Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush has always been the most unusual of the Bush kids. Yes, he had the Greenwich pedigree and the summers in Kennebunkport. But while still in high school, he went to Mexico and came back in love with a Mexican girl named Columba. He married her, and the Bush Episcopalians, with their love of cold Maine waters, suddenly had a warm Catholic woman for a daughter-in-law. Then Jeb left Houston, the city he grew up in, and put down roots in the Latino culture of Miami, where his family had little sway. He lost his first race...
...Bush had been so obsessed with the campaign that he almost lost his family too. Which is why, to those watching the 45-year-old second son of the former President become the front runner in this year's gubernatorial race, Bush seems so different, so much softer around the edges. To help save his family, Bush recently made perhaps the ultimate leap for the son of the ultimate Wasp: he converted to Catholicism. It wasn't entirely an alien experience. Bush has been accompanying his wife to church off and on since their 1974 marriage, and many observers...
...unsuccessful 1994 campaign, with its 16-hour days, Bush says, he was estranged from his wife and children, and one of them was having serious problems, which Bush declines to describe. "[The campaign] took a toll on my family life, and it was painful to go through that," he says. "I had got so immersed that while I was still connected to my family on one level, I left them behind. So when I came back to the real world, there were some problems I began to see... That hardship was devastating...
...Dole, who served as secretary of transportation under President Reagan and secretary of labor under President Bush, said politics is an honorable profession and that she hoped public confidence in government would revive...
...Formerly high-powered Hillary is either really turning into Barbara Bush or just figuring out what America wants from its presidential wife -- not much -- and that's a little sad. The upside, of course, is that any book with a treacle content that high ought to sell like hotcakes. And the national parks sure could use the money...