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> Book: Bush was arrested for cocaine in 1972
> Texas author J.H. Hatfield claims the Republican front-runner did community
> service at a Houston center.
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> By Salon Staff
> Oct. 18, 1999 | A new book by Texas author J.H. Hatfield claims that George
> W. Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972, but had his record
> expunged with help from his family's political connections. In an afterword
> to his book "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American
> President" (St. Martin's), Hatfield says he took a second look at the Bush
> cocaine allegations after a story in Salon reporting allegations that Bush
> did community service for the crime at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community
> Center in Houston's Third Ward.
> The center's executive director, Madgelean Bush (no relation to George W.
> Bush), had told Salon News and others that Bush did not do community service
> there, and the Bush campaign likewise denied the allegation. But the Texas
> governor had admitted to working at Houston's Project P.U.L.L. in 1972, and
> Hatfield says he began to wonder if that was actually the community service
> sentence. Hatfield says he confirmed those suspicions with three sources
> close to the Bush family he had cultivated while writing his biography, which
> publishes Wednesday.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Fortunate Son:
> The Rise of George W. Bush & The Next Generation of Politics
> By J.H. Hatfield
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bush's campaign denied Hatfield's allegation Monday.
> By contrast, "First Son: George W. Bush and the Family Dynasty," by Dallas
> Morning News reporter Bill Minutaglio, says George Bush Sr. referred his son
> to Project P.U.L.L. after an incident in which George W. drove drunk with his
> younger brother Marvin in the car.
> But Hatfield quotes "a high-ranking advisor to Bush" who confirmed that Bush
> was arrested for cocaine possession in Houston in 1972, and had the record
> expunged by a judge who was "a fellow Republican and elected official" who
> helped Bush get off "with a little community service at a minority youth
> center instead of having to pick cotton on a Texas prison farm."
> Hatfield quotes a former Yale classmate who told him: "George W. was arrested
> for possession of cocaine in 1972, but due to his father's connections, the
> entire record was expunged by a state judge whom the older Bush helped get
> elected. It was one of those 'behind closed doors in the judges' chambers'
> kind of thing between the old man and one of his Texas cronies who owed him a
> favor ... There's only a handful of us that know the truth."
> Another source named only as "a longtime Bush friend" described the situation
> this way: "Say you get a D in algebra ... and now you're going to be required
> to repeat the class the following year, but your teacher says if you promise
> to be tutored during the summer by a friend of hers who's good in math,
> she'll change the D to a C. You spend a few hours a week during the summer
> vacation learning all about arithmetical operations and relationships, and
> then the teacher issues you a new report card, replacing the old one on file
> in the principal's office ... Something akin to that scenario is what
> happened with Bush in 1972."
> Hatfield also says that when he asked Scott McClellan to comment on the
> allegation of a former Yale classmate of Bush's that the presidential hopeful
> was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 and had his record expunged in
> exchange for community service at Project P.U.L.L., the Bush campaign
> spokesman said, sotto voce, "Oh, shit," followed by, "No comment."
> McClellan denies that the exchange ever occurred. "I never spoke to the guy,
> and I'm not aware that anyone at the campaign has spoken to him," he told
> Salon News.
> "This guy should have stuck with writing science fiction," said Bush campaign
> spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. "He's obviously trying to sell books with something
> absolutely untrue."
> Next page | "Do I know for a fact these allegations are true? No, of course
> not"
>
> Tucker pointed out that there were no Republican judges in Harris County
> until 1979 and says that former President George Bush's office "has issued
> quite a strong statement about how inaccurate this is." The elder Bush's
> spokeswoman was not reachable for comment.
> Hatfield is a Texas reporter and syndicated columnist. He has previously
> published a biography of "Star Trek" actor Patrick Stewart.
> "Our lawyers looked at the manuscript with great care, it was thoroughly
> fact-checked," Thomas Dunne, publisher of the St. Martin's imprint that's
> publishing Hatfield's book. "This author is a pretty good digger. He used a
> lot more sources than Bob Woodward has in a while. I didn't ask for the names
> of the three anonymous sources he used in regard to the drug charges. His
> editor might have, I don't know.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Fortunate Son:
> The Rise of George W. Bush & The Next Generation of Politics
> By J.H. Hatfield
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Do I know for a fact these allegations are true? No, of course not. But I
> know that the author believes them to be true. He researched the book
> exhaustively and put it together with a variety of independent sources,
> including many who have never met each other."
> "Salon actually started this," Hatfield said in an interview Monday. "The
> book was finished. The galleys were in and ready to go to print. You guys did
> the story on the MLK Jr. center.
> "When I was working on the book, it's almost like being one of those women
> who sit around and make quilts all day. You've got all these patches of
> fabric. The Project P.U.L.L. year in 1972 did not fit his personality. It
> would be like that one piece on that quilt and you may not notice it. But if
> I made that quilt I'd be across the room going, 'That piece just doesn't fit.
> It bothers me.'"
> Hatfield says he, like other reporters, didn't pay much attention to the year
> Bush spent doing community service -- at a time when it was well-known he was
> drinking and carousing. "I fell for it just like everybody has. Kinda glossed
> over it -- 'That's nice.' All of a sudden he goes back to his young and
> irresponsible years again. Why all of sudden would you quit flying your
> planes, quit drinking, quit chasing women and go mentor inner-city black
> kids? That piece never fit in.
> "He was arrested. He was not charged as far as I know from my sources. What
> happened was he was picked up, taken to Harris County Jail. Within hours Dad
> was there.
> "I think his dad might have gotten him switched to another judge. Texas
> judges are elected, which makes a lot of people believe that they can be
> manipulated and corrupted."
> Reported by Anthony York, Craig Offman and Daryl Lindsey.
>
> salon.com | Oct. 18, 1999
>
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> About the writer
> Craig Offman is the New York correspondent for Salon Books.
> About the writer
> Anthony York is an associate editor for Salon News.
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