Bush the younger has a second incentive for policy boldness that his father didn't.
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Reagan and George Bush the younger both lost their first debates, but they recovered and either tied or won the remaining ones.
And when it came time for President Bush the younger to mount the stage, would he act as though he had to finish a job that his father had left incomplete?
Bob Graham of Florida, whose state is governed by Republican Jeb Bush, the younger brother of Gore's presumed Republican rival, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas.
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By then his father, President George Bush, was vice president and poised to seek the White House: The younger Bush served as an adviser to his father's campaign, but left Washington soon after his father took office in 1989.
He hoped like many other Arab leaders that the election of the younger George Bush would bring back the old days.
According to the Dallas Morning News, on September 8th, a former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Ben Barnes, was about to testify in a lawsuit that Sidney Adger, a close friend of Mr Bush's father and a prominent Houston oil-man, approached Mr Barnes in 1968, seeking help to get the younger Mr Bush a spot in the National Guard.
He ran the firm until its sale in 1999, leaving him free to focus his efforts on the younger Mr Bush's bid for the presidency.
The younger Bush will stay away from domestic policies that anger either moderates or conservatives.
The younger Bush's campaign has been weak recently, but nothing like as bad as Mr Dukakis's.
The younger Bush's wars have claimed almost 6, 000 American lives and drained the country's finances.
After Haiti's devastating earthquake in 2010, Obama tapped Clinton and the younger Bush to lead a relief effort.
But reading a book had a presidential ring, and for the younger Bush, also provided vigorous lip exercise.
Her advisory role with the younger Bush began when both were vacationing at his father's compound in Kennebunkport, Me.
So when the younger Bush started talking about "compassionate conservatism, " therefore, traditional conservatives immediately were suspicious of another Bush betrayal.
But it is not clear that the younger Bush could make that sort of threat even if he wanted to.
Indeed, in formulating his governing style, the younger Bush appears to have learned much more from his father's failures than his successes.
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Finally, Obama's obsession with Israeli land giveaways to the PLO was shared by Clinton and by the younger Bush, particularly after 2006.
The younger Bush increased spending in his first term more than in the first terms of his father, Carter or Clinton combined.
If the younger Bush eventually enters the White House, Cheney promises to be an even more influential Vice President than, well, Al Gore.
Much as he respects his father, the younger Bush has made clear that he understands how much that approach contributed to the elder's resounding repudiation in 1992.
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While the Bushes planned to take two shots off the first tee, the younger Bush, after feeling satisfied with his first shot, decided not to take another.
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The younger Bush faces a more complex political challenge: building a constituency for change at a time when most Americans say they are satisfied with the country's conditions.
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"I can't imagine being parents and not help out in some way, " the younger Bush said, pointing out that he had visited some 30 towns this past week.
The younger Bush has pursued precisely the opposite approach.
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Even the election eight years later of the younger George Bush, a family friend, failed to remedy matters.
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Despite his gauche manner, he is the only one with the oomph to wound the younger Mr Bush seriously.
Fortunately for both the younger Mr Bush and exasperated hostesses in Washington, there are also three differences with 1988, though only two of them help the Texan governor.
The first Bush beat the somewhat robotic and unsympathetic Michael Dukakis but he then lost to the younger, more telegenic Clinton.
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