More on alleged Bush cocaine arrest and community service (**1972**) [View All]

[Karmadillo]

After reading DUer OldandintheWay's excellent theorizing on why Bush might have wanted to miss his Guard physical, I found this on Google. I don't know if it's true, but it's a lot more convincing than altruism in explaining why Bush ended up working for the Professional United Leadership League in *******1972********. Article also has an interesting excerpt from Helen Thomas' attempt to wring an answer about this from Scott "Liar? Yeah, that's me" McClellan.

http://www.hermes-press.com/dishonorable.htm

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If Scott McClellan doesn’t know whether or not Bush performed community service while he was in the National Guard, he can look up this reference on the official State Department site: http://usembassy.state.gov/seoul/wwwhe906.html.

"During this period, George W. worked for a former partner of his father's, who had left the oil-drilling business to start an agricultural company in Houston that had interests in a wide variety of things, from cattle and chickens to tropical plants. George's job was to travel around the United States and to countries in Central America looking for plant nurseries his company might want to acquire.

"In the spring of 1972, he left this job and went to Alabama to work on the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Winton Blount. Returning to Houston, he became a counselor for African-American youngsters in a program called PULL (Professional United Leadership League). The program brought together volunteers from the athletic, entertainment, and business worlds to work with young people in a variety of ways. George taught basketball and wrestling and organized field trips to juvenile prisons, so his young charges could see that side of life and resolve not to end up there themselves.

"‘He was a super, super guy’ says Ernie Ladd, a professional football player who also worked with the program. ‘Everybody loved him so much. He had a way with people....They didn't want him to leave.’

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