Word: kennebunkport
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...economic growth being very good politics. And few Fed chairman listen, as the elder Bush so painfully learned in 1991 when Greenspan's caution in lowering ushered in the recession that ushered Bush out. So Bush the younger, who probably still hears about that around the barbecue pit in Kennebunkport, appears to be insuring himself as best he can against a similar fate...
...Speaking from his parents' home in Kennebunkport, Gov. Bush called the scaled-back proposal a victory for "Florida's fight to protect our coastline" and told Bush the words he's going to be hearing a lot for the next few years: not in my back yard. "Any lease sales that do occur in the 181 area" - a patch of energy-rich ground in the derrick-free eastern part of the gulf - "will occur off the coast of Alabama, not Florida," he said...
...Didn't George W. learn anything in Kennebunkport...
...Dynasty, the '80s soap that was known for the sort of clothing the Bushes would consider unseemly and the sort of intensely personal discussions the Bushes, who pride themselves on being nonintrospective, would find embarrassing. From the impression we've been given about Bush family get-togethers at Kennebunkport, Me., the introduction of a Dynasty sort of problem at the dinner table--let's say the sabotage of a family oil rig, in which the suspect is a nephew who might be gay, unless he's the one who raped his sister-in-law, the blackmailer--would result...
...sometimes try to imagine lunch at Kennebunkport on the day in 1980 when George H.W. Bush declared himself an opponent of abortion in order to become Ronald Reagan's running mate...