George H.W. Bush - Revision history

Spider of Destiny at 21:39, 2 July 2026

2026-07-02T21:39:05Z

Spider of Destiny at 21:32, 1 July 2026

2026-07-01T21:32:39Z

Jason.Kreitzer at 18:00, 1 December 2021

2021-12-01T18:00:48Z

Jason.Kreitzer at 16:37, 20 October 2021

2021-10-20T16:37:15Z

Duncan: Fixed refs which suggest it was Bush doing the nuking

2021-07-30T11:39:58Z

Fixed refs which suggest it was Bush doing the nuking

Duncan: Rather > WP

2021-07-30T11:23:19Z

Rather > WP

Jason.Kreitzer at 01:14, 24 July 2021

2021-07-24T01:14:48Z

Spider of Destiny: /* Quotes */

2020-11-14T18:27:16Z

Quotes

Spider of Destiny: Clean-up

2020-11-14T18:26:47Z

Clean-up

PopFanDoug: rm red link

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+[[File:George Bush Sr..jpg|500px|thumb|right|George Bush Sr.]]
-'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] politician, elected as the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.
+'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] politician. He was head of the [[CIA]] (1976-1977), Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] (1981-1989) and then elected President of the United States (1989-1993).
 ==Zappa and George H.W. Bush==
-George Bush is referenced (as Vice President) in ''[[The Untouchables]]''.
+George Bush is referenced (as Vice President) in ''[[The Untouchables]]'': ''"You're still a wimp - I'm sorry - You're history!"''
 Following a combative interview that journalist [[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]] had in 1988 with President George H.W. Bush,<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-time-george-h-w-bush-stuck-it-to-dan-rather-on-live-television The time George H.W. Bush stuck it to Dan Rather on live television]</ref> Frank Zappa sent Rather a telegram saying "We're with you Dan. Nuke the [[Weasels|weasel]]."<ref>[https://www.afka.net/Articles/1988-04_Register-Pajaronian.htm Frank Zappa - a misunderstood man]</ref>
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 Interviewed in ''[[Ode To Gravity - Frank Zappa: World Affairs Commentator]]'', 15 April 1991, Zappa talked about a project he had been working on: ''"One thing that we started doing today is ... I have a new piece of gear in the studio called Sonic Solutions, and this is a hard disk based digital audio editing system. It's got a Macintosh frontend, and then it has a an interface box and several hard disk [sic] which can store up to five hours of stereo digital material. And today we started transferring in my collection of George Bush speeches. And the first thing we are going to do, after we get it loaded in there, is find as many times that he - over the month of this event - that he's said the name "Saddam Hussein". And we're gonna get a collection of those, and that in itself should be pretty good material for a tech sound composition. (...) It's a set of variations, it's like listening to a [[Jimmy Reed]] record, you know? You know ... you know the riff is gonna be the same but there's a few things that change. And the other thing we're looking for in speeches is the times when he has gagged on words. You know when the word doesn't quite come out and that should make a nice assortment of background textural things that can be used as percussion. (...) I mean, he said it, he must be proud of it. Hum ... then there's some of these classic statements like at one of his press time once he blurts out: "THERE'S NO ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT ANYMORE! [imitating the voice of George Bush]"''.
-Video footage of Bush is shown in the Zappa documentaries ''[[Peefeeyatko]]'' and ''[[The Revenge Of The Dead Indians]]''.
+[[File:George Bush - Peefeeyatko.jpg|600px|thumb|right|Scene from ''[[Peefeeyatko]]''.]]
 ==Zappa about George H.W. Bush==
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 ''"The thing is, there's nothing more threatening to those bogus monarchs down there than democracy. If the Kurds and the Shiites succeed in toppling Hussein's government and they go for a democratic parliament and the rest of that stuff, if that trickles Southward then it endangers the Kuwait [Emir] and the whole Saudi royal family. They don't want democracy anywhere near that peninsula. And also from the U.S. national interest point of view it's probably easier for our business guys to deal with one corrupt monarch or another then to deal with some unruly democratic parliament. It's easier to pay off one guy and the rest of his relatives."'' - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Signs Of The Times]], 1991.
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 ''"In 1990, I think, President Bush objected to recordings that had obscene lyrics, keeping them in record stores but not on display. That was wonderful for Frank. He just got up and spoke in front of 200 000 people. He talked about abortion and drugs; he said: George, stay out of their bush."'' - [[Allan Zavod]] in [[Allan Zavod interview by Avo Raup]], 2003.
 ==External links==

