Junior Is His Own Bush Now: GEORGE W. BUSH

In a new venue and new career, the eldest First Son, GEORGE W. BUSH, swings for the fences as the Texas Rangers' owner and a future candidate

Game time is almost two hours away in cozy Arlington Stadium as the Texas Rangers take batting practice. Along the baseline, hefting a bat like a mace of office, George Walker Bush ambles through his own pregame drill. He chats up players and reporters and makes small talk with fans, using a down-home twang and slang that belie ten years of New England schooling. They seek his autograph as eagerly as they do the players'. Bush scribbles on a baseball, a hat, a scrap of paper. On this warm summer evening, not one sportswriter or spectator asks about his relative with...

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