1976 George de Mohrenschildt, Oswald's CIA chaperone and George H.W. Bush's old friend, writes a letter to CIA Director Bush begging for help--"we are being followed everywhere".
1977 March 27. George de Mohrenschildt, about to be questioned by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, allegedly commits suicide in Florida.
1979 November 4. Fifty-two Americans are taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1980 Ronald Reagan is elected president and George H.W. Bush, vice-president. It is later alleged that Bush, CIA officer Robert Gates, and CIA Director William Casey met secretly with Iranian officials in Paris before the election and made a secret deal to insure Reagan/Bush an election victory by not releasing the hostages before the vote. The hostages were subsequently released a few minutes after Reagan and Bush were sworn in on January 20, 1981.
1985-88 The Iran-Contra scandal plays out as it is discovered that the Reagan administration was secretly selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and using the proceeds to illegally arm the anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua in violation of the Boland amendment. Oliver North becomes the public face of the secret machinations while Reagan and Bush plead ignorance. Many are indicted, while Bush, when running for president in 1988, claims he was "out of the loop."
1988 July 16. In the midst of the presidential campaign pitting Bush against Dukakis, the Nation magazine publishes an article by Joseph McBride, "The Man Who Wasn't There, 'George Bush,' CIA Operative." The article centers around a newly discovered memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover,dated November 29, 1963, concerning the JFK assassination and an oral briefing the bureau had given on November 23rd regarding the assassination to "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." A Bush spokesman denies it was candidate Bush.
1988 July 3. The USS Vincennes shoots down in Iranian airspace civilian Iran Flight 655 killing 299, including 66 children. Vice President Bush says, "I will never apologize for the U.S. I don't care what the facts are. I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy."
1988 George H.W. Bush is elected president.
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