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conservative, may not be entirely fitted. It is likely that left to his own
devices he would simply offer the country the one word and let it go at
that.
"He is ... convinced that this would be enough to do the trick ... if only
the game were played that way.
"Since it is not, he can be expected to preside with dignity, fairness and
dispatch over the sessions that will prepare the party credo for the 1956
campaign.
"If by chance there should be any conflicts within the committee ... the
Senator's past can offer a clue to his conduct.
"A former Yale Glee Club and second bass in the All-Time Whiffenpoofs
Quartet, he is ... [called] 'the hottest close-harmony man at Yale in a
span of twenty-five years.'
"Close harmony being a Republican specialty under President Eisenhower, the
hottest close-harmony man at Yale in twenty-five years would seem to be an
ideal choice for the convention job he holds at San Francisco....
"[In addition to his business background, he] also played golf, competing
in a number of tournaments. For eight years he was a member of the
executive committee of the United States Golf Association....
"As a Senator, Connecticut's senior spokeman in the upper house has
followed conservative policies consistent with his business background.
He resigned all his corporate directorships, took a leave from Brown
Brothers, Harriman, and proceeded to go down the line for the Eisenhower
program....
"Around the Senate, he is known as a man who does his committee work
faithfully, defends the Administration stoutly, and f its well into the
clublike atmosphere of Capitol Hill...." / Note #1 / Note #5
"To be continued."
Notes
1. Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men": Six Friends and the
World They Made -- Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy" (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), p. 377.
2. Reed was better known in high society as a minor diplomat, the founder
of the Triton Press and the president of the American Shakespeare Theater.
3. "Palm Beach Post," January 13, 1991.
4. For Lovett's residency there see Isaacson and Thomas, "op. cit.," p.
417. Some Jupiter Island residencies were verified by their inclusion in
the 1947 membership list of the Hobe Sound Yacht Club, in the Harriman
papers, Library of Congress; others were established from interviews with
long-time Jupiter Islanders.
5. Arthur Burr Darling, "The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of
Government, to 1950", (College Station: Pennsylvania State University,
1990), p. 59.
6. The "Chicago Tribune", Feb 9, 1945, for example, warned of "Creation of
an all-powerful intelligence service to spy on the postwar world and to pry
into the lives of citizens at home. "Cf. Anthony Cave Brown, "Wild Bill
Donovan: The Last Hero", (New York: Times Books, 1982), p. 625, on warnings
to FDR about the British control of U.S. intelligence.
7. Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau, "Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob"
(New York: Paddington Press, 1979) pp. 227-28.
8. See John Ranelagh, "The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA", (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), pp. 131-32.
9. Clark Clifford, "Counsel to the President" (New York: Random House, 1991).
10. Sidney Hyman, "The Life of William Benton" (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 438-41.
11. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, "World Population Crisis: The United States
Response" (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973), "Forward" by George H.W.
Bush, p. vii.
12. Interview with Prescott Bush in the Oral History Research Project
conducted by Columbia University in 1966, Eisenhower Administration Part
II; pp. 62-4.
13. Herbert S. Parmet, "Eisenhower and the American Crusades" (New York:
The Macmillan Company, 1972), p. 14.
14. "New York Times", Sept. 6, 1952, Nov. 5, 1952, Nov. 7, 1956.
15. "New York Times", Aug. 21, 1956.
Continuing CHAPTER 4: "THE CENTER OF POWER IS IN WASHINGTON"
Prescott Bush was a most elusive, secretive senator. By diligent research,
his views on some issues may be traced: He was opposed to the development
of public power projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority; he opposed
the constitutional amendment introduced by Ohio Senator John W. Bricker,
which would have required congressional approval of international
agreements by the executive branch.
But Prescott Bush was essentially a covert operative in Washington.
In June 1954, Bush received a letter from Connecticut resident H. Smith
Richardson, owner of Vick Chemical Company (cough drops, Vapo-Rub). It
read, in part, "... At some time before Fall, Senator, I want to get your
advice and counsel on a [new] subject -- namely what should be done with
the income from a foundation which my brother and I set up, and which will
begin its operation in 1956...." / Note #1 / Note #6
This letter presages the establishment of the "H. Smith Richardson
Foundation", a Bush family-dictated private slush fund which was to be
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