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BUSH TOOK FRENCH NYT, May 28, 1989.

HE LETTERED IN SOCCER "Biography of George Bush, Yale Class of 1948," Yale Political Union, March 24, 1980.

HE WAS SECRETARY OF "Biography of George Bush, Yale Class of 1948."

SERVING BRIEFLY AS CHAPTER PRESIDENT BB, 26.

HE WON A FABLED HONOR Ibid.

THE "LAST MAN TAPPED" Author interview with GHWB.

THE SECRET SOCIETY SKULL AND BONES Isaacson and Thomas, Wise Men, 8182. See also Alexandra Robbins, Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power (Boston, 2002).

BUSH'S SUCCESS AT YALE In an introduction to a 1968 edition of Stover at Yale, Owen Johnson's portrait of undergraduate life in the early years of the twentieth century, Kingman Brewster, Jr., the Yale president from 1963 to 1977, wrote that "campus success was, by and large, in fact as well as feeling, more related to effort and accomplishment and contribution to the College than it was to inherited status or to the machinations of a campus-wide political 'system.' It was a pyramid, with Skull and Bones sitting aperch the top. But it was a pyramid of merit to a remarkable extent and reward did not exclude the rebel or guarantee the legacy." (Owen Johnson, Stover at Yale [New York, 1968], vi.) "DIDN'T CARE WHAT WAS GOING ON" LF, 44.

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR., WAS TWO YEARS BEHIND Ibid.

IN NEW HAVEN, THE BUSHES FIRST LIVED BB, 26.

BARBARA RECALLED THAT IT TOOK Ibid.

A STAY ON EDWARDS STREET Ibid., 27.

THEY MOVED INTO 37 HILLHOUSE AVENUE LF, 44.

THE HILLHOUSE ADDRESS WAS FILLED BB, 2728. See also LF, 4344.

DURING HIS FIRST YEAR "Biography of George Bush, Yale Class of 1948"; BB, 27.

SHE KEPT SCORE AT YALE FIELD BB, 27.

SHE GAINED SIXTY POUNDS Ibid.

"THE BABY DID NOT COME" Ibid.

ETHAN ALLEN, THE YALE BASEBALL COACH Ibid.

"I WAS HUGE" Ibid.

AT GRACENEW HAVEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Author interview with BPB.

BARBARA GAVE BIRTH TO THEIR FIRST CHILD BB, 27.

"GEORGE'S MOTHER FINALLY" Ibid.

THE YOUNG PARENTS WERE SMITTEN Ibid.

"LOOKED UP TO" LF, 44.

HISTORIC STREAK OF PLAYING https://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014204.html.

ON THE AFTERNOON OF YALE'S 1948 HOME GAME "Crowd Chokes Up as Babe Hits to the Heart at Yale Where He Smacked Longest Homer," New Haven, CT, June 5, [1948,] Bush Family Scrapbooks, GBPL.

AS CAPTAIN, BUSH WAS TASKED Ibid.; LF, 4445.

IT HAD RAINED ALL MORNING "Crowd Chokes Up as Babe Hits to the Heart at Yale Where He Smacked Longest Homer," New Haven, CT, June 5, [1948], Bush Family Scrapbooks, GBPL.

STRICKEN WITH THE CANCER LF, 4445.

"NOTHING FLASHY" Ibid., 44.

"DEAR SIR" Ibid., 4243.

"SWINGING DEFENSIVELY" Ibid.

"NO RISK, NO GAIN" Ibid.

BUSH WAS HITTING .280 Ibid.

COLLEGE WORLD SERIES Ibid., 45.

BUSH WEIGHED APPLYING FOR A RHODES SCHOLARSHIP Ibid., 46.

(THOUGH THERE WERE FAMILY MEANS) Author interviews with GHWB and BPB.

HE INTERVIEWED WITH A RECRUITER Author interview with BPB.

HE WAS OFFERED, BUT DECLINED G. V. Cowper, Jr., Advertising Manager, Bates Fabrics, Inc., New York, March 1, 1948, and March 10, 1948, Bush, Personal File: Correspondence, Miscellaneous Business (1950 [194850]), ZAP.

BARBARA AND GEORGE WERE INTRIGUED Author interview with GHWB. See also LF, 22.

