Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004 - Time Magazine
Inside the Mind of George W. Bush
For this President, the essence of wisdom lies in knowing when not to change
By Nancy Gibbs and John F. Dickerson
George Bush is roaming around his Prairie Chapel ranch house in boots, slacks and a linen shirt, naming the native grasses, spotting the herons?-admiring the butterflies, for heaven's sake. This is to be a day of image softening, and another magazine's crew is waiting to do a family photo shoot. Bush has remade this Texas landscape to suit him: put in a lake and stocked it, planted the oaks and laid out the house so the winds would sweep through it. That's the way of his world: something to be shaped, by work and will. Whatever his handlers say, the softening will have to wait because right now he could not be more serious.
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