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...museum--it may be one reason the U.S. has been so successful. President George Bush, a dedicated family man, says when things got tense during crisis meetings in the Cabinet Room or the Oval Office, he could always glance out the windows over the South Lawn and see his grandchildren playing with his dogs or chief gardener Irv Williams digging in the flower beds or perhaps a staff member warming up on the horseshoe pits that Bush had had installed. "It made you realize what being President was all about," insists Bush...
...give up rescue medicine in favor of comfort care when the hope of a cure is minuscule. "For many people, it's easier to say, 'Whatever you say, Doc,' rather than spend two weeks thinking through your own death," says Lynn. "That's uncomfortable. But life is mostly about grandchildren and gardening, sunrises and eating chocolate. It's not about pills." Fine, but how do you eat a Hershey bar when you know it could be your last...
...liked being part of the bustle of a family and enjoyed spending time with visitors (including 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren) who came to see her. And she had something to look forward to. "I'm going to dance at Renee's wedding in September," Lucy declared brightly. "I don't boogie--I'm too old. But I can polka." Lucy Shinn did not get to dance that last polka. Around 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 1, after a final kiss from her daughter, she died. --By Maggie Sieger...
George W.'s dad couldn't shake the habit either. After he lost in 1992, the President announced that he was going to exit the scene, write his memoirs and play with his grandchildren. He would be, in short, the graceful loser Dorothy had taught him to be. But as the years passed and Clinton's personal problems increased, it was hard to shake the feeling that he had lost to a lesser man. If President Bush was disciplined about holding his tongue, you have to wonder whether it was because he had an even better revenge in mind than...
...front of one of the row houses, Dolores Dandridge had just placed a table outside to serve her grandchildren lunch. From out of nowhere, she says, nearly a dozen policemen streaked after Jones about 100 yds. from her. Dandridge watched as about five or six officers caught up to him. "The police were swarming around him like bees swarm honey," she says. "They began to beat him, punching him and kicking him. He had his hands in the air, and I didn't see any gun. People were screaming at the police, telling them to stop, that they were going...