George W.
Bush won the longest, closest, and most expensive presidential race in U.S.
history with a keen strategy, a moderate message, and, of course, lots and lots
of money.
http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/index.asp
As
the Watergate scandal unfolded, the Nixon administration's decision to raise
milk price supports was linked to the milk producers' pledge of funds to Nixon's
1972 campaign. And an internal memo written by International Telephone &
Telegraph (ITT) lobbyist Dita Beard suggested that the Nixon Justice Department
had dropped three antitrust suits against the finn in return for its $400,000
pledge to help finance the GOP convention in 1972. Several CREEP donors were
rewarded with ambassadorships.
George Bush (whom Nixon chose as national party chair in the midst of the
Watergate scandal), invited $100,000 donors back into the business of financing
presidential elections and influencing the White House. Several Team 100 members
in fact were CREEP donors, including insurance executive W. Clement Stone; ADM
Chair Dwayne Andreas; Florida developer Alec Courtelis, who took over Team 100
from Robert Mosbacher in 1989; and Mosbacher.
The
Attack on the Bill of Rights In-Depth Special
to The Dubya Report
October 20, 2001 http://www.thedubyareport.com/bor.html
Between
October 11 and 12, 2001 the Senate and the House of Representatives each passed
legislation granting the government an array of new powers to monitor electronic
communications, and track and investigate suspected terrorists. Called the
Patriot Act in the House, and the U.S.A. Act in the Senate, the bills were
passed in what the New York Times called "and atmosphere of edgy
alarm," compounded by dire warnings from law enforcement officials that
another attack was imminent. The legislation passed, despite the efforts of
civil liberties advocates to slow the proceedings at least to the point that the
effects of the legislation could be considered seriously, and with lawmakers
admitting they had not even read the legislation. Less than a week later,
Congressional negotiators reached a compromise between differing versions of the
legislation, virtually insuring its passage. A CBS-New York Times survey taken
September 16 found 74% of Americans believing they would have to give up some of
their freedoms in the fight against terrorism. While a commonly cited
justification for this attitude is that the September 11 attack took place on
American soil, Nat Hentoff suggested in the Village Voice that "most
Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms
are—and what it took to get them. So there is little concern that they and
other Americans can be caught in dragnets of suspicion by a government that has
suspended much of the Bill
of Rights."
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