Prescott Sheldon Bush

Прескотт Шелдон Буш
Prescott Sheldon Bush

Буш, Прескотт
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Prescott Bush
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Буш, Прескотт


Прескотт Шелдон Буш
 (англ. Prescott Sheldon Bush;
15 мая 1895 — 8 октября 1972)
банкир,
сенатор США от штата Коннектикут (1952—1963),
отец 41-го президента США Джорджа Буша,
дед 43-го президента США Джорджа Уокера Буша.

Прескотт Буш
был одним из семи директоров
американского инвестбанка
Brown Brothers Harriman.

Историки дискутируют о связях этого банка с нацистами,
отмывавшими свои активы.

Прескотт Буш, был директором и акционером компаний,
которые спонсировали
нацистскую Германию.

The Guardian
By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
'How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power' | World news | The Guardian
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Прескотт Буш
Прескот Шелдон Буш
англ. Prescott Sheldon Bush
Дата рождения
15 мая 1895.  Место рождения Колумбус (Огайо)
Дата смерти
8 октября 1972 (77 лет) . Место смерти Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк, США
Страна   США
Род деятельности
банкир
сенатор США
Родители
Отец Сэмюэль Прескотт Буш
Мать Флора Буш
Супруга
Дороти Уолкер Буш
Дети
Прескотт Шелдон Буш;
Джордж Герберт Уокер Буш;
Нэнси Уокер Буш Эллис;
Джонатан Буш;
Уильям Генри Троттер Буш


Прескотт Шелдон Буш
 (англ. Prescott Sheldon Bush;
15 мая 1895 — 8 октября 1972)
банкир,
сенатор США от штата Коннектикут (1952—1963),
отец 41-го президента США Джорджа Буша,
дед 43-го президента США Джорджа Уокера Буша.

Биография
Родился 15 мая 1895 года
в семье американского промышленника
Сэмюеля Буша и Флоры Буш в Колумбусе, штат Огайо,
образование получил в Йельском университете.

В 1918 году
студент Йельского университета
и член тайного общества «Череп и кости»
Прескотт Буш выкопал с двумя другими студентами череп вождя индейского племени апачи Джеронимо на федеральном кладбище Форт Силл в Оклахоме и преподнес его в качестве подарка братству. Утверждается, что в настоящее время череп вождя хранится в специальном месте на территории Йельского университета и используется в различных ритуалах «Костей». Также существуют слухи, что в могильнике «Черепа и костей» имеется и череп Че Гевары.

Военную службу
проходил во Франции во время Первой мировой войны в составе Американского Экспедиционного Корпуса.

После окончания войны вернулся в США
и поступил на работу в продуктовую компанию,
затем стал вице-президентом в компании своего тестя.

С 1944 до 1956 год
Буш был членом Йельской Корпорации, основанной руководством Йельского университета.

Политическую карьеру
Прескотт Буш начал в штате Коннектикут; будучи типичным республиканцем Новой Англии, Буш проводил консервативную политику. Сегодня многие оценивают его деятельность как умеренно республиканскую. В 1952 году он был избран в сенат от Коннектикута, на этом посту проявил себя как активный сторонник президента Дуайта Эйзенхауэра.

Прескотт Буш был одним из семи директоров американского инвестбанка Brown Brothers Harriman. Историки дискутируют о связях этого банка с нацистами, отмывавшими свои активы.

Умер 8 октября 1972 года.
Похоронен на кладбище Патман в Гринвиче (штат Коннектикут)
вместе со своей женой Дороти Уокер Буш.


[Он умер от рака в 1972 году в возрасте 77 лет в Мемориальной больнице в Нью-Йорке и был похоронен на Putnam Cemetery  кладбище Патнэм (Патнэм / Путнам - читать латынь или по немецки)  в Гринвиче, штат Коннектикут.]

Прескотт Буш, был директором и акционером компаний, которые спонсировали нацистскую Германию.

Прескотт Шелдон Буш
 (англ. Prescott Sheldon Bush;
15 мая 1895 — 8 октября 1972)
банкир,
сенатор США от штата Коннектикут (1952—1963),
отец 41-го президента США Джорджа Буша,
дед 43-го президента США Джорджа Уокера Буша.

Прескотт Буш был одним из семи директоров американского инвестбанка Brown Brothers Harriman. Историки дискутируют о связях этого банка с нацистами, отмывавшими свои активы.

Прескотт Буш, был директором и акционером компаний, которые спонсировали нацистскую Германию.


Умер 8 октября 1972 года.
Похоронен на кладбище Патман в Гринвиче (штат Коннектикут)
вместе со своей женой Дороти Уокер Буш.

Он умер от рака в 1972 году в возрасте 77 лет в Мемориальной больнице в Нью-Йорке и был похоронен на Putnam Cemetery  кладбище Патнэм (Патнэм / Путнам - читать латынь или по немецки)  в Гринвиче, штат Коннектикут.


Прескотт Шелдон Буш
 (англ. Prescott Sheldon Bush;
15 мая 1895 — 8 октября 1972)
банкир,
сенатор США от штата Коннектикут (1952—1963),
отец 41-го президента США Джорджа Буша,
дед 43-го президента США Джорджа Уокера Буша.

Прескотт Буш был одним из семи директоров американского инвестбанка Brown Brothers Harriman. Историки дискутируют о связях этого банка с нацистами, отмывавшими свои активы.

