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Prescott Bush

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yourbaldheadedgranny Report This Comment
Date: August 07, 2005 09:30AM

Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895, Columbus, Ohio – October 8, 1972, New York City) was a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. His son, George H. W. Bush, and grandson George W. Bush would both later become U.S. presidents. His father was Samuel Prescott Bush and his mother was Flora Sheldon.

Early career

Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio to Flora Sheldon and Samuel P. Bush, a steel company president and later a U.S. government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors during World War I.

After attending the Douglas School in Columbus and St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island from 1908 to 1913, Bush entered Yale University. There, he played varsity golf, football, and baseball, and was president of the Yale Glee Club. (He was the best close-harmony man in the class of 1917). His devotion to singing at Yale would remain strong his entire life, evidenced in part by his founding of the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni group, in 1937. On May 18, 1916 he was "tapped" to join the Skull and Bones society at Yale. Other new "Bonesmen" that year were E. Roland Harriman, H. S. Fenimore Cooper (grandson of James Fenimore Cooper), Knight Wooley (son of Ulysses Grant Wooley), Ellery James, and Henry Neil Mallon. A Skull and Bones legend tells of Bush digging up the skull of Geronimo (1918) and "donating" it to the society.

After graduation, he served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917-1919) during World War I. He received training in intelligence at Verdun and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers. Alternating between intelligence and artillery, Bush came under fire in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He wrote home about receiving medals for heroic exploits that were published in the Columbus newspapers only to be retracted a few weeks later when it was revealed that he, in fact, had not received such medals.

After his discharge in 1919, Bush went to work for the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

He married Dorothy Walker, George Herbert Walker's daughter, on August 6, 1921, and together they had five children, including George H. W. Bush (named after George Herbert Walker), Prescott Bush, Jr., Jonathan Bush, William Bush, and Nancy Bush. Among those attending the Kennebunkport, Maine wedding ceremony were Isabel Stillman Rockefeller (daughter of Percy Rockefeller), Hope Lincoln, Mary Keck, Elizabeth Trotter, Martha Pittman, Ruth Lionberger, Nancy Walker, George Herbert Walker, Knight Wooley, Frank Shephard, John Shepley, Richard Bentley, Henry Isham, William Potter Wear, and Henry Fenimore Cooper.

The Bushes moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1923, where Bush worked for the Hupp Products Company, where his business efforts generally failed. He left in November 1923 to become president of sales for Stedman Products of South Braintree, Massachusetts. Seven months later, on June 12, 1924, future President George H. W. Bush was born. In 1925, he joined the United States Rubber Company (based in New York City) as manager of the foreign division, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Corporate success

His father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, and Walker's partner, Averell Harriman, brought him on as an officer in their investment banking firm, W. A. Harriman and Company in 1926. When it merged with Brown Brothers Harriman in 1931, he became a partner in the new firm of Brown Brothers Harriman. Bush called it "my good fortune" to work with close friends, including Yale classmates (and members of the Skull and Bones) E. Roland Harriman, Knight Woolley, and Ellery James, as well as Robert A. Lovett and Thomas McCance.

As a managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, he sat on several corporate boards, including the following:

* Dresser Industries. An oil drilling equipment supply company. in 1928 W.A. Harriman and Company paid $4,000,000 for Dresser's corporate stock, and sold securities against the company. In 1929 Bush refinanced Dresser "so that we retained a substantial measure of control." In 1930, E. Roland Harriman and Bush became members of the board (Bush served until 1952), and installed their Yale classmate Henry Neil Mallon as chairman. Mallon and Bush were lifelong friends. (In 1948, Mallon hired George H.W. Bush to work at Dresser and George H.W. Bush named one of his sons, Neil Mallon Bush, after Mallon). In September 1998, Dresser merged with Halliburton and is now known as Halliburton Company.

* Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). Bush was introduced to William Paley, founder of CBS, by Averell Harriman, who in 1929 had represented CBS in a merger with Paramount Studios. In 1932, he took an active role in arranging the financing for Paley to purchase the company. Bush joined the board of directors and retained the position for several years.

* Union Banking Corporation. Established in August 1924 with George Herbert Walker as president, Prescott Bush served on the board of directors from 1934 to 1943 with E. Roland Harriman, H. J. Kouwenhoven, Johann G. Groeninger, Harold D. Pennington, Cornelis Lievense, Ray Morris, and E. S. James.

