midland, texas. and he has a growing family at home. by 1953, the bushes have three children. little george, a girl named robin, and then a baby, jeb bush. one morning in their home in midland, barbara bush realizes that something s wrong with robin, her daughter. barbara bush took her to their local doctor who said she d never seen a white blood cell count so high, that she had leukemia, and that there was nothing much they could do for her, she would die in a few weeks, and to just make her comfortable at home. but they decide to fight this disease, and she begins to undergo experimental treatments at sloan kettering cancer hospital in new york. george can t bear to watch his daughter suffer. he writes to a friend, somebody has to be there to look in robin s eyes and comfort her,
the party. it was prescott bush s belief in the importance of persuasion and civility in politics that made him very uncomfortable with joseph mccarthy. are you a member of the communist conspiracy as of this moment? joe mccarthy embodied the anti-communist paranoia that gripped american society early in the 1950s. he was a person who lied, who had no difficulty whatsoever smearing another person s reputation without any fact or basis of evidence. and prescott bush frankly found joe mccarthy despicable. pres bush stands up to him and says this guy is not playing fair, and he s a demagogue and a liar. that took a lot of courage and it sets an early example for his son, george, that you ve got to stand up to the bullies and you can t just go with the flow on politics. but george has yet to seriously consider a political career. he s busy starting his own oil company called zapata in