Прескотт Буш, был директором и акционером компаний, которые спонсировали нацистскую Германию.

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Прескотт Буш
был одним из семи директоров
американского инвестбанка
Brown Brothers Harriman.

Историки дискутируют о связях этого банка с нацистами,
отмывавшими свои активы.

Прескотт Буш, был директором и акционером компаний,
которые спонсировали
нацистскую Германию.

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Прескотт Шелдон Буш
(15 мая 1895 – 8 октября 1972)

Деловая карьера

После увольнения в 1919 году Прескотт Буш поступил на работу в компанию Simmons Hardware Company в Сент-Луисе, штат Миссури.

Семья Бушей переехала в Колумбус, штат Огайо, в 1923 году, где Прескотт некоторое время работал в компании Hupp Products. В ноябре 1923 года он стал президентом отдела продаж компании Stedman Products в Южном Брейнтри, штат Массачусетс. В это время он жил в викторианском доме на Адамс-стрит, 173, в Милтоне, штат Массачусетс, где родился его сын Джордж Буш-старший.

В 1924 году Буш стал вице-президентом инвестиционного банка A. Harriman & Co., президентом которого был его тесть Джордж Герберт Уокер. Однокурсники Буша по Йелю и коллеги-костоправы Э. Роланд Гарриман и Найт Вулли также работали в компании.

В 1925 году он поступил на работу в Американскую резиновую компанию Нью-Йорка в качестве менеджера иностранного отдела и переехал в Гринвич, штат Коннектикут.

В 1931 году он стал партнером Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., которая была создана в результате объединения A. Harriman & Co в 1931 году с Brown Bros. & Co. (торговый банк, основанный в Филадельфии в 1818 году) и с Harriman Brothers & Co. (основан в Нью-Йорке в 1927 году).

Он был заядлым игроком в гольф, а в 1935 году был назначен главой USGA.

В 1944-1956 годах Прескотт Буш был членом Йельской корпорации, главного руководящего органа Йельского университета. Он входил в совет директоров CBS, будучи представлен председателю Уильяму С. Пейли примерно в 1932 году его близким другом и коллегой У. Аверелл Гарриман, который стал крупным влиятельным лицом Демократической партии.

Банковская корпорация "Юнион"

Буш был основателем и одним из семи директоров (включая У. Аверелла Гарримана) банковской корпорации Union (владеющей одной акцией из 4000 в качестве директора), инвестиционного банка, который работал в качестве расчетного центра для многих активов и предприятий, принадлежащих немецкому стальному магнату Фрицу Тиссену, раннему стороннику и финансисту нацистской партии. В июле 1942 года банк заподозрили в хранении золота по поручению нацистских лидеров. Последующее правительственное расследование опровергло эти утверждения, но подтвердило контроль Тиссенов, и в октябре 1942 года Соединенные Штаты захватили банк в соответствии с Законом о торговле с врагом и удерживали активы на протяжении Второй мировой войны. Журналист Дункан Кэмпбелл указал на документы, свидетельствующие о том, что Прескотт Буш был директором и акционером ряда компаний, связанных с Тиссеном. Буш был директором Union Banking Corporation, которая "представляла интересы США Тиссена", продолжая работать в банке после вступления Америки во Вторую мировую войну.

Историк Герберт Пармет согласен с мнением о том, что Буш не симпатизировал нацистам."

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By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
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Буш, Прескотт
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Буш,_Прескотт

Prescott Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
The Guardian
By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
'How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power' | World news | The Guardian
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Prescott Bush
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Prescott Bush
Prescott Sheldon Bush
(May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972)

Business career

After his discharge in 1919, Prescott Bush went to work for the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Bush family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1923, where Prescott briefly worked for the Hupp Products Company. In November 1923, he became president of sales for Stedman Products in South Braintree, Massachusetts. During this time, he lived in a Victorian house at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts, where his son, George H. W. Bush, was born.

In 1924, Bush became vice-president of the investment bank A. Harriman & Co. where his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker was president. Bush's Yale classmates and fellow Bonesmen E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley also worked with the company.

In 1925, he joined the United States Rubber Company of New York City as manager of the foreign division, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.

In 1931, he became a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which was created through the 1931 amalgamation of A. Harriman & Co with Brown Bros. & Co., (a merchant bank founded in Philadelphia in 1818) and with Harriman Brothers & Co. (established in New York City in 1927).

He was an avid golfer, and in 1935 was named head of the USGA.

From 1944–1956, Prescott Bush was a member of the Yale Corporation, the principal governing body of Yale University. He was on the board of directors of CBS, having been introduced to chairman William S. Paley around 1932 by his close friend and colleague W. Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power broker.

Union Banking Corporation

Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazi Party.  In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.    A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.   Journalist Duncan Campbell pointed out documents showing that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen. Bush was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into World War II.

Historian Herbert Parmet agrees with the assessment that Bush was not a Nazi sympathizer."

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Дед Джорджа Буша, покойный сенатор США Прескотт Буш, был директором и акционером компаний, которые получали прибыль от своего участия в финансовых спонсорах нацистской Германии.

The Guardian получила подтверждение из недавно обнаруженных файлов в Национальном архиве США о том, что фирма, директором которой был Прескотт Буш, была связана с финансовыми архитекторами нацизма.

