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...secret service agent slips as he tries to keep up. Bush's wife Laura stopped following a while ago, but her husband yells out anyway, "Be careful, Bushie." She calls him by the same nickname. "We're going to clear over there this afternoon," he says, pointing to a thicket of spindly cedar. Along the way he tries to stoke the suspense without giving the secret away. Bush wants us to discover whatever it is he's leading us to the way he did. "Wait till you see this," he breathes out. The seam we've been following winds...
...rules the ranch too. The stuff has to be cleared to get the broader view, cleared so that you can see from the land on top of his property down into the greener valley. We stop at an overlook he has just thinned out so that he can show Laura. Each night they take a walk before sunset; now they will have a clean lookout down to the Rainey Creek, more than 100 ft. below. Bush has torched his conifer hackings all over the ranch, leaving black burn circles that look as if there's been fireworks testing. Once...
...short car ride before I leave, he laughs off a question about pardoning Clinton, instead telling a story. "When Laura and I were at the Cardinal O'Connor funeral, and it came time for the handshakes of peace...I see this huge hand reaching across five bodies, and it's Clinton, and he roars, 'Peace, Governor!'" Bush's Clinton accent is thick like pudding. He, like the rest of America, loves to do the Clinton voice. His cell phone rings. He fishes into the cavity below the radio and finds it. After a minute or so he says, "That...
...brick row houses, with Montrose Park to the north and the C & O canal and the Potomac to the south, and a certain embowered resonance that suggests the secrets and traditions of power. Its axes, M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, have gone noisy and commercial, and an awful Laura Ashley/Ralph Lauren gentrification has crept in everywhere. But Georgetown still has intimacy, beauty, poignancy...
...career was not the only change in Bush's life. In 1977, he married Laura Welch, a former librarian and teacher who he had known in junior high school...