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The Bush family didn’t look much like a future Texas political dynasty in 1973. Certainly, there was politics in the clan’s blood—Prescott, the patriarch, had been a United States senator from Connecticut. But his son, George, a Yankee transplant to Texas, had failed twice in Senate runs and had been forced to settle for two terms in the U.S. House. From there, he had been named ambassador to the United Nations and was then chair of the Republican National Committee—Washington, not Texas, was clearly his calling. And yet, decades later, one of his sons would become governor of the Lone Star State, another would become governor of Florida, and then a grandson would be elected land commissioner. A status akin to royalty had coalesced in…

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