Его деловые отношения, которые продолжались до тех пор, пока активы его компании не были конфискованы в 1942 году в соответствии с Законом о торговле с врагом, привели более чем 60 лет спустя к гражданскому иску о возмещении ущерба, поданному в Германии против семьи Буш двумя бывшими рабами в Освенциме и к шуму предвыборных споров.

Доказательства также побудили одного бывшего прокурора по военным преступлениям против нацистов в США утверждать, что действия покойного сенатора должны были послужить основанием для судебного преследования за оказание помощи и утешения врагу.

Дебаты по поводу поведения Прескотта Буша уже некоторое время кипят под поверхностью. В Интернете постоянно обсуждается связь "Буш/нацист", во многом неточная и несправедливая. Но новые документы, многие из которых были рассекречены только в прошлом году, показывают, что даже после вступления Америки в войну и когда уже имелась значительная информация о планах и политике нацистов, он работал и получал прибыль от компаний, тесно связанных с теми самыми немецкими предприятиями, которые финансировали приход Гитлера к власти. Также было высказано предположение, что деньги, которые он заработал на этих сделках, помогли создать состояние семьи Буш и основать ее политическую династию.

Примечательно, что мало что из того, что Буш имел дело с Германией, было предметом общественного внимания, отчасти из-за секретного статуса документации, касающейся его. Но теперь многомиллиардный судебный иск о возмещении ущерба двумя выжившими в Холокосте против семьи Бушей и предстоящая публикация трех книг на эту тему угрожают сделать историю бизнеса Прескотта Буша неудобной проблемой для его внука Джорджа У, поскольку он стремится к переизбранию.

Хотя нет никаких предположений о том, что Прескотт Буш симпатизировал нацистскому делу, документы показывают, что фирма, в которой он работал, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), выступала в качестве базы в США для немецкого промышленника Фрица Тиссена, который помогал финансировать Гитлера в 1930-х годах, прежде чем поссориться с ним в конце десятилетия. The Guardian видела доказательства того, что Буш был директором нью-йоркской банковской корпорации Union (UBC), которая представляла интересы Тиссена в США, и он продолжал работать в банке после того, как Америка вступила в войну.

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Буш также входил в совет директоров по крайней мере одной из компаний, которые входили в многонациональную сеть подставных компаний, позволявших Тиссену перемещать активы по всему миру.

Тиссен владел крупнейшей сталелитейной и угольной компанией в Германии и разбогател благодаря усилиям Гитлера по перевооружению в период между двумя мировыми войнами. Один из столпов международной корпоративной сети Thyssen, UBC, работал исключительно на банк, контролируемый Thyssen, в Нидерландах, и принадлежал ему. Еще более заманчивыми являются связи Буша с Объединенной Силезской металлургической компанией (CSSC), базирующейся в богатой полезными ископаемыми Силезии на германо-польской границе. Во время войны компания использовала нацистский рабский труд из концентрационных лагерей, включая Освенцим. Собственность CSSC несколько раз переходила из рук в руки в 1930-х годах, но документы из Национального архива США, рассекреченные в прошлом году, связывают Буша с CSSC, хотя неясно, были ли он и UBC все еще вовлечены в компанию, когда американские активы Тиссена были захвачены в 1942 году.

Три комплекта архивов подтверждают причастность Прескотта Буша. Все три легко доступны благодаря эффективной архивной системе США и услужливому и преданному делу персоналу Библиотеки Конгресса в Вашингтоне и Национального архива Университета Мэриленда.

Первый набор файлов, документы Гарримана в Библиотеке Конгресса, показывают, что Прескотт Буш был директором и акционером ряда компаний, связанных с Тиссеном.

Второй комплект документов, хранящихся в Национальном архиве, содержится в приказе о передаче полномочий № 248, в котором зафиксирован арест активов компании. Эти файлы показывают, что 20 октября 1942 года хранитель собственности иностранцев захватил активы UBC, директором которого был Прескотт Буш. После проверки бухгалтерских книг банка были произведены дальнейшие аресты в отношении двух филиалов, Голландско-Американской торговой корпорации и корпорации Бесшовного стального оборудования. К ноябрю Силезско-американская компания, еще одно предприятие Прескотта Буша, также была захвачена.

Третий комплект документов, также хранящийся в Национальном архиве, содержится в материалах дела ИГ Фарбена, который был привлечен к ответственности за военные преступления.

В отчете, опубликованном Управлением по хранению собственности иностранцев в 1942 году, говорилось о компаниях, что "с 1939 года эти (металлургические и горнодобывающие) объекты находятся во владении и управляются правительством Германии и, несомненно, оказали значительную помощь военным усилиям этой страны".".

Прескотт Буш, очаровашка ростом 6 футов 4 дюйма с богатым певческим голосом, был основателем политической династии Бушей и когда-то сам считался потенциальным кандидатом в президенты. Как и его сын Джордж и внук Джордж У, он поступил в Йель, где, как и его потомки, был членом тайного и влиятельного студенческого общества "Череп и кости". Во время первой мировой войны он был капитаном артиллерии и в 1921 году женился на Дороти Уокер, дочери Джорджа Герберта Уокера.

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В 1924 году его тесть, известный инвестиционный банкир из Сент-Луиса, помог ему открыть бизнес в Нью-Йорке вместе с Авериллом Гарриманом, богатым сыном железнодорожного магната Э.Х. Гарримана в Нью-Йорке, который занялся банковским делом.

