Records on Skull and Bones Society

The materials in FOIA 2009-0116-F are a selective, not necessarily all inclusive, body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. FOIA 2009-0116-F contains materials from agencies and individuals including President George H. W. Bush, the White House Office of Policy Development, and the White House Social Office. Records responsive to this request are related to the Skull and Bones Society at Yale University, of which George H. W. Bush and his father Prescott Bush were both members. 2009-0116-F 2 The WHORM Subject File categories contain articles and letters consisting of correspondence from President Bush to William F. Buckley, Jr. and Thomas W. Ludlow Ashley regarding an article Buckley wrote for National Review. The article responded to Pat Buchanan's characterization of Bush's foreign policy as "Skull and Bones foreign policy" during the 1992 campaign. The Staff and Office Files contain newspaper articles regarding Prescott and George H. W. Bush's connections to Skull and Bones, and administrative forms for a tea for Skull and Bones in 1989. Several of the articles address the rumor that Prescott Bush and a group of Skull and Bones members had disinterred and taken Apache leader Geronimo's skull. Read less