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“A lot of that having to do, of course, with the Yale connections and skull and bones. But to have this connection, this conversation about what the last three or four generations of Bushes have done, it's a very unique political dynasty. We…”
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Mentions (23)
▶ 31:12
So Averill Harriman and Prescott Bush are overlapping all throughout their career. Prescott's mostly a Wall Street banker, was a politician for a short period of time. We'll get to that. A couple other families. I'm jumping over to Harriman…
▶ 31:45
Go ahead. No, he became Truman's Secretary of Commerce for three years, and then he became governor of New York for one term. Very, very powerful guy. Another guy who comes into the play with these guys is Robert Lovett. We discussed him a …
▶ 33:17
with the kind of New Deal, which was kind of the socialist light version of the original law that he tried to pass. And Harriman was instrumental in this effort. So I just wanted to add that. Excellent. So Prescott Bush, you know, does this…
▶ 34:15
Two Harriemans, both Roland and Averill. Prescott Bush. Robert Levitt. Once again, skull and bones. And interestingly, a guy named Roe Delano of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yeah, he pops up in these founding fathers. And it's a very legi…
▶ 36:54
Yeah, you bring on the Dulles brothers. That definitely ties right into the next chapter. So we've got 1931. Prescott's a founding partner at Brown Brothers Harriman. And most of his clients had a lot of big customers that were basically Ge…
▶ 37:22
They would use a Dutch shell bank under this company called Union Bank Corporation, UBC. Well, Bush sat on the board of UBC from 1934 onwards. UBC would get seized or investigated in 1942 in the United States under the Trading with the Enem…
▶ 37:53
What I found interesting is Bush sat on a lot of other boards at the time. He sat on the board of Brown Brothers Harriman, the U.S. Guarantee Corporation, Prudential Insurance, CBS, your favorite Pan American Airways, which, of course, is a…
▶ 38:25
Halliburton. Yeah, yeah. So the Bush connection goes back three generations to Halliburton. Somehow Dick Cheney, the president of Halliburton, becomes the vice president of George W. Bush. Ought to be asking some questions about that one. D…
▶ 38:55
While Bush is having these German industrial clients, so are the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Alan Dulles. Once they sat at the table at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, they got back into investment banking for their old law firm, whi…
▶ 39:55
Absolutely crossed over dozens and dozens of times. So Prescott Bush was in tight with the Dulles brothers from day one. Another guy you got Prescott became pretty good friends with at the time was William Pauly. And you've done Pauly ad na…
▶ 42:52
Prescott will show up again here a couple of times. I want to jump forward to George H.W. Bush because that's where it gets into some of the real nitty gritty of this story. George Herbert Walker Bush is born in 1924. Spent a little bit of …
▶ 43:20
They were recruiting a lot from the Ivy League schools, particularly Yale. And there's a guy, Coach Waltz, who was a crew coach, apparently was a CIA recruiter at the time. And Bush definitely, through his athletic background, knew the guy.…
▶ 43:52
on orders from Alan Dulles to keep as a wedge against Prescott if he needed it. So a little bit of intrigue there. Well, and Dulles was known to do that to control people. Sure, makes a ton of sense. So George H.W. Bush gets out of college,…
▶ 44:23
big interest in dresser, had named the CEO, one of his classmates, at Yale in Skull and Bones by the name of Neil Mallon. All class of 1918. Same year as Lovett. All Bonesmen that year. Well, Neil Mallon's the CEO that Prescott's working fo…
▶ 44:52
Neil Mallon is the namesake for one of H.W.'s sons, Neil Bush. That's who he's named after. Mallon's also the guy to push H.W. to go to Texas. George H.W. Bush would start a company called Zapata Energy. We'll get into Zapata here in a seco…
▶ 45:54
So he's the lone survivor. So did it all happen or didn't it? Because it becomes very important in his whole overall, and again, he was a crafted intelligence operative early on. He is one of these people that is being shaped and molded and…
▶ 46:51
i found very interesting because when i was looking into the coups that happened in cuba i ran across zapata sabata is a bay in cuba that according to several different articles that i read around within 12 months of the formation of zapata…
▶ 48:20
This is for both oil and the defense industry. And the cowboys want to have an influence on foreign affairs, just like their northern brethren. And there was a bit of a cowboy and Yankee war going on to some degree. Obviously, sending Bush,…
▶ 53:50
Richard Russell, no relation to the, I don't think he's related to the founder of Skull and Bones Russell. I could not find a link there. But it's interesting about him. He also sat on the Warren Commission with some other interesting peopl…
▶ 57:29
They did to some degree, but that's really what happened post-World War II. These were active conversations they had before the war was over when they're setting up the Bretton Woods banking system. This was all predetermined before Germany…
▶ 59:06
From day one, they've beaten JFK. You know, JFK's beaten them in an election. And he brings on Bobby, who's big anti-mafia attorney general. So there's tension from day one. Let's see. Oh, before Zapata was sold, George H.W. Bush. This is i…
▶ 59:34
It's important to bring this up because this is really the only family dynasty that had complete business connections with another part of the world going back generations, and it really influenced their foreign policy, as we saw. In the 19…
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George H.W. Bush starts getting appointed to some really interesting positions. He's Poppy Bush, or as H.W. is called. Becomes a Texas congressman from 67 to 71. Becomes a United Nations ambassador from 71 to 73. That's under Nixon. He beca…