Одной из первых работ, которую Уокер дал Бушу, было управление UBC. Буш был одним из основателей банка, и учредительные документы, в которых он указан как один из семи директоров, показывают, что он владел одной акцией UBC стоимостью 125 долларов.

Банк был создан Гарриманом и тестем Буша, чтобы обеспечить американский банк для Тиссенов, самой могущественной промышленной семьи Германии.

Август Тиссен, основатель династии, внес большой вклад в усилия Германии в первой мировой войне, и в 1920-х годах он и его сыновья Фриц и Генрих создали сеть зарубежных банков и компаний, чтобы их активы и деньги могли быть выведены в оффшор в случае новой угрозы.

К тому времени, когда Фриц Тиссен унаследовал бизнес-империю в 1926 году, восстановление экономики Германии пошатнулось. Услышав речь Адольфа Гитлера, Тиссен был очарован молодым зачинщиком. Он вступил в нацистскую партию в декабре 1931 года и признает, что поддерживал Гитлера в своей автобиографии "Я заплатил Гитлеру", когда национал-социалисты все еще были радикальной маргинальной партией. Он несколько раз вмешивался, чтобы выручить борющуюся партию: в 1928 году Тиссен купил дворец Барлоу на Бриеннерштрассе в Мюнхене, который Гитлер превратил в Коричневый дом, штаб-квартиру нацистской партии. Деньги поступили из другого зарубежного учреждения Тиссена, банка voor Handel en Scheepvarrt в Роттердаме.

К концу 1930-х годов Brown Brothers Harriman, который утверждал, что является крупнейшим частным инвестиционным банком в мире, и UBC купили и отправили в Германию золото, топливо, сталь, уголь и облигации казначейства США на миллионы долларов, одновременно подпитывая и финансируя подготовку Гитлера к войне.

В период с 1931 по 1933 год UBC купила золота на сумму более 8 миллионов долларов, из которых 3 миллиона долларов было отправлено за границу. Согласно документам, с которыми ознакомился The Guardian, после создания UBC он перевел 2 миллиона долларов на счета BBH, а в период с 1924 по 1940 год активы UBC колебались около 3 миллионов долларов, снижаясь до 1 миллиона долларов лишь в нескольких случаях.

В 1941 году Тиссен бежал из Германии после ссоры с Гитлером, но был схвачен во Франции и содержался под стражей до конца войны.

В 1930-х годах не было ничего противозаконного в ведении бизнеса с Тиссенами, и многие из самых известных американских компаний вложили значительные средства в восстановление экономики Германии. Однако все изменилось после того, как Германия вторглась в Польшу в 1939 году. Даже тогда можно было утверждать, что BBH была в пределах своих прав, продолжая деловые отношения с Тиссенами до конца 1941 года, поскольку США все еще оставались технически нейтральными до нападения на Перл-Харбор. Неприятности начались 30 июля 1942 года, когда газета "Нью-Йорк Геральд Трибюн" опубликовала статью под названием "У Ангела Гитлера в американском банке 3 миллиона долларов". Огромные закупки золота UBC вызвали подозрения, что банк на самом деле был "тайным гнездышком", спрятанным в Нью-Йорке для Тиссена и других нацистских шишек. Комиссия по имуществу иностранцев (APC) начала расследование.

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Нет никаких сомнений в том факте, что правительство США конфисковало ряд активов, контролируемых BBH, включая UBC и SAC, осенью 1942 года в соответствии с законом о торговле с врагом. Вопрос в том, сделали ли Гарриман, Уокер и Буш нечто большее, чем просто владели этими компаниями на бумаге.

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By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.

While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.

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Tantalising

Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.

Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American assets were seized in 1942.

Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.

The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the Library of Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen.

The second set of papers, which are in the National Archives, are contained in vesting order number 248 which records the seizure of the company assets. What these files show is that on October 20 1942 the alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone through the books of the bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.

The third set of documents, also at the National Archives, are contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes.

A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that "since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort".

Prescott Bush, a 6ft 4in charmer with a rich singing voice, was the founder of the Bush political dynasty and was once considered a potential presidential candidate himself. Like his son, George, and grandson, George W, he went to Yale where he was, again like his descendants, a member of the secretive and influential Skull and Bones student society. He was an artillery captain in the first world war and married Dorothy Walker, the daughter of George Herbert Walker, in 1921.

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In 1924, his father-in-law, a well-known St Louis investment banker, helped set him up in business in New York with Averill Harriman, the wealthy son of railroad magnate E H Harriman in New York, who had gone into banking.

One of the first jobs Walker gave Bush was to manage UBC. Bush was a founding member of the bank and the incorporation documents, which list him as one of seven directors, show he owned one share in UBC worth $125.

The bank was set up by Harriman and Bush's father-in-law to provide a US bank for the Thyssens, Germany's most powerful industrial family.

August Thyssen, the founder of the dynasty had been a major contributor to Germany's first world war effort and in the 1920s, he and his sons Fritz and Heinrich established a network of overseas banks and companies so their assets and money could be whisked offshore if threatened again.

By the time Fritz Thyssen inherited the business empire in 1926, Germany's economic recovery was faltering. After hearing Adolf Hitler speak, Thyssen became mesmerised by the young firebrand. He joined the Nazi party in December 1931 and admits backing Hitler in his autobiography, I Paid Hitler, when the National Socialists were still a radical fringe party. He stepped in several times to bail out the struggling party: in 1928 Thyssen had bought the Barlow Palace on Briennerstrasse, in Munich, which Hitler converted into the Brown House, the headquarters of the Nazi party. The money came from another Thyssen overseas institution, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvarrt in Rotterdam.

