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malthaussen

(18,477 posts)
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 06:58 PM Jul 2016

Prescott Bush Interview, 1953

Stumbled across this vid on YT and thought it might be of interest.



Interesting that Mr Bush argues that accepting refugees from Eastern Europe was a victory in the Cold War.

-- Mal
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Prescott Bush Interview, 1953 (Original Post) malthaussen Jul 2016 OP
Sure - but Bush used Eastern European refugees as a Trojan Horse by which to sneak in Nazis. forest444 Jul 2016 #1
that chair must have been mighty uncomfortable..... diverdownjt Jul 2016 #2

forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. Sure - but Bush used Eastern European refugees as a Trojan Horse by which to sneak in Nazis.
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 07:49 PM
Jul 2016

Some were great scientists, of course - the people who made NASA possible, among other things.

Many others, however, were essentially Gestapo and SS monsters who brought with them many of the same practices that, once adopted by Dulles' CIA, would later do so much damage to U.S. standing abroad.

diverdownjt

(736 posts)
2. that chair must have been mighty uncomfortable.....
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 01:11 AM
Jul 2016

Of course Sen. Bush could not use hemorrhoid creme for fear of disappearing entirely.

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