Texas Speaker Reportedly Helped Bush Get Into Guard (1999)

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Here is an article about Ben Barnes getting aWol into the guard as a fave from 1999 ferchrissakes.

That derned Liberal Media is so slanted – how dare they bury this.
Let’s get O’Reilly and Novak on the phone. They’ll want to share this with the Good People of America right away. :eyes:

The Washington Post
Campaign 2000

Texas Speaker Reportedly Helped Bush Get Into Guard

By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 21, 1999; Page A4

The speaker of the Texas legislature personally asked the top official of the Texas Air National Guard to help George W. Bush obtain a pilot's slot in a Guard fighter squadron during the war in Vietnam, according to informed sources.

The speaker, Ben Barnes, intervened on Bush's behalf sometime in late 1967 or early 1968 at the request of a good friend of Bush's father, then a Republican congressman from Houston, the sources said. The friend, Sidney A. Adger, was a prominent Houston business executive who died in 1996. The Guard official contacted at his behest, Brig. Gen. James M. Rose, died in 1993.
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The question of how George W. Bush got into the Texas Guard as a pilot trainee less than two weeks before his graduation from Yale has been a recurring issue in his political campaigns and has now been raised in a contentious lawsuit in which Barnes, who retired from politics after serving as House speaker and then lieutenant governor, is scheduled to give a deposition in Austin Sept. 27.
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Bush was sworn in as an airman on May 27, 1968, in the office of another Guard official, then-Col. Walter B. "Buck" Staudt, commander of the 147th Fighter Group. His pilot trainee application was then sent to Austin and Rose initialed his approval around June 5.

Bush has denied joining the Guard to avoid the draft. He said he "wanted to be a pilot," met all the requirements when he walked into Staudt's office at Ellington Field, and was accepted. He has pointed repeatedly to Staudt's denials that any influence was exerted on Bush's behalf.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/barnes092199.htm

© 1999 The Washington Post Company

[Jane Austin]

1. You can see the video of Barnes at

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_08_22.php#003360

Just scroll down to the memo posted at 5:27 or so today.

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2. The article from WP is from 1999 !

The video clip is rather moving. As I'm from Texas orig. I wantesd to look up Barnes as memory refresher.
That's hopw I found the 5 year old story from WP.

I thought it was interesting that the story was around so long ago.

How "odd" that the Liberal media never ran with it.

At least the R's won't be able to accuse barnes of bringing it up now for political reasons.
He's obviously been talking about it for a long time!

[City Lights]

4. Not only did they never "run" with it, they said the opposite!

I heard Norah O'Donnell on MSNBC say that there is no proof that strings were pulled to keep chicken george safe.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Great post

What you say is true but you are preaching to the choir. Go post the same thing at http://www.netpluscom.com/ which is a small ISP discussion board in Ohio. Ohio is a swing state. Help create an echo chamber for the left!