George h.W.Bush had spent his political life trying to camouflage his country club roots. He had traded tasseled loafers for cowboy boots when he moved from Connecticut to Texas but it was always a tight squeeze.Figuratively,he could not drop Greenwich lockjaw for a folksy Texas drawl.Now, in 2001, at the age of 77, with one son in the White House and another son the governor of Florida,the former president whose father had been a UnS Senator ( who did business with Nazi Germany) sounded ridiculous as he protested against the word 'DYNASTY."..he had always grappled with the contradictions of being an ELITIST while trying to look like a man of the people."

--Excerpted from "The Family" by Kitty Kelley