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 __NOTOC__
-'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.
+'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] politician, elected as the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.
 ==Zappa and George H.W. Bush==
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 ''"In 1990, I think, President Bush objected to recordings that had obscene lyrics, keeping them in record stores but not on display. That was wonderful for Frank. He just got up and spoke in front of 200 000 people. He talked about abortion and drugs; he said: George, stay out of their bush."'' - [[Allan Zavod]] in [[Allan Zavod interview by Avo Raup]], 2003.
+==External links==
 *[[wikipedia:George H. W. Bush|Wikipedia article on George H. W. Bush]]
 [[Category:Presidents|Bush, George]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Bush, George]]
 [[Category:Targets|Bush, George]]

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	'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts\|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.		'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts\|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.

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−	'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924 - 30 November 2018) was the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.	+	'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924, [[Massachusetts\|Milton, MA]] - 30 November 2018, Houston, TX) was the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.

	==Zappa and George H.W. Bush==		==Zappa and George H.W. Bush==

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 George Bush is referenced (as Vice President) in ''[[The Untouchables]]''.
-Following a combative interview that journalist [[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]] had in 1988 with President George H.W. Bush,[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-time-george-h-w-bush-stuck-it-to-dan-rather-on-live-television] Frank Zappa sent Rather a telegram saying "We're with you Dan. Nuke the [[Weasels|weasel]]."[https://www.afka.net/Articles/1988-04_Register-Pajaronian.htm]
+Following a combative interview that journalist [[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]] had in 1988 with President George H.W. Bush,<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-time-george-h-w-bush-stuck-it-to-dan-rather-on-live-television The time George H.W. Bush stuck it to Dan Rather on live television]</ref> Frank Zappa sent Rather a telegram saying "We're with you Dan. Nuke the [[Weasels|weasel]]."<ref>[https://www.afka.net/Articles/1988-04_Register-Pajaronian.htm Frank Zappa - a misunderstood man]</ref>
 Interviewed in ''[[Ode To Gravity - Frank Zappa: World Affairs Commentator]]'', 15 April 1991, Zappa talked about a project he had been working on: ''"One thing that we started doing today is ... I have a new piece of gear in the studio called Sonic Solutions, and this is a hard disk based digital audio editing system. It's got a Macintosh frontend, and then it has a an interface box and several hard disk [sic] which can store up to five hours of stereo digital material. And today we started transferring in my collection of George Bush speeches. And the first thing we are going to do, after we get it loaded in there, is find as many times that he - over the month of this event - that he's said the name "Saddam Hussein". And we're gonna get a collection of those, and that in itself should be pretty good material for a tech sound composition. (...) It's a set of variations, it's like listening to a [[Jimmy Reed]] record, you know? You know ... you know the riff is gonna be the same but there's a few things that change. And the other thing we're looking for in speeches is the times when he has gagged on words. You know when the word doesn't quite come out and that should make a nice assortment of background textural things that can be used as percussion. (...) I mean, he said it, he must be proud of it. Hum ... then there's some of these classic statements like at one of his press time once he blurts out: "THERE'S NO ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT ANYMORE! [imitating the voice of George Bush]"''.
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 ''"In 1990, I think, President Bush objected to recordings that had obscene lyrics, keeping them in record stores but not on display. That was wonderful for Frank. He just got up and spoke in front of 200 000 people. He talked about abortion and drugs; he said: George, stay out of their bush."'' - [[Allan Zavod]] in [[Allan Zavod interview by Avo Raup]], 2003.
 ==See Also==
 *[[wikipedia:George H. W. Bush|Wikipedia article on George H. W. Bush]]
 [[Category:Presidents|Bush, George]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Bush, George]]
 [[Category:Targets|Bush, George]]

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−	'''CA:''': ''"What about [[George Bush]]? Did you happen to see a speech over the weekend?"''<br>	+	'''CA:''': ''"What about George Bush? Did you happen to see a speech over the weekend?"''<br>

	'''FZ:''': ''"I watched his speech, in fact I taped the speech, that he made at the airforce base in Alabama."''<br>		'''FZ:''': ''"I watched his speech, in fact I taped the speech, that he made at the airforce base in Alabama."''<br>

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−	==~~Quotes~~==	+	==Zappa about George H.W. Bush==

	Frank Zappa: ''"The thing about Bush is, if in fact he has won the election, then why is he still campaigning. And, if in fact he has won the election, then wasn't there a payment of forty-six million dollars that was either made to him, or split between him and Dukakis, which is part of that fund where everybody checks off a dollar on their income tax – all this campaign money. If he's won the election, then why is he still spending that money? Shouldn't he give it back? I think that if he insists on spending that money, then he's committing some kind of a fraud."''		Frank Zappa: ''"The thing about Bush is, if in fact he has won the election, then why is he still campaigning. And, if in fact he has won the election, then wasn't there a payment of forty-six million dollars that was either made to him, or split between him and Dukakis, which is part of that fund where everybody checks off a dollar on their income tax – all this campaign money. If he's won the election, then why is he still spending that money? Shouldn't he give it back? I think that if he insists on spending that money, then he's committing some kind of a fraud."''

