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...much fun working on other people's political campaigns that it was inevitable he would want to try one of his own. He had considered a shot at the Texas state senate when he was 25 but, after talking to his father, decided against it. By 1978, though, he saw a chance to run for Congress in West Texas, and it was then that he ran headlong into the thicket of being named Bush...
...frontier skirmish in the much larger war between Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush over who would control the G.O.P. heading into the 1980 presidential race. W. found that Reagan was actively supporting his primary opponent, Jim Reese, in hopes of weakening the Bush family hold on Texas. Though W. survived the primary, Democrat Kent Hance was far tougher, painting the son as a carpetbagger funded by East Coast fat cats and happily fueling constituents' concerns about the father as an agent of all those One World Government forces, such as the U.N. and the Trilateral Commission...
...place in Spring Valley and took an office downtown at the shabby campaign headquarters. And over the next 18 months, he discovered things about his father and himself and the oily internal workings of national politics that cleared the way for everything that would come after. It was as though he got to perform the ultimate act of synthesis: take his father's weaknesses--his sometimes excessive loyalty to people, his reluctance to fire or even confront anyone, his lack of feeling for what was uppermost in voters' minds and hearts--and apply his own instincts to solve the problem...
...conversion by this time and could speak the language of the faithful heart fluently, at least compared with Dad. He met with the important ministers and Evangelical leaders, talking about the family's faith, even contributing a book explaining the father's spiritual journey. It was as though a light had gone on in W.'s head, not just about how vital the Christian vote was for his father but for his own prospects as well. Thanks in part to W., his father wound up with 80% of the Evangelical vote; and his son, recalled an aide, described this...
...knew whether it would get uglier. Arafat has threatened to declare unilaterally a Palestinian state if no accord is reached by Sept. 13, but so far Israeli and Palestinian streets have been calm. Though the summit collapsed, it did force the two sides to negotiate on once taboo subjects, such as who owns the holy city. Says Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi: "Files are now open that were hitherto closed." But it will take more courage still for peace...