"Linda Allison's story, never before published, contradicts the Bush
campaign's assertion that George W. Bush transferred from the Texas Air
National Guard to the Alabama National Guard in 1972 because
he received an irresistible offer to gain high-level experience on the campaign of
Bush family friend Winton "Red" Blount. In fact, according to
what Allison says her late husband told her, the younger Bush had become a political
liability for his father, who was then the United States ambassador to the
United Nations, and the family wanted him out of Texas. "I think they wanted
someone they trusted to keep an eye on him," Linda Allison said."
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Still, George W. kept on drinking:
"Allison remembers encountering George W. Bush in the parking lot,
urinating on a car, and hearing later about how he'd yelled obscenities at police officers that night.
Bush left a house he'd rented in Montgomery trashed -- the furniture broken,
walls damaged and a chandelier destroyed, the Birmingham News
reported in February. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other
people's possessions," Mary Smith, a member of the family who
rented the house, told the newspaper, adding that a bill sent to Bush for
repairs was never paid. And a month later, in December, during a visit to
his parents' home in Washington, Bush drunkenly challenged his father
to go "mano a mano," as has often been reported. "
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