Where was Junior for most of 1973? Just ask Poppy.

[Fridays Child]

By the end of 1972, Bush's father was mulling over a new job offer from Nixon – to be chairman of the Republican National Committee. With his parents back in Washington, Bush went to stay with them for the holidays and was involved in one of the most notorious incidents of his "nomadic" years. He took his 16-year-old brother Marvin out drinking, ran over a neighbor's garbage cans on the way home, and when his father confronted him, challenged him to go "mano a mano" outside.

There was no fight, and Bush was apparently able to mollify his father with the news that he had been accepted for the following fall at Harvard Business School. But with nothing to do until then, his father decided it was time to give this restless young man some broader exposure to real life.

Shortly after Christmas, Bush began working as a counselor with black youngsters in Houston's Third Ward in a program called PULL (Professionals United for Leadership) for Youth. The brainchild of the late John L. White, a former professional football player and civic leader, it was set up for kids up to 17 in a warehouse on McGowen Street and it offered sports, crafts, field trips and big-name mentors from the athletic, entertainment and business worlds.

Bush and his brother Marvin, who tagged along for the summer weeks, were the only whites in the place. "They stood out like a sore thumb," said Muriel Simmons Henderson, who was one of PULL's senior counselors. "John White was a good friend of their father. He told us that the father wanted George W. to see the other side of life. He asked John if he would put him in there."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm

[librechik]

1. Poppy lies too--and I think we have the crux of the matter here

esp since Marvin went to the community service venue too. There was police involvement in the garbage can incident, a bad breathalyzer test, (or whatever) and Shrub and Marvin wound up doing community service instead of landing in jail. Poppy made them do it to see the other side? Really? THAT Poppy???

Any other guesses? (the WP should be ashamed for just accepting Poppy's word on this, they seem to not use their factcheckers when the Bushies are involved.

[Fridays Child]

2. My theory--maybe tinfoil hattery, maybe correct--is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1115424#1115671

[BigBigBear]

3. I went to high school with Marvin

Played a round or two of golf with him.

Not exactly the saltiest fry in the bag....

[Fridays Child]

8. "Not exactly the saltiest fry in the bag." What a hoot!

Thanks for the laugh. I hadn't heard that one. :D

[Jacobin]

4. It's called "community service" Its what happens when you are rich

and the cops catch you with coke.

[King_Crimson]

5. Poppy said he can't even remember...

where he was the day JFK was murdered! He was the first person I ever heard say that!Of course he was in the employ of the CIA back then...most likely selective memory!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

6. He even defends Nixon!

The Bush loyalty is famous. It supersedes our governmental institutions and constitution.
Read 41's so-called "memoirs". You can plainly see that alot is left out, esp. during the Watergate years. What I want to know is WHAT he is hiding?

[buycitgo]

7. two others with similar tales

Nixon: couldn't remember

E Howard Hunt: told two different stories of where he was, BOTH under oath; one in deposition, the other on the stand during a lawsuit he BROUGHT for libel against a small newspaper who claimed he was in on the JFK assassination.

after the trial, jurors who were interviewed thought Hunt was definitely involved in the KILLING of JFK!

this was the only court case brought that had anything to do w/JFK assassination, besides the Garrison/Shaw fiasco, which was undermined to the max by the CIA and media, acting in concert.

how's that for tinfoil?

[DemoTex]

9. Cover story

Covering Bu$h Jr's felonious ass.