Word: midlands
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...outing at the darkest moment of the 36-day postelection battle with Al Gore is almost a country-boy ruse. Of course he wants us to see him here. This ranch, which he bought just a year ago, is a rich Texas symbol of achievement--what kids from the Midland dream of having. And it wasn't handed down. That ranch is all that he sees himself to be: rugged, real and thoroughly Texan. But Bush's persona at the ranch is also more than an act. He seems at peace in this place where he knows each tree...
Bush's career before this moment has been a study in contrasts. Throughout his life, the president-elect, who still proudly recounts his days growing up in Midland, Texas, has consistently mixed his Texan background with his elite Eastern pedigree...
...first political race in 1978, running for Congress in Midland, he was roundly attacked for being an Eastern carpetbagger...
...Midland Man Goes East...
Shortly after his graduation from Harvard, Bush decided to enter the family business, returning to Midland to form an independent oil and gas exploration company called Arbusto--the Spanish word for Bush...