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Vice President Dick Cheney may be more powerful than his boss, but he still lacks the fire of some other seconds-in-command, most notably British Deputy PM JOHN PRESCOTT. After a protester nailed Prescott with an egg on the campaign trail, the British bulldog unloaded a left jab on the guy and wrestled him until police arrived. "I wish, of course, that the incident I was involved in hadn't happened," said Prescott. "But no one can now complain about a lack of interest in this election campaign." Actually, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, leader of Scotland's Conservative Party, complained...
...Perhaps if George Bush had not been so determined to erase his Yankee roots and to exchange his penny loafers for cowboy boots, he might have seen Jeffords' change coming. He could have looked mighty close to home: in his own family. His grandfather Senator Prescott Bush was a moderate and cranky New England Republican not unlike Jim Jeffords. Even Bush's father, with his early support for Head Start and abortion rights and his disdain for supply-side economics, was once in the maverick Jim Jeffords mold...
...with rococo imagery of "ghosts in the storm" and "travelers in Jericho." This time, it was plainspoken like the man: A little bit funny, a little bit tough. It was Andover and Midland. It had West Texas touches of humor but also echoes of Bush's grandfather, Connecticut sdenator Prescott Bush. When Dubya said of America "to whom much is given much is expected," he could have been talking about himself and his own privileged background. His talk about the nobility of government service was more Grandpa than Reagan...
...that caused both major parties in 2000 to nominate candidates who patently wouldn't have been there if their fathers had been in another line of work.) Also, the Bushes hold political beliefs as a family: what they believe may have changed since the Wall Street Republicanism of Senator Prescott Bush, but everybody seems to have changed in step. And, like all other dynasties, they could have been choked off a number of times--most notably in 1980, when George the Elder had been whomped by Ronald Reagan and was faced with returning to Texas, having just about...
...involved in the transition floated the name of William Gray, a Democratic former Congressman from Philadelphia who now heads the United Negro College Fund, as a possible Secretary of Education. One big reason: the fund has been a favorite Bush-family charity since the days of W.'s grandfather Prescott. But when I talked to Gray last week, he made it clear that he's not interested. He is opposed to key elements of Bush's education-reform proposals, especially vouchers...