It cannot be plainer than the nose on your face: George Sr Calls Jr A
Drunken Liability

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...296241,00.html

George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a 'drunken liability'

The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National
Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a
political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his
father's former confidants revealed yesterday.
Linda Allison told the political website Salon.com that throughout the
time Mr Bush was in Alabama she never saw him in uniform and had no idea
he was supposed to be in the National Guard.

"Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and
embarrassing the family and they just really wanted to get him out of
Houston." Asked if she had ever seen him in uniform Mrs Allison said:
"Good Lord, no. I had no idea the National Guard was involved in his
life."

Mrs Allison is the wife of the late Jimmy Allison, a former political
consultant and newspaper owner from Midland, Texas and one time
confidant of the Bush family. Motivated by pride in her husband and
pique at the manner in which the Bush family discarded him once they
believed he was no longer useful, the interview is the first she has
ever given.

On Sunday the former lieutenant governor of Texas Ben Barnes will admit
on the CBS primetime news programme 60 Minutes that he pulled strings to
enrol Mr Bush in a unit of the Texas National Guard known as the
Champagne Unit, because it had so many sons of prominent Texas
politicians and businessmen.

Mrs Allison said that in 1972 her husband received a call from Mr Bush's
father asking whether he could find a place for his son on a Senate
campaign he was managing in Alabama. Mr Bush Sr was the US ambassador to
the UN at the time and his son's drunken and occasionally loutish
behaviour was becoming an embarrassment.

Mr Allison agreed to take the errant Bush son as his deputy in a Senate
campaign to elect the Alabama Republican Winton "Red" Blount. Once he
had an official reason to be in Alabama, Mr Bush Jr transferred from the
Texas National Guard to its Alabama counterpart, although beyond one
dental examination there is no proof that he showed up for any service
even though it was only a part-time posting. Mr Bush was subsequently
given an honourable discharge.

Most involved in the Senate campaign recall Mr Bush Jr turning up late,
boasting about how much alcohol he had drunk the night before and then
going home early. "After about a month I asked Jimmy what was Georgie's
job, because I could never figure it out," recalled Mrs Allison. "I
never saw him do anything."

I'm still tying to get he goddmaned microchip out of my back that George
Bush and the secret service stuck there in 1982.

cOlOnEl pOlYpS wrote:
>
> It cannot be plainer than the nose on your face: George Sr Calls Jr A
> Drunken Liability
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...296241,00.html
>
> George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a 'drunken liability'
>
> The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National
> Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a
> political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his
> father's former confidants revealed yesterday.
> Linda Allison told the political website Salon.com that throughout the
> time Mr Bush was in Alabama she never saw him in uniform and had no idea
> he was supposed to be in the National Guard.
> "Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and
> embarrassing the family and they just really wanted to get him out of
> Houston." Asked if she had ever seen him in uniform Mrs Allison said:
> "Good Lord, no. I had no idea the National Guard was involved in his
> life."
>
> Mrs Allison is the wife of the late Jimmy Allison, a former political
> consultant and newspaper owner from Midland, Texas and one time
> confidant of the Bush family. Motivated by pride in her husband and
> pique at the manner in which the Bush family discarded him once they
> believed he was no longer useful, the interview is the first she has
> ever given.


Either her husband did not tell her very much if she didn't know Bush
Jr. was in the National Guard or Mr. Allison was not as close to Bush
Sr. as she would like us to believe.
yD

>
> On Sunday the former lieutenant governor of Texas Ben Barnes will admit
> on the CBS primetime news programme 60 Minutes that he pulled strings to
> enrol Mr Bush in a unit of the Texas National Guard known as the
> Champagne Unit, because it had so many sons of prominent Texas
> politicians and businessmen.
>
> Mrs Allison said that in 1972 her husband received a call from Mr Bush's
> father asking whether he could find a place for his son on a Senate
> campaign he was managing in Alabama. Mr Bush Sr was the US ambassador to
> the UN at the time and his son's drunken and occasionally loutish
> behaviour was becoming an embarrassment.
>
> Mr Allison agreed to take the errant Bush son as his deputy in a Senate
> campaign to elect the Alabama Republican Winton "Red" Blount. Once he
> had an official reason to be in Alabama, Mr Bush Jr transferred from the
> Texas National Guard to its Alabama counterpart, although beyond one
> dental examination there is no proof that he showed up for any service
> even though it was only a part-time posting. Mr Bush was subsequently
> given an honourable discharge.
>
> Most involved in the Senate campaign recall Mr Bush Jr turning up late,
> boasting about how much alcohol he had drunk the night before and then
> going home early. "After about a month I asked Jimmy what was Georgie's
> job, because I could never figure it out," recalled Mrs Allison. "I
> never saw him do anything."
>
> I'm still tying to get he goddmaned microchip out of my back that George
> Bush and the secret service stuck there in 1982.