Robert Harris
02-16-2004, 11:15 AM
Apparently it has not been easy to find people who remember seeing Bush in Alabama doing his Guard duty when he skipped out of his unit in Texas. So far I have seen opnly one reported -- a guy who remembers seeing Bush at four drill sessions. Now a second person who recalls Bush in Alabama has come forward -- but he only saw him in Bush's uncle's Senate the campaign .
George W. Bush won no medals for his disputed National Guard duty in the land of Dixie, but he earned a nickname: "the Texas Soufflé."
Murphy Archibald remembers Bush, then 26, as a loudmouth who showed up in Montgomery, Ala., in 1972 to work on his uncle Winton Blount's Senate campaign.
"[He] was good at schmoozing the county chairs, but there wasn't a lot of followup," Archibald told Time magazine in its latest issue. Another worker recalled Bush rolling into Blount headquarters around lunchtime most days, bragging about his late-night exploits and big-time political connections.
Archibald said Bush made the greatest impression on a group of socialites doubling as campaign volunteers, who dubbed W "the Texas Soufflé" because he "looked good on the outside but was full of hot air."
http://www.nydailynews.com
Gee -- he made a good impression on the ladies, didn't he. "full of hot air..."
George W. Bush won no medals for his disputed National Guard duty in the land of Dixie, but he earned a nickname: "the Texas Soufflé."
Murphy Archibald remembers Bush, then 26, as a loudmouth who showed up in Montgomery, Ala., in 1972 to work on his uncle Winton Blount's Senate campaign.
"[He] was good at schmoozing the county chairs, but there wasn't a lot of followup," Archibald told Time magazine in its latest issue. Another worker recalled Bush rolling into Blount headquarters around lunchtime most days, bragging about his late-night exploits and big-time political connections.
Archibald said Bush made the greatest impression on a group of socialites doubling as campaign volunteers, who dubbed W "the Texas Soufflé" because he "looked good on the outside but was full of hot air."
http://www.nydailynews.com
Gee -- he made a good impression on the ladies, didn't he. "full of hot air..."