- Everyone knows who John Hinckley, Jr. is. This youngest
Hinckley son is now being permitted unsupervised visits within the Washington,
DC metropolitan area--away from his mental facility, after nearly killing
President Reagan in 1981. But a much more interesting subject is, who is
John Hinckley, Sr.? In 1980, Hinckley Sr. was a Texas oilman who, the records
show, strove mightily to get fellow Texas oilman George H.W. Bush the Republican
nomination for president. The Bushes and the Hinckleys were frequent dinner
companions.
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- The effort to make Bush Sr. president in 1980 failed;
but he and his friend and backer Hinckley Sr. got the next best thing -
the "heartbeat away from the presidency" office of Vice-President
of the United States. A couple months later, Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan,
and Bush Sr. very nearly did become president at that time, after all.
Curiously, only one time was it announced on the news about the connections
between the Bush and Hinckley families: An almost bewildered John Chancellor
on NBC Nightly News reported "the bizarre coincidence" that Vice
President Bush's son, Neil, and Scott Hinckley had dinner plans for March
31, 1981 -- now cancelled, of course.
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- On the morning of March 30 [the day of the Reagan assassination
attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.], three representatives of the U.S. Department
of Energy told Scott Hinckley, John Hinckley Jr.'s older brother and Vanderbilt's
vice president of operations, that auditors had uncovered evidence of pricing
violations on crude oil sold by the company from 1977 through 1980. The
auditors announced that the federal government was considering a penalty
of two million dollars. [This, on the same day that his brother John--the
youngest son of Vice President Bush's close friend--attempted the assassination!]
Scott Hinckley reportedly requested "several hours to come up with
an explanation" of the serious overcharges. The meeting ended a little
more than an hour before John Hinckly, Jr. shot President Reagan. [Read
other startling facts uncovered by a college professor and Rhodes Scholar
who charges the media with keeping significant information from the public
that it has a right to know.]
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- http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28&mode=&order=0&thold=0
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