A Shrub Grows in Midland BY KAREN OLSSON, 6/25/1999 – The Texas Observer

According to Gary Ott, who was then a reporter for the Plainview Daily Herald, Bush … warned that Social Security would go bust in ten years unless people were given a chance to invest the money themselves [in 1978!]

[mjh: some will see this as a positive sign of Bush’s constancy; others as his inability to change/adapt and an old use of ‘crisis’.]