"It was really quite amazing. Here was this young guy making acquisitions of tropical plants and then up and leaving to fly fighter planes."

A MadCowMorningNews investigation into the controversy currently swirling around President George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard has uncovered evidence indicating that .....

.... Bush’s disputed “lost year” is not the only period of time during his abbreviated stint in the Guard that remains shrouded in mystery.

Conventional wisdom about Bush is that he spent the more poorly-documented stretches of his Guard service somewhere with his cowboy boots up on a desk, pulling the tab on another ‘tall cold one.’ The questions being asked are on the order of: Did daddy pull strings to get him a cozy billet? Did he actually show up for duty?

But conventional wisdom has a way of often being wrong. Evidence unearthed in our investigation indicates that George W. Bush, while supposedly serving in the Texas Guard in 1971, may instead have been detailed to the massive covert operation of the U.S. government going on at that very moment in Central America.

Did George W. Bush take part in Operation Condor?

In the official version of George W. Bush’s chronology during his National Guard years is a striking statement which has been totally overlooked in the major media. A timeline of President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard compiled by The Associated Press says, for 1971: “Participates in drills and alerts at Ellington. Begins work for Houston-based agricultural company.”

We always become suspicious when we see the major media get suddenly vague. The AP has no trouble at all with the name of the air base, "Ellington," where Bush was serving. But, about where he was working, they can bring themselves only to say he “works for a “Houston-based agricultural company.”

“A Houston-based agricultural company” is wordy. It's far less work to write “XYZ Company.” So we already knew we would find something juicy hidden here, because reporters are notoriously lazy, and would not have gone to the trouble to construct the line "Houston-based agricultural company" unless prompted to by the exigencies of our capitalist system.

"Reportorial vagueness" is almost always deliberate. The Chicago Tribune, for example, carried a whole story about the mysterious German couple who recruited Mohamed Atta to come to Hamburg from Cairo in 1992. But they never once named the couple. They called them the "M's.

When the media roll over completely on the old “who what when where & why business,” its always for a reason. And the reason is always the same:

Somebody is covering something up.

Tropical Plants and "La Vida Loca" in Houston

“George's job was to travel around the United States and to countries in Central America looking for plant nurseries his company might want to acquire,” read one account.

A profile of George W in 2000 in Texas Monthly said, “George W. Bush’s responsibilities included sizing up plant nurseries for possible acquisition.”

Is it just us? Does anyone else have a problem seeing George W. Bush as Mr. Green Jeans? The idea seems ridiculous on its face, especially as his plant nursery job comes smack dab (as they say in Texas) in the middle of a time when Bush was living la vida loca, partying, boozing, and, persistent rumors allege, doing other drugs as well.

Bush lived at Chateaux Dijon, an apartment complex near the Houston Galleria known for its singles scene, which included water volleyball games in its swimming pools. Friends describe him as taking a hearty approach to his social life, and Bush himself has said famously that he was "young and irresponsible" in Houston, that he "raised a little hell."

We've spent time in Houston. Girls in clubs there don't appear the type to go wild for a man working in a plant nursery. Au contraire.

A jug of wine, a load of bread, and some beautiful pink flowers

Working for a company engaged in the unglamorous plant nursery business could hardly have been seen as a plus in getting girls. Why work there then? Other more dashing pursuits must have been available to young Bush, for those hours when he wasn't patrolling the skies for signs that the Mexican Air Force had launched an all-out attack.

Had it been some kind of aroma therapy? A respite from debilitating drinking bouts amid fragrant and beautiful flowers? Soothing naps underneath baobab trees after throttling screaming warplanes through the wild blue yonder?

Bush, a practical politician in his later years, learned Spanish to court the Hispanic vote. If he spent a year rubbing elbows with horticulturalists, don't you think we'd have heard him boast of this “green” credential?

But where the story really breaks down is here: What did George W. Bush know about tropical plants that made him a horticultural expert sharp enough to be deployed overseas looking for acquisitions?

The question answers itself. The answer is "nothing." So it is not reasonable to conclude that George W. Bush was in the tropical plant business during the year he says he was.

So then, just what business was Bush involved with, while traipsing about Central America with lads from Zapata?

A Coat, a Tie...and a Snub-nosed 38?

