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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (123040)	1/21/2001 7:23:45 PM
From: MKTBUZZ	Respond to of 769670

Mr. Palau = Typical democrat, taking things out of context.

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (123040)	1/21/2001 7:45:33 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Mr Palau, another great article. Under all the derison one comes away with thee understanding of what a family where the parrents provide love and ultimate love which is to give total freedom to their children to chose a life course. That is the story of this story. The Kenedy's and the Adam's were families of love? with directives of life and expectations. There is to this dynasty, some complain, none of the outsized grandeur and vaulting ambition of the Kennedys, or the patrician jauntiness of the Roosevelts, cousins Franklin and Teddy. Which is true. But one could as easily argue that the Bushes are unburdened, too, by the hubris, arrogance and taste for self-inflicted tragedy that has sunk the better known dynasties. Joseph Kennedy, the family patriarch, wielded his money with a snarling and overbearing authority; the threat, always, was that he could buy and destroy you. Old man Rockefeller was no different. He divided the world into that portion where he owned oil wells, and the benighted remainder. The Bushes are quieter, more reticent. Prescott, the WASP patriarch, ritually downplayed any hint of wealth, content to hide his pedigree in a camouflage of genteel shabbiness. He liked to tell interviewers that his father, Samuel, "had a modest income . . . he couldn't support his adult children." None of his children, noted family biographer Herbert S. Parmet, paid the old man's protestations much mind. They knew their wealth, and they saw little political percentage in talking about it. Perhaps it's a rule of dynasties that they blow a generational gasket when they try too hard. Wittmann says: "It's almost as if you want to plan a dynasty, it fails." A lot different than wacko Gore. Tom Watson tosiwmee