One... many tend to forget Samuel Prescott Bush, Prescott Bush's father who is the first real root of the Bush Dynasty and one that gets overlooked. His complicity in fueling WWI is very likely, but the records were burned to 'make room' of course.
Samuel Prescott Bush (1863 October 4 Brick Church NJ - 1948 February 8 Columbus OH) was the father of Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of George H. W. Bush and greatgrandfather George W. Bush.
He was the son of the Rev. James Smith Bush.
He married Flora Sheldon on 1894 June 20.
He was president (c1906-1927) of Buckeye Steel Castings of Columbus, Ohio, which (among other things) made railway parts for the Harrimans. The two families were closely associated at least until the end of World War II.
He was the first president of National Manufacturers Association, and cofounder of Scioto Country Club and Columbus Academy.
In the spring of 1918, Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board of Bernard Baruch and Clarence Dillon, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with Remington and other weapons companies. (Senate hearings in 1934 by the Nye committee attacked the ‘Merchants of Death’—war profiteers such as Remington Arms and the British Vickers company—whose salesmen had manipulated many nations into war and then supplied weapons to all sides.)Unfortunately most of the records and correspondence of Bush's arms-related section of the government have been burned ‘to save space’ in the National Archives. He lost his wife Flora Sheldon on 1920 September 4, in Narragansett RI. She stepped in front of a car.<1>
Bush is interred at Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus OH.<2>
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Secondly, I hate to burst the bubble on the Carl Rover Nazi thing but Al Martin is a distorter of truth at best and a liar at worst. He started the ball rolling on the Rove-Nazi link - which Karl probably deserves... but I don't like being lied to from anyone and the connection between Rove and Rover the Nazi is not true.
Concerning Rove...
First off I am not a freeper... But this Rove story Al Martin published about a Nazi connection to Karl Rove followed by seemed pretty far out there. For a guy who claims on his own site that "Al Martin is also considered to be America's foremost whistle-blower on government and military fraud." and charges 5000 bucks to be a keynote speaker.
His work often lacks sources so I thought I would investigate his article on Rove and the leak on Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife. I am pretty sure this is disinformation which, though helpful to the 'cause' I find being lied to by one of our own distasteful. So, as a former journalist, I took it upon myself to do a little investigation myself.
The original story from his site which is all over the net is at
http://almartinraw.com/public/column106.html-------------------------------------
Quote #1 from Al Martin's article.
"According to reliable sources, as well as our own Al Martin Raw.com investigation, Karl Rove is, in fact, the grandson of Karl Heinz Roverer, the gauleiter of Mecklenburg, who was also a partner and senior engineer of Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurbüro AG. They built Birchenau (sic), the concentration camp in Nazi Germany."
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Not that I am sticking up for Rove but Al Martin, if he did his research right would find the "gauleiter" of "Mecklenburg" was not Roverer... In fact there is no Karl Heinz Roverer or Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurbüro AG that built Birkenau in the entire databases of at least four major holocaust archives I went through such as
http://www.holocaust-history.org/http://www.remember.org/http://www.nizkor.org/http://www.mazal.org/Default.htmI also double checked here (
http://remember.org/educate/companies.html) to see if Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurbüro AG would show up but nothing.
And the fact is, the Gauleiter of Mecklenburg
was a guy named Friedrich Hildebrandt (
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/nsdap-gau-mecklenburg.htm)
Mecklenburg Gauleiter List
Friedrich Hildebrandt (1925 - 1930)
? Albrecht (1930 - 1931)
Friedrich Hildebrandt (1931 - 1945)
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Funny enough Karl Röver was the gauleiter of Weser-Ems from 1929-1942. (
http://www.skalman.nu/tredje-riket/r.htm#Rover,Karl)(
http://www.skalman.nu/tredje-riket/r.htm)
Which is almost the same name as Karl Rove but not the one given in the article. Not sure if Al Martin got lazy or if this is the right guy? Karl Rover also tried to stop the war and died under mysterious circumstances.
(
http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/NSDAP/Gauleiter_R-Z.html)
On the night of May 13, 1942, Röver startled the party hierarchy when he announced that he was going to see the Führer on the next day and then proceed to meet Winston Churchill, in order to make peace. Coming virtually on the first anniversary of Rudolf Hess' flight to Scotland, the matter was immediately brought to Martin Bormann's attention. An SS physician diagnosed the last stages of syphilis in Roever, and he was rushed to an isolated area. Two agents were sent by Bormann to examine Röver, and they reported on May 15 that the sick man had succumbed to heart failure. The whole matter was hushed up and soon forgotten in the course of the war."
(Excerpted from Charles Hamilton's Leaders and Personalities of the Third Reich, R. James Bender Publishing, 1984; story also found in Karl Höffkes, Hitlers Politische Generale, Grabert-Verlag, 1986/1997
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So it seems that if there were a Nazi in the family so to speak, he was one who tried to end the war and most likely was murdered by Hitler for even suggesting it. And he was not really one of the bad guys. He certainly had no engineering company and was not involved in camp construction....
The other thing that shoots down this article is the fact that Karl Rove's grandfather worked on a highway road crew during the Great Depression not building gas chambers, according to a Boston Globe article from 2001. (scroll down)
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2000/7-23/featurestory1.shtmlTurn out his real father is is not even Louis Rove... as Karl Rove told the New Yorker. This of course, is most likely Rove spin and lies.
(
http://bnfp.org/neighborhood/Lemann_Rove_NYM.htm)
"But when I asked Rove about it he said the real story is that he was, as it were, half-adopted. I asked him if he'd ever found out who his real father is, and he said that he had, but didn't meet him until many years later, when he was in his forties. He got in touch with the man, arranged to visit him, and was greeted with a chilly reception. Rove spoke of his adoptive father in a tone of fierce admiration, love, and loyalty, for, as he put it, "how selfless his love had been," as shown by his willingness to play, persuasively, the part of a blood parent for two decades. The bond between Rove and his adoptive father became even more important, no doubt, after Rove's mother committed suicide, in Reno, Nevada, in 1981."
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This is a highly inflammatory claim with nothing to support it. I think this is an important story, but it is seriously weakened by this unsupported contention and subsequent debunking of information.
Any takers to debunk my analysis?