Rev. Moon, In The Library, With The President

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“…too many citizens these days are becoming disengaged at a time when we need more involvement, more debate, and more foreign exchanges…That’s why the work of the Universal Peace Federation and The Washington Times is so important, and I thank Rev. Moon and salute all of you for coming here to address these urgent issues.” George H.W. Bush


John Gornfeld brings word of further Bush family cavorting with Reverend Sun Myung Moon, this time in the hallowed halls of the College Station Texas Bush Presidential Library.

It’s return on investment for the Korean cult leader.

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Moonies funneled a million to the Bush Library on the sly, and former President Bush has given multiple speeches for pay to various Moon front groups. Bush bad seed Neil Bush, son of the former and brother of the current, has been on the Moon payroll for years. Most recently he traveled to Paraguay during the last days of the Colorado Party’s clinging to the

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presidency, and Moon has put a million dollars into Neil’s troubled education via cow schemes. bush-neal-sscowimage.jpg

The current Bush Administration has returned the favors, giving Moonies a piece of the abstinence education boondoggle among others.

SMU On The Run?

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Rev. Andrew J. Weaver is a leader in the opposition to the Bush Library at Southern Methodist University. He is responding to claims that the Methodist General Conference vote referring the question to local Methodist leaders is meaningless.

If this vote has no moral or legal force and is, “merely procedural”, why did General Conference bother bringing it to a vote in the first place? …The petition against the Bush project could have been killed in committee, dozens were, but it passed the important Ministry and Higher Education Committee by a vote of 51 to 5. It could have easily been killed on the floor, but it was not. Instead it was formally referred by a vote of 844-20 to the owners of the SMU property.

Nixon Family Benefactor Dead?

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A fugitive from American fraud and bribery charges since the 1970s, Robert Vesco may have died in Cuba, which jailed him for a more than a decade.

The Associated Press reports that a Robert Vesco died and was buried last year in Havana, but quotes an American writer who interviewed Vesco as having doubts.

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A $200,000 bribe to Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President over a Securities & Exchange Commission investigation was among the charges that led Vesco to flee the US.

Before the fall Vesco collected the bad seeds of several First Families.

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Vesco ended up in Cuba after hiding out in several Caribbean nations. Among other dubious schemes he worked with Donald Junior on aids cures before the Cubans jailed him for 13 years. Nixon got off with a month’s house arrest.

This Is The Bench Where Jack Sat

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Having once born the assess of greatness, a wooden bench returns to it’s humble place of origin, the Milwaukee Journal.

John and Jackie Kennedy brought the Kennedy Magic to Milwaukee in the 1960 campaign, and a now storied piece of furniture had it’s brush with greatness. After a wandering career as retirement gift to a newspaper executive, the bench on which history’s fun couple sat is going back to the Journal courtesy of current owners The Nature Conservancy.

The furniture’s fate when the paper goes to that great recycling bin in the sky is unknown.

The Magic of the Marketplace

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Ronald Reagan earrings, $10.