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...shows its hand. Like old money, its assets are something it doesn't discuss in public. Instead the Bushes speak of service, as in, "We're just so glad our sons decided to follow us into public service"--and it's not insincere, because they are glad. The Bush code is not really about power; it is about winning and achieving, doing your best, better than the other guy. For them, dynasty is a fighting word, and it's no wonder, with its embedded insult of unfair advantage. "Dynasty means something inherited," W. told TIME. "We inherited a good name...
...legendary Andover athlete, George Sr. went to war and became a hero, came home and became a husband, went to Yale and became a star: Phi Beta Kappa, baseball-team captain, fraternity president, Skull and Bones member--all in less than four years and always upholding the family code. At supper with parents Prescott and Dorothy, boys were expected to wear ties and use the right fork. There was lots of love but no sloppy affection--and certainly no sass, much less open rebellion. "See, Senior was never a child," a family friend argues. "He grew up always doing what...
...always had to calibrate everything," observes a peer, "find the middle ground between the family code and the times he grew up in." He didn't enlist and head for Vietnam. But "leaving the country to avoid the draft was not an option for me," he explains in his book. "I was too conservative and too traditional." Like many sons of prominent pols, W. found a place in the National Guard, spending nearly two years learning to fly fighter jets. By that time the F-102 was increasingly obsolete, so there was not much chance he would ever be called...
...friend who went to school with the son but worked for the father says, "It's not that W. rebelled; he just was wilder than the old man expected--it was rowdiness. Not doing well in school when you could, being class funnyman--those were huge detours from the code...
...time it was over, that life had changed. Dad had no sooner won than the new generation began to make its moves. Jeb had his eye on the Florida Governor's mansion, W. on Texas. But first there was a piece of the family code that his mother insisted he honor, one handed down all the way from Prescott, who made a fortune on Wall Street, through Dad, who struck it rich in the oil business. "My dad would talk about my grandfather's lesson," W. says, "which is that before you enter public service, you go out and make...