Papers offer info on Bush knowledge
President Bush pauses before responding to a reporter's question last week about Bush's tardy reporting of stock sales in Harken Energy Corp.
Motive for sale of stock in ’90 remains unclear
By Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr.
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The thrill of standing at the pitcher’s mound on opening day as the new managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball club was one year old for George W. Bush. As he looked toward politics, Bush wanted to pay off a $500,000 loan he had taken to buy into the team. It was 1990, and his father was president. The younger Bush, who joked in his oil-patch days about being “all name and no money,” was short on cash.
President Bush pauses before responding to a reporter's question last week about Bush's tardy reporting of stock sales in Harken Energy Corp.
Motive for sale of stock in ’90 remains unclear
By Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr.
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The thrill of standing at the pitcher’s mound on opening day as the new managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball club was one year old for George W. Bush. As he looked toward politics, Bush wanted to pay off a $500,000 loan he had taken to buy into the team. It was 1990, and his father was president. The younger Bush, who joked in his oil-patch days about being “all name and no money,” was short on cash.
