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THE BUSHES RETURNED TO ST. LOUIS Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 36.

SPENT A YEAR IN COLUMBUS Ibid., 37.

THAT ENDED UP BEING SOLD PSB, COHC, 7. Prescott's father, S. P. Bush, had a "substantial investment" in the concern. (Ibid.) THE BUSHES MOVED YET AGAIN Ibid., 8.

THEY BOUGHT 173 ADAMS STREET Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 37.

A BIG VICTORIAN Ibid. for the "Victorian" detail, and the size of the house is evident from photographs and from the description given by John Madden, "Former President Bush Visits His Milton Birthplace," The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA), August 13, 1997, http://www.patriotledger.com/article/19970813/NEWS/308139999.

NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF ADAMS AND HUTCHINSON Madden, "Former President Bush Visits His Milton Birthplace," The Patriot Ledger, August 13, 1997, www.patriotledger.com/article/19970813/NEWS/308139999.

THE BRIEFEST OF WALKS TO GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON'S FIELD www.google.com/maps/dir/173+Adams+St,Milton,+MA+02186/Governor+Hutchinson's+Field,+Milton,+MA+02186/@42.2663652,-71.0684047,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e37c6e736a5fb3:0xddb9b3429eeff238!2m2!1d-71.067153!2d42.266981!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e37c6e51f23821:0xf4be1028f0104d97!2m2!1d-71.065043!2d42.2660453!3e2. See also www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/greater-boston/hutchinsons-field.html.

THE OLD SITE OF THE ESTATE OF THE LAST COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/greater-boston/hutchinsons-field.html.

DOROTHY WALKER BUSH DELIVERED HER SECOND SON Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 37.

A MIDWIFE ASSISTED Betsy [Walker] to "Dear Jody, John," GBPL.

BAPTIZED GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH Green, George Bush, 11.

BECAME KNOWN AS "POPPY" Author interviews with GHWB and Nancy Bush Ellis.

WHILE GEORGE'S FATHER Green, George Bush, 11.

THE PRESCOTT BUSHES MOVED PSB, COHC, 8.

"I DID HAVE A VERY WIDE" Ibid., 9.

BUSH BEGAN Ibid., 8.

BROWN BROTHERS WAS ALREADY A NOTABLE HOUSE John A. Kouwenhoven, Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (Garden City, N.Y., 1968), is a comprehensive history.

A LETTER OF CREDIT FROM BROWN BROTHERS Ibid., 193.

THE FIRM BECAME See, for instance, Kouwenhoven, Partners in Banking; Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (New York, 1986), 11018.

AVERELL HARRIMAN SERVED Isaacson and Thomas, Wise Men, 1718, 20, 188, 58485.

ANOTHER PARTNER, ROBERT LOVETT Ibid., 21, 555.

AT 59 WALL STREET Ibid., 11011.

DECISIONS WERE MADE BY CONSENSUS PSB, COHC, 3738; Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 47.

PRESCOTT ALSO JOINED PSB, COHC, 1314.

IN JULY 1941 New York Herald Tribune, July 31, 1941; WP, July 31, 1941; Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 7273; The Boston Globe, April 23, 2001; The Guardian, September 25, 2004; The Washington Times, October 17, 2003. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 5051.

THE GERMAN CONNECTIONS NEVER Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 73.

IN THE WAKE OF THE MERGER Kouwenhoven, Partners in Banking, 12. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 47.

A FELLOW BONESMAN Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 14. See also Isaacson and Thomas, Wise Men, 11011.

WORRIED ABOUT WALKER'S "DANGEROUS DEALINGS" Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 68. See also Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 1011.

WALKER ADMIRED PRESCOTT'S GOLF GAME Author interviews with G. H. Walker III and Nancy Bush Ellis.

THE BUSH CODE OF DISGUISED AMBITION Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 36, 14.

"OTHERS WOULD CLIMB" Author interview with GHWB.

WHILE PRESCOTT ADORED SINGING Author interviews with GHWB, Nancy Bush Ellis, and Jonathan Bush. See also Naftali, GHWB, 56, for a summary of life at home.

"IN THE THIRTIES HE WAS WORRIED" Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.

"I WAS TERRIFIED" Author interview with Jonathan Bush.

GEORGE H. W. AND HIS OLDER BROTHER Author interview with GHWB.

"HE PICKED UP A SQUASH RACQUET" Ibid.

"SHE HAD FIVE OF US" "GHWB's Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush," GBPL.

"MY MOTHER'S WAS A LITTLE LIKE" Ibid.

THREE: He Gets So Intense Over Everything "MOTHER WAS ALWAYS GENEROUS" Author interview with Jonathan Bush.

"DAD? TALL, SCARY" Author interview with GHWB.

THE YARD OF THE BUSH HOUSE "GHWB's Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush," GBPL.

WERE TO BE CLIMBED Ibid.

"MOTHER NEVER SEEMED AFRAID" Ibid.

