A historical question re **...

Tonight on the local news coverage of **'s stopover in Anchorage, they talked about the 2-1/2 months he worked in Alaska in the summer of 1974. My husband and I were wondering what was otherwise going on in his life in 1974 that would have resulted in him being here (or Fairbanks, actually - even worse) for that period of time. Was he being punished for something? Drying out? Just looking for a little adventure?

Does anybody have a clue?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5361550

We've found some interesting things. But, nothing to back his claim that he worked in Fairbanks in the summer of '74.

Is it possible that he was "less than truthful" again? :rofl:

I haven't found much to corroborate the Monkey's story.

Scroll down in this story to the heading:

A Mysterious Alaska Summer

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0443,barrett,57857,1.html

Neil Bergt, The New York Times' "richest man in Alaska" in the '80s, gave W a summer job in 1974, when he was in between years at Harvard Business School. Bergt says he doesn't know why the young Bush—still living, by his own account, the "wild and woolly days"—wanted to come to Fairbanks, where the company was based. But a Houston construction executive contacted him and asked him to hire Bush, who has been described by professors and friends as an out-to-lunch business student. Bush's father was then the chairman of the Republican National Committee, installed by President Nixon, and Bush Sr. would wind up that summer appearing on the White House lawn when Nixon resigned, waved farewell, and climbed aboard the presidential helicopter for the last time. Bergt concedes that the Bush job was "a political hire."

In several wide-ranging interviews, Bergt oscillated between demands that the Voice pay him $250,000 for "the real story" that "only I can tell" about Bush and insisting that there was "no story here" and that Bush spent a quiet summer preparing a business plan for him. Asked why Bush preferred a summer in Alaska to Wall Street or Houston, Bergt suggested that the motive was nefarious, and that a full account could affect the election, adding: "I'm not talking without money."

Bergt's company, Alaska International Air, certainly has a checkered history. In 1979, it sold a coveted military cargo plane, a Hercules C-130, to Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, despite a U.S. ban that specifically barred the delivery of that particular plane. Bergt contends he was tricked by the middleman on the $8.6 million transaction —none other than Sarkis Soghanalian. Soghanalian, who claims to have never done an arms deal that wasn't covertly sanctioned by the CIA, says Bergt, who also has a plethora of CIA ties, was fully aware that Qaddafi was getting the plane and participated "voluntarily."

Ironically, the Bergt plane and two others illicitly sold to Libya were soon used to invade neighboring Chad and to fly enriched uranium from Niger for Qaddafi's fledgling nuclear development program. Bush has claimed credit recently for convincing Qaddafi to abandon his nuclear program, and once claimed that Saddam Hussein had received uranium from Niger as a justification for the war. While another top AIA executive, Gary White, says he met Soghanalian in Geneva on a couple occasions and even stayed in his Florida mansion, Bergt just had lunch with him in San Diego.

--more at link--

because in an interview with Bergt tonight on the news, he said that ** was a nice, polite, hard-working boy, who called him "sir" and wrote him up a great business plan -- none of this "real story" stuff. I wonder what made him change his tune.

sure brings home the realization how the Bush people are connected world wide with the most unsavory characters. The power people of the world are certainly not to be trusted with the public trust. I have always noticed that the powerfull and wealthy are so closely connected poltically and monetarily. A tightly woven web of power that influences & controls our very lives.