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She is also wrong about the price. Everything I have read says he bought it for approximately $1 million. She tries to make Bush come across as pretentious and nothing could be more further from the truth. He has always shunned the pretensions of wealth.

"She tries to make Bush come across as pretentious and nothing could be more further from the truth. He has always shunned the pretensions of wealth."

Yeah, I get sick of people portraying Bush as some sort of privileged silver spoon guy. From what I've read, I get the impression that Bush Sr. did not rely on family money, but made his own fortune, and until he did, he and Bar and the kids lived very simply. Barbara Bush speaks of their first house as costing $8,000 or something like that, and that they thought it was the cat's meow! (Before that, it sounds like they lived in apartments-- often in very humble circumstances.)

George W. seems to have had mostly a normal, middle-class childhood...going to public schools, walking to school, etc. It wasn't until he was about 13 that any stories about wealth or privilege are mentioned in connection with his life. His formative years sound like they were very normal, unpretentious, very unspoiled. Maybe I'm wrong-- maybe that's just a deliberate spin that somebody put on it to make him look more like a regular guy. But he *does* seem down to earth, and *something* made him that way!