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...stepfather Ira Toler died of a stroke in 1987, the 11-year-old was left with no father and no father figure. She has often said that given the chance, "I would have been a daddy's girl," and she sometimes wonders if she won all those trophies to impress a man she never knew. "I've made no further attempts to get in contact with my father since I was maybe 19," she says. "Obviously, he's made no attempts to contact me. It's a nonfactor...
...improve his profile during the primaries. At that time, his advisers believed their most serious challenge would come from Steve ("Flat Tax") Forbes. They were worried that Forbes would paint Bush as soft on taxes, like his father. To counter that, Bush proposed a tax cut massive enough to impress fiscal conservatives, but one that also included a pro-working family element. Result: a $1.6 trillion promise. The irony: Forbes never caught fire. Bush found himself saddled with a jumbo tax cut against an opponent--McCain--who argued for being fiscally prudent and paying down debt. Bush went...
...stepfather Ira Toler died of a stroke in 1987, the 11-year-old was left with no father and no father figure. She has often said that given the chance, "I would have been a daddy's girl," and she sometimes wonders if she won all those trophies to impress a man she never knew. "I've made no further attempts to get in contact with my father since I was maybe 19," she says. "Obviously, he's made no attempts to contact me. It's a nonfactor...
...outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate snobbish friends and lie down twice a week on a shrink's couch except to impress some woman? She couldn't answer this...
...improve his profile during the primaries. At that time, his advisers believed their most serious challenge would come from Steve ("Flat Tax") Forbes. They were worried that Forbes would paint Bush as soft on taxes, like his father. To counter that, Bush proposed a tax cut massive enough to impress fiscal conservatives, but one that also included a pro-working family element. Result: a $1.6 trillion promise. The irony: Forbes never caught fire. Bush found himself saddled with a jumbo tax cut against an opponent--McCain--who argued for being fiscally prudent and paying down debt. Bush went...