By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war.

Between 1931 and 1933 UBC bought more than $8m worth of gold, of which $3m was shipped abroad. According to documents seen by the Guardian, after UBC was set up it transferred $2m to BBH accounts and between 1924 and 1940 the assets of UBC hovered around $3m, dropping to $1m only on a few occasions.

In 1941, Thyssen fled Germany after falling out with Hitler but he was captured in France and detained for the remainder of the war.

There was nothing illegal in doing business with the Thyssens throughout the 1930s and many of America's best-known business names invested heavily in the German economic recovery. However, everything changed after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Even then it could be argued that BBH was within its rights continuing business relations with the Thyssens until the end of 1941 as the US was still technically neutral until the attack on Pearl Harbor. The trouble started on July 30 1942 when the New York Herald-Tribune ran an article entitled "Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank". UBC's huge gold purchases had raised suspicions that the bank was in fact a "secret nest egg" hidden in New York for Thyssen and other Nazi bigwigs. The Alien Property Commission (APC) launched an investigation.

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There is no dispute over the fact that the US government seized a string of assets controlled by BBH - including UBC and SAC - in the autumn of 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy act. What is in dispute is if Harriman, Walker and Bush did more than own these companies on paper.

Erwin May, a treasury attache and officer for the department of investigation in the APC, was assigned to look into UBC's business. The first fact to emerge was that Roland Harriman, Prescott Bush and the other directors didn't actually own their shares in UBC but merely held them on behalf of Bank voor Handel. Strangely, no one seemed to know who owned the Rotterdam-based bank, including UBC's president.

May wrote in his report of August 16 1941: "Union Banking Corporation, incorporated August 4 1924, is wholly owned by the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My investigation has produced no evidence as to the ownership of the Dutch bank. Mr Cornelis [sic] Lievense, president of UBC, claims no knowledge as to the ownership of the Bank voor Handel but believes it possible that Baron Heinrich Thyssen, brother of Fritz Thyssen, may own a substantial interest."

May cleared the bank of holding a golden nest egg for the Nazi leaders but went on to describe a network of companies spreading out from UBC across Europe, America and Canada, and how money from voor Handel travelled to these companies through UBC.

By September May had traced the origins of the non-American board members and found that Dutchman HJ Kouwenhoven - who met with Harriman in 1924 to set up UBC - had several other jobs: in addition to being the managing director of voor Handel he was also the director of the August Thyssen bank in Berlin and a director of Fritz Thyssen's Union Steel Works, the holding company that controlled Thyssen's steel and coal mine empire in Germany.

Within a few weeks, Homer Jones, the chief of the APC investigation and research division sent a memo to the executive committee of APC recommending the US government vest UBC and its assets. Jones named the directors of the bank in the memo, including Prescott Bush's name, and wrote: "Said stock is held by the above named individuals, however, solely as nominees for the Bank voor Handel, Rotterdam, Holland, which is owned by one or more of the Thyssen family, nationals of Germany and Hungary. The 4,000 shares hereinbefore set out are therefore beneficially owned and help for the interests of enemy nationals, and are vestible by the APC," according to the memo from the National Archives seen by the Guardian.

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Jones recommended that the assets be liquidated for the benefit of the government, but instead UBC was maintained intact and eventually returned to the American shareholders after the war. Some claim that Bush sold his share in UBC after the war for $1.5m - a huge amount of money at the time - but there is no documentary evidence to support this claim. No further action was ever taken nor was the investigation continued, despite the fact UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler's rise to power.

The most tantalising part of the story remains shrouded in mystery: the connection, if any, between Prescott Bush, Thyssen, Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC) and Auschwitz.

Thyssen's partner in United Steel Works, which had coal mines and steel plants across the region, was Friedrich Flick, another steel magnate who also owned part of IG Farben, the powerful German chemical company.

Flick's plants in Poland made heavy use of slave labour from the concentration camps in Poland. According to a New York Times article published in March 18 1934 Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest.

The US National Archive documents show that BBH's involvement with CSSC was more than simply holding the shares in the mid-1930s. Bush's friend and fellow "bonesman" Knight Woolley, another partner at BBH, wrote to Averill Harriman in January 1933 warning of problems with CSSC after the Poles started their drive to nationalise the plant. "The Consolidated Silesian Steel Company situation has become increasingly complicated, and I have accordingly brought in Sullivan and Cromwell, in order to be sure that our interests are protected," wrote Knight. "After studying the situation Foster Dulles is insisting that their man in Berlin get into the picture and obtain the information which the directors here should have. You will recall that Foster is a director and he is particularly anxious to be certain that there is no liability attaching to the American directors."

But the ownership of the CSSC between 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and 1942 when the US government vested UBC and SAC is not clear.

"SAC held coal mines and definitely owned CSSC between 1934 and 1935, but when SAC was vested there was no trace of CSSC. All concrete evidence of its ownership disappears after 1935 and there are only a few traces in 1938 and 1939," says Eva Schweitzer, the journalist and author whose book, America and the Holocaust, is published next month.

