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wanted revenge. A vote fraud to deprive LaRouche of virtually all the votes
cast in the Democratic primary, and transfer as many of them as possible to
the Bush column, would be the first installment. Later, Gary Howard and Ron
Tucker, two agents provocateur from Midland, Texas, were dispatched to try
to infiltrate pro-LaRouche political circles. From 1986 on, Bush would
emerge as a principal sponsor of a judicial vendetta by the Department of
Justice that would see LaRouche and several of his supporters twice
indicted, and finally convicted, on a series of trumped-up charges. One
week after George Bush's inauguration as President, his most capable and
determined opponent, Lyndon LaRouche, would be thrown into federal prison,
where he remains to this day.
But in the New Hampshire of 1979-80, LaRouche's attacks on Bush brought
into precise focus many aspects of Bush's personality that voters found
profoundly distasteful. LaRouche's attack sent out a shock wave, which, as
it advanced, detonated one turbulent assault on Bush after the other.
One who was caught up in the turbulence was William Loeb, the opinionated
curmudgeon of Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts who was the publisher of the
Manchester "Union Leader", the most important newspaper in the state. Loeb
had supported Reagan in 1976 and was for him again in 1980. Loeb might have
dispersed his fire against all of Reagan's Republican rivals, including
Howard Baker, Robert Dole, Phil Crane, John Anderson, John Connally and
Bush. It was the LaRouche campaign which demonstrated to Loeb long before
the Iowa caucuses that Bush was the main rival to Reagan, and therefore the
principal target. As a result, Loeb would launch a barrage of slashing
attacks on Bush.
Loeb had assailed Ford as "Gerry the Jerk" in 1976; his attacks on Sen.
Edmund Muskie reduced the latter to tears during the 1972 primary. Loeb
began to play up the theme of Bush as a liberal, as a candidate controlled
by the "internationalist" (or Kissinger) wing of the GOP and the Wall
Street bankers, always soft on communism and always ready to undermine
liberty through Big Government here at home. A February editorial by Loeb
reacted to Bush's Iowa success with these warnings of vote fraud: "The Bush
operation in Iowa had all the smell of a CIA covert operation.... Strange
aspects of the Iowa operation [included] a long, slow count and then the
computers broke down at a very convenient point, with Bush having a six per
cent bulge over Reagan.... Will the elite nominate their man, or will we
nominate Reagan?" / Note #1 / Note #1
For Loeb, the most damning evidence was Bush's membership in the Trilateral
Commission, the creature of David Rockefeller and the international
bankers. Carter and his administration had been packed with Trilateral
members; there were indications that the Establishment choice of Carter to
be the next U.S. President had been made at a meeting of the Trilateral
Commission in Kyodo, Japan, where Carter had been introduced by Gianni
Agnelli of Italy's FIAT motor company.
Loeb simplified all that: "George Bush is a Liberal" was the title of his
editorial published the day before the primary. Loeb flayed Bush as a
"spoiled little rich kid who has been wet-nursed to succeed and now,
packaged by David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, thinks he is
entitled to the White House as his latest toy."
Shortly before the election Loeb ran a cartoon entitled "Silk Stocking
Republicans," which showed Bush at a cocktail party with a cigarette and
glass in hand. Bush and the other participants, all male, were wearing
women's pantyhose.
Paid political ads began to appear in the "Union Leader" sponsored by
groups from all over the country, some helped along by John Sears of the
Reagan campaign. One showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed with a Mr. Peanut
logo: "The same people who gave you Jimmy Carter want now to give you
George Bush," read the headline. The text described a "coalition of
liberals, multinational corporate executives, big-city bankers, and hungry
power brokers" led by David Rockefeller, whose "purpose is to control the
American government, regardless of which political party -- Democrat or
Republican -- wins the presidency this coming November! ... The Trojan
horse for this scheme," the ad went on, "is Connecticut-Yankee-turned-Texas
oilman George Bush -- the out-of-nowhere Republican who openly admits he is
using the same 'game-plan' developed for Jimmy Carter in the 1976
presidential nomination campaign." The ad went on to mention the Council on
Foreign Relations and the "Rockefeller money" that was the lifeblood of
Bush's effort.
While campaigning, Bush was asked once again about the money he received
from Nixon's 1970 Townhouse slush fund. Bush's stock reply was that his
friend Leon Jaworski had cleared him: "The answer came back, clean, clean,
clean," said Bush.
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