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-[[George H.W. Bush]] (1924-2018) served as the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.
+'''George H.W. Bush''', also referred to as '''George Bush Sr.''' (12 June 1924 - 30 November 2018) was the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.
 ==Quotes==
 Frank Zappa: ''"The thing about Bush is, if in fact he has won the election, then why is he still campaigning. And, if in fact he has won the election, then wasn't there a payment of forty-six million dollars that was either made to him, or split between him and Dukakis, which is part of that fund where everybody checks off a dollar on their income tax – all this campaign money. If he's won the election, then why is he still spending that money? Shouldn't he give it back? I think that if he insists on spending that money, then he's committing some kind of a fraud."''
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 '''But there are so many people who would express that view. They're quite fed up with the polls. There's a massive sense of frustration.<br>
 Zappa: ''"The people who are fed up with the polls are the people who are already smart enough to see through the bullshit to begin with. The people who are bamboozled by the polls are the ones that are most likely to vote for Bush. It's the whole idea that Americans think a winner is so terrific, and if you put the little winner's crown on one guy before the election, the day after the election, you want to make sure you voted for the guy who won. Because when you talk to your buddies when they slap each other on the back drinking Miller Lite in the bar after the election, you want to have been on the team. And that's part of the peer pressure to move the votes around."'' - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Interview by Bob Marshall]], 1988.
 ''"Anybody who looks at George Bush and sees a tough guy has really been mediated"''. - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Interview by Bob Marshall]], 1988.
 ''"I think that the school system has been purposely damaged to keep people from being able to sort data because only a person who can't data will vote for a guy like Bush or Reagan. You have to be numb."'' - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Interview by Bob Marshall]], 1988.
 ''"In a way, I would agree with George Bush in that education in America needs to be reinvented, but certainly not in the way he would imagine it."'' - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Signs Of The Times]], 1991.
 [On the Gulf War]: Zappa: ''"I had a very bad reaction to the war in general because it was such an incredibly stupid idea to do it. All you got to do is look at what's happening in Iraq this week, and see whether it was a good idea to send a half a million guys over there to blow shit up. It's a bad idea. So I look at it as the utter failure of diplomacy, the utter failure, embarrassing failure of the U.N. to stand up for any of the original principles that it was supposedly constructed to uphold. It was well worded into putting a rubber stamp on the war, because George Bush decides that there ought to be something called the new world order. I did an interview with a German television station not long ago, and the guy said: "New world order,' doesn't he know that [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] said that? That is a Hitler line."''
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 ''"The thing is, there's nothing more threatening to those bogus monarchs down there than democracy. If the Kurds and the Shiites succeed in toppling Hussein's government and they go for a democratic parliament and the rest of that stuff, if that trickles Southward then it endangers the Kuwait [Emir] and the whole Saudi royal family. They don't want democracy anywhere near that peninsula. And also from the U.S. national interest point of view it's probably easier for our business guys to deal with one corrupt monarch or another then to deal with some unruly democratic parliament. It's easier to pay off one guy and the rest of his relatives."'' - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Signs Of The Times]], 1991.
 ''"Even if Clinton and his people just stood still for the next four years it would be better than what we had the four previous years under President Nero, which is what Dennis Miller calls Bush"''. - Frank Zappa, quoted in [[Pulse Interview]], 1993.
 ''"In 1990, I think, President Bush objected to recordings that had obscene lyrics, keeping them in record stores but not on display. That was wonderful for Frank. He just got up and spoke in front of 200 000 people. He talked about abortion and drugs; he said: George, stay out of their bush."'' - [[Allan Zavod]] in [[Allan Zavod interview by Avo Raup]], 2003.

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−	[[~~George Bush\|~~George H.W. Bush]] (1924-2018) served as the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.	+	[[George H.W. Bush]] (1924-2018) served as the 41st President of the United States, from 1989 until 1993. Previously he was Vice President under [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.

	Referenced in ''[[The Untouchables]]''.		Referenced in ''[[The Untouchables]]''.