Bush himself would later refer to his time at the plant nursery firm as a dull 'coat-and-tie' job, an odd description for a position which entailed jetting to steamy Caribbean capitals chock-full of intrigue.

The MadCowMorningNews uncovered indications that, instead of scouting Spatholottis Plicata (Philippine Ground Orchids) and Strelitzia (Giant Bird of Paradise) tropical shrubs, George W. Bush was serving a ‘tour of duty’ in Central America for a shadowy arm of the U.S. Government which Watergate burglar and disgraced CIA Agent E. Howard Hunt called “Clandestine Services.”

Bush's plant-nursin' jet-flyin' story was the future Presidents “cover” for the unit to which the young second lieutenant was actually detached—officially or otherwise—a massive clandestine U.S. government operation that was going on just then called Operation Condor.

Was George W. Bush working for the spooks?

Such a charge demands evidence, some of which we will shortly present. But first, a little background on the outfit the young George W was so intent on transferring into... the Alabama Guard.

The Secret History of the Alabama Guard

The Alabama Guard, we had discovered while writing “Barry & ‘the boys,’” is rich with the secret history of American covert operations over the last half-century, as far back as 1961, when it was used to “sheep-dipp” (provide legitimate cover) for CIA pilots returning from Guatemala, their base during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Among those pilots was a young man, Barry Seal, who will one day become famous as the biggest drug smuggler in American history.

Although much about the Alabama Guard during this time period still remains veiled, when we interviewed James Harrison, a former member and one of the last remaining living American pilots who flew missions over the Bay of Pigs, we learned that one enduring secret concerns the role American pilots played in it, which went far beyond training exile Cuban pilots and flying combat flights on the last day of the invasion, as the U.S. later admitted.

life's a gas when you're in on the joke

Even 40 years later, the stress placed on secrecy about operations he took part in while he was "sheep-dipped" in the Alabama Guard make him reluctant to talk. "I didn't train anyone, frankly," he finally told us, when pressed on the role of the American 'trainers' in Central America. "I was expected to fly combat." From an Air Guard base in Montgomery, where a decade later George W Bush will, Zen-like, both be and not be, Barry Seal participated in Caribbean and Central American operations which included the assassination on May 30, 2026 of Dominican Republic dictator Raphael Trujillo, whose limo was ambushed returning from a rendezvous with his mistress. Operatives who were there can still be found who will retail, anonymously, colorful anecdotes about the "hit." There's more information in "Barry & 'the boys:' The CIA the Mob & America's Secret History."

"Shut up before you get shot"

"Seal worked for General Reid Doster, who assembled a CIA Air Force that eventually numbered 80 fliers. Seal's Alabama Guard ‘work’ took him, two months before the Bay of Pigs invasion, to Guatemala, where he sent another postcard home, this time bearing a picture of a volcano towering over a deep green jungle.

A daredevil pilot with whom George W. Bush was said to have later been acquainted, Seal had also been drilled on the importance of secrecy concerning his Alabama assignment. He sent a postcard home from Montgomery in June of 1961, (bearing the picture of the “Albert Pike Motel” which boasted of being “completely air-conditioned!”)

On the back he wrote, “Just call me a freedom rider! I’d better shut up before I get shot!”

A decade later another member of the Alabama Guard, George W. Bush, will also be working in Central America.

Barry Seal was flying cover at the Bay of Pigs from Guatemala. George W. was said to have been buying tropical plants there. Was there something "special" about the Alabama Guard?

We continued digging, especially after reading a quote from a Bush friend about the man we're beginning to think of as “George the Green.”

Once or twice a month, the friend stated, Bush would announce that he had flight duty and off he would go, leaving his nursery duties to go fly his F-102. "It was really quite amazing,” Peter Knudtzon told the New York Times. “Here was this young guy making acquisitions of tropical plants and then up and leaving to fly fighter planes."

We find this image amazing as well. It makes Bush sound a little like Clark Kent, changing costumes on the fly. Knudtzon told the Times, “’We traveled to all kinds of peculiar places, like Apopka, Florida, which was named the foliage capital of the world,’ continued the Zapata alumnus who was Stratford's executive vice president and Bush's immediate boss.”

Very seldom does anything in the New York Times make our jaw drop. But the phrase "continued the Zapata alumnus" did.

“A Zapata alumnus?” Selling plants?

