Something that continues to puzzle me to this day is was HW in front of the schoolbook depository at the time of the assassination 1963? Mrs. Kennedy, at the time, blamed lbj from what have read and left the country shortly afterward with her children but what if this was a ruse and HW was involved? What was HW doing, (also) a puzzle to me, at the time of the attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life. HW at one point was Head of CIA. IIRC, prior to being VP. Know this not to the point of jeb but there are Many questions. No answers, as always.
GHWB was a lowly congressman from Texas or else running for Congress when I met him in East Texas in 1964 when he was traveling with Senator Goldwater. Poppy Bush was still young, but had the coldest, iciest pale blue eyes I ever saw. He was in a hotel in Tyler, Texas, where I lived, the day of the assassination, and in several of the Murder-of-JFK books I’ve read, he was quoted as not recalling where he was. As if any adult could really not recall where they were on that day. Yes, he was head of the CIA later - I’m not sure of the years, either, without looking it up, but after LBJ’s death and before getting the VP slot.
I don’t recall reading where Poppy was during the attempt to assassinate Reagan, but you can bet he was well-covered. If he cut it close once, in 1963, he sure wouldn’t cut it close again. And I am not impressed with how “genteel” he or his family seems.
I’ve always thought Reagan was just too nice a man to realize the extent of what he had running with him after he was conned into taking Bush. I don’t care what Poppy did during WW2; I consider what he did after. We all knew he was in the CFR in 1964. We didn’t “show what we know” in Texas about him, or LBJ either. Most of us still don’t. Sad.