What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to Nazism?
John Buchanan is a free-lance journalist with a mission. He intends to alert the media, and all who will listen, about how Prescott Bush, the progenitor of two presidents, was in league with some of Hitler’s “willing helpers.” Minimized or totally dismissed by the public, the story was revived from its World War II roots by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin in their “George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography” (1992) and given a strong additional push in John Loftus’s sensationalist “The War Against the Jews” (1994). Allegations involving the “father” of what has become the Bush dynasty relate to his association with Brown Harriman and Company, the Wall Street investment banking firm, which evolved from a 1931 merger of W. A. Harriman and Company and Brown Brothers, which was brought together by George Herbert Walker, president of the former, and his son-in-law, Prescott. The younger Bush, by then, was one of the seven directors of Brown Brothers Harriman, a board that included W. Averel
