Dolemite wrote:
] ] Before there was Karl Rove, Lee Atwater or even James
] ] Baker, the Bush family's political guru was a gregarious
] ] newspaper owner and campaign consultant from Midland,
] ] Texas, named Jimmy Allison. In the spring of 1972, George
] ] H.W. Bush phoned his friend and asked a favor: Could
] ] Allison find a place on the Senate campaign he was
] ] managing in Alabama for his troublesome eldest son, the
] ] 25-year-old George W. Bush?
] ]
] ]
] ] "The impression I had was that Georgie was raising a lot
] ] of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and embarrassing
] ] the family, and they just really wanted to get him out of
] ] Houston and under Jimmy's wing," Allison's widow, Linda,
] ] told me. "And Jimmy said, 'Sure.' He was so loyal."
] ]
] ]
] ] Linda Allison's story, never before published,
] ] contradicts the Bush campaign's assertion that George W.
] ] Bush transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the
] ] Alabama National Guard in 1972 because he received an
] ] irresistible offer to gain high-level experience on the
] ] campaign of Bush family friend Winton "Red" Blount. In
] ] fact, according to what Allison says her late husband
] ] told her, the younger Bush had become a political
] ] liability for his father, who was then the United States
] ] ambassador to the United Nations, and the family wanted
] ] him out of Texas. "I think they wanted someone they
] ] trusted to keep an eye on him," Linda Allison said.
]
]
I figured he was in drug rehab. Successful programs take about a year.

RE: George W. Bush's missing year