On 7/27/2015 1:14 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the Bushes truly came to us dripping from head
to foot with blood and dirt. The Bushes claim an ancestry that goes back
to British royalty. But the rotten modern house of Bush began with
George W. Bush's maternal great-grandfather, George H. Walker.

Walker was president of Wall Street-based W.A. Harriman & Co. He made
his fortune as a war profiteer, working alongside the House of Morgan in
purchasing billions in armaments for Britain and France during the First
World War. In a foreshadowing of things to come, Walker got a taste for
the emerging importance of oil as the engine of profits and war when he
oversaw the rebuilding of the Baku oil fields after the war in the 1920s.

At his peak, Walker was the director of 17 corporations and maintained
homes around the country--including a 10,000-acre hunting preserve in
South Carolina, where according to his granddaughter, "We were waited on
by the most wonderful Black servants."