Word: jeb
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...History flip-flopped. Al Gore got the popular vote, and Bush, for the moment, has the edge in Florida. "Jeb says George is going to win," said the former President after the vote, spirits up again, though the political realist in him had prepared earlier for the possibility of defeat. "There is life afterward, and George is very strong; he is very strong - and resilient. He will land on his feet in five minutes, but there will be hurt, deep hurt...
...moment Dan Rather declares a winner risks being labeled a sore loser. Gore was so eager to surrender in a timely way that he jumped the gun, only to renege later when Florida drifted back into contention. Bush nearly refused to accept the retraction, protesting that little brother Jeb, who would know, had assured him the Sunshine State was his. To Gore, that wasn't a controlling legal authority. This time he was right...
...matter how the election turns out, there will be good memories. "One good moment was in Philadelphia when they had that family party, and Jeb got up and said something very nice. He said, ?I see my brother as presidential.' I tell you that if there is anything that is dreaded, it is these stories saying Jeb was holding back. One story even suggested he was doing it so he could be center stage. That hasn't anything to do with polls. That has to do with family. Jeb worked his heart out for his brother...
...George P. (Jeb's son) brought us great family pride. When he got out there, he lighted up the world. But he had been accepted for law school at the University of Texas in the fall. He wrote his uncle this beautiful e-mail that he felt he just had to go to law school, and he would miss the campaign. We wondered how George, who was so driven, would feel. George W. wrote P. back that he understood. He was doing the right thing. He had done everything he could in the campaign. That was a beautiful thing from...
...Bush had hoped to have a special dinner with his wife and parents and brother Jeb, cherishing the knowledge that the exit polls were telling them everything they wanted to hear. But Bush was already tense when he got to the Shoreline Grill early that evening. As the family members made their way under dim lights to the restaurant, Bush's shoulders were more hunched than usual, his father looked as if he was suffering from an ulcer, and Barbara wore a smile tight as a fist. By then they knew the race was much closer than Rove had promised...