so george h.w. bush, his father was a senator, wall street finance guy. he s offered a job at brown brothers one of the bluest of blue chip wall street firms and says no. i ve got to go and do something in texas. do you think he understood he needed to go where the dem og fee of the country was going? i think it was less demography and more distance. if i had gone to wall street, it wouldn t have been different enough. i would have been in my father s shadow, my grandfather walker s shadow and been a big man in the lynx club. you can sort of see what his life would have been in 1948 on wall street. he would have lived in connecticut and subscribed to the new yorker and ridden the train in and played tennis at the river club and played golf
he would have lived in connecticut, subscribed to the new yorker. he would have ridden the train in, played tennis at the river club, played golf every sunday after church. he would have raised money for house candidates coming through. he might have dabbled in new england politics. but even if he had done well in new england politics, think about this. a new englander a new england republican was never going to become president of the united states. by going to texas he made both his presidency possible and that of his son. when he does all this, is he also and is the family also adapting to the changing republican party? you point out something that i had actually forgotten, when he ran for the senate in 1964, he ran as a goldwater republican, not a moderate. right. he said labels are for cans. one of the interesting things we re seeing now in 2016 is it is a chapter in a long story.