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...didn't want to do anything under the influence that might embarrass his father," who was preparing to run for President. George W. was also experiencing a religious awakening, one that began with his now famous 1985 encounter with evangelist Billy Graham, at the Bush-family compound in Kennebunkport, Me. After praying privately with Graham--"It was a real personal religious visit," he says--he joined a men's Bible-study group in Midland, "taking inventory of himself," his friend Donald Ensenat says. As the economic crisis deepened, so did his faith. "The words took on a new meaning...
...Bush has always been the most unusual of the Bush kids. Yes, he had the Greenwich pedigree and the summers in Kennebunkport. But while still in high school, he went to Mexico and came back in love with a Mexican girl named Columba. He married her, and the Bush Episcopalians, with their love of cold Maine waters, suddenly had a warm Catholic woman for a daughter-in-law. Then Jeb left Houston, the city he grew up in, and put down roots in the Latino culture of Miami, where his family had little sway. He lost his first race...
...realize that every Administration tends to make me nostalgic for the Administration that preceded it, but at this time of year, I do find myself missing George H.W. Bush, who was without tension in matters such as where one should summer. He went to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he had always gone. And there he played golf with his rich friends...
DIED. MILDRED KERR BUSH, 12, a.k.a. Millie, the tell-all First Pooch, who "penned" the inside scoop on her master's presidency; after being put to sleep owing to a stomach ailment; in Kennebunkport, Maine. Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush (1990) was a best seller for more than half a year...
Gwertzman picked Stewart up at the airport whenshe returned to Boston and drove her to a bed andbreakfast in Kennebunkport, Maine, where heproposed at dinner that night...