Draft – never published

Over the course of the persidency of George H. W. Bush, both he and first lady Barbara Bush developed Graves’ disease, a form of lupus. Doctors estimated the odds of a husband and wife both developing this uncommon and noncommunicable disease at around 1 in 3,000,000. https://web.archive.org/web/20130508015248/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/28/science/the-doctor-s-world-a-white-house-puzzle-immunity-ailments.html

In 1990, the Bushes’ dog, Millie, was diagnosed with lupus: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-06-mn-1274-story.html

Preceding that, in 1966, Bush left private business and was elected to his first Federal position in the House of Representatives, then subsequently the Senate. In the early seventies, President Richard Nixon had appointed Bush to chair the Republican Party. From there Bush briefly served as a liaison and effective embassador to China, before being appointed by Gerald Ford as director of the the Central Intelligence agency.

The CIA is a spy agency.

In 1966, the same year Bush began his government career, a show debuted in TV. It became very popular and ran for seven years, ending just before Bush gave up chairing the Republican party and returned to Federal government to take the China liaison post.

The show was about spies. That popular spy show was called “Mission: Impossible”.

“Mission: Impossible”, by supposed coincidence starred two men with the same first name, “Peter”.

Peter Graves and Peter Lupus. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/

And yet nobody ever talks about this. We can only speculate on who, exactly, doesn’t want it to be known.

The sole mention I have ever seen about it, anywhere, was in the pages of an old satirical magazine. As always, we have to turn to our comedians to get the real truth.

Or, maybe not… the name of that satirical magazine was… wait for it… “Spy”: (http://books.google.com/books?id=NksQcB4T4nIC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=bush+millie+lupus+graves+%22mission:+impossible%22&source=bl&ots=6jzZ57OBz0&sig=1IqdVJ4jTYqSAoCbXkeqQfBAyGI&hl=en#v=onepage&q=bush%20millie%20lupus%20graves%20%22mission%3A%20impossible%22&f=false)