Not Many Know
GHWB with a handful of men in Texas sought to remove the price controls at the wellhead for oil and natural gas put in place by Eisenhower. We'd all be dependent on the Middle East and Russia for all of our oil by now if they had not finally been successful. Oh, and fuel for your vehicle would cost as much as it does in Europe, outrageously expensive. They started trying to talk with legislators in the early 60's and only the GOP would even meet with them so they all flipped to the GOP, except Bush who was already a member of the GOP.
And that my friends is how he got elected to congress in 1966, He was the member of the small group who ran because he was the only one who hadn't recently flipped to the GOP.
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