Word: jeb
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...hear you're looking for me," the son told the father. "You wanna go mano a mano right here?" It was Jeb who tried to ease the tension by announcing to the Bush parents that W. had just been accepted at Harvard Business School. They hadn't even known he had applied, but they leaped at the idea until he told them, "Oh, I'm not going. I just wanted to let you know I could get into...
...time it was over, that life had changed. Dad had no sooner won than the new generation began to make its moves. Jeb had his eye on the Florida Governor's mansion, W. on Texas. But first there was a piece of the family code that his mother insisted he honor, one handed down all the way from Prescott, who made a fortune on Wall Street, through Dad, who struck it rich in the oil business. "My dad would talk about my grandfather's lesson," W. says, "which is that before you enter public service, you go out and make...
...shake the feeling that he had lost to a lesser man. If President Bush was disciplined about holding his tongue, you have to wonder whether it was because he had an even better revenge in mind than just sniping from the sidelines. On the day in 1998 when both Jeb and George were on the ballot, the father was thinking back to his own loss six years before and how far they had all come. He sat down that morning and wrote of his enormous pride. "Tomorrow I might well be the dad of the Governors of the second...
...from my family liberated me. It gave me a sense of security. We were all at a church in Maine recently and the preacher asked whether anyone in the congregation had a perfect family, and the only hand that went up without hesitation was Dad's. It helped Jeb and me not be afraid of defeat...
TIME: You were elected Governor in 1994, the year your brother Jeb lost the Florida Governor's race. How did your family feel...