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LULU (FLICKINGER) ROBINSON (dates unavailable) After her husband's death she learned to drive and toured the U.S., Canada and Mexico in a trailer. Barbara Bush's favorite grandparent...
They'll all be together onstage this week, but going into the final moments, it was still unclear whether even Barbara would be 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...
...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 W. faced after his father took office: "It may seem that the President's children...
...goes, W. ran into the school's high-profile chaplain, William Sloane Coffin, himself a blue-blooded Yale alum and contemporary of W.'s father's. "I knew your father," he told the son, "and your father lost to a better man." It was an appalling thing to say, Barbara Bush later noted, especially to a freshman, who would hardly be likely to darken the chapel doors after an encounter like that. But that was not the last time W. found himself defending his father in a climate in which pro-Vietnam Nixon men were not exactly popular...
BUSH: It cuts both ways. 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. It's a mixed blessing...Well, to me it's not a mixed blessing. It's a great blessing to be raised by George and Barbara Bush...