I thought I was in H.S. --must have been in college.
Her E TX parents were the first Repubs I knew. I was 16 and remember my mother whispering, "They're Republicans." Then the man took my dad to hear RR. My parents were Repubs before it was cool.
I was more interested in who could get their car so we could go get a coke at the drive-in.
Later when I was living in Houston, I was Repub when we met in a phone booth on Westheimer in the Galleria area. The GHW Bushes were at my precinct meetings. I don't remember his title at the time. I think Bill Archer was our congressman.
Those were the fun days!
My dad worked on GHWB campaign for Congress in 1966, at the time Bush was Republican Party Chair for Harris County. My father tried to form a Young Republican Club at Lee HS that year but was told it was to radical!.