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destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush. . let me start with this, one of the parlor games when it comes to jeb bush is, and and george b. wish, which is like poppy, which is like bar? i think the longer we go the theories change. yeah. you just did the definitive. who is who here? well, 43 is a lot more like his mother. they both would admit that. they re both sharper wits. they don t mind prodding a bit. it s not passive aggressive in their case, it s just aggress e aggressive. i think that jeb, we re seeing actually the governor bush has vices in his virtues of his father. in terms of his style. one thing that jeb does not have is kind of the sense of drive that 41 had.
41 once campaigning so nard 1980 that he hook the hand of a department store mannequin. so you don t really see that tha department store mannequin. you don t really see that happening here. it is a big complicated family. one thing i think is so striking here, both 41 and 43 ran values campaigns. they both knew how to go negative, not in person, which is what i think is an interesting distinction here. you remember the great great reagan debate where bush the union leader said 41 looked like the boy that was dropped off at the wrong birthday party. they re much better when they go negative with something like the ad against dole or the ads against dukakis.
sense of jeb running, it s not about whether or not he can win or not, it s that she didn t want to put the family through that again, is that correct well, that is a fascinating point. her diary, which stretches back to 1948, is remarkable when you look at the perception an intelligent woman for well over half a century you would get a document like this. the first time she met the reagans she talked about how attractive they were. and she said of reagan, sometimes you know, he says nothing but he says it so well that you re impressed. i think she was her husband s strongest protector, president bush told me once she would be subtle with aides and advisers, the way he put it, but he said with me, she was not subtle at