CNN interview of Barbara Bush by Larry King-

Here are the comments from the CNN transcript:

KING: You have to have opinions. But you don't slander anybody.

BUSH: No, I don't think so.

KING: All right. Your recent comments on the Democratic presidential...

BUSH: Isn't that funny? I knew that was going to come up.

KING: Oh, I want to discuss a lot of things. You said so far, they're a pretty sorry group.

BUSH: Well, you know, mothers are allowed to be proud of their sons. And it gets a little old when 10 grown men run around the country not talking about what they're going to do, but knocking my precious, courageous, brilliant son. That's a mother speaking.

KING: What's the biggest difference from being the husband -- being the wife of a president and the mother of a president?

BUSH: Well, first of all, you have to watch the father of the president suffer. And it hurts when your children are criticized. It hurts a lot.

KING: He takes it badly?

BUSH: He and I both do. He -- he curses, and I grit my teeth. But, no, he really -- he knows that's the name of the game. But it gets pretty ugly.

KING: But was it harder for you...

BUSH: Much.

KING: ...when he -- when the current president is criticized than when the husband was criticized?

BUSH: Right.

KING: How do you explain it -- motherly?

BUSH: Motherly. And fatherly. I mean, that's just a normal reaction. But the same would be true if something happened that was difficult for Jeb or for Doro or Neil or Marvin. And you can criticize me, but don't criticize my children and don't criticize my daughters-in-law and don't criticize my husband, or you're dead.

TRUST OR HUSTLE: The Bush Record by David E. Scheim-

"What you've got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle." - Republican pundit Kevin Philips.

Under Bush senior in 1992, U.S. taxpayers faced a $500 billion S&L bailout and the largest ever budget deficit, $290 billion.

NEIL BUSH (George W's brother) was a principal in the 1988 collapse of Silverado Banking in Denver, which cost taxpayers $1 billion. Neil approved $132 million in unrepaid loans from Silverado to two business partners, who in turn arranged payments to Neil totaling $650,000.

JEB BUSH (George W's brother) and a partner defaulted on a $4.5 million loan from a Florida S&L in 1988. The default (may have) helped trigger the S&L's collapse, which cost taxpayers $285 million. Bush and partner repaid only ten percent of the irregular loan and, incredibly, also got to keep the real estate that collateralized it. In 1985, Jeb lobbied the federal government on behalf of Miami HMO owner Miguel Recarey to increase Recarey's Medicare business ultimately to a total of $1 billion. The following year, Jeb received $75,000 from Recarey. Recarey, who had longstanding business ties to the late Florida Mafia boss Santos Trafficante, subsequently fled the U.S. under indictment, suspected of up to $100 million in Medicare fraud.

GEORGE W. BUSH. On June 20, 1990, Bush, a director of Harken Energy, sold the bulk of his Harken stock for $848,000. A week later, the stock plummeted in value on news of a large quarterly loss. Bush claimed that he had submitted a required report about the stock sale but it had somehow disappeared. Bush (supposedly) refused repeated requests from both The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News and World Reports to discuss the stock sale. Update Details- A federal (SEC) probe of Bush's stock sale terminated without charging or exonerating Bush. But as Time reported, it was widely assumed that insider knowledge prompted the sale. The Wall Street Journal reported other suspicious circumstances concerning Bush's involvement with Harken Energy. In 1989 baseball deal financed (supposedly) in part "out of respect for his father" that ultimately earned George W. $15 million on a $600,000 investment. Such financial windfalls were important for Bush, who, as Newsweek summarized, "was an academic slacker [at Yale], a mediocre athlete, a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War and an unsuccessful oilman."

GEORGE BUSH, SENIOR. The late Jonathan Kwitny, an award winning journalist for PBS and The Wall Street Journal, detailed links of George Bush senior to S&L fraud beneficiaries nationwide. Under Bush, Kwitny reported, "investigations were called off, proposed fraud charges weren't brought, and President Bush continued to pal around with investigative targets who got off scot-free." Among Bush's several pals in the S&L bonanza crowd named by Kwitny was Joe Russo, who owned one failed S&L and defaulted on multimillion-dollar loans from five others. Details Disbanding the strike forces against organized crime.

JONATHAN BUSH. In 1991, George senior's brother Jonathan was fined $30,000 in Massachusetts and $4,000 in Connecticut for violating registration laws governing securities sales. Jonathan was barred from securities brokerage with the general public in Massachusetts for one year.

PRESCOTT BUSH. In 1989, Prescott Bush, a brother of George senior, (may have) arranged investments by a (rumored) Japanese Mob front company in two U.S. firms, for which he was paid $500,000. The underworld front ultimately gained a controlling interest in both U.S. firms, and both subsequently filed for bankruptcy. Bush denied knowledge of the underworld's role in these deals, which came under investigation by Japanese police.

Here is a very comprehensive, well documented, unauthorized biography of George Bush Sr.

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