Tripp got a bad rap!
Unfortunately the neoCONS dislike screwing some willing ho ONLY when they think they can out a Democrat. When it is them they are totally "into it."
She outed #41 for cheating on Barbs, and his long time affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald:
Why The Bushes Will Never Hire Linda Tripp
[FONT=arial,helvetica]John LeBoutillier[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica]Monday, Feb. 12, 2001[/FONT]
If youÂ’re hoping that President George W. Bush will hire Linda Tripp and bring her back to the White House, donÂ’t hold your breath.
You do not understand the fundamental nature of the Bushes.
Nor do you – or Matt Drudge, Tripp’s biggest booster in the media – want to recall the first time Tripp, the now-infamous whistle-blower, burst on the national scene.
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.
This was
no different from what she would later do in the Clinton White House when she again saw examples of presidential philandering – remember Kathleen Willey emerging disheveled with smeared lipstick from the Oval Office?
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 many of us Linda Tripp is a true American hero for taking on Bill Clinton. And she suffered for her courage.
But to the Bushes she is the one who exposed their own scandalous behavior and subsequent cover-up.
Why The Bushes Will Never Hire Linda Tripp
Ireland: Mistress of influence: Bush's 'other wife'
President George Bush Sr seemed to be under his wife's thumb, but his lover was really calling the shots
by Kitty Kelley
Jennifer Fitzgerald toyed with the long string of pearls around her neck as she waited outside the Oval Office to have her farewell photo taken with President Gerald Ford. Just as the door opened, she broke the strand — but not her stride. She smiled and let the broken pearls dangle as she posed with the president.
It was November 30, 1974. Fitzgerald, personal assistant to one of FordÂ’s aides, was leaving for the PeopleÂ’s Republic of China to become secretary to the new chief of the American mission there, George Bush.
Bush could hardly wait. His first entry in the new diary he started in Beijing said how much he was looking forward to her arrival.
He had never been a compulsive womaniser. Rather, he maintained a few flirtatious relationships which his wife Barbara had tolerated because he never humiliated her. He chose his involvements very carefully (usually out of town) so as not to threaten his marriage.
Then along came Fitzgerald, who started out as his secretary and became so much more. Short, blonde and pretty, Jennifer Ann Isobel Patteson-Knight Fitzgerald was 42 years old and divorced when Bush first met her in Washington during the tumultuous months of the Watergate scandal. He was chairman of the Republican National Committee; she worked for one of the committeeÂ’s officials.
Professionally, BushÂ’s move from Washington to Beijing would enhance his credentials as he clawed his way to the presidency; but personally it would discombobulate his 30-year-old marriage, prompt his wife to burn her love letters and eventually lead to her severe depression.
“It wasn’t just another woman,” said someone close to the situation, discussing the wedge that came between Bush and Barbara. “It was a woman who came to exert enormous influence over George for many, many years . . . She became in essence his other wife . . . his office wife.”
In those days Beijing was a remote outpost for the staff of the small US mission. Bush told friends when he picked Fitzgerald to join him there that she would be his loyal “buffer” with Henry Kissinger’s State Department.
“I don’t know what particular skills she brought to the job,” recalled one former member of the mission. “She certainly couldn’t type.”
Before her arrival, Barbara Bush suddenly decided to leave Beijing, saying she wanted to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with her children in America. She did not return for three months.
Fitzgerald landed in Beijing on December 5, 1974, and the next day she and Bush left for a 12-day diplomatic conference in Honolulu.
In his diary, he wrote: “Spent the last two days out of that Sheraton Waikiki madhouse and in the 4999 Kahala apartment — just lovely . . . Checked out the bathhouse again . . . Totally relaxing. Someday I will write a book on massages I have had . . .
“I must confess the Tokyo treatment is the best. Walking the back . . . combination of knees and oil . . . does wonders for the sacroiliac, and a little something for the morale too . . . Flew back to Peking on Iran Airlines. Jennifer and I alone in first class.”
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