[KevinB]

Not surprising but what they left out was the fact that Bush Sr. headed out to Texas on his own and got his own start in the oil business by selling oil drilling equipment which then evolved into his forming his own oil company.

That sort of thing is a whole lot easier when one can tap into the connections and money his family had. I'm much more interested in the lives of people who made it big from humble beginnings.

[Zhang Fei]

[That sort of thing is a whole lot easier when one can tap into the connections and money his family had.]

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People in the Texas oil business are decidedly not Ivy League. UH, UT, Texas A&M and Rice are the major names in the biz, for the oilmen who even have college degrees. There were no connections worth tapping. They were risk-taking entrepreneurs rather than old money Brahmins. The one thing Bush had, Northeastern social graces, wasn’t something that Texans were particularly big on, given how so many Texas oilmen were descended from Confederates, and had a chip on their shoulder about Yankees.

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"Not surprising but what they left out was the fact that Bush Sr. headed out to Texas on his own and got his own start in the oil business by selling oil drilling equipment which then evolved into his forming his own oil company."

And one of the families in the oil business with Bush were the Hinckley family.

To Nancy Reagan's eternal horror.