The Bush Family!
"The Family"
By Kitty Kelley
Bantam Books, 2005
THE SKELETONS KEEP rattling and tumbling down from the closet of the Bush dynasty in this latest book by biographer Kitty Kelley, known for her exposès of such celebrities as Jackie Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan and the British royals.
Kelley quotes a divorced daughter-in-law of Bush, Sharon Smith Bush (former wife of Neil Bush, son of George H. W.), as declaring: "This is a family of alcoholism, drug addiction, and even schizophrenia." Also, on at least two instances, of adultery.
The black sheep of the family was James S. Bush, brother of George H. W., who was disowned because he married and divorced many times, something the Bushes strongly disapprove of. Accused of embezzlement, James, an alcoholic, fled to other countries and ended up in the Philippines.
There, as a US consular officer reported, he was "living with a Filipino street woman he had met in a bar." Impoverished, crippled, almost blind, the unfortunate James died of lung cancer at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City in 1978 at the age of 77.
His death was "a great relief to all of us," declared George H. W.
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