Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week there would be another poll. And Danish TV would turn up in Beaumont. It just built and built." The buzz became a distraction, so Bush called a press conference in October to explain, in a parse-this-if-you-dare statement, that he had not made up his mind. Said Bush: "It is not in the best interests of Texas for me to say right now that I will not run for President...
...other issues, as well. Booze was one. He drank too much--never during the day and not enough to count as bingeing but so much that his wife Laura and at least one colleague had urged him to quit. God was also on his mind. Bush had been opening up to his faith, reading the Bible seriously for the first time in his life. "I believe my spiritual awakening started well before the price of oil went to $9 per bbl.," Bush says today. But he acknowledges that 1986 was a watershed year in his life, "a year of change...
...have made too much of his drinking, that the W didn't stand for Wild, that the rumors are overblown. (Bush now jokes about the stories: "I bought cocaine at my dad's Inauguration," he facetiously told a writer for Texas Monthly.) Among Bush's Midland crowd, the favorite mind-altering substances were beer and whiskey. And most people say Bush's consumption was not especially gaudy...
...says Harken founder Phil Kendrick, who sold the company in 1983 but stayed on as a consultant. Whatever the motivation, it was liberating for Bush. He had money and no day job, a combination that let him accept an offer that had been lurking in the back of his mind for more than a year--a job that would provide action, fun and something more important. It would get him back into politics and put him close...
...Helms. In 1997, Helms snuffed out former Massachusetts governor William Weld?s Mexico ambassadorship because Weld hailed from the GOP?s moderate wing, and Helms doesn?t like his kind. In Holbrooke?s case, it?s just another swipe at Clinton, though the official reason is "ethical baggage." Never mind that Holbrooke has been cleared of all wrongdoing in some conflict-of-interest confusion when he was freelancing as an administration envoy -- or that he deservedly enjoys broad bipartisan support in the Senate. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the crotchety Helms is the bottleneck for all overseas...