to Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. The officials had used the proceeds to fund the Contra rebels in their fight against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Democrats had passed a law that appropriated funds could not be used to help the Contras. Instead the administration used non-appropriated funds from the sales. When news of affair broke to the media, Bush stated that he had been "out of the loop" and unaware of the diversion of funds.

## Presidency

Briefing document

George H. W. Bush's inauguration speech as President of the United States on 20 January 1989, began as follows:

“I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous time, but we can make it better. For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.”
Following the heals of the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War began with Operation Desert Shield on 2 August 1990 with a US led invasion in response to the Iraqi Army's occupation of Kuwait. Iraq borrowed more than US$14 billion from Kuwait to finance the Iran–Iraq War. Throughout much of the 1980s, Kuwait's oil production was above its mandatory OPEC quota, which kept oil prices down. Iraqi leadership had hoped to take advantage of Iran's post-revolutionary chaos; and expected a decisive victory over Kuwait, in the face of a severely weakened Iran. The Iran–Iraq War was the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries. *Encyclopædia Britannica* states: "Estimates of total casualties range from 1,000,000 to twice that number."

## Behold a Pale Horse

### Name

*Behold a Pale Horse* (1991) by M. W. Cooper

### Position

"Conspiracy theories" are not theories. They are real, and we will kill you. End of story.

### AKA

A walking dead man — labeled "the most dangerous radio host in America" by President Bill Clinton

## Proficiencies

### Majic

Conspiracy awareness

On 23 January 1991, Iraq dumped 400 million US gallons (1,500,000 m3) of crude oil into the Persian Gulf, causing the largest offshore oil spill in history at that time. It was reported as a deliberate natural resources attack to keep U.S. Marines from coming ashore. The Iraqi military then set fire to 700 oil wells, while retreating from Kuwait because of having been driven out by Coalition forces. The fires began in January 1991 and were extinguished by November 1991. Land mines had been placed in areas around the oil wells, making it extremely difficult to extinguish fires that were getting out of control. Nearly 6 million barrels (950,000 m3) of oil were lost each day.

Amid the Gulf War crisis, the dissolution of the Soviet Union officially disintegrated the USSR on 26 December 1991. These events were the agenda of Bush's policy when he spoke of a "New World Order" on September 11, 1990, in his Presidential Address on the Persian Gulf (See also Defense Advanced Research Projects, 1990 recertification)

After his presidency, George H. W. Bush visited Kuwait in 1993 to become the target of an assassination plot, allegedly by the Iraqi Intelligence Service. In retaliation, President Clinton ordered the firing of 23 cruise missiles at the Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters in Baghdad. Bush did not publicly comment on the assassination attempt or the missile strike, but privately spoke with Clinton shortly before the strike took place.

## References

1. ↑ Berkower, Simone. "Cheerleading of the '20s: Epitome of masculinity". Yale Daily News.
2. ↑ Meacham, Jon (2015). Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush. Random House. ISBN 978-1-40-006765-7, p. 72
3. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/11/us/63-fbi-memo-ties-bush-to-intelligence-agency.html
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#Entry\_into\_politics
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#U.S.\_House\_of\_Representatives
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted\_assassination\_of\_Ronald\_Reagan#Jodie\_Foster
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted\_assassination\_of\_Ronald\_Reagan
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted\_assassination\_of\_Ronald\_Reagan#Shooting
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted\_assassination\_of\_Ronald\_Reagan#Antenucci\_and\_McNamara
10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted\_assassination\_of\_Ronald\_Reagan#John\_Hinckley
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#First\_term
12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#First\_term
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#Second\_term
14. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#Presidency\_(1989–1993)
15. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf\_War
16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq\_War#Aftermath
17. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Behold-Pale-Horse-Revisited-secrets-ebook/dp/B07BT9GNYC
18. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath\_of\_the\_Gulf\_War#Kuwaiti\_oil\_fires
19. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution\_of\_the\_Soviet\_Union
20. ↑ https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4528359/user-clip-george-bush-defines-world-order
21. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush#Post-presidency\_(1993–2018)