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Zitat:30 years later, Bush’s ‘nomadic years’ still unclear
Sara Rimer, Raymond Bonner and Ralph Blumenthal/NYT NYT
Monday, September 20, 2004
This article was reported by Sara Rimer, Raymond Bonner and Ralph Blumenthal and written by Rimer.
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It was in the year 1972 that George W. Bush dropped off the radar screen.
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He abandoned his once-prized status as a National Guard pilot by failing to appear for a required physical examination. He sought temporary reassignment from the Texas Air National Guard to an Alabama unit but for six months did not show up for training. He signed on as an official in the losing campaign of a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, and even there left few impressions other than as an amiable bachelor with a good tennis game and a famous father.
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"To say he brought in a bunch of initiatives and bright ideas," said a fellow campaign worker, Devere McLennan, "no, he didn't."
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This year of inconsequence has grown increasingly consequential for Bush because of persistent, unanswered questions about his National Guard service - why he failed to take his pilot's physical and whether he fulfilled his commitment to the Guard. If anything, those issues became still murkier with arguments over the authenticity of four documents disclosed by CBS News and its program "60 Minutes" purporting to shed light on that Guard record. CBS officials now have doubts about the documents.
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