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identifies these as members of the CFR. These include Dillon Anderson and
J.C. Hutcheson III of Baker and Botts, Andrews and Shepherd; Leland
Anderson of Anderson, Clayton and Company; Lawrence S. Reed of Texas Gulf
Producing; Frank Michaux; and W.A. Kirkland of the board of First City
National Bank. The brochure then focuses on Prescott Bush, identified as a
"partner with Averell Harriman in Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Company."
Averell Harriman is listed as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
"Could it be that Prescott S. Bush, in concert with his Eastern CFR
friends, is raising all those 'Yankee Dollars' that are flowing into
George's campaign? It is reliably reported that Mr. George Bush has
contracted for extensive and expensive television time for the last week of
the Runoff." The brochure also targets Paul Kayser of Anderson, Clayton,
Bush's Harris County campaign chairman. Five officers of this company,
named as W.L. Clayton, L. Fleming, Maurice McAshan, Leland Anderson and
Sydnor Oden, are said to be members of the CFR.
On the CFR itself, the brochure quotes from Helen P. Lasell's study,
entitled "Power Behind Government Today," which found that the CFR "from
its inception has had an important part in planning the whole diabolical
scheme of creating a ONE WORLD FEDERATION of socialist states under the
United Nations.... These carefully worked out, detailed plans, in
connection with the WORLD BANK and the use of billions of tax-exempt
foundation dollars, were carried out secretively over a period of years.
Their fruition could mean not only the absolute destruction of our form of
government, national independence and sovereignty, but to a degree at
least, that of every nation in the world." The New World Order, we see, is
really nothing new. The brochure further accuses one Mrs. M. S. Acherman, a
leading Bush supporter in Houston, of having promoted a write-in campaign
for liberal, Boston Brahmin former Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts in the Texas presidential primary. Lodge had won the 1964 New
Hampshire primary, prompting Bush to announce that this was merely a
regional phenomenon and that he was "still for Goldwater."
As the runoff vote approached, Cox focused especially on the eastern
financing that Bush was receiving. On May 25 in Abilene, Cox assailed Bush
for having mounted "one of the greatest spending sprees ever seen in any
political campaign." Cox said that he could not hope to match this funding,
"because Jack Cox is not, nor will ever be, connected in any manner with
the Eastern kingmakers who seek to control political candidates.
Conservatives of Texas will serve notice on June 6 that just as surely as
Rockefeller's millions can't buy presidential nomination, the millions at
George Bush's disposal can't buy him a senate nomination." Cox claimed that
all of his contributions had come from inside Texas.
O'Donnell's Texas Republican organization was overwhelmingly mobilized in
favor of Bush. Bush had the endorsement of the state's leading newspapers.
When the runoff finally came, Bush was the winner with some 62 percent of
the votes cast. Yarborough commented that Bush "smothered Jack Cox in
greenbacks."
Gordon McLendon, true to form, had used his own pre-primary television
broadcast to rehash the Billie Sol Estes charges against Yarborough.
Yarborough nevertheless defeated McLendon in the Democratic senatorial
primary with almost 57 percent of the vote. Given the lopsided Texas
Democratic advantage in registered voters, and given LBJ's imposing lead
over Goldwater at the top of the Democratic ticket, it might have appeared
that Yarborough's victory was now a foregone conclusion. That this was not
so was due to the internal divisions within the Texas Democratic ranks.
Senate Seat Can't Be Bought
First were the Democrats who came out openly for Bush. The vehicle for this
defection was called Conservative Democrats for Bush, chaired by Ed Drake,
the former leader of the state's Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952. Drake
was joined by former Governor Allan Shivers, who had also backed Ike and
Dick in 1952 and 1956. Then there was the "East Texas Democrats for George
Bush Committee," chaired by E.B. Germany, the former state Democratic
leader, a leader of Scottish Rite Freemasons in Texas and in 1964 the
chairman of the board of Lone Star Steel.
Then there were various forms of covert support for Bush. Millionaire
Houston oil man Lloyd Bentsen, who had been in Congress back in the late
1940s, had been in discussion as a possible Senate candidate. Bush's basic
contention was that LBJ had interfered in Texas politics to tell Bentsen to
stay out of the Senate race, thus avoiding a more formidable primary
challenge to Yarborough. On April 24, Bush stated that Bentsen was a "good
conservative" who had been kept out of the race by "Yarborough's bleeding
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