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To: tsigprofit who wrote (1643)	5/28/2003 1:25:01 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

GEORGE BUSH SR. Soon after Dubyahs father, George Bush Sr., gave a speech to The Knights of Columbus, during the campaign of 1992, he was asked by a reporter from CNN about a rumor that he had had an affair with his appointments aide, Jennifer Fitzgerald, seven years earlier, when he was Vice President. Then President Bush was visibly upset and denied the rumor. He claimed to be "outraged" and "disappointed" by the "sleazy question." But he also said he expected just such an inquiry into the rumor "...in this kind of screwy climate that we're in." Later, Bush sidetracked an attempt by Stone Phillips of NBC when Stone tried to bring up the subject of marital infidelity: Bush said, "After years in public service and a very happy marriage, I am hit by a wave of questions like yours sitting here today. And I should think you'd be a little ashamed of yourself because...it just drags down the political process." The New York Post based its story on a book, "The Powerhouse", which revealed what had long been considered an open secret in Washington: Bush's alleged sexual relationship with his appointments aide, Jennifer Fitzgerald. Susan B. Trento, author of The Powerhouse and a former staff member for a Republican congressman, wrote that conservatives in the late '80s believed that, "if Bush were going to become a viable Presidential candidate in 1988, certain problems had to be addressed. "First, Bush's longtime companion and powerful staff member, Jennifer Fitzgerald, had to be removed from the White House and Bush's sexual indiscretions had to be covered up, if he ever hoped to be President." Fitzgerald, had become the deputy chief of protocol for the State Department, during the 1992 campaign. Author Trento said that Louis Fields, a former ambassador to disarmament talks in Geneva, Switzerland, had told her in a 1984 interview that "he had made arrangements for George Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald to use a guest house in Geneva while they visited." Trento quotes Fields as saying, "It became clear to me that the Vice President and Ms. Fitzgerald were romantically involved and this was not a business visit." George's three son's, Neil, George Jr. and Jeb, seems to have inherited their father's gift for creative denial.