Where was George?

For those tuning in late, Zapata Drilling, the offshore oil company owned by George Bush Sr., has been repeatedly alleged by researchers to have been a CIA front, used to support the Bay of Pigs invasion. Even if this notion is dismissed as a fantasy, this question remains:

What kind of career path leads from offshore oil exploration to buying tropical plants?

Since nothing about this story so far seemed to make any sort of business sense, we recalled the words of an executive who worked for Rudi Dekkers. Charlie Voss, called the “bookkeeper’ at Huffman in news accounts, is in reality a retired C-130 pilot. When we asked him why none of Dekker's many money-losing aviation enterprises made any sense, he replied, “Sometimes when things don’t make business sense, it’s because they do make sense, just in some other way.”

Like so many businesses associated with friends of the Bush family, Stratford of Texas, the young George W.’s employer, went bankrupt in such spectacular fashion it later inspired a case study at the Harvard Business School. (Unfortunately for George W, it came after he had already graduated.) So it can't be that 'the boys' at the plant nursery were born to raise orchids, can it?

Reinforcing this point is the amazing fact that the plant nursery co-worker of George W's interviewed by the New York Times wasn’t the only Zapata alumni at Stratford of Texas. The firm’s owner, who had personally hired the young future President to go tramping around Central America looking for hot opportunities in plant nurseries, had himself spent an eight-year stint as V.P. and President of Bush Sr.'s Zapata Drilling, during exactly the years--between '61 and' 69--that the CIA was most active in the Caribbean Basin.

Houston businessman Robert H Gow was a long-time friend of the Bush family, stated published reports. In a profile of Bush’s early years for the 2000 campaign, Texas Monthly called Gow “a Yale man who had roomed with the senior Bush's cousin Ray in college.”

While there have been numerous reports of the large numbers of Yale alumni who have gone from New Haven, Connecticut to Langley, Virginia, home of the CIA, Gow's Yalie background proves nothing by itself. But it becomes more suggestive when combined with the startling information that Robert H. Gow is also—like both George W. and his father, George, Sr— a member of the dread bete noir of every conspiracy theorist who can afford a tin foil hat... Skull and Bones.

It does give one pause.

“Yet Skull and Bones was not relegated entirely to George W.'s past after he graduated. In 1971, having been rejected by the University of Texas Law School and needing a job, Bush called a Bonesman, Robert H. Gow,” read a May 1, 2026 Atlantic Monthly story by Alexandra Robbins.

Robbins is selling only a “modified limited hangout” version of Skull and Bones (for the real truth, see our buddy Kris Millegan's Fleshing Out Skull & Bones). But even she felt constrained to mention George W.’s continuing business affiliations with other Bonesmen... “Gow, who later told The Washington Post that his Houston-based agricultural company had not been looking for anyone at the time, hired Bush as a management trainee,” Robbins wrote. “In 1977, when Bush formed Arbusto Energy, his first company, he once again applied to Skull and Bones for financial aid.”

Well now.

We would have to have ourselves a little “look-see” into Robert Gow. And although we were taught by our mother to speak only well of people, after poking through Robert Gow’s curious history and its links to America’s own recent secret history, we think even mom would sign off on this statement:

“There are so many red flags in Robert Gow’s background that it looks like May Day in Red Square.”

President George W. Bush’s disputed “lost year” of service in the National Guard is not the only period of time during his abbreviated stint which remains shrouded in mystery.

What makes finding the truth about George W. Bush’s National Guard service more than just an exercise in “opposition research,” as Bush partisans claim, is that the answer may reveal uncomfortable truths striking at the heart of our notions of who we are as a nation, and inimical to prospects for American democracy. If the story of Bush in the Guard is ultimately merely a matter of a smirking son of privilege lounging poolside sipping a multi-colored drink with a little umbrella while America’s less ‘fortunate sons’ are clocking-in and suiting up down at the Air Guard Base, we admit to being shocked—shocked!—at yet-another shameless abuse of power.

But we think something larger and much darker is still being hidden.

