Bush's Jihad

"Problem: In 1987, one year after he had given up drinking he ran into Al Hunt, a Wall Street Journal editor who was minding his own business sitting at a restaurant with his wife and 4-year-old daughter.

Bush lit into him, saying, among other things, "You no-good fucking son of a bitch, I will never fucking forget what you wrote." (8) (Hunt had predicted that the 1988 Republican ticket would be Jack Kemp and Richard Lugar, instead of George Bush Sr and Dan Quayle.) What's interesting is that the Wall St Journal editor later commented that Bush was well "lubricated." (9) "

"Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

“Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

Research Material
Bohemian Grove & Club Tidbits

Muir Woods is a deep valley on the south side of Mt. Tamalpais, a federal enclave largely surrounded by the state park; it is notable for containing one of the most beautiful stands of redwood in the southern part of the range still occupied by the coast redwood, sequoia sempervirens. The area passed through several sets of hands before William Kent finally deeded it to the federal government (Kent was also responsible for much of the other land in this area being publicly owned; he and the U.S. Army between them probably saved West Marin from becoming a dormitory city, aka suburbia).

At one point the Bohemian Club intended to turn part of this beautiful valley into their private clubhouse, a historical footnote still commemorated in the name of Muir Woods' Bohemian Grove of redwoods (the Bohemians eventually moved north to the Russian River country where they still meet under tight security every summer and decide the fate of the world, or perhaps the universe). I like the place -- there are several nice hikes out of the valley and up to the Pan Toll area, included the Dipsea Trail, along which the famous annual run from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach takes place -- but am usually unwilling to battle the hordes of automobiles, vans and buses that clog the parking lot every weekend; Muir Woods is one of the most popular sights for visitors from out of state and out of country.

excerpt from an article entitled "Muir Woods" by Don Harlow
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...as president of the United States, as senior statesman and library-builder--Herbert Hoover would surround himself with Stanford classmates, Stanford graduates of other years, and Stanford faculty, whose names (Vernon Kellogg, Will Irwin, Charles K. Field, Rose Wilder Lane, and, above all, David Starr Jordan, founding president and continuing avatar of the Stanford spirit) continued through the 1920s to appear so conspicuously in Sunset. Many, quite naturally, being outdoors men, were early members and supporters of the Sierra Club. Many of the men, such as Herbert Hoover, were lifelong members of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and spent part of each July in the Bohemian Grove on the Russian River in Sonoma County. Charles K. Field wrote much of the book and lyrics for the annual Cremation of Care ceremony in the Grove, where an amphitheater was later named in his honor.

excerpt from an article entitled
"Sunset Magazine and the Phenomenon of the Far West"
by Dr. Kevin Starr
State Librarian of California
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Production was up after the post-World War depression, and so were corporate profits and personal income. Calvin Coolidge himself had put his presidential seal upon the economy. "The business of America," he declared, "is business."

That message was not lost on Coolidge's secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover. Hoover, a civilian hero for his work in putting war-torn Europe back on its feet, maintained strong ties to Stanford. He had graduated from the University in 1895 and was now a trustee. For years, Hoover had entertained the idea of establishing a graduate business school on the West Coast to stem the tide of young men going east for their education and then staying. By 1924, the time was ripe. Hoover found venture capital for his school in that bastion of old-boy camaraderie and influence, San Francisco's Bohemian Club. He proposed the idea to his fellow Bohemians at his encampment, "Camp Cave Man," beneath the redwoods of the club's summer getaway at the Bohemian Grove, a few hours' north of the City.

Their response was enthusiastic, and a small group volunteered as fundraisers. Thanks to them, more than 50 businesses and individuals pledged $250,000 in seed money, payable over the following five years, to the new school. In the fall of 1925, the Graduate School of Business opened its doors in Jordan Hall, a building in the Stanford Quad. It had 16 students, who paid $375 for the year's tuition, three faculty members, and a dean who was something of an expert at founding business schools. Willard E. Hotchkiss already had started two undergraduate business programs, one at the University of Minnesota and another at Northwestern.

excerpt from an article entitled