He denounced his fellow-Republican Joseph McCarthy for creating “dangerous divisions among the American people” and for demanding that Congress follow him “blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements.” Bush could be ludicrously aristocratic-he had his grandchildren call him Senator-but he believed, fundamentally, in the duty of government to help people who did not enjoy his considerable advantages. In Washington, he was President Eisenhower’s golf partner, and the embodiment of what Ike called “modern Republicanism.” Prescott wanted government lean and efficient, but, like Nelson Rockefeller, the New York governor whose centrism inspired the label Rockefeller Republican, he was more liberal than his party on civil rights, birth control, and welfare. In Greenwich, which had an unusually high number of powerful citizens, even by the standards of New York suburbs, Prescott Bush cast a large shadow he was an investment banker, the moderator of the town council, and, from 1952 to 1963, a United States senator. Bush, and Prescott stormed out, saying, “I don’t ever want to hear that kind of language in here again.” He was tall, restrained, and prone to righteousness friends called him a “Ten Commandments man.” In the locker room at Round Hill, someone once told an off-color joke in front of his fourteen-year-old son, George H. W. Bush was a staunch believer in standards he required his sons to wear a jacket and tie for dinner at home.
Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of future Presidents, was the eight-time club champion on the golf course at the Round Hill Club, one of eight country clubs in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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