ABSTRACT
George Bush is part of a venerable wasp establishment tradition of Skull and Bones men in the nation’s service: President William Howard Taft, his son, Senator Robert Taft, Henry Stimson, Averill Harriman, Justice Potter Stewart, William and McGeorge Bundy, and the late Malcolm Baldrige. Traditions are produced by a cumulative of successful experiments down through the ages. The patriarchal family, for instance, has proved to be empirically successful through hundreds of generations, while the egalitarian family is largely the reasoned product of our age alone. Fortunately, intellectuals are sometimes divided on issues, and Newsweek also noted that Faith Popcorn, a social trend analyst of some wit, thought that “the elitist thing is just the ticket” for George Bush. “Money could be his flag—how everyone can aspire to getting some,” Popcorn continued. After all, there is a return to fashion of good families, good schools, quality.
