Liberal Repercussion

Donald Ensenat is the guy with all the answers as to Bush's AWOL status and cocaine abuse.
http://www2.aya.yale.edu/classes/yc1968/members.htm
Ensenat, a New Orleans lawyer and fraternity brother of Mr. Bush's at Yale was appointed the administration's protocol chief.

"I don't remember any kind of heaviness ruining my time at Yale." -- George W. Bush



Donald Ensenat, a roommate of Bush's in Houston, told a reporter that in those days weighty matters were low on their list of priorities. "I think we were worried about who our dates were," he said.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/1999/jun/wild.1.php



http://www.dke.org/bushpost722.html

Bush joined the National Guard. He insisted later that he did it because it was the only place he could "fly jets," not because it was better than landing in Southeast Asia.

Then, two years later, no longer on active duty, he indulged in his version of the counterculture. Bush moved with a friend to a bachelor pad in Houston and lived through what he calls his "nomadic years." Nine to five he worked at an uninspiring job at an agricultural company, then spent his evenings at bars, daiquiri parties, volleyball games, always with dates but never with serious ones.

"Houston in 1971 was not the same as Berkeley," recalls his Houston roommate, Don Ensenat. "It's not like we were living in a commune and smoking dope all day long. But I guess we were living the '60s life in our own way, drifting through life, doing what we felt like doing, thinking only about where we were going to have our fun next. It was the '60s destructive attitude even if not exactly in the '60s style."

So Bush wound up infected by the decade after all, drifting in his own way until he was accepted at Harvard.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm

George W. promptly took a one-bedroom apartment at one of the most attractive complexes in Houston at the time, the Chateaux Dijon. A popular spot for singles, it offered fancy street lamps and striped awnings and six pools filled with ambitious secretaries, students and young businessmen. Bush relished his bachelor life there. He played hard, plunging into all-day water volleyball games, but left frequently for 24-hour flight duty in the alert shack at Ellington Field.

"He did some night-flying as I recall," said Don Ensenat, a Yale classmate who lived with him in Houston.

(Carol's note: I'll BET.)



He had a couple of girls that were more than one date, but nothing that looked like a serious romance," Ensenat said. "Dates and the opposite sex were always high on the agenda. He was always enjoyable to be around. But we didn't do anything anybody else in their twenties didn't do."

Ensenat said he never saw Bush use illegal drugs.

That fall, as his father raced Bentsen for the Senate seat, both Bush and Ensenat, who had already entered law school at the University of Houston, applied for admission to the University of Texas law school. Both were rejected, though Ensenat later became a lawyer.


Nice photo here.

http://www.pologreatmeadow.com/index.cfm?action=players

Ambassador Ensenat was born and raised in New Orleans. He studied at Yale and Tulane Universities, and served in the U. S. Army Reserve. In addition to an active international and maritime law practice in New Orleans since 1974, he has served in the government six times. Recently, President George W. Bush, nominated, and the Senate confirmed him as Chief of Protocol of the United States, with rank of Ambassador, where he presently serves. Mr. Ensenat has also been active in his community and served as Chair of President George W. Bush's presidential election campaign in Louisiana. Ambassador Ensenat and his wife Taylor have two children, a daughter, Farish who is a graduate of Cornell University, and a son, Will, who is a high school senior. Ambassador and Mrs. Ensenat reside in New Orleans.

Mr. Ensenat probably doesn't live here anymore, but I certainly encourage you real reporters out there to check and see if Mr. Ensenat has any fond memories of the Blowmonkey during his "lost years".

Donald Ensenat
1233 Harmony St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
(504) 895-1644

Guess he already had years of experience in mopping up after the Dubster.

He's got his work cut out for him as Chief of Protocol. I wouldn't wish that job on my ex-boss Jackie, even.

posted by Rei Toei @ 5:20 p.m.