Lurking in Bush’s fuzzy Guard history lies the chilling prospect that the “lost periods” in Bush’s chronology contains a stomach-wrenchingly sick and twisted truth confirming the hoariest cliché of ‘conspiracy theorists': that multiple generations of certain ‘blue-blood’ Eastern families (like Bush’s) run intelligence agencies like the CIA as if they were a ‘family business.’ In 1971, while Richard Nixon's re-election committee was committing the felonies they will be indicted for the next year, and CIA pilot Barry Seal is conspiring with the Mexican Air Force in a CIA plot to invade Cuba he will be induced for the next year, George W. Bush was either a) scouting orchids for a plant nursery or b) working for the CIA in Central America

We began with one seemingly-verified fact: During 1971 George W Bush was working for a man named Robert Gow. And it is reasonable to assume that, during his year or so of employment, he was in the same line of work as his boss.

So the real question is: what business was Gow in?

We can think of no better place to begin than with three little words used to describe Robert Gow over fifteen years ago by the venerable New York Times:

“Skull & Bones.”

As odd as is it to contemplate, both George H.W. Bush and George W share membership in--not just the club of recent American Presidents--but a powerful secret society known as Skull and Bones. This is a strange truth, and it grows even stranger when one learns that the current Pretender to the Throne, John Kerry, is also a member.

This is some club. A real blue-blood Tammany Hall.

Even the New York Times has speculated that the Yale secret society controls what former Asst Secretary of State Elliot Abrams dubbed the ‘shadow government:’ the government that runs the government of the United States.

“Through generations, the most influential of senior societies at Yale College has been seen by outsiders as the hand that quietly - oh, so quietly - guides the nation's foreign policy, intelligence apparatus and premier banking houses, with a formidable presence at the bar and on the bench as well,” reported the Times Nov 4, 1988, during the elder Bush's winning Presidential campaign.

Under the headline “Yale Society Resists Peeks Into Its Crypt,” the paper reported, “Today, Skull and Bones is attracting fresh scrutiny with the prospect that it will claim the greatest prize of all, thanks to George Herbert Walker Bush of the 1948 delegation.”

The Times cites the prestigious institutions whose names pepper Bonesmen’s resumes. The list, it 'do' go on... Council on Foreign Relations, State Department, Defense Department, Export-Import Bank, the banking houses of Brown Brothers Harriman, Dillon Read, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Guaranty Trust…

Then they mention our boy Robert Gow:

“The 1955 group includes Ray C. Walker, the Vice President's cousin; Robert H. Gow, who was president of the Zapata Corporation, the oil company founded by the Vice President, and Richard C. Steadman (Judge Steadman's brother), who was an associate partner of G. H. Walker & Co., the investment banking house founded by George Herbert Walker, the Vice President's grandfather.”

Is this Bones at work?” asks the Times. “Yes and no,” concludes the paper, perhaps wisely hedging its bet.

Red Flags Over Texas

“Mr. Gow's friendship with Mr. Walker went back to boyhood days at Groton," explained the Times. "And Mr. Steadman had befriended Mr. Walker when they were freshmen…Whatever the case, the Republic is likely to survive a Skull and Bones Presidency."

We wondered: is it? Did it?

“There are so many red flags in Robert Gow’s background that it looks like a rally in Red Square,” we said, ending Pt. I. And certainly going from President of Zapata Offshore in 1969 to heading a plant nursery in Houston a year later is a good start on what's known as a ”checkered business career.” If Robert Gow was in the ‘spook business,’ having a business career that makes no business sense wouldn't necessarily be a negative. Gow’s various business enterprises would make sense…just in some other way.

They would be “cover.” They would provide, in intelligence parlance, a ‘legend.'

Gow grew up in Massachusetts, studied engineering at Yale, and according to Texas Monthly, “still retains the trace of a patrician Yankee accent although he has lived in Texas since 1962. That year he came south to join Zapata Offshore, the oil business then headed by George Bush.”

Gow and George Bush Sr. worked closely together. Extremely closely...When the elder Bush began looking for someone to buy his Zapata stake, after deciding to run for Congress in 1966, he turned, according to Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward in the August 11, 2025 Washington Post, to Gow.

In looking for evidence of Robert Gow’s associations to American covert intelligence, this is a rather auspicious place to start.

In on the joke?

Who is Robert H Gow? Here are a few more interesting highlights—and lowlights--of Robert Gow’s career:

Gow’s company entered into what must have been a truly unique joint venture with the Jamaican Government, reported the Aug 29, 2025 Wall Street Journal with a suitably straight face, “to grow floricultural crops in Jamaica.”

