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...have come to realize that personal relationships are more important than history." DOUG WEAD, in a letter to Chris Matthews, host of U.S. public affairs show Hardball, following an outcry over Wead's earlier release to journalists of secretly recorded conversations he had with Bush before he became President...
George W. Bush wasn't officially notified that the White House was haunted until after his dad was elected President in 1988. He was sitting around the transition office with his aide Doug Wead, thinking about how much fun they had had during the campaign. "So what happens now?" Bush asked. Wead wondered if Bush would be interested in what becomes of Presidents' kids. Sure, said Bush, and Wead and his team went to work. They came back a few weeks later with a 44-page study that was so dark it might have been titled "The Curse," classified...
...sinister agent of the Eastern establishment. "It's a mixed blessing," he says. "Some folks will say, there's George and Barbara's son, he must be interesting, let me listen. Others may say, he's not done anything in his life, just running on his daddy's name." Wead's report spelled out the dilemma that W. faced after his father took office: "It may seem that the President's children can do nothing right. Try something great, and appear grandiose and presumptuous. Try to lead a normal life, and appear lazy or unambitious. Try something artistic, and offend...
Obviously, Frank Wead's story is worth telling-but hardly the way Ford & Co. tell it. They turn his naval career into a bell-bottom farce, his marriage (to Maureen O'Hara) into a pointlessly unpleasant shore-leave shenanigan, and they simplify the commander's character to the point where even Actor Wayne has to play down to his part...
...international seaplane speed trophy was actually won by Lieut. David Rittenhouse, one of Wead's teammates...