presidential eating stories.. more vegans in future

[Guest guest]

John Kennedy hated hunting, but relented when Lyndon pressed.

He killed a deer on Lyndon's ranch and was upset when Lyndon

had the deer's head mounted and sent to him.

Henry Kissinger to Wm Brezhnev when asked to hunt boar:

No thank you. I do not enjoy killing animals.

Henry Kissinger to a vegetarian with a Love Animals Don't

Eat Them tshirt on: I get the point but I don't want to think

about it. Later Kissinger had a quintuple bypass.

Nancy Reagan gave her husband vegetarian meals after he contracted

intestinal cancer.

President Clinton was given bocaburgers by his wife. His

daughter d to vegetarian magazines. He has declared

more areas free from hunting than any president since TR.

2 presidents died of food poisoning: Zachary Taylor from iced milk

and Warren Harding from clams.

Theodore Roosevelt established 52 national bird sanctuaries

after hearing Pelican Island pelicans were being decimanted

by plume seekers.

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-- In ohioleft , " robert " <avocadolover@v...> wrote:

> Speaking of Presidents

> When Things Get Hinckey

> Can anyone help to decipher this maze?

> http://hometown.aol.com/dwidad/bangs.html

> " George Bush Ancestry "

> http://hometown.aol.com/dwidad/bangs.html

> " Descendants of Samuel BANGS

> 1. Samuel BANGS

> b. 1680, d. 1750, m. 1703, Mary HINCKLEY, b. 1678, d. 1741, and had

a

> son " http://hometown.aol.com/dwidad/bangs.html " The BUSH Family "

> http://hometown.aol.com/dwidad/bangs.html " The WALKER Family "

> http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/h

> inckley/hinckley.htm

> " John Hinckley Trial The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan "

> http://www.neosoft.com/~cshramek/bush.htm quote immediately below

is

> excerpted from url directly above:

> " Our story thus far: Ronald Reagan, Republican nominee in 1980, is

> forced by Rockefeller to choose George Bush, Sr., as his running

mate.

> " What the heck, " thinks Reagan. " I'll still be President. " Reagan

> believes that, as President, he is actually in charge. He steers

his

> own course, and what does he care when his Vice President tries to

> tell him to do otherwise. But Reagan gets a strong " message " to the

> contrary when, supposedly, John Hinckley, Jr., almost kills him in

> 1981. Hinckley's father, John Hinckley, Sr., owns Vanderbilt Oil

and

> has been a Houston neighbor for years of George Bush, Sr. Hinckley,

> Sr., has also given " campaign contributions " to Bush, Sr., since

way

> back, when Bush, Sr., first ran for Congress.

> Since Hickley Jr. spent most of his life in mental institutions

> · where he got all kinds of mind controlling injections. And

since

> George Bush used to be in charge of the CIA

> · which pioneered the developement of human zombie killing

machine

> mind drugs in projects like MK-Ultra. Well, the hint is that George

> had junior injected and programmed by some CIA types during his

stay

> in the rubber rooms. So after surviving the attempted

assassination,

> Reagan gets wise and bows to George Bush, Sr., in certain areas.

Then

> in 1988, George Bush gets elected as President. We therefore have

> George Bush as de facto President from 1981 through January of

1993. "

> End of quote excerpted from

http://www.neosoft.com/~cshramek/bush.htm

> Anyone know anything about that site???

> http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_7.html quote directly below is

> excerpted from url directly above " On Tuesday, March 31, the

" Houston

> Post " published a copyrighted story under the headline: " Bush's Son

> Was to Dine with Suspect's Brother. " The lead paragraph read as

> follows: " Scott Hinckley, the brother of John Hinckley, Jr., who is

> charged with shooting President Reagan and three others, was to

have

> been a dinner guest Tuesday night at the home of Neil Bush, son of

> Vice President George Bush, the " Houston Post " has learned. "

> According to the article, Neil Bush had admitted on Monday, March

30

> that he was personally acquainted with Scott Hinckley, having met

> with

> him on one occasion in the recent past. Neil Bush also stated that

he

> knew the Hinckley family, and referred to large monetary

> contributions

> made by the Hinckleys to the Bush 1980 presidential campaign. Neil

> Bush and Scott Hinckley both lived in Denver at this time. Scott

> Hinckley was the vice president of Vanderbilt Energy Corporation,

and

> Neil Bush was employed as a landman for Standard Oil of Indiana.