Could there be anything finer, we wondered, than a deal to raise “floricultural crops” in fragrant and fertile Jamaica…with the Jamaican Government’s own blessing?

Ja be good, mon. We be goin' to Babylon by Cadillac.

Still looking for new worlds to conquer, Robert Gow’s interesting little company suffered the misfortune the next year of being accused—along with the Nat'l Broiler Mktg Assn and 36 other companies—of conspiring to fix prices in the U.S. market for broiler chickens available for purchase by state and local governments, according to the New York Times on March 4, 1975. A conspiracy like that must have been--excuse the pun--'hatched' with inside information provided by colluding Government officials. Gow's Central American experience would no doubt have stood his company in good stead here.

Unbowed, the plucky Gow next partnered with a private corporation located in McLean, Virginia developing “pollution free, low-cost energy sources.” This is certainly a noble pursuit, and the private corporation’s address a stones-throw from the CIA should certainly not be held against it.

"Turns water into wine! First time. Every time!"

However, the fact that the firm’s hot new “low-cost energy source” involved nothing more laborious than mixing water with gasoline does seem a little suspicious.

Scams with funny twists like this have long been a 'spook' specialty. They look for gold coins underneath the ocean or specialize in recovering virgin timber from the bottom of the Great Lakes. While researching Barry & the boys” we came across one Colorado-based CIA-front company claiming it had a process that could turn water into gold. Even allowing that the firm was using pure clean Rocky Mountain water, this does seem quite a claim.

Investors inevitably lose their shirts in such ventures. And sure enough things began to slide quickly downhill, business-wise, for Robert Gow’s company, which posted a loss of 80% of its net worth, and then reported sadly that it was left with “a staggering $80.7million debt and equity of only $4.7 million."

We hope the 'smart money' got out in time. We have a feeling it did.

When Gow’s Stratford of Texas tanked it did so in such spectacular fashion that the failure inspired a case study at the Harvard Business School. And amazingly, we discovered that Robert Gow was well ahead of his time. Long before Enron and Global Crossing made the claim de rigueur for companies being “busted-out,” Gow had regretfully cited “possible audit adjustments” to explain that losses might 'substantially increase.

"Audit adjustments” seem the bane of a certain class of American industrialists, as has been recently well-documented, many of them surprisingly well-acquainted with the Bush family.

Remember "The Enterprise?"

Now begins Robert Gow's Golden Era... his business career during the “go-go” ‘80’s.

During the Iran Contra hearings it was revealed that CIA Director Bill Casey, then-Vice President George Bush and Ollie North, as they were preparing to go to war, in November of 1982, in Nicaragua, had been using an off-the-books self-funding mechanism which North testified was called “The Enterprise.”

At exactly this same time Robert Gow bought himself an oil company, called Lezak Energy Group.

He renamed it “Enterprise Oil and Gas.”

But wait. There’s more.

Robert Gow’s connections to U.S. intelligence and military agencies come into even-clearer focus several years later, when another Gow-helmed company, SI Diamond, is formed, to "solicit federal research grants and solve technical problems for the government.” Soon the lucky company is given a big friendly helping hand by President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars program, Brilliant Pebbles.

“MCC, SI Diamond's partner in this project, isn't small potatoes,” reported the Wall Street Journal. “The massive, government-subsidized consortium of the country's largest electronics corporations was fired up in the mid-1980s as a direct response to Japan's dominance in leading edge technologies.”

Recapped Aerospace Daily on May 28, 1992, “The (company’s) process was developed with funding from the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (now known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization or BMDO).”

Finally, in the midst of all this frenetic activity, all this "sound and fury signifying nothing legitimate," Robert Gow somehow developed an abiding fascination with a region said by drug officials to have become prominent at about this same time in the transshipment of narcotics from South America to the United States: The Yucatan.

He began exporting what had been American jobs making dentures to Merida in in Yucatan in 1988, paying Mexican workers $4 a day. Apparently enough denture-wearing seniors caught wind of it to catch the attention of the St. Petersburg Times, located in Florida’s retirement heartland.

“Many dentists don't know the teeth were made in Mexico because CHS (a Gow company) has bought up dental labs in various cities and made them into franchises,” the paper reported. "We don't hide it from them," Gow told the Times. But "we don't like to shock them with the whole idea."

