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Bush's career before this moment has been a study in contrasts. Throughout his life, the president-elect, who still proudly recounts his days growing up in Midland, Texas, has consistently mixed his Texan background with his elite Eastern pedigree...
...started in 1963 when Jones' producer, Pappy Daily, signed up Montgomery to a record deal that led to some touring and some recording (and, according to some reports, some romance). Singing-wise, it was a great match. Tennessean Montgomery's bluegrassy, somewhat reedy voice both contrasted and complemented Texan Jones' more mellow sound...
...Stuart Stevens, turned up to fire questions at the Governor. So all through September, when Bush seemed to be trying to dodge the debates, he was actually practicing for them somewhere, under the guise of what were called "communications meetings" on all the internal campaign schedules. Gore read the Texan's surprisingly light schedule and immediately realized what was going on. "No one has that much down time," Gore told his aides wryly. And his instincts were right; by the time Bush walked across the stage in Boston, he and his aides had been preparing for five months...
...Attlesey of the Dallas Morning News is a craggy, lanky Texan who wears Wranglers and cowboy boots and patterned shirts with open necks. With the help of a colleague, Attlesey had come up with a question for Bush about his possible past drug use that would force the Governor to abandon his stock reply: that when he was young and irresponsible, he was young and irresponsible, and he would not catalog his past indiscretions...
...Florida. It is about the whole damn election." The resentment went back to the last days of the campaign. Bush's team had made a stop in California the week before the election that seemed truly idiotic to friends at the Republican National Committee in Washington. Republicans thought the Texan was just coasting in at the end. On the Sunday nine days before the vote, Bush was at home. Gore was out working just as hard as ever...