John

> W. Hinckley, Jr., the would-be assassin, lived on and off with his

> family in Evergreen, Colorado, not far from Denver. Neil Bush was

> reached for comment on Monday, March 30, and was asked if, in

> addition

> to Scott Hinckley, he also knew John W. Hinckley, Jr., the would-be

> killer. " I have no idea, " said Neil Bush. " I don't recognize any

> pictures of him. I just wish I could see a better picture of him. "

> Sharon Bush, Neil's wife, was also asked about her acquaintance

with

> the Hinckley family. " I don't even know the brother, " she replied,

> suggesting that Scott Hinckley was coming to dinner as the date of

a

> woman whom Sharon did know. " From what I know and have heard, they

> [the Hinckleys] are a very nice family ... and have given a lot of

> money to the Bush campaign. I understand he [John W. Hinckley,

Jr.]

> was just the renegade brother in the family. They must feel awful. "

> It

> also proved necessary for Bush's office to deny that the Vice

> President was familiar with the " Hinckley-Bush connection. " Bush's

> press secretary, Peter Teeley, said when asked to comment: " I don't

> know a damn thing about it. I was talking to someone earlier

tonight,

> and I couldn't even remember his [Hinckley's] name. All I know is

> what

> you're telling me. " On April 1, 1981, the " Rocky Mountain News " of

> Denver carried Neil Bush's confirmation that if the assassination

> attempt had not happened on March 30, Scott Hinckley would have

been

> present at a dinner party at Neil Bush's home the night of March

31.

 

> According to Neil, Scott Hinckley had come to the home of Neil and

> Sharon Bush on January 23, 1981 to be present along with about 30

> other guests at a surprise birthday party for Neil, who had turned

26

> one day earlier. Scott Hinckley had come " through a close friend

who

> brought him, " according to this version, and this same close female

> friend was scheduled to come to dinner along with Scott Hinckley on

> that last night of March, 1981. " My wife set up a surprise party

for

> me, and it truly was a surprise, and it was an honor for me at that

> time to meet Scott Hinckley, " said Neil Bush to reporters. " He is a

> good and decent man. I have no regrets whatsoever in saying Scott

> Hinckley can be considered a friend of mine. To have had one

meeting

> doesn't make the best of friends, but I have no regrets in saying I

> do

> know him. "

> Neil Bush told the reporters that he had never met John W.

Hinckley,

> Jr., the gunman, nor his father, John W. Hinckley, Sr., president

and

> chairman of the board of Vanderbilt Energy Corporation of Denver.

But

> Neil Bush also added that he would be interested in meeting the

elder

> Hinckley:

> " I would like [to meet him]. I'm trying to learn the oil business,

> and

> he's in the oil business. I probably could learn something from Mr.

 

> Hinckley. " Neil Bush then announced that he wanted to " set

straight "

> certain inaccuracies that had appeared the previous day in the

> " Houston Post " about the relations between the Bush and Hinckley

> families. The first was his own wife Sharon's reference to the

large

> contributions from the Hinckleys to the Bush campaign. Neil

asserted

> that the 1980 Bush campaign records showed no money whatever coming

> in

> from any of the Hinckleys. All that could be found, he argued, was

a

> contribution to that " great Republican, " John Connally. The other

> issue the " Houston Post " had raised regarded the 1978 period, when

> George W. Bush of Midland, Texas, Neil's oldest brother, had run

for

> Congress in Texas's 19th Congressional District. At that time, Neil

> Bush had worked for George W. Bush as his campaign manager, and in

> this connection Neil had lived in Lubbock, Texas during most of the

> year. This raised the question of whether Neil might have been in

> touch with gunman John W. Hinckley, Jr. during that year of 1978,

> since gunman Hinckley had lived in Lubbock from 1974 through 1980,

> when he was an intermittent student at Texas Tech University there.

