'Ashamed' Man Claims He Helped Get Bush Into Guard; White House Spokesman Says the Allegation has Already Been Discredited
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › August 29, 2004
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DALLAS (AP) - Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes said he is "more ashamed at myself than I've ever been" because he helped President Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas National Guard so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.
"I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard ... and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it," Barnes, a Democrat, said in a video clip recorded May 27 before a group of John Kerry supporters in Austin.See the full content of this document
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'Ashamed' Man Claims He Helped Get Bush Into Guard; White House Spokesman Says the Allegation has Already Been Discredited
A Bush family friend made the request.
Barnes, who was House speaker when Bush entered the Guard...See the full content of this document
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