Talk:Prescott Bush

Prescott Bush, the Business Plot, and Nazi-entanglement.
I first learned of Prescott Bush's involvement with the Business Plot from reading Wikipedia. Now both the articles about the Business Plot and Prescott Bush have been scrubbed of reference to each other. I read the talk page for Prescott Bush, and found that the great editors determined that there was flimsy evidence to support the claims. And while I think it is admirable to clear a man's name decades after his death on the basis of good sense, I think their is ample evidence to link Prescott Bush to both incidents. Just a quick Googling of "Prescott Bush Business Plot" links you to this article from Harper's Magazine. http://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/1934-the-plot-against-america/ And a quick search for "Prescott Bush Nazi" returns this article from The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Now Harper's and the Guardian are not rags dedicated to the cause of paranoia, and to say that they don't rise to the level of credible Wikipedia sources is, to my mind, a little nuts. Even if this is not enough citation to prove Prescott Bush's guilt, I think it is more than enough to warrant mentioning the allegations.


 * The connection between Prescott Bush and the Business Plot is the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional committee, the precursor of what became the House Un-American Activities Committee. That committee investigated both Bush (or a company he was involved in; I rather doubt Bush himself was investigated) and the plot - but in separate investigations. Bush was of interest due to his involvement with the Hamburg America Line, suspected of Nazi links, and that's what Harper's Blog is talking about. The Guardian similarly discusses Bush's business connections to Nazi Germany and to German businessmen that supported the Nazi Party. The Business Plot was completely unrelated. It had nothing to do with Germany, Nazis, the Hamburg America Line and, by extension, Prescott Bush. This article already discusses Bush's Nazi ties (or lack thereof), based on more reliable sources than Harper's Blog, but there simply is nothing but a misunderstanding connecting Bush to the Business Plot. Huon (talk) 20:50, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The Guardian article contains more info that could be used in this article. It also mentions several books which could probably be used. --WikiHannibal (talk) 19:32, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, this information should be included as it is a matter of record. Harper's and the Guardian are both top-tier primary sources.98.207.14.143 (talk) 22:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * There's clearly some whitewashing going on here. Prescott was a goddamned Nazi, he made money doing business with other Nazis, and his son went into the family business as head of the CIA, a key institutional enemy of liberty.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:4F00:34D1:780B:76A2:643F:A13A (talk) 22:44, 3 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Interest in issue may increase due to the release of the film Amsterdam.(2022) Parmets article also suggests that the sins of the father are not the sins of the son(s).Johnsagent (talk) 16:53, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * My friend you good, or just intellectually illiterate? NewDealChief (talk) 08:40, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

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Business Plot
12 years after Scott Horton's article in Harper's Magazine, there is still no clear evidence of Bush's involvement in the Business Plot.

Since so many people apparently believe this as fact, I have re-inserted a short section about the plot and quickly explained that no evidence has been found to support it. My reasoning is that it is better to record it in the article as false rather than not have it in the article at all.

I have also contacted Scott Horton by email and requested he make an updated statement about his 2007 article.

--One Salient Oversight (talk) 06:49, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Interesting facts reported in the Guardian
There is a lot of interesting factual information in this article I was thinking of adding, because the wiki article is currently spare on the war-time subject:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

I don't know when I will have time, but perhaps someone else here might be up to it anyway Pythagimedes (talk) 04:50, 8 May 2020 (UTC)