Bush Sr.'s “Inner Circle...Riding To The Rescue Of The Son” Once Again...

Times Of London Tom Baldwin November 11, 2006 08:46 PM

But Bush Sr has always been there when times are bad. And the father's inner circle from his White House years now appears to be riding to the rescue of the son. The appointment this week of Robert Gates as Defence Secretary, together with the looming report from James Baker's commission, are together supposed to be signalling a new direction for the Iraq war.

It was ever thus. When the attempts of Bush Jr to follow his father into the oil business were floundering, it was the friends of Bush Sr who bailed him out. In 1986 Harken Oil & Gas bought out Bush Jr's holding in Spectrum oil in an over-the-odds deal, an apparent favour to the son of the Vice-President's son. "His name was George Bush," said Phil Kendrick, Harken's founder, and "that was worth the money they paid him."

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