Silesia was quickly made part of the German Reich after the invasion, but while Polish factories were seized by the Nazis, those belonging to the still neutral Americans (and some other nationals) were treated more carefully as Hitler was still hoping to persuade the US to at least sit out the war as a neutral country. Schweitzer says American interests were dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The Nazis bought some out, but not others.

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The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war.

Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty".

Jan Lissmann, one of the lawyers for the survivors, said: "President Bush withdrew President Bill Clinton's signature from the treaty [that founded the court] not only to protect Americans, but also to protect himself and his family."

Lissmann argues that genocide-related cases are covered by international law, which does hold governments accountable for their actions. He claims the ruling was invalid as no hearing took place.

In their claims, Mr Goldstein and Mr Gingold, honorary chairman of the League of Anti-fascists, suggest the Americans were aware of what was happening at Auschwitz and should have bombed the camp.

The lawyers also filed a motion in The Hague asking for an opinion on whether state sovereignty is a valid reason for refusing to hear their case. A ruling is expected within a month.

The petition to The Hague states: "From April 1944 on, the American Air Force could have destroyed the camp with air raids, as well as the railway bridges and railway lines from Hungary to Auschwitz. The murder of about 400,000 Hungarian Holocaust victims could have been prevented."

The case is built around a January 22 1944 executive order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt calling on the government to take all measures to rescue the European Jews. The lawyers claim the order was ignored because of pressure brought by a group of big American companies, including BBH, where Prescott Bush was a director.

Lissmann said: "If we have a positive ruling from the court it will cause [president] Bush huge problems and make him personally liable to pay compensation."

The US government and the Bush family deny all the claims against them.

In addition to Eva Schweitzer's book, two other books are about to be published that raise the subject of Prescott Bush's business history. The author of the second book, to be published next year, John Loftus, is a former US attorney who prosecuted Nazi war criminals in the 70s. Now living in St Petersburg, Florida and earning his living as a security commentator for Fox News and ABC radio, Loftus is working on a novel which uses some of the material he has uncovered on Bush. Loftus stressed that what Prescott Bush was involved in was just what many other American and British businessmen were doing at the time.

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"You can't blame Bush for what his grandfather did any more than you can blame Jack Kennedy for what his father did - bought Nazi stocks - but what is important is the cover-up, how it could have gone on so successfully for half a century, and does that have implications for us today?" he said.

"This was the mechanism by which Hitler was funded to come to power, this was the mechanism by which the Third Reich's defence industry was re-armed, this was the mechanism by which Nazi profits were repatriated back to the American owners, this was the mechanism by which investigations into the financial laundering of the Third Reich were blunted," said Loftus, who is vice-chairman of the Holocaust Museum in St Petersburg.

"The Union Banking Corporation was a holding company for the Nazis, for Fritz Thyssen," said Loftus. "At various times, the Bush family has tried to spin it, saying they were owned by a Dutch bank and it wasn't until the Nazis took over Holland that they realised that now the Nazis controlled the apparent company and that is why the Bush supporters claim when the war was over they got their money back. Both the American treasury investigations and the intelligence investigations in Europe completely bely that, it's absolute horseshit. They always knew who the ultimate beneficiaries were."

"There is no one left alive who could be prosecuted but they did get away with it," said Loftus. "As a former federal prosecutor, I would make a case for Prescott Bush, his father-in-law (George Walker) and Averill Harriman [to be prosecuted] for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They remained on the boards of these companies knowing that they were of financial benefit to the nation of Germany."

Loftus said Prescott Bush must have been aware of what was happening in Germany at the time. "My take on him was that he was a not terribly successful in-law who did what Herbert Walker told him to. Walker and Harriman were the two evil geniuses, they didn't care about the Nazis any more than they cared about their investments with the Bolsheviks."

What is also at issue is how much money Bush made from his involvement. His supporters suggest that he had one token share. Loftus disputes this, citing sources in "the banking and intelligence communities" and suggesting that the Bush family, through George Herbert Walker and Prescott, got $1.5m out of the involvement. There is, however, no paper trail to this sum.

The third person going into print on the subject is John Buchanan, 54, a Miami-based magazine journalist who started examining the files while working on a screenplay. Last year, Buchanan published his findings in the venerable but small-circulation New Hampshire Gazette under the headline "Documents in National Archives Prove George Bush's Grandfather Traded With the Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor". He expands on this in his book to be published next month - Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media and the Religious Right.

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In the article, Buchanan, who has worked mainly in the trade and music press with a spell as a muckraking reporter in Miami, claimed that "the essential facts have appeared on the internet and in relatively obscure books but were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented diatribes".

Buchanan suffers from hypermania, a form of manic depression, and when he found himself rebuffed in his initial efforts to interest the media, he responded with a series of threats against the journalists and media outlets that had spurned him. The threats, contained in e-mails, suggested that he would expose the journalists as "traitors to the truth".

Unsurprisingly, he soon had difficulty getting his calls returned. Most seriously, he faced aggravated stalking charges in Miami, in connection with a man with whom he had fallen out over the best way to publicise his findings. The charges were dropped last month.

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Buchanan said he regretted his behaviour had damaged his credibility but his main aim was to secure publicity for the story. Both Loftus and Schweitzer say Buchanan has come up with previously undisclosed documentation.

The Bush family have largely responded with no comment to any reference to Prescott Bush. Brown Brothers Harriman also declined to comment.

