Ex-Lawmaker Says He Helped Bush With Guard
By BOBBY ROSS JR
DALLAS (AP) – Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes said he is “more ashamed at myself than I’ve ever been” because he helped President Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas National Guard so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.
“I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard … and I’m not necessarily proud of that, but I did it,” Barnes, a Democrat, said in a video clip recorded May 27 before a group of John Kerry supporters in Austin.
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