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...Landry 75 The taciturn Texan coached Dallas' Cowboys to 270 wins...
...education, Bush's self-proclaimed first love, it's a Texan. Rod Paige is superintendent of schools in Houston and presumably one of the inspirations for Bush's own education dreams. Bush dusted off an old slogan for Paige on Friday, calling him a "reformer with results," and added that Paige has shown in Houston that "urban schools can be excellent schools." Oh, and he's black, which makes three in so far in the inner circle...
...here. This ranch, which he bought just a year ago, is a rich Texas symbol of achievement--what kids from the Midland dream of having. And it wasn't handed down. That ranch is all that he sees himself to be: rugged, real and thoroughly Texan. But Bush's persona at the ranch is also more than an act. He seems at peace in this place where he knows each tree and hollow...
Then there?s Texas. Unlike the Massachusetts-Connecticut-Maine Ivy League preppiness of George Sr., Dubya grew up in the Texan oil town that his father chose as a profitable base in the ?50s and ?60s. Except for his sojourns at Yale and northeastern prep schools, the George W. taste is drawn from unapologetic Texan sensibilities. There?s a certain swagger. Think Connecticut meets ?Dallas? meets ?Dynasty? and you?ll have a clue what to expect...
Since then he has tried to leave his top-flight academic grooming at Andover, Yale and Harvard merely on his resume, and tried his hand at Texan enterprises from oil to baseball...