20 Things You Probably Don’t Know About President George Herbert Walker Bush

The connections, collusions, and staggering “coincidences” you never knew about our 41st president

The great American Memory Hole has a way of swallowing up inconvenient truths with a voracious ferocity similar to how Hungry, Hungry Hippos swallow little white marbles.

But thankfully, not all things stay hidden. Here are twenty nuggets about our 41st president, George HW Bush, that have been rescued from the infernal recesses of the memory hole.

A young George Herbert Walker Bush

1. An Unsuccessful American Coup D’état (1933)

Prescott Bush, George HW Bush’s father (and George W Bush’s grandfather), was one of the financial backers of the 1933 attempted coup d’état of a sitting United States president.

The plan, known as The Business Plot, was a bonafide conspiracy to take down President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The plot was foiled, however, when retired USMC Major General Smedley Butler refused to go along with the conspiracy, and instead exposed it.

Remarkably — but not uncommon in politics — Prescott Bush avoided any repercussions for his treasonous act.

2. Skull & Bones (Class of 1948)