Reply #13: Your analysis is fantastic.

[speedoo]

I'm tempted to say "brilliant", but I only read it once and while I am confident that you are on target, I'd want to go through it a couple more times.

One thing, probably minor. shrub is on tape at the Republican convention in 1972, obviously with a very un-military haircut. Don't have the when or where, but his presence would tend to indicate that any separation from mommy and daddy was at least suspended for that event.