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was familiar with the "Hinckley-Bush connection." Bush's press secretary,
Peter Teeley, said when asked to comment: "I don't know a damn thing about
it. I was talking to someone earlier tonight, and I couldn't even remember
his [Hinckley's] name. All I know is what you're telling me."
On April 1, 1981, the "Rocky Mountain News" of Denver carried Neil Bush's
confirmation that if the assassination attempt had not happened on March
30, Scott Hinckley would have been present at a dinner party at Neil Bush's
home the night of March 31. According to Neil, Scott Hinckley had come to
the home of Neil and Sharon Bush on January 23, 1981 to be present along
with about 30 other guests at a surprise birthday party for Neil, who had
turned 26 one day earlier. Scott Hinckley had come "through a close friend
who brought him," according to this version, and this same close female
friend was scheduled to come to dinner along with Scott Hinckley on that
last night of March, 1981.
"My wife set up a surprise party for me, and it truly was a surprise, and
it was an honor for me at that time to meet Scott Hinckley," said Neil Bush
to reporters. "He is a good and decent man. I have no regrets whatsoever in
saying Scott Hinckley can be considered a friend of mine. To have had one
meeting doesn't make the best of friends, but I have no regrets in saying I
do know him."
Neil Bush told the reporters that he had never met John W. Hinckley, Jr.,
the gunman, nor his father, John W. Hinckley, Sr., president and chairman
of the board of Vanderbilt Energy Corporation of Denver. But Neil Bush also
added that he would be interested in meeting the elder Hinckley: "I would
like [to meet him]. I'm trying to learn the oil business, and he's in the
oil business. I probably could learn something from Mr. Hinckley."
Neil Bush then announced that he wanted to "set straight" certain
inaccuracies that had appeared the previous day in the "Houston Post" about
the relations between the Bush and Hinckley families. The first was his own
wife Sharon's reference to the large contributions from the Hinckleys to
the Bush campaign. Neil asserted that the 1980 Bush campaign records showed
no money whatever coming in from any of the Hinckleys. All that could be
found, he argued, was a contribution to that "great Republican," John
Connally.
The other issue the "Houston Post" had raised regarded the 1978 period,
when George W. Bush of Midland, Texas, Neil's oldest brother, had run for
Congress in Texas's 19th Congressional District. At that time, Neil Bush
had worked for George W. Bush as his campaign manager, and in this
connection Neil had lived in Lubbock, Texas during most of the year. This
raised the question of whether Neil might have been in touch with gunman
John W. Hinckley, Jr. during that year of 1978, since gunman Hinckley had
lived in Lubbock from 1974 through 1980, when he was an intermittent
student at Texas Tech University there. Neil Bush ruled out any contact
between the Bush family and gunman John W. Hinckley, Jr. in Lubbock during
that time.
The previous day, elder son George W. Bush had been far less categorical
about never having met gunman Hinckley. He had stated to the press: "It's
certainly conceivable that I met him or might have been introduced to
him.... I don't recognize his face from the brief, kind of distorted thing
they had on TV, and the name doesn't ring any bells. I know he wasn't on
our staff. I could check our volunteer rolls."
Neil Bush's confirmation of his relations with Scott Hinckley was matched
by a parallel confirmation from the Executive Office of the Vice President.
This appeared in the "Houston Post", April 1, 1981 under the headline,
"Vice President Confirms his Son was to have Hosted Hinckley Brother." Here
the second-string press secretary, Shirley M. Green, was doing the talking.
"I've spoken to Neil," she said, "and he says they never saw [Scott]
Hinckley again [after the birthday party]. They kept saying 'we've got to
get together,' but they never made any plans until tonight." Contradicting
Neil Bush's remarks, Ms. Green asserted that Neil Bush knew Scott Hinckley
"only slightly."
Later in the day, Bush spokesman Peter Teeley surfaced to deny any campaign
donations from the Hinckley clan to the Bush campaign. When asked why
Sharon Bush and Neil Bush had made reference to large political
contributions from the Hinckleys to the Bush campaign, Teeley responded, "I
don't have the vaguest idea." "We've gone through our files," said Teeley,
"and we have absolutely no information that he [John W. Hinckley, Sr.] or
anybody in the family were contributors, supporters, anything."
Once the cabinet had decided that there had been no conspiracy, all such
facts were irrelevant anyway. There is no record of Neil Bush, George W.
