Word: sonly
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...could almost watch the Dynasty stagger from one day to the next between wearing a mask and taking a bow. On the same day that the father told the New York Times that he couldn't remember whether he'd talked to his former Defense Secretary about becoming his son's running mate, George W. was telling USA Today that "it's no sign of weakness to talk to your...
...allowed a speaking part. Dad will be saluted Tuesday night, safely wrapped in a tribute to all past Republican Presidents. But certain traditions will still be honored: brother Jeb will be doing the talk shows; Laura speaks on Monday night; the star of the next generation, Jeb's son George P. Bush, is supposed to get a slot. "Every Bush family member is an asset," says convention co-chairman Andy Card, who was, as it happens, the President's deputy chief of staff. But, he added, "we want to be careful it doesn't turn into a Bush family reunion...
...that they have in common. George W. is the dynasty's accidental heir, and he isn't ashamed of using that fact as a calling card. "Can you imagine how much it hurt," W. once said to a crowd, "to know that Dad's idea of the perfect son was Al Gore...
...that drives his critics crazy, it is his cocky impression of a self-made man. Texas Democrat Jim Hightower tossed off a lethal line about the father: that he was "born on third base and thought he hit a triple," which more than one adversary has applied to the son. Without the family connections, they argue, he would never have got into such elite schools, or found a slot in the National Guard during Vietnam, or got those jobs in the oil business or been given a second glance in politics...
Bush, however, sees it all differently. It was no picnic being the son of the chairman of the Republican National Committee during Watergate, or running for Congress in 1978 and having to spend all his time denying that his father was some sinister agent of the Eastern establishment. "It's a mixed blessing," he says. "Some folks will say, there's George and Barbara's son, he must be interesting, let me listen. Others may say, he's not done anything in his life, just running on his daddy's name." Wead's report spelled out the dilemma that...