Word: jeb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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History flip-flopped. Al Gore got the popular vote, and Bush, for the moment, has the edge in Florida. "Jeb says George is going to win," said the former President after the vote, spirits up again, though the political realist in him had prepared earlier for the possibility of defeat. "There is life afterward, and George is very strong; he is very strong--and resilient. He will land on his feet in five minutes, but there will be hurt, deep hurt...
...matter how the election turns out, there will be good memories. "One good moment was in Philadelphia when they had that family party, and Jeb got up and said something very nice. He said, 'I see my brother as presidential.' I tell you that if there is anything that is dreaded, it is these stories saying Jeb was holding back. One story even suggested he was doing it so he could be center stage. That hasn't anything to do with polls. That has to do with family. Jeb worked his heart out for his brother...
...George P. [Jeb's son] brought us great family pride. When he got out there, he lighted up the world. But he had been accepted for law school at the University of Texas in the fall. He wrote his uncle this beautiful e-mail that he felt he just had to go to law school, and he would miss the campaign. We wondered how George, who was so driven, would feel. George W. wrote P. back that he understood. He was doing the right thing. He had done everything he could in the campaign. That was a beautiful thing from...
POOLSIDE WITH JEB...
...Neil Bush, the former President's sweetest son by far, is also the most naive about politics. Neil was the one who got badly tangled up with some crooked Colorado bankers 10 years ago and never knew what hit him. One afternoon, out by the pool, Dubya and Jeb walked out, saw Neil and began talking loudly about a long list of crazy, outrageous things that just had to be in the convention speech. Pile 'em on, said Dubya. Let's do it, said Jeb, both men pretending to sound like political terrorists rather than the caretakers of a party...