| voty2000 said: Here's a new conspiracy theory for you to figure out. Dick Cheney was Bush Jr.'s vice president and he shot a guy while quail hunting. Bush Senior's VP was Dan Quayle. There has to be a global conspiracy going on somewhere. |
Here's an even weirder coincidence, the Bushes knew the Hinckleys when President Reagan was shot. (George Bush Snr was Vice President at the time and if the name Hinckley doesn't ring a bell John Hinkley Jr was the guy who shot Reagan! He was also a member of the American Nazi Party but they claim they kicked him out because he had a violent attitude, lol!)
"[Neil] Bush told the Post he knew the Hinckley family because they had made large contributions to the vice president's campaign. He said he could not recall meeting John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan and three other men as they exited the Washington Hilton Hotel Monday.
''I don't recognize any pictures of him,'' Bush said. ''I just wish I could see a better picture of him.''
Sharon Bush said she did not know the suspect.
''They (the Hinckleys) are a nice family ... and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign,'' she said. ''I understand he (John Hinckley) was just the renegade brother in the family. They must feel awful.''
Another of the vice president's sons, George W. Bush, lived in Lubbock in 1978 and ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Police have said John Hinckley Jr. lived in Lubbock at that time and once attended Texas Tech University.
Young George Bush did not recall meeting the suspect.
''It's certainly conceivable that I met him or might have been introduced to him,'' he said. ''I don't recognize his face from the brief, kind of distorted thing they had on TV and the name doesn't ring any bells.
''I know he wasn't on our staff. I could check our volunteer rolls.''
Peter Teeley, the vice president's news secretary, said by telephone from Washington he knew nothing about any Hinckley-Bush family connection.
''I don't know a damned thing about it,'' Teeley told a Post reporter. ''I was talking to someone earlier tonight and I couldn't even remember his (Hinckley's) name. All I know is what you're telling me.'' -UPI/Denver (03/31/81)