The Bush family recently approved a flattering biography of Prescott Bush entitled Duty, Honour, Country by Mickey Herskowitz. The publishers, Rutledge Hill Press, promised the book would "deal honestly with Prescott Bush's alleged business relationships with Nazi industrialists and other accusations".

In fact, the allegations are dealt with in less than two pages. The book refers to the Herald-Tribune story by saying that "a person of less established ethics would have panicked ... Bush and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman informed the government regulators that the account, opened in the late 1930s, was 'an unpaid courtesy for a client' ... Prescott Bush acted quickly and openly on behalf of the firm, served well by a reputation that had never been compromised. He made available all records and all documents. Viewed six decades later in the era of serial corporate scandals and shattered careers, he received what can be viewed as the ultimate clean bill."

The Prescott Bush story has been condemned by both conservatives and some liberals as having nothing to do with the current president. It has also been suggested that Prescott Bush had little to do with Averill Harriman and that the two men opposed each other politically.

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However, documents from the Harriman papers include a flattering wartime profile of Harriman in the New York Journal American and next to it in the files is a letter to the financial editor of that paper from Prescott Bush congratulating the paper for running the profile. He added that Harriman's "performance and his whole attitude has been a source of inspiration and pride to his partners and his friends".

The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that "rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated ... Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser."

However, one of the country's oldest Jewish publications, the Jewish Advocate, has aired the controversy in detail.

More than 60 years after Prescott Bush came briefly under scrutiny at the time of a faraway war, his grandson is facing a different kind of scrutiny but one underpinned by the same perception that, for some people, war can be a profitable business.

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By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prescott Bush

Prescott Sheldon Bush
(May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972)
was an American banker and politician.
After working as a Wall Street
executive investment banker,
he represented Connecticut
in the United States Senate
from 1952 to 1963.
A member of the Bush family

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Prescott Sheldon Bush
(May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972)
he was
the father
of former Vice President and President George H. W. Bush,   
and
the paternal grandfather
of former Texas Governor and President George W. Bush
and
former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.


Born in Columbus, Ohio,
Bush
graduated from Yale College
and served as an artillery officer during World War I.
After the war,
he worked for several companies,
becoming a minor partner of
the A. Harriman & Co. investment bank
in 1931.
He served
in several high-ranking United States Golf Association offices,
including president of that organization.
Bush settled in Connecticut in 1925.

Bush won election to the Senate in a 1952 special election, narrowly defeating Democratic nominee Abraham Ribicoff.

In the Senate, Bush staunchly supported President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and helped enact legislation to create the Interstate Highway System.
Bush won re-election in 1956 but declined to seek re-election in 1962,
retiring from the Senate the following year.


Prescott S. Bush
United States Senator
from Connecticut

In office
November 4, 1952 – January 3, 1963
Preceded by William A. Purtell
Succeeded by Abraham Ribicoff


Prescott S. Bush
United States Senator
from Connecticut

Personal details
Born
Prescott Sheldon Bush
May 15, 1895
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Died
October 8, 1972 (aged 77)
New York City, New York, U.S.

Political party Republican

Spouse(s) Dorothy Walker ;(m. 1921);
Children 5, including George, Nancy, Jonathan, and Bucky
Parents
Samuel P. Bush
Flora Sheldon
Relatives Bush family
Education St. George's School, Newport
Alma mater Yale University (BA)


Early life
Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio,[3] to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush. Samuel Bush was a railroad middle manager, then a steel company president and, during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination of and assistance to major weapons contractors.

Bush attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, from 1908–1913. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale College, where his paternal grandfather, Rev. James Smith Bush (class of 1844), and his maternal uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr. (class of 1904) had matriculated. Three subsequent generations of the Bush family have been Yale alumni. Prescott Bush was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity and Skull and Bones secret society. George H. W. Bush was also a member of the society, as is his son, George W. Bush. George H. W. Bush and George Bush were, however, not members of Zeta Psi, and were members, instead, of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

According to Skull and Bones lore, Prescott Bush was among a group of Bonesmen who dug up and removed the skull of Geronimo from his grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1918.[4] According to historian David L. Miller, the Bonesmen probably dug up somebody at Fort Sill, but not Geronimo.[5]

Prescott Bush was a cheerleader,[6] played varsity golf and baseball, and was president of the Yale Glee Club.

After graduation, Bush served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917–1919) during World War I. He received intelligence training at Verdun, France, and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers. Alternating between intelligence and artillery, he came under fire in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

Business career
After his discharge in 1919, Prescott Bush went to work for the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Bush family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1923, where Prescott briefly worked for the Hupp Products Company. In November 1923, he became president of sales for Stedman Products in South Braintree, Massachusetts. During this time, he lived in a Victorian house at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts, where his son, George H. W. Bush, was born.

In 1924, Bush became vice-president of the investment bank A. Harriman & Co. where his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker was president. Bush's Yale classmates and fellow Bonesmen E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley also worked with the company.

In 1925, he joined the United States Rubber Company of New York City as manager of the foreign division, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.

In 1931, he became a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which was created through the 1931 amalgamation of A. Harriman & Co with Brown Bros. & Co., (a merchant bank founded in Philadelphia in 1818) and with Harriman Brothers & Co. (established in New York City in 1927).

He was an avid golfer, and in 1935 was named head of the USGA.[7]

From 1944–1956, Prescott Bush was a member of the Yale Corporation, the principal governing body of Yale University. He was on the board of directors of CBS, having been introduced to chairman William S. Paley around 1932 by his close friend and colleague W. Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power broker.