Bush, or Vice President George H.W. Bush ever having been questioned by the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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was familiar with the "Hinckley-Bush connection." Bush's press secretary,
Peter Teeley, said when asked to comment: "I don't know a damn thing about
it. I was talking to someone earlier tonight, and I couldn't even remember
his [Hinckley's] name. All I know is what you're telling me."
On April 1, 1981, the "Rocky Mountain News" of Denver carried Neil Bush's
confirmation that if the assassination attempt had not happened on March
30, Scott Hinckley would have been present at a dinner party at Neil Bush's
home the night of March 31. According to Neil, Scott Hinckley had come to
the home of Neil and Sharon Bush on January 23, 1981 to be present along
with about 30 other guests at a surprise birthday party for Neil, who had
turned 26 one day earlier. Scott Hinckley had come "through a close friend
who brought him," according to this version, and this same close female
friend was scheduled to come to dinner along with Scott Hinckley on that
last night of March, 1981.
"My wife set up a surprise party for me, and it truly was a surprise, and
it was an honor for me at that time to meet Scott Hinckley," said Neil Bush
to reporters. "He is a good and decent man. I have no regrets whatsoever in
saying Scott Hinckley can be considered a friend of mine. To have had one
meeting doesn't make the best of friends, but I have no regrets in saying I
do know him."
Neil Bush told the reporters that he had never met John W. Hinckley, Jr.,
the gunman, nor his father, John W. Hinckley, Sr., president and chairman
of the board of Vanderbilt Energy Corporation of Denver. But Neil Bush also
added that he would be interested in meeting the elder Hinckley: "I would
like [to meet him]. I'm trying to learn the oil business, and he's in the
oil business. I probably could learn something from Mr. Hinckley."
Neil Bush then announced that he wanted to "set straight" certain
inaccuracies that had appeared the previous day in the "Houston Post" about
the relations between the Bush and Hinckley families. The first was his own
wife Sharon's reference to the large contributions from the Hinckleys to
the Bush campaign. Neil asserted that the 1980 Bush campaign records showed
no money whatever coming in from any of the Hinckleys. All that could be
found, he argued, was a contribution to that "great Republican," John
Connally.
The other issue the "Houston Post" had raised regarded the 1978 period,
when George W. Bush of Midland, Texas, Neil's oldest brother, had run for
Congress in Texas's 19th Congressional District. At that time, Neil Bush
had worked for George W. Bush as his campaign manager, and in this
connection Neil had lived in Lubbock, Texas during most of the year. This
raised the question of whether Neil might have been in touch with gunman
John W. Hinckley, Jr. during that year of 1978, since gunman Hinckley had
lived in Lubbock from 1974 through 1980, when he was an intermittent
student at Texas Tech University there. Neil Bush ruled out any contact
between the Bush family and gunman John W. Hinckley, Jr. in Lubbock during
that time.
The previous day, elder son George W. Bush had been far less categorical
about never having met gunman Hinckley. He had stated to the press: "It's
certainly conceivable that I met him or might have been introduced to
him.... I don't recognize his face from the brief, kind of distorted thing
they had on TV, and the name doesn't ring any bells. I know he wasn't on
our staff. I could check our volunteer rolls."
Neil Bush's confirmation of his relations with Scott Hinckley was matched
by a parallel confirmation from the Executive Office of the Vice President.
This appeared in the "Houston Post", April 1, 1981 under the headline,
"Vice President Confirms his Son was to have Hosted Hinckley Brother." Here
the second-string press secretary, Shirley M. Green, was doing the talking.
"I've spoken to Neil," she said, "and he says they never saw [Scott]
Hinckley again [after the birthday party]. They kept saying 'we've got to
get together,' but they never made any plans until tonight." Contradicting
Neil Bush's remarks, Ms. Green asserted that Neil Bush knew Scott Hinckley
"only slightly."
Later in the day, Bush spokesman Peter Teeley surfaced to deny any campaign
donations from the Hinckley clan to the Bush campaign. When asked why
Sharon Bush and Neil Bush had made reference to large political
contributions from the Hinckleys to the Bush campaign, Teeley responded, "I
don't have the vaguest idea." "We've gone through our files," said Teeley,
"and we have absolutely no information that he [John W. Hinckley, Sr.] or
anybody in the family were contributors, supporters, anything."
Once the cabinet had decided that there had been no conspiracy, all such
facts were irrelevant anyway. There is no record of Neil Bush, George W.
Bush, or Vice President George H.W. Bush ever having been questioned by the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]