..."Back in the first Bush presidency Linda Tripp was stationed down the hall from the Oval Office.
She somehow caught wind on a long known but well-kept Washington secret: President George Bush
had a "special" relationship with a staffer named Jennifer Fitzgerald. In fact, Bush had been "very close"
to this Jennifer beginning in Peking back in the days when Bush was our delegate to Red China.
So close, in fact, that Barbara Bush had come home to D.C. in a state of "depression."

"Years later, during Bush's vice presidency, Jennifer Fitzgerald held a key staff post – and this caused a
virtual revolt among his other loyal staffers. They hated the haughty, pushy and arrogant woman who clearly
had more "access" to Bush than they did. Vice President Bush went to Geneva in 1984 during the arms talks
and arranged through our negotiators to stay in a government guest house – with Jennifer Fitzgerald.

Our ambassador was aghast! When Bush became president, Jennifer Fitzgerald was moved over to the
protocol office inside the State Department. But she was still visible at public functions and occasionally
traveled with the presidential party. Those "in the know" inside Washington knew about this relationship.
A Washington Post story at the time had carefully danced around the topic, even speculating about the
"positions" Fitzgerald had taken with Bush.

"Linda Tripp learned of it and saw it from her desk down the hall from the Oval Office.
She thought it inappropriate. And she told people about it. Things came to a head one summer up in
Kennebunkport when CNN’s Mary Tillotson asked President Bush if he was having an ‘adulterous’ affair?
Bush went ballistic and decried the question even being asked. He attacked the reporter for "what you are doing."
But he never answered the question. Instead he later sent out a spokesman to say,
"The answer to the ‘A’ question is a big NO."

The spokesman? His oldest son, George W. Bush.

"The Bushes have long memories. They know full well it was Linda Tripp who, among others, ratted out
the Bush-Jennifer Fitzgerald relationship during the first Bush administration. And there is no way that they
are going to ‘reward’ her by giving her a new White House job....To the Bushes she is the one who exposed
their own scandalous behavior and subsequent cover-up." --John LeBoutillier, 8/24/01

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