George HW Bush's decades-long mistress Jennifer Fitzgerald

Has there been any discussion of her this week?

Wow, I just hopped on the DL to see if she has been discussed. I wonder how she is feeling right now.

Here is a great link that gives some info about their history together.

Whoops...forgot the link!

I've thought about all his mistresses while everyone is turning him into a sainted family man. People don't realize he and Bill got along because they had a lot in common. Also missing is his time in the CIA and Iran Contra deal.

I believe she climbed into the coffin.

She was in the National Cathedral's crying baby room, down in the basement, watching the proceedings on close-circuit.

Interesting how conservatives always criticize Hillary Clinton for staying with Bill after his affairs, yet never say anything about Barbara Bush staying with George H. after his long lasting affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald.

Unfortunately, Bush was able to keep his more quiet. Unlike Bill and Trump. But it is why Barb was such a bitch, especially when it came to press about her family.

[Quote]In 1990, Fitzgerald, upon her return from an official trip to Argentina for the inauguration of President Carlos Menem, was found by the U.S. Customs Service to have underdeclared the value of a $1,100 fur-lined raincoat and failing to declare a $1,300 silver fox cape she had bought there. She was fined $648.

As the Washington Post later reported, the State Department disciplined her with a two-week unpaid suspension. Normally such abuse of diplomatic privilege costs the offenders their jobs. Other State employees believed that Fitzgerald earned a comparative slap on the wrist only by virtue of her relationship with the president.

Oh how times have changed.

[Quote]In 1990, Fitzgerald, upon her return from an official trip to Argentina for the inauguration of President Carlos Menem, was found by the U.S. Customs Service to have underdeclared the value of a $1,100 fur-lined raincoat and failing to declare a $1,300 silver fox cape she had bought there. She was fined $648.

[Quote]As the Washington Post later reported, the State Department disciplined her with a two-week unpaid suspension. Normally such abuse of diplomatic privilege costs the offenders their jobs. Other State employees believed that Fitzgerald earned a comparative slap on the wrist only by virtue of her relationship with the president.

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Yeah, Iwas wondering why there is never any mention of the mistress.

There was one odd pause in W's speech yesterday (10:12 in video) after he said, "He was dedicated to her, totally," when he stopped awkwardly, raised his eyebrows, licked and pursed his lips and looked off into the distance. There's a micro-expression there, like he had just told a fib.

The rumor has always been that Jr. was unhappy with how his dad treated his mom. He was closer to his mom. Those rumors go back to Midland and when he was Texas guv.

I worked at Sotheby’s Real Estate in DC during his Presidency and he bought her a condo - one of my associates did the deal.

I think she was in Japan with George the 1st when he barfed in the lap of Japan's Prime Minister.

Here you can see Babs and Jennifer is the same pic. Jennifer is only 8 years younger than Bush, so she's 86 years old now.

This book by Kitty Kelley (The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty) was an easy, entertaining, and interesting read. Makes you understand how rich people exchange favors and make money. And use public office to do so.

Poor Barb. She really did look like an old Quaker, gentleman.

Any more pics of Jennifer Fitzgerald?

No conservatives hide her and seldom discuss Sr.'s side-babe.Like they do most conservative politicians who have been cheating and lying in DC for decades.Watch DL'ERS play dumb

r19 looks like that's the closest we'll get to this iconic shot from Mitterrand's funeral: wife, daughter, and mistress pay their respects

I think Bar went into a horrible tailspin of booze and depression after their little girl died.

Poor woman. She took to the bottle, and I cannot blame her one bit.

Jennifer Fitzgerald was a cunt.

Supposedly, the Bush and Clinton campaigns had a genetleman's agreement not to bring up their respective opponents infidelities. Fitzgerald lived not far from the Bushes in the Spring Valley neighborhood of DC before he was president.

Sharon Bush spilled the beans when she was divorcing Neil.Apparently in that nasty divorce,information leaked via Sharon's lawyer about Fitzgerald, who had once been friendly with Barbara.George Jr. was heartbroken and the relationship with George Sr. never recovered.

Did Jennifer ever marry and have a life of her own?

Wow, r27. What a load of shit that was doled out yesterday.

Do you think the coverage was emblematic of a generation that didn't grow up with the Internet? They still seem to think that they can dictate how he'll be remembered.

Supposedly, during the Reagan administration GHW Bush was pulled over with Jennifer in the car. I don't remember whether it was an accident or DUI or what. At any rate, Nancy Reagan gossiped to her friends about the mistress.

I think that was in Kitty Kelley's book about Nancy.

This thread is short but sweet. So if we can get the juice on Poppy, certainly we are capable of scooping Trump’s “wire hangar incidents,” yes?

Interesting article on Presidential affairs with other women and a couple of men.

I think the affair between Kay Summersby and Eisenhower was quite romantic.

The major American networks are absolutely frightened of the Republicans and cower like cowards so as not to offend them!

George H.W. had a SECOND WIFE, and no one is allowed to mention it, EVER!!!

[R34]

Eisenhower and his wartime driver,shocking.

According to Kelley, the Bushes aggressively maintain their all-American family image by scrubbing government files of embarrassing facts, stonewalling journalists, and terrorizing critics. "Some people felt that George's past did not seep out and embarrass him and his family," she writes of the White House's current Bush, "because he was protected by a coterie of former CIA men with an allegiance to his father." An Austin, Texas, political consultant named Peck Young told Kelley that when a woman claiming to have been a call girl from Midland showed up in Austin with "intimate knowledge" of W. during his oil wildcatting days, she was approached by what she described as "intelligence types" and left town abruptly. According to Young, the men "made her realize that it was better to turn tricks in Midland than to stop breathing."

But, Monica and her blue dress!