"OF COURSE, THERE WOULD BE" Ibid.

"IN THE PLAYING-FIELDS BOYS ACQUIRE" Charles Kingsley, The Works of Charles Kingsley, vol. 18, Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays (London, 1880), 125.

"THE SUN MIGHT BE BLISTERING HOT" "GHWB's Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush," GBPL.

THERE WAS A PORTE COCHERE "Elsie Walker Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush," Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.

LINED WITH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS Ibid.

INVITED OVER FOR "TIDDLYWINKS" Ibid.

ESPECIALLY "WIDE AND COMFORTABLE" Ibid.

ON SUNDAYS, IF THE WEATHER WAS GOOD Author interview with William T. "Bucky" Bush.

RUBBER-SPIKED GOLF SHOES Ibid.

IF IT WAS RAINING OR SNOWING Ibid.

DOROTHY WOULD WORK Ibid.

PRESCOTT WOULD FIGHT TO STAY AWAKE Ibid.

ONE SUMMER DAY IN THE MID-1930s Author interview with GHWB.

TWO INFURIATED LOBSTERMEN Ibid.

"THERE ARE TWO MEN" Ibid.

HE RETURNED TO HIS MEAL Ibid.

HIS GRANDCHILDREN RECALLED Ibid.

EVEN BREAKFAST COULD BE PERILOUS Ibid.

"LOTS OF SPORTS, LOTS OF SUMMER READING" Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.

THE BUSH CHILDREN READ Ibid.

POPPY AND PRESSY BOATED NO MATTER WHAT Ibid.

"RIDE THE SURF" Ibid.

"MOTHER ALWAYS STRESSED" Ibid.

CHRISTMASES WERE SPENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA Author interviews with GHWB and Nancy Bush Ellis. Recounting his privileged childhood, GHWB joked: "Yep, we had to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, but it all worked out." (Ibid.) At another point in a joint interview with GHWB and Mrs. Ellis, there was this exchange: "We were spared the agony of the Depression, I must say," GHWB said.

"We were," Nancy said, "but we were reminded to eat everything on our plate because people in the country were starving."

"That's right, but we were lucky to have something on the plate," said GHWB.

"Exactly," Nancy said. (Ibid.)

WHEN THEY WOKE AND SUMMONED HANSFORD Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.

THE DOGS-POINTERS AND SPANIELS Author interview with GHWB.

DOROTHY WAS A TERRIFIC SHOT, AS WAS PRESCOTT Ibid.

DINNER WAS BLACK-TIE Ibid.

PRESCOTT COULD BE SILENT Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 52.

"DAD WAS GRIM" Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis. Greenwich was nervous, too, after the 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the twenty-month-old son of the flying hero Charles Lindbergh, who lived in Hopewell, New Jersey. "I remember the Lindbergh kidnapping, and all the Rockefellers in Greenwich putting iron bars on the windows of their houses," Nancy recalled. "Only cousins of the John D. Rockefellers, but Rockefellers nevertheless." (Ibid.) "NOW IT IS REQUIRED" Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 59.

"FOR UNTO WHOMSOEVER" Luke 12:48 (KJV).

"PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY" Author interview with GHWB.

"SHE CRIES A LOT" "GHWB's Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush," GBPL.

"SHE'S ALWAYS WITH ME" Author interview with GHWB.

GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL Susan D. Elia, Renee F. Seblatnigg, and Val P. Storms, Greenwich Country Day: A History, 19261986 (Canaan, N.H., 1988), 39.

THE BUSHES ALLOWED POPPY Green, George Bush, 12.

THE BOYS WERE Author interview with GHWB. See also LSY, 2829.

BLACK-AND-ORANGE UNIFORM SWEATERS Elia, Seblatnigg, and Storms, Greenwich Country Day, 39; LSY, 33.

"ANYTHING FROM A MOUSE" Elia, Seblatnigg, and Storms, Greenwich Country Day, 11.

"IT WAS CUTTHROAT" Ibid.

THE SCHOOL'S FIRST HEADMASTER, JOHN LYNN MINER Ibid., 105.

INCLUDED THE CATEGORY "CLAIMS MORE THAN" ATB, 53. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 58.

A MEASURE THE BUSHES WATCHED CAREFULLY ATB, 53. As GHWB noted: "If this was checked on our card, we were in big trouble." (Ibid.) Of his general experience at GCDS, Bush always remembered the Latin classes ("which I kind of liked, actually," he recalled), but then and later he was more engaged by team efforts, be they soccer or singing. "I loved team sports. Loved them all. Even glee club-other people singing." (Author interview with GHWB.) EARNING THE NICKNAME "HAVE-HALF" Author interviews with Nancy Bush Ellis and Jonathan Bush.

DURING AN INFORMAL PLAYGROUND RACE Author interview with GHWB.

"I SAW HIM THERE" Ibid.