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...eyes. He helped put together the group that bought the Texas Rangers baseball team and plotted a run for Governor. It was as if someone had thrown a cosmic switch and his future came into focus. "Let's face it, George was not real happy [in Midland]," says oilman Joseph O'Neill, one of his closest friends. "It's the first-son syndrome. You want to live up to the very high expectations set by your father, but at the same time you want to go your own way, so you end up going kicking and screaming down the exact...
...decision has been suffocating," complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas Governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker HENRY KRAVIS, oilman JOHN MORAN and fund manager LEWIS EISENBERG made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush's aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with STEVE FORBES and his unlimited...
...decision has been suffocating,? complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker Henry Kravis, oilman John Moran and fund manager Lewis Eisenberg made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush?s aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with Steve Forbes and his unlimited...
When a county grand jury in Boulder, Colo., finally gets around to looking at the JONBENET RAMSEY murder, high on its list of witnesses is likely to be FLEET WHITE JR., a wealthy oilman, and his wife PRISCILLA. The Whites, former neighbors and close friends of JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY, were the hosts at a Christmas dinner for the family the night JonBenet was killed and were among the last to see the six-year-old alive. The next day, White was among the first people summoned when Patsy discovered her daughter was missing, and he was close by John...
...numbers. Even special dietary needs were logged in to cater to donors at future events. "If people who give money are treated with social graces and made to feel they're appreciated, they'll come right back and give the next time," said Truman Arnold, a Texas oilman who served as the D.N.C. finance chairman for most...