re: #405 JamesTKirk

Most of those positions happened after W’s tour in the TANG. After all, one of those Governors and Presidents was him, so you can’t use those (or his brother Jeb’s governorship of Florida, of his father becoming VP and then P a decade later) as evidence of the Bush family’s influence during the 1970s.

From just a little down the page:

Samuel P. Bush (1863–1948), a close adviser to President Hoover, was president of the Ohio Association of Manufacturers and a major Columbus industrialist. He also served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (as well as of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus).
Flora Sheldon (1872-1920), the wife of Samuel P. Bush, married June 20, 1894 and mother to Prescott Bush.
Prescott Bush (1895–1972), Samuel P. Bush’s son, served as a US Senator from Connecticut.
Dorothy Wear Walker Bush (1901–1992), the wife of Prescott, was the daughter of George Herbert Walker of the well-connected Walker family of bankers and businessmen
Prescott Bush, Jr. (born 1922), Prescott Bush’s eldest son, served as chairman of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce.
George H.W. Bush (born 1924), Prescott Bush Sr.’s second son, was the 41st US President, a Congressman from Houston, and CIA director, and also held other political and diplomatic posts. Before his political career he was in the oil business in Texas.

Look, all I’m saying is that they were and are a powerful family, and have been so for a long time, certainly longer than the Kennedy clan.
I know the Kennedy’s have the mystique, but the Bush’s had the power.