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Bill Liedtke Jr. was the co-founder of Zapata Corporation in 1952 along with his brother Hugh John Overbey Thomas J. Devine and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. Zapata merged with Pennzoil and the Liedtkes took over United Gas Pipeline in 1956. Liedtke became the Texas finance chairman for Richard Nixon’s Presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972. He paid hush money to E.