* Harriman Fifteen Corporation. Located at 1 Wall Street in New York. Bush and Averell Harriman were sole directors of the company, with George Herbert Walker serving as company president beginning in 1930. Half of the company's holdings were in the Silesian Holding Company, (see Silesian-American Corporation), according to a 1931 report.

* Hydrocarbon Research Company. Now known as Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc. The company was formed in 1943 by Percival Cleveland Keith, Jr., (December 24, 1900 - July 9, 1976), to develop and commercialize chemical and energy technologies. In August 2001, the Company was acquired by Headwaters Incorporated.

* Vanadium Corporation of America. This company was headed by Charles M. Schwab and Jacob Leonard Replogle. In August 1942, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), also known as the Manhattan Project, to develop atomic weapons and to procure the raw materials, principally uranium, necessary for their production. The MED contracted the Vanadium Corporation of America and the U.S. Vanadium Corporation (owned by Union Carbide) to procure and process uranium bearing ore.

* United States Guaranty Trust. Bush was on the board of directors with Eugene W. Stetson (president) and Samuel R. Bertron (vice president).

* The Simmons Company. This company would later be a major financial contributor to the campaigns of both Bush presidencies.

* The Continental Bank & Trust Company of New York

* Commercial Pacific Cable Company

* Hamburg-America Line

* Prudential Insurance

* Pan American Airlines. Bush's son, Prescott Bush, Jr., joined the company in 1943, before his marriage to Elizabeth (Kauffman) Bush.

* Massachusetts Investors Second Fund

* Rockbestos Products Corporation. Located in New Haven, Connecticut. Received government supply contracts in the late 1930s to supply electrical cable to the Navy.

* Pennsylvania Water and Power Company

He was a member of the Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association (USGA) from 1928-1935, serving successively as Secretary, Vice President and President. The USGA sponsors the Walker Cup Match, which is named after George Herbert Walker, who was the organization's president in 1920, when it originated.

In the 1940s, he was national campaign chairman of the United Service Organizations and National War Fund.

Political career

From 1944 to 1956, Bush was a member of the Yale Corporation, the principal governing body of Yale University. From 1947 to 1950 he served as Connecticut Republican finance chairman, and was the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1950, losing to Senator William Benton by only 1,000 votes. The following year, Bush was Connecticut chairman of the United Negro College Fund, and was one of the UNCF's earliest supporters.

In 1952 he was elected to the U.S. Senate (Republican, Connecticut), defeating Abraham Ribicoff for the vacancy caused by the death of James O'Brien McMahon. He served until January 1963, and was a staunch supporter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In a speech on Nathan Hale given June 6, 1955, in New London, Connecticut, Bush shared his reflections on the Cold War. "We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual," he said. "It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle."

He maintained homes in Long Island, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; a 10,000 acre (40 km²) plantation in South Carolina; and an island retreat in Florida.

Richard Nixon considered Prescott Bush to be his political mentor and consulted him before his famous Checkers speech.
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Nazi Tie Allegations

Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler. Dealing with Nazi Germany wasn't illegal when Hitler declared war on the US, but, six days after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City.

Prescott Bush's business interests seized under the act in October and November 1942 included:

* Union Banking Corporation (UBC) (for Thyssen and Brown Brothers Harriman)
* Holland-American Trading Corporation (with Harriman)
* the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation (with Harriman)
* Silesian-American Corporation (with Walker)

Bush's interest in UBC consisted of one share. For it, he was reimbursed $1,500,000. These assets were later used to launch Bush family investments in the Texas energy industry.

Toby Rogers has claimed that Bush's connections to the Silesian-American Corporation makes him complicit with the corporation's mining operations in Poland which used slave labor out of Oswiecim, where the Auschwitz concentration camp was later constructed. Allegations that Prescott Bush profited from slave labor or the Auschwitz concentration camp remain unsubstantiated.

There are unsubstantiated rumors concerning Prescott Bush's associations with the Nazi party. The Anti-Defamation League has stated, "Rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, have circulated widely through the Internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated." [1] The rumours began with extreme right-wing attacks on George H.W. Bush during his 1980 presidential run and were renewed during his 1988 run.

