Guess I was on to something! Great story, thanks for passing along. And of course you've made us FReepers jealous for the experience you had of being a guest of the GHW Bushes.
Not that big a deal. He was running for his first term as a Congressman, and my family knew him because we had lived in Midland when he did. I was President of the local Young Republican Club and we gave his campaign and John Tower's lots of help that year.