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George Bush: Father
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"George Bush worked to go to the Texas National Guard by the connection from his father … Then he went to Alabama. All he had in Alabama was one tooth filled, then they never found him again. Dick Cheney had five deferments. One, two, three, four, five deferments … Who are they to question an individual who won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star?"
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Bush abandoned these demagogic tactics after the election, perhaps because he privately found them embarrassing, but certainly because he preferred to govern by consensus. Indeed, the first years of his administration called to mind not Nixon or Reagan but Ford (whom Bush had served in two posts) and Eisenhower (who was a friend of his father's). Key appointments went to Washington and Wall Street insiders. Bush enjoyed high approval ratings, though the long-range consequences of Reagan era fiscal policies and precipitous deregulation posed potential threats to the economy. Like his fellow moderate Republicans, Eisenhower and Ford, Bush pursued both détente with the Soviet Union and a policy of old-fashioned intervention in the third world, as the invasion of Panama and declaration of an international "drug war" illustrated. In 1990-1991, while proclaiming the advent of a "new world order," Bush organized an international coalition and sent 540,000 American troops to liberate Kuwait after an Iraqi invasion.
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Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Upon completing college, he became eligible for the military draft. To meet his service obligation, Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. He told the admitting officer that he wanted to become a pilot like his father, who was a highly decorated Navy flier in World War II (1939-1945). He did his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and entered a pilot-training program at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. He received favorable reports from his superiors, attained the rank of second lieutenant, and was certified to fly the F-102 jet fighter during training missions in the South and along the Gulf Coast.
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Bush was rejected by the University of Texas Law School, but gained admittance to Harvard's Business School. After graduation, he retraced his father's footsteps and returned to Midland, Texas in 1975 to try his luck in the oil business. Bush started by searching deeds for other oilmen who wanted mineral rights. His first attempt at exploration, Arbusto Energy, failed to strike oil.
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After graduating from Yale, Bush went into the Texas oil exploration business. He was given a position with Dresser Industries, a subsidiary of Brown Brothers Harriman, where his father served on the board of directors for 22 years. His son, Neil Mallon Bush, is named after his employer at Dresser, Henry Neil Mallon, who was a close family friend dating back to Skull & Bones at Yale in 1918 along with Prescott. Zapata Corporation was created by Bush and the Liedtke brothers in 1953 as Zapata Oil.
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Neil Mallon Bush was born in Midland on January 22, 1955, while the family was living at the W. Ohio Home. He has been active in his father’s political life. He is the parent of three children and has founded a company called Ignite!, a company that develops products to help teach standards-based educational material.
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