R39, yes but Clinton's crime and as lying to Congress and he was held accountable. The Republicans need to be held to the same standards for the sake of our country.

[R40]

Won't happen until their constituents open their eyes to the con men/women they are electing to purify their dying race.Red states are poor for a reason....but they are loaded with igtards more worried about minorities, then the caucasian politicians they elect selling them magic beans. Dummies.

Damn this is the first time I’m learning all this. The bit in Kelley’s book about Barbara trying to look like his mother is all so wild.

[R43]

She was trying to keep him.....cries

Kitty Kelly is the Barbara Cartland of American Historical Fiction.

Bull, most of what Kelley wrote about celebrities has turned out to be true, including O doing coke. Some tried to block her books getting published, but none sued her for what was in them. I'm an attorney in Austin and I know people who traveled in their circle in Midland. The stories of his coke use and beating Laura when he was drunk are well known, as well as that they had all her medical records from the incidents scrubbed before he ran for Gov. They have that kind of power. There were also rumors that when Laura killed that boy in the car crash she was at fault and it was covered up with connections pre Bush. I could go on but, seriously, it is the same old shit people talk about.

R46 I think it is obvious to the public that Laura was at fault but I never heard about W beating her. Wow. Also, who were you referring to when you said O did coke?

R46, they also scrubbed his national guard records of his AWOL. Everything Dan Rather reported was true...

Anybody heard about Jeb Bush's mistress in Florida? Supposedly "everybody knows" and they've been together for a very long time.

Jennifer Fitzgerald ran Bush's Senate Office, when he was vice president. She was English-born. Rumors of their affair circulated on the Hill at the time. R11 quotes about the time she got in trouble when Fitzgerald worked at the Office of Protocol after Bush became president. Supposedly, she lorded her "in" with Bush over her co-workers there, and it was they who tipped off Customs.

I give credit to Bush for the way he handled the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany. And I give him and Bill Clinton credit for work after Katrina. But, as many here have noted (and a NYT's article did as well), his Administration continued the hostility and apathy of the previous administration towards the gay community, as Aids decimated us. It was only when Aids began to affect straight women and children that Congress began to act. Did Bar ever touch or kiss a gay man with HIV, as Princess Diana did? No. Bar only showed sympathy to a baby infected with the virus.

I can remember the way they promoted Barbara Bush as America's grandmother. That grandmotherly image was trotted out once again this week. We were reminded once again about her role as the enforcer of good manners and not putting one's self before others. What a pile of pig shit! Remember what she called Geraldine Ferraro in the summer of 1988? Or how she and her husband oh so dearingly called Jeb's children "the little brown ones?" Can you imagine the reaction of that Rye WASP to the news that her son intended to marry a Mexican woman?

I had a friend from Kennebunkport who had a summer job at a local market. The market provided food and beverages for the wedding of the Bush daughter. Afterwards, Bar called the market up to have them pick up the beer and sodas not consumed and to make sure the Bushes would not be charged for anything unconsumed. My friend told me the bottles and cans all bore dirt and mud from sitting in the grass, and how he and his coworkers could not get over how shameless and cheap she was.

Let's not forget that the First Gulf War put back in power a regime not very different from the despotic Saudi regime. Continued presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia afterwards motivated Osama bin Laden to do what he did. George W. Bush may have been strongly motivated to invade Iraq to finish what his father could not. No one can deny the US was justified in going after bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Iraq is not justifiable nor is our continued presence in Afghanistan. The deaths of Americans and non-Americans too are too heavy a price to pay.

Lastly, I am so sick of the constant references to the Bush presidents as 41 and 43. They smack of elitist, paternalist entitlement. We are a republic. Journalists use those monikers as well. They should know better, especially after buying hook, line, and sinker the supposed evidence for WMD and links to Al-Qaeda which brought us into unnecessary wars.

The Bush world is where we are supposed to enter cap in hand to defer to the notables. and be grateful when they deign to acknowledge us and grace us with their wit and folksy charm. Blech!

R47, I think "O" means Oprah Winfrey. Coke means cocaine (just kidding).

Here's a photo of Jennifer Fitzgerald and Bush. "Bush apparently had an affair within the Oval Office with his chief deputy of protocol." That's from a "World Lifestyle" article.

R55, no it's not Babs. This was an article specifically about US presidents and their mistresses. Here's the article. You have to do several clicks to get to the photo and caption (lots of ads). Lots of stuff about Clinton.

Great find r54 I went looking for photos of her and couldn't find much. She's got that Nancy Reagan adoring gaze thing down pat. She does look like Bar.

Ummm... that’s Babs. Here’s Jennifer Fitzgerald.

^the one to Bush’s left is Jennifer Fitzgerald.

r8 Barbara Bush didn't run for office.

They said that about Hillary before she ran for office.

R60 Hillary was criticized way before she ran for office.

R54, you’re NUTS. That is Bar Bush. In no way, shape, or form, is that Jennifer Fitzgerald.

I may not be a genius, but I am well read on our former presidents, their wives, and mistresses.

And yes, W. was a HUGE drunk, and Laura took to the bottle herself. Yet unlike her mother in law, she was able to stop.

Poor Bar drank all the way across the finish line.

I feel kinda sorry for Bar now despite her being the biggest bitch around :(

Fitzgerald was kept quiet and is not spoken about because Republicans have their own "Snitches get Stitches" type philosophy.

What's she supposed to say anyway? This is a very old woman.

Ah, older affairs were kept quite by those involved. They were not gabbing with Republican bitches about their little fooling around in the Oval Office.

Sounds like he loved her for a long time. Kind of sad.

I wonder if he provided for her financially.

Spy Magazine did a story on Bush and Fitzgerald. It was on the cover of the magazine. Here's a link to the article.

r63 I never knew Barbara Bush had a drink problem?

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