Here's the timeline.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Wednesday, March 24, 1989
A few weeks after the spill, Bush, Baker and Moshbacher hid their financial ties to the oil industry interests:
Apr 10, 1989 - On April 10, 1989, a little more than two weeks after the supertanker Exxon Valdez gushed oil onto hundreds of square miles of Alaska's Prince William Sound, Bush put his partnership interest into a qualified blind trust. This means it will not appear on his ...President Bush is apparently aware that mass media exposure of his tank-barge investment could be politically embarrassing. On April 10, 1989, a little more than two weeks after the supertanker Exxon Valdez gushed oil onto hundreds of square miles of Alaska's Prince William Sound, Bush put his partnership interest into a qualified blind trust. This means it will not appear on his future financial disclosure statements.
http://www.ringnebula.com/project-censored/1976-1992/1990/1990-story16.htmImagine that... the media didn't cover it.
Then.. Nearly TWO MONTHS LATER, a report is issues to President Bush, who did NOT VISIT there. No blame went to the President AT ALL.
The Washington Post Article: Bush Aides Fault U.S., Industry Over Oil Spill;Terming Response `Wholly Insufficient,' Report Urges New Laws
Article date: May 19, 1989
Two senior administration officials told President Bush yesterday that the response by the federal government and oil industry to the Exxon Valdez tanker spill was slow, confused and "wholly insufficient."
In the strongest language used by federal officials to describe the March 24 accident, Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William K. Reilly said planning for and response to the spill by industry and government were "unequal to the task."
They warned that major oil spills may be unavoidable in the future and said in their report that "the nation must recognize that there is no fail-safe prevention, preparedness or …
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1191507.htmlExxon Valdez timeline:
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8390262Perhaps the expectations for the Bush crime family was never much and everyone whispered that they were knee deep in the oil industry, but frankly, the contrast of expectations is both disappointing and tragically predictable.