THEY HAD ROMANTIC VISIONS LF, 22.

"GEORGE AND BARBARA FARMS" Ibid., 23. See also BB, 30.

IN THIS SEASON OF UNCERTAINTY ATB, 6163.

"I CAN'T IMAGINE" Ibid., 6162. Bush added: "I have never even thought about the cloth-only a tablecloth or a loincloth." (Ibid.) HE WAS IN A CANDID, EVEN CONFESSIONAL Ibid., 6263.

HE HAD THOUGHT OF TEACHING Ibid., 62.

"I AM NOT SURE I WANT TO CAPITALIZE" Ibid.

FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE HENRY NEIL MALLON LF, 4647. See also BB, 31, and Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 87.

"UNCLE NEIL" BB, 31.

OF AVERAGE HEIGHT (FIVE FOOT NINE) Ibid.

HE ENDEARED HIMSELF TO THE CHILDREN Ibid.

"WHAT YOU NEED TO DO" LF, 46.

"TEXAS WOULD BE NEW" ATB, 6263.

HAD "GREAT APPEAL" Ibid., 63.

A TWO-DOOR RED STUDEBAKER BB, 31.

THEY WOULD FOLLOW BY PLANE Ibid., 32.

Part III: Texas and Tragedy, 1948 to 1966 I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS Author interview with GHWB.

NINE: Who Had Ever Heard of Odessa, Texas?

AS FAR AS MY MOTHER BB, 32.

WE ALL JUST WANTED LF, 58.

ALL BUSH REALLY KNEW Author interview with GHWB.

FROM RANDOLPH SCOTT MOVIES LF, 47.

STOPPING FOR LUNCH Ibid.

"CHICKEN-FRIED STEAK" Ibid.

TEN MINUTES LATER Ibid., 4748.

ODESSA A SLEEPY ONE Ibid., 48.

PASSING DERRICK AFTER DERRICK Ibid.

THE SMALL TIN-ROOFED IDECO STORE Ibid.

"IDECO" WAS SHORTHAND FOR LSY, 71.

"YOU'LL BE AN EQUIPMENT CLERK" LF, 47; LSY, 73.

MONTHLY SALARY WAS $375 LSY, 73.

RENTED HALF OF A DUPLEX BB, 32; LSY, 7273.

THE UNPAVED EAST SEVENTH STREET Author interview with BPB.

"A WHOLE NEW" BB, 32.

"WHO HAD EVER HEARD" Ibid.

THE BUSHES' FELLOW RENTERS Ibid. See also ATB, 63; LSY, 73.

READING TRADE JOURNALS ATB, 6364, 66.

BUSH AND HUGH EVANS LF, 1921.

"SUPPOSED TO SPRUCE UP" Ibid., 20.

THE SAVVY EVANS Ibid.

"WHAT THE THERMOMETER READ" Ibid.

"GEORGE, WOULD YOU MIND" Ibid., 21.

"JUST TELL ME," HE SAID Ibid.

BARBARA SUFFERED A MISCARRIAGE ATB, 65.

HER LIFE IN PARTICULAR REVOLVED AROUND GEORGIE'S BPB diary and letters, Fall 1948.

"COUGHED UNTIL HIS LITTLE BODY" Ibid.

AFTER A LARGE SHOT OF PENICILLIN ATB, 6465.

LISTENING TO MOTHER GOOSE BPB diary and letters, Fall 1948.

"WHENEVER I COME HOME" ATB, 64.

WRITING HER PARENTS TO THANK THEM BPB diary and letters, Fall 1948.

"G.W.B. HAS A WEE BIT" Ibid.

BUSH SHOT DOVES Ibid.

THERE WERE FOOTBALL GAMES Ibid.

"SHE IS SOMETHING, MUM" ATB, 65.

BARBARA GOT A LIBRARY CARD BPB diary and letters, Fall 1948.

HER MOTHER-IN-LAW SENT HER Ibid.

THE YOUNG COUPLE READ TIME Ibid.

BY CHRISTMAS, BUSH HAD MOVED THE FAMILY BB, 35; LSY, 73.

THEIR OWN BATH BB, 35.

ON CHRISTMAS EVE, BUSH WAS ASSIGNED LF, 5051.