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Claim to fame: Grandson of the late Estee Lauder, he rose through the ranks and was recently named CEO of the Estee Lauder Cos.--the $5 billion beauty enterprise chaired by his father Leonard...
Barbara proclaimed she was "amazed" how the family members had matured in four years. At the last G.O.P. Convention, she fretted that grandson Pierce Bush, then 14, the outspoken son of Neil, had developed an affection for television cameras, and they for him. "I hope he does not peak too soon," she said. This time around, she found Pierce, a freshman at Georgetown University, to be on a commendable schedule of maturity. He appeared without a ripple--many pounds lighter and far more restrained--on Larry King Live with his grandfather Bush and uncle Marvin Bush. "Doro was Miss...
...octagonal room under the dome is perhaps the house's most striking space. But what was it for? Not much, apparently. It briefly served as a bedroom for Jefferson's grandson but most often was just storage space. One problem: those treacherous stairs make it hard to get large pieces of furniture up there...
...proves only that a Jefferson male, not necessarily Thomas, was the father, and there were other adult males in Jefferson's family who lived nearby. What's more, there are several documented denials of the relationship, by Jefferson's former overseer at Monticello and Jefferson's daughter, granddaughter and grandson. Jefferson himself never acknowledged the sexual relationship...
...punishment for the sin of slavery, and the presidency an office that drove him to his knees "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." William McKinley decided to invade the Philippines to "uplift and civilize and Christianize" its people. And Woodrow Wilson, a son and grandson of ministers, believed that God had ordained him to be President, inspiring Freud to wonder whether he had a Messiah complex...