Bushwhacked_ Life in George W. Bush's America Large Print - Molly Ivins [140]
* The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has reversed conventional banking practice by making loans to the poorest of the poor without collateral and by creating a banking system based on mutual trust, participation, and creativity. It has proven tremendously effective in fighting poverty: it has 2.4 million borrowers and 1,175 branches. The great majority of its customers are women who work in co-ops of all kinds. The World Bank and many other international organizations have documented its effectiveness.
* The address for 34 Million Friends Campaign is 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017. The message has been passed on, via book clubs, soccer moms, PTAs, groups of all kinds. As of March 2003, they had raised almost $828,000.
* Perle resigned the chairmanship but not from the board in March 2003 following questions from the media (led by Sy Hersh) about conflicts of interest. Perle got a $125,000 retainer fee from Global Crossing to help get Pentagon approval for the sale of the company to a Hong Kong billionaire. Both the Pentagon and the FBI had objected to the sale on national-security grounds. If Perle could get them to change their minds, he would receive another $600,000, national security be damned.
* List provided by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Public Integrity.
SOURCES
CHAPTER 1: ALOHA, HARKEN
Critical investigative reporting and primary SEC source material for this chapter was drawn from the Center for Public Integrity web postings and the reporting and writing of CPI senior fellow Knut Royce. The diligent work of the nonprofit CPI refocused the attention of the public and the press on the questionable dealings involving George W. Bush and Harken Energy Corp. HarvardWatch, a nonprofit student-alumni group, provided the press with fresh and critical source material on the Harvard trust’s bailout of Harken. They sourced the fall 2002 stories on Harvard’s bailout of Bush and Harken. Much of the material on Harken was also drawn from the authors’ previous work, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush.
Allen, Mike, and George Lardner, Jr., “Harken Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge,” Washington Post, July 14, 2002.
Armstrong, David, “Global Entanglements: The Political Economy of a Texas Oil Company,” Texas Observer, July 12, 1991.
———, “The President’s Son and His Slippery Friends,” Texas Observer, September 21, 1991.
Bergman, Lowell, and Jeff Gerth, “Power Trader Tied to Bush,” New York Times, May 25, 2001.
Bush, George W., “A New Ethic of Corporate Responsibility,” text of speech, www.whitehouse.gov/infocus.corporateresponsibility, July 9, 2002.
———, “A New Ethic of Corporate Responsibility,” summary, www.whitehouse.gov/news, July 9, 2002.
———, press conference, transcript, www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings, July 9, 2002.
Bush, George, and Mikel D. Faulkner, president, Harken Energy Corp., Amendment and Extension to Consulting Agreement.
Conason, Joe, “Letter Rip,” Salon.com, July 16, 2002.
———, “Lou Dobbs Downgrades President Bush,” Salon.com, July 9, 2002.
Cummings, Larry, Harken Energy Corp. general counsel, letter to George W. Bush re: SEC filings, October 15, 1989.
Faulkner, Mikel, Harken Energy Corp. president, letter to George W. Bush, June 15, 1989.
———, letter to the Harken Board of Directors, February 1, 1990.
———, letter to the Harken Board of Directors, May 25, 1990.
———, letter to the Harken Board of Directors, August 27, 1990.
———, letter (with attachment) to the Harken Board of Directors, May 25, 1990.
Fineman, Howard, “Harkening Back to Texas,” Newsweek, July 22, 2002.
Fleischer, Ari, White House briefing, Federal Document Clearing House Political Transcripts, July 3, 2002.
Harken Energy Corp., General Resolutions, March 14, 1990.
———, Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, September 13, 1989.
———, Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, December