Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slayton shares Bush's sunny, crowd-pleasing disposition. Enthusiasm comes easy to him. Midway through the breakfast, when Jack Oliver, Bush's national finance director, calls to tell the group that the Governor won't be phoning in as promised, Slayton reacts as if this is good news. "Thank you so much for calling in, Jack. It's an honor to be part of the team. We're rocking out here." At the end of the event, he's a whirlwind of handshakes and high-fives. He is halfway out the door when he buttonholes an attendee: "Kiddo...
GEORGE W. BUSH Texas massacre spotlights Guv's slavish devotion to N.R.A. Where's the "compassion...
...done by poor people--had not been coined. The sort of state lawbreaking that Fifties Guys were associated with was underage drinking. The sort of federal lawbreaking that Fifties Guys were associated with was underage drinking with a fake draft card. Reading about the recent accusations against George W. Bush, I could imagine one of my classmates' saying wistfully, "I might have tried cocaine if I'd ever heard...
Fifties Guys got shut out of the White House because a couple of World War II Guys, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, won the presidency when they were old enough to be thinking about retirement, and then a Boomer, Bill Clinton, won when he was still in his 40s. If the World War II Guys hadn't been so reluctant to leave the stage and Bill Clinton had permitted the Fifties Guys to go in the normal order, the electorate still might not have reached the point of talking about who "experimented" with drugs (another usage invented for the privileged...
...Governor or 61-year-old Senator or Jack Kemp (Occidental College, class of '57) who got the vice-presidential nomination. Instead, the Republican ticket was led by Bob Dole, another World War II Guy, who was running for President in his 73rd year. Now the leading candidates for 2000, Bush the Younger and Al Gore, are both Boomers. After 1996, we Fifties Guys had to face the cold, hard fact that our one shot at the White House might have been lost when Michael Dukakis peered out of that tank...