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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techplayer who wrote (93349)	11/29/2000 12:56:45 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

No, I did not know that. Easy hint. Find out the principal owners of Union Bank (New York) and its principal Prescott Bush before it was closed down by the government at the beginning of WWII for trading with the enemy. I can't believe you vote for folks you don't even know. TP

To: Techplayer who wrote (93349)	11/29/2000 1:07:32 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

The facts are that the grandfather had business dealings with an industrialist who supported the Nazis in the early days, but who turned against it and emigrated in the late '30s. Nevertheless, his siblings, who retained interest in the family business, but had never been particularly political, continued to have business with corporations with which Prescott Bush was associated. In 1942, certain assets involving a Dutch bank that was predominantly owned by the family, were seized as belonging to enemy aliens, although there were no further sanctions against the firm in question, or Prescott Bush in particular. In addition, years before the war one of the firms had sold some German bonds on behalf of an ocean liner company sailing under the German flag. That is about the extent of the respectable, provable, connection. There is a manuscript circulated on the Web by a couple of LaRouchites that claims to know more, and there was a controversial book by a fellow who claims to have tales out of the shadowy realm of the underworld of espionage, without clear substantiation, that claims somewhat more.....