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Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm

Former President George Bush met with King Fahd, right, on a trip to Saudi Arabia last year as part of his work for the Carlyle Group.

This company is about money, not conspiracies to run the world or engineer political maneuvering and things like that. It's about making money, and it's about making a lot of money. And they've done very well.

[Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent] I could get you on-the-record on this question. In the White House view, there is no ethical conflict in former President Bush and former Secretary of State Jim Baker using their contacts with world leaders to represent one of the most well-known military arms dealers, the Carlyle Group?

[Whitehouse Spokesman] The president has full faith that his family will conform with all proper ethics laws and will act properly in their conduct.

Michael Moore:  Okay, let's say one group of people, like the American people pay you $400,000 a year to be president of the United States.

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