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...Party founder Perot is on the shelf, Jesse Ventura quit long ago, and even Lowell Weicker had the good sense not to get involved. Perotista candidate John Hagelin doesn't even register on national polls, and Buchanan, meanwhile, has lost his religious righties to George W. Bush and his labor/protectionists to Ralph Nader, and is stuck at one percent. It's a political truism that there's room for only one third-party candidate in a nation that can hardly be bothered to vote for the other two, and Nader...
...report detailed how Presidents' kids had a tendency to become drunks or get sick, have an accident or die young. Many of them gave their lives over to defending their fathers in history. Some quit their jobs or couldn't hold them; some couldn't get it together at all. George Washington Adams, the son of John Quincy Adams, is thought to have committed suicide at 28. Others walked away from colleges and universities, or they wrote bad papers and gave lectures about why Martin van Buren was right to oppose annexing Texas. Sixteen made it to Congress, but none...
...pruned and staked the shrubbery. President Bush once described his mother, a championship-tennis player, as a "perfectionist, and a fierce competitor." She kept the Ping-Pong table in the entry hall of the Greenwich, Conn., house--the games were always front and center. Her rules? Never brag. Never quit. Never let 'em know you're hurting. Be honest. Be kind. Care about the other guy--help him. Don't look down on anyone. Compete hard. Play to win. Give the other guy credit. Until she died in 1992, her son the President telephoned her every...
...movie version of George W.'s life, 1986 is the mystical year when everything came together. The story is all about faith and redemption; it's the year he turned 40 and quit drinking and found his faith reawakened after a walk on the beach with Billy Graham. The process of finally growing up and calming down, of course, had really begun when he married Laura, "the best thing he's ever done," says his cousin Elsie Walker. It was Laura who had issued W. the ultimatum about booze. "It's me or the bottle," she reportedly told her husband...
JOHN WALKER Stricken with polio at 41, Dorothy Walker Bush's brother quit his surgery practice and became an investment banker. He was also president of Sloan-Kettering's Memorial Hospital in New York City, where ROBIN BUSH was treated for leukemia...