On 7/27/2015 1:08 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
George H.W. Bush--Prescott's son, and Dubya's father--was born with a
siliver foot in his mouth. A Yale University alumnus like his father and
grandfather, he gravitated to the oil industry through family
connections and made a fortune.

Viewed as "intellectually light," George Bush Sr. couldn't win elected
office before he became Ronald Reagan's vice president--beyond a seat in
Congress as representative of an oil-rich Texas district with the
country's highest number of Rolls Royces per person. Instead, "Poppy"
held just about every non-elected post that the Republican Party could
arrange for him. He was chief of the Republican National Committee, head
of the CIA, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was
famous for writing "thank you notes" to political donors during sessions
and debates.