Blue-blood Yankee Gow making a buck paying Mexican’s $4 a day makes a certain historical sense. Still, for the ever-dutiful Gow, it can’t have been much fun.

'Home Team Spooks' at Leisure

Then just two years ago Gow was profiled in Texas Monthly, about his latest obsession in the Yucatan.

“AT AGE 66, ROBERT GOW could be enjoying a well-earned life of leisure in Houston--puttering around the links with friends at the club or spinning stories on a River Oaks patio about his exploits as a jungle-adventure guide. Retired from a series of enterprises ranging from offshore oil drilling to producing dental crowns and industrial diamonds, he could be confining his yen for risk-taking to the occasional poker game.”

“But Gow, who used to enjoy ratcheting up the adrenaline flow for the travelers he led into the wilds of Mexico -- and who was once in business with former president George Bush and was briefly George W.'s boss – is caught up in his most ambitious venture ever,” gushed Carol Flake Chapman, in the Feb 2000 TEXAS MONTHLY.

Robert Gow at age 66, had developed a hankering to return to the Yucatan, this time to grow—can you stand the suspense?—bamboo.

Imagine that.

"There were two big questions we had to answer," he says. "The first was whether Dendrocalamus strictus (bamboo) would grow in the Yucatan..." Texas Monthly says he's still working on the answer to the second question: What are we going to do with all that bamboo?"

This would be funny, except for what 'these people' have done to America and the world during the past thirty years.

We are happy to belabor the point: Gow’s inexplicable "fascination" with the Yucatan led him into business ventures which Gow himself says make no sense.

His bamboo venture would hardly fit a conventional business plan, Gow admitted to Texas Monthly. "If one of my students had suggested planting bamboo in the jungle, I would have given him a D," he says. "For one thing, no business plan could have taken into account the amount of luck and happenstance involved in the venture."

Once we had begun to discern a certain eclecticism in the progress of Mr. Gow’s business career, the scope of it grew until it was positively breathtaking in its incoherence. He went from offshore oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico to growing orchids in Guatemala to cutting deals to a j-v “floricultural crops” deal with the Jamaican government—oh to have been a fly on the wall during that negotiation!—to “fixin’ the chicken bidness' with some of the boys, to a small piece of Star Wars largesse, and now rounding out as a genteel plantation owner in the Mexican Yucatan.

Again, Gow’s career makes no business sense. But it does make sense if it was “cover.” And absent the discovery of a parking permit for the CIA’s Langley headquarters in the pocket of George W’s old Guard uniform, it provides all the evidence we need to form our answer.

From then till now in spookdom

What was George W. Bush doing in Central America in 1971? Working for Robert Gow, who gives every appearance of having been a 'home team spook.'

And it solves a mystery that has never been satisfactorily explained: why the CIA named its Langley, Va. headquarters for George H.W. Bush, whose professional association with the Agency lasted, according to official accounts, just 10 months.

But what, if anything, does all this have to do with current events?

“It is a triumph of chutzpah for Mr. Bush to thwart the investigation into 9/11 at the same time he seeks re-election by promoting his handling of 9/11 and scaring us with the specter of more terrorism,” wrote Maureen Dowd in Sunday’s New York Times, voicing a concern felt by many.

“He's even using 9/11 memorials as the backdrop for his convention in New York. After trying to kill the commission and then trying to put Dr. Strangelove-Kissinger in charge, President Bush and Dick Cheney have done their best to hamper the panel that's the best hope of the 9/11 widows, widowers and orphans to get justice.”

Dowd cites, as have others, the CIA’s inexplicable inability to 'buy a clue' before 9/11.

Clues to an explanation for why this was can be found, we think, as we now turn to 'factor-in' the story of an important 'player' in the saga of George W Bush in the National Guard, James Bath.

Briefly, Bath was mustered out of the Texas National Guard—and allegedly into the CIA—exactly one month from when George W Bush allegedly goes through the same process. (View document here.)

Bath's story takes us from the Texas National Guard to BCCI to Saudi money allegedly funnelled from the bin Laden family into George W. Bush’s first fledgling oil venture, Arbusto, and then later into Bush’s failing Harken Energy.

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