 

> Neil Bush ruled out any contact between the Bush family and gunman

> John W. Hinckley, Jr. in Lubbock during that time. The previous

day,

> elder son George W. Bush had been far less categorical about never

> having met gunman Hinckley. He had stated to the press:

> " It's certainly conceivable that I met him or might have been

> introduced to him.... I don't recognize his face from the brief,

kind

> of distorted thing they had on TV, and the name doesn't ring any

> bells. I know he wasn't on our staff. I could check our volunteer

> rolls. "

> Neil Bush's confirmation of his relations with Scott Hinckley was

> matched by a parallel confirmation from the Executive Office of the

> Vice President. This appeared in the " Houston Post " , April 1, 1981

> under the headline, " Vice President Confirms his Son was to have

> Hosted Hinckley Brother. " Here the second-string press secretary,

> Shirley M. Green, was doing the talking. " I've spoken to Neil, "

she

> said, " and he says they never saw [scott] Hinckley again [after the

> birthday party]. They kept saying 'we've got to get together,' but

> they never made any plans until tonight. " Contradicting Neil Bush's

> remarks, Ms. Green asserted that Neil Bush knew Scott Hinckley

" only

> slightly. "

> Later in the day, Bush spokesman Peter Teeley surfaced to deny any

> campaign donations from the Hinckley clan to the Bush campaign.

When

> asked why Sharon Bush and Neil Bush had made reference to large

> political contributions from the Hinckleys to the Bush campaign,

> Teeley responded, " I don't have the vaguest idea. " " We've gone

> through

> our files, " said Teeley, " and we have absolutely no information

that

> he [John W. Hinckley, Sr.] or anybody in the family were

> contributors, supporters, anything. " Once the cabinet had decided

> that

> there had been no conspiracy, all such facts were irrelevant

anyway.

 

> There is no record of Neil Bush, George W. Bush, or Vice President

> George H.W. Bush ever having been questioned by the FBI in regard

to

> the contacts described. They never appeared before a grand jury or

a

> congressional investigating committee. Which is another way of

saying

> that by March 1981, the United States government had degenerated

into

> total lawlessness, with special exemptions for the now-ruling Bush

> family. Government by law had dissolved. " End of quote excerpted

from

> http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_7.html A theory is " emerging "

> claiming an Israeli connection to the JFK Assassination in the

person

> of Yitzhak Rabin. http://pnews.org/boards/csboard/messages/33.html

> My

> own thoughts about that theory are that someone was laying the

> groundwork for a cover story. Someone lured Rabin to Dallas, so

that

> if things got hot Rabin/Israel could be blamed, similary JFK could

> have been killed anytime anywhere but Nixon was also in Dallas that

> day so a further cover story in place, that Nixon did it would also

> help the real plotters, if Nixon, or Rabin/Israel had had anything

to

> do with it they would have arranged to have been 10,000 miles away

on

> that day not in Dallas,the fact that they were there means that the

> real plotters, the enemies of Nixon & of Rabin knew they would be

in

> Dallas on that day & arranged to hit JFK then and there so that

Nixon

> & or Rabin/Israel could be blamed should anything go wrong-remember

> Nixon flew the planes over to Israel after the arab Pearl Harbor

> style

> sneak attack on Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War thus making it

> unneccessary for Israel to go nuclear,no such cushion is available

> now

> with Israel smaller for having ceded territory to arabs from which

an

> attack may be launched on Israel & under pressure to cede more

land,

> the Golan Heights, etc. thus making a nuclear response or even a

> pre-emptive 1967 Six Day War style strike necessary but this time

on

> the nuclear level as no conventional response is possible if you

are

> attacked not from across the Golan Heights or the Jordan River but

> from across the street.

> Remember how the Iran-Contra gang used

> Israel as cover, so that Israel could be what Lee Harvey Oswald

> Called

> himself before he was murdered, " just a patsy " for their own

> nefarious

> actions In the Iran-Contra scandal.

> ohioleft , " Texas Abolition Support "

> <txabolition@w...> wrote:

> > President Zachary Taylor attended the building of the

> > Washington Monument which was perhaps half completed.

> > He went back to the White House, ate iced milk, and that

> > evening died of food poisoning. President Harding died of

> > a heart attack after a bout with clam food poisoning.

> >

> > http://www.pcrm.org http://www.vrg.org

> > http://www.vegan.com http://www.veganoutreach.org

> > http://www.sierraclub.org http://www.greenpeace.org

> > http://www.greenpeaceindia.org http://www.enviroweb.org

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