from
kitty kelley's THE FAMILY
on gwbush, page 304
Red Blount's nephew C. Murphy Archibald, an attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina, remembered George telling stories about how the New Haven police always let him go, after he told them his name, when they stopped him "all the time" for driving drunk as a student at Yale in the 1960s. Bush told this story - "what seemed like a hunded times" - to others working in the campaign, said Archibald.
"He would laugh uproariously as though there was something funny about this. To me that was pretty memorable, because here he is, a number of years out of college, talking about this to people he doesn't know. He just stuck me as a guy who really had an idea of himself as very much a child of priviledge, that he wasn't operating by the same rules."
on ghwbush, page 313
George's position at the Republican national Convention did nothing for the social aspirations of his wife, and Barbara did not hide her disappointment from the President. The writer Gore Vidal recalled a conversatin with his friend Murray Kempton shortly after one of the journalist's periodic lunches with Richard Nixon. Kempton had mentioned George Bush, and according to Vidal, Nixon had responded: "Total light-weight. Nothing there - sort of person you appoint to things - but now that Barbara, she's something else again! She's really vindictive!" Vidal characterized the comment as "the highest Nixonian compliment."