George Bush Off the Record

摘要

Dad was worried. in the summer of 1998, he had sons running in two of the most important governors' elections in the country—George W., seeking re-election in Texas, and Jeb, heading for victory in Florida. "Your mother tells me," Bush wrote them in a letter on Aug. 1, "that both of you have mentioned to her your concerns about some of the political stories—the ones that seem to put me down and make me seem irrelevant— that contrast you favorably to a father who had no vision ... I have been reluctant to pass along advice.