AN AMERICAN DYNASTY angelfire/hi3/pearly/htmls2/bush-dynasty.html Prescott S. Bush hardly seemed destined to lead a political dynasty when he arrived in Massachusetts in the 1920s. Nothing about his circumstances foreshadowed that his descendants would include two Republican presidents. Here was the young Bush, struggling to run a Braintree rubber factory while receiving little financial help from his wealthy father, a Democrat. But another figure loomed in Bushs life : his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, a powerful and much-feared financier who also happened to be a die-hard Republican. With Walkers intervention, Bush soon left the unglamorous factory to become one of the most successful bankers on Wall Street and, eventually, a Republican senator from Connecticut. In time, the sons of these men would tie the Bush-Walker bonds even tighter. George H.W. Bush, Prescott Bushs son and eventually the 41st president, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment money at a crucial moment, from Walkers son. Without the Walker money, without the extraordinary Walker devotion, there might well never have been two Presidents Bush.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:59:20 +0000
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