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DALLAS -- President Bush headed up a who's who of the Republican Party at Monday's memorial tribute to former Texas Sen. John Tower and his daughter, victims of a Georgia commuter plane crash that killed 23 people.
Bush, his wife Barbara, and their son, George W., were among an estimated 1,000 mourners who attended the hourlong memorial service for Tower, 65, and his daughter, Marian, 35. They died en route to a party honoring his new book.
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The book, 'Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir,' was a bitter, personal recollection of his Senate rejection in 1989 as Bush's nominee for defense secretary -- a defeat some friends say he never overcame.