Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, a native of East Texas cotton country, and conservative Republican George Bush, a New England-bred Ivy Leaguer (Yale '48), son of Connecticut's moderate former G.O.P. Senator Prescott Bush...
Houston's Bush, who has made a modest fortune as a Texas oilman since 1948, insists that Yarborough's "leftwing radicalism" is the basic campaign issue. In Bush's entourage is a country music group called the Black Mountain Boys, and the lyrics to one of their favorite campaign songs are: "Sun is gonna shine in the Senate some day/George Bush gonna run them liberals away...
...Bush stands strong for right-to-work labor laws, cutbacks in foreign aid, increased tariffs. He stands against the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He is an attractive, articulate Goldwater Republican, even though he mentions Barry's name with decreasing frequency these days, as it becomes apparent that Lyndon Johnson will carry his native Texas with relative ease...
...attacks on Yarborough, Bush recalls rumors that the Senator got $50,000 in a brown paper bag from Billie Sol Estes during the 1960 presidential campaign. Yarborough denies the charge, although he has admitted getting some $7,000 in campaign contributions from Estes over a three-year period, long before Estes' shenanigans came to light. But Bush tells his audiences: "The question is not whether Yarborough got $50,000 or $5,000 or whatever he has admitted getting from Estes, but do you want a man in the U.S. Senate who was involved with Billie Sol Estes...
...Feud. Ralph Yarborough gives back every bit as much as he takes. "Let's show the world," he cries, "that old Senator Bush can't send Little Georgie down here to buy a Senate seat." He slams Bush's membership in "the fat Houston clubs," nags at Bush for his extensive billboard campaign, tells audiences: "You can find everything on those billboards except the word 'Republican.' He's got it there so small that you've got to pull over to the side of the road, stop, get out of your...