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BUSH: Yes, my heritage is part of who I am, and that certainly included politics. But my dad didn't take me in the backyard and hit a tackling dummy to make me a great tackler, and he also didn't do things to try to make me a politician...
...from Japan and then had to share a single Army telephone line to get their stories out; the veteran photographer eager to go, who was told by his editors to forget it since the war would be over in a week. For me, the Korean War began in my backyard. Before becoming a TIME correspondent, I was with the American embassy in Seoul, and on Sunday morning of June 25, 1950, I'd been trying to get a patch of grass growing outside the Japanese-style house where I lived with my wife and three small children when a breakfast...
...birthday?" Having forgotten exactly who remained in the car, I fell back on a generic response: "Chocolate cake, pink-frosting flowers and a personalized birthday serenade from a famous teenybopper-heartthrob band?" The voice replied, "No, I want to stay home and play with friends in the backyard...
...inner-city neighborhoods who know few whites besides cops, teachers and social workers. To some readers, leaving the story of those kinds of people out of the series seemed to teleport the problem to somewhere out there in the hinterlands, away from the paper's own racially troubled backyard...
There's the wife of 23 years, the religious upbringing, the military career as a respected helicopter pilot, the new job as a $13.75-an-hour crane operator, the split-level home with forsythia bushes and a backyard barbecue. Yates sent out Christmas cards and won Army medals for meritorious service. "Bobby is a loving, caring, sensitive son; a fun-loving and giving brother; an understanding, generous and dedicated father who enjoys playing ball, fishing and camping with his kids," the Yates family said in their only statement to date. "Bobby is the type of person you would want...