The New York Herald-Tribune referred to the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, as "Hitler's Angel" and mentioned Bush only as an employee of the investment banking firm Thyssen used in the USA. The label was ironic, since by the time the Tribune article appeared, Hitler had turned on Thyssen and imprisoned him. Shortly after George W. Bush's election as US president, Canadian bloggers, apparently affiliated with Lyndon LaRouche, began a determined effort to circulate reports that Prescott Bush himself had been known as "Hitler's Angel".

It could be argued that Prescott Bush's motivations with regard to the Nazis were strictly selfishly financial and not philosophical in nature. There is, however, strong evidence that Prescott Bush was a strong eugenicist. Bush was an acquaintance of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and herself an avowed eugenicist. Margaret Sanger is on record favoring infanticide, compulsory sterilization, and (arguably) genocide [2]. In fact, Prescott served as Treasurer for Planned Parenthood's first national fund raising campaign in 1947 [3]

It should also be noted that the alliance between Hitler and the Harriman-Bush milieu went beyond mere business interests. Another area where they worked together extensively was race science--i.e. eugenics. For example, in 1932, W.A. Harriman arranged the Third International Eugenics Conference in New York, where Hitler's leading race scientist, Dr. Ernst Rudin, was unanimously elected president of the International Federation of Eugenics Societies. After studying the eugenics laws of California and Virginia, which had resulted in thousands of forced sterilizations in the United States, Dr. Rudin wrote the Nazi "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in Posterity," which led to thousands of forced sterilizations and millions of exterminations in Nazi Germany.

[en.wikipedia.org]
Stimpy Report This Comment
Date: August 07, 2005 09:37AM

But I found this:

Recently (2003) declassified documents from the National Archives proving Prescott Bush's extensive ties with the Nazis before, during and after WWII


The Large-scale Money Laundering for the Nazis by President Bush's Grandfather and Maternal Great-Grandfather


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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 07, 2005 09:28PM

Wow! Thank you so much for the "who gives a fuck" update.
Beast Report This Comment
Date: August 07, 2005 10:59PM

Anonymous@19472

Actually a lot of people here in DC care that the Bush family has been linked to nutcase world leaders for 70 years.
purdee Report This Comment
Date: August 08, 2005 12:49AM

I wonder if he was as publically stupid as Dubya? We know both are evil and determined to reap profit at the death and suffering of others, but did Prescott do things like lite his farts in public or say things like "puttin food on your family"?
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 08, 2005 04:05AM

A fine figure of a man..
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 08, 2005 05:59AM

Yes fine figure of a Nazi sympathizer. I heard he gave Hitler a BJ that Hitler said was better than a BJ from Eva Braun.
Ninepointfiver Report This Comment
Date: August 08, 2005 06:07AM

How Boring you Dick!!!!!!!!
yourbaldheadedgranny Report This Comment
Date: August 08, 2005 08:14AM

Ninepointfiver@79212 I did post it for you fuckin entertainment you bicylce seat sniffer. An ass like you should find your entertainment at Jeff Gannon's gay Marine escort service site. I heard you can meet Robert Novak there I think you would like Novak.
duane Report This Comment
Date: August 09, 2005 01:02AM

All you anti-american fuckers can suck a dick!
yourbaldheadedgranny Report This Comment
Date: August 09, 2005 01:51AM

Duane actually I am a very pro-democratic conservative American! I am just anti-fascist! And MY COUNTRY you dickwad has been taken over by fascists!

So Duane take you little shriveled dick and shove it up your cum covered asshole!
Sweet_FA Report This Comment
Date: August 09, 2005 08:27AM

Well, there you have it........the axis of evil goes back further than I thought. I'm not a yank or a redneck, so that's why I don't want to know anything about how the "great white hope" is going to save us from "all" the terroists out there. Money is the root of all evil.....so the bible says, and if that's true, then the US government must be the axis of evil, cause all they seem to do every day, is try to control the world's economy and other governments.
Beast Report This Comment
Date: August 11, 2005 09:29PM

duane the Tard

So no american has ever been a crook or committed treason for profits ?

Are you an outpatient from St Elizabeth's mental hospital ?
duane Report This Comment
Date: August 22, 2005 10:51AM

No actually on the eastern shore of Maryland they send them to Cambridge.Not from over the bridge.Beast Im sure since you live in DC that you work for the DNC or one of the other loser partys.