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In 1964, Bush ventured into conventional politics by running against Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, making an issue of Yarborough's vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which almost all Southern politicians (including the Republican Sen. John Tower of Texas) opposed. He called Yarborough an "extremist" and a "left wing demagogue" while Yarborough said Bush was a "carpetbagger" trying to buy a Senate seat "just as they would buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange". Bush lost in the 1964 Democratic landslide.
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It was Bush's deeply-engrained tendency for toadying that dragged him into the miasma eventually known as Iran-Contra. One of Bush's chores was heading up the Presidential Task Force on Terrorism. At the same time, he attended at least five high-level meetings where the sale of arms to Iran was discussed. Even so, Bush stood up in front of news cameras and somehow managed to announce with a straight face:
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Northrop Grumman Newport News is building the George H W Bush aircraft carrier, CVN 77, the tenth and final ship of the Nimitz Class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The CVN 77 program was authorised in 1999 and Northrop Grumman Newport News was awarded the prime contract for construction of CVN 77 in January 2001.
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Lou Colasuonno, a former publicist for Ms. Bush, confirmed that he was the third party at the lunch and contradicted her denial. "I have not seen the book, I have only seen news reports," Mr. Colasuonno said. "According to what I have seen, what has been reported, I would not dispute that."
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Did you hear about George Bush Senior? He was hospitalized over the weekend for "dehydration," making him the latest celebrity casualty in a hot new craze started by innovative Hollywood trendsetters Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie!
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On 8SEP, 60 Minutes released some papers reportedly newly uncovered from one Jerry Killian, Bush's superior in the 1973 Air Guard. To date, all of the undoubtedly verified documents from Killian expressed praise and appreciation of the young Bush. These new documents purport to show a wholly different series of events, with Bush disregarding a direct order and Killian memorandizing some issues about concerns around Bush's attitude and possible pressure put on Killian from pulled strings.
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