Union Banking Corporation
Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazi Party.[8][9] In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.[10] A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.[8] Journalist Duncan Campbell pointed out documents showing that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen. Bush was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into World War II.[8]

Historian Herbert Parmet agrees with the assessment that Bush was not a Nazi sympathizer.[9]

Political life
Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first nationwide campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947. He was also an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund, serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.

From 1947–1950, he served as Connecticut Republican finance chairman, and was the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1950. A columnist in Boston said that Bush "is coming on to be known as President Truman's Harry Hopkins. Nobody knows Mr. Bush and he hasn't a Chinaman's chance."[11] (Harry Hopkins had been one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's closest advisors.) Bush's ties with Planned Parenthood also hurt him in strongly-Catholic Connecticut, and were the basis of a last-minute campaign in churches by Bush's opponents; the family vigorously denied the connection, but Bush lost to Sen. William Burnett Benton by only 1,000 votes.

Prescott Bush sought a rematch with Sen. Benton in 1952, but withdrew as the party turned to William Purtell. The death of Senator Brien McMahon later that year, however, created a vacancy and this time the Republicans nominated Bush.[12] He defeated the Democratic nominee, Abraham Ribicoff, and was elected to the Senate. A staunch supporter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he served until January 1963. He was re-elected in 1956 with 55% of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Dodd (later U.S. Senator from Connecticut and father of Christopher J. Dodd), and decided not to run for another term in 1962. He was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System,[13] and during his tenure supported the Polaris submarine project (built by Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, Connecticut), the establishment of the Peace Corps,[14] and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[15][16][17]

On December 2, 1954, Prescott Bush was part of the large (67–22) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy after McCarthy had taken on the U.S. Army and the Eisenhower administration. During the debate leading to the censure, Bush said that McCarthy has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line."[18] Eisenhower later included Prescott Bush on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination.

In terms of issues, Bush often agreed with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. According to Theodore H. White's book about the 1964 presidential election, Bush and Rockefeller were longtime friends. Bush favored a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket for 1960, and was presumed to support Rockefeller's 1964 presidential candidacy until the latter's remarriage in 1963. He then publicly denounced Rockefeller for divorcing his first wife and marrying a woman with whom Rockefeller had been having an affair while married to his first wife.[14] Bush then very publicly endorsed his former Senate colleague Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was also the older brother of one of Bush's proteg;s, former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge.[14]

Another of Senator Bush's major legislative interests was flood and hurricane protection. He drafted the Bush Hurricane Survey Act (Public Law 71), enabling U.S. Army engineers to develop a new program of community protection against tidal flooding.[19][20] Bush and Representative John W. McCormack, the Democratic House Majority Leader, co-sponsored the Bush-McCormack Act (Public Law 685), which expedited the construction of local flood protection works.[21]

Personal life

The grave of Prescott Bush

The headstone
of Prescott Bush
Prescott Bush married Dorothy Wear Walker (1901–1992) on August 6, 1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine. They had five children: Prescott Jr. (1922–2010),[22] George (1924–2018), Nancy (1926–2021), Jonathan (1931–2021), and William "Bucky" (1938–2018).[23]

Bush founded the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni group, in 1937. As was his father-in-law, he was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928–1935. He was a multi-year club champion of the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was on the committee set up by New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. to help create the New York Mets.

He was a member of the American Legion and the 40 & 8 Society.

Bush maintained homes in New York City; Long Island; and Greenwich, Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; and a secluded island off the Connecticut coast, Fishers Island.

He died of cancer in 1972 at age 77 at Memorial Hospital in New York City, and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.

[Он умер от рака в 1972 году в возрасте 77 лет в Мемориальной больнице в Нью-Йорке и был похоронен на Putnam Cemetery  кладбище Патнэм (Патнэм / Путнам - читать латынь или по немецки)  в Гринвиче, штат Коннектикут.]


Business Plot

In July 2007, Scott Horton, an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, had an article published in Harper's Magazine claiming that Prescott Bush was involved in the 1934 Business Plot, a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler into helping them overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt.



Writings
Bush's articles include:

"Timely Monetary Policy," Banking, June 1955 and July 1955
"To Preserve Peace Let's Show the Russians How Strong We Are!" Reader's Digest, July 1959
"Politics Is Your Business," Chamber of Commerce, State of New York, Bulletin, May 1960
See also
List of members of the American Legion

The Guardian
By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
'How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power' | World news | The Guardian
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Буш, Прескотт
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Буш,_Прескотт

Prescott Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
The Guardian
By Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Sat 25 Sep 2004 23.59 BST
'How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power' | World news | The Guardian
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Прескотт Шелдон Буш
Prescott Sheldon Bush

"Прескотт Шелдон Буш" , справки, в дневнике-он-лайн, рассказ
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'Prescott Sheldon Bush',    notes, diary-on-line
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Собрала материал:   Ианна Инна Бальзина-Бальзин 
Collection of diary #WWII #history, #USA history, #Bush #family history
Коллекция дневника к темам #История Второй Мировой войны, #семья Бушей, #Буш, #история #США
Дата публикации     20 декабря   2021
Date of publication  20th December 2021
"Прескотт Шелдон Буш" ('Prescott Sheldon Bush'),  справки, в дневнике-он-лайн, рассказ