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The following excerpt about Mr. Bush's time in Montgomery were reported by Free-lance writer Glynn Wilson who gave The Independent to use the excerpts. See his full story at: southerner.net/blog and southerner.net/fast.
Many who encountered Bush during that Blount campaign remember him as an affable social drinker who acted younger than his 26 years. He also tended to show up late every day, around noon or one o'clock, at Winton "Red" Blount's campaign headquarters. There he would prop his boots on a desk and proceed to brag about how much he drank the night before.
Bush rented a house on Cloverdale Road. He would often be seen with beer in hand, maybe along with a shot of Jim Beam, a fist-full of peanuts or an Executive Burger at the Cloverdale Grill. It is also part of the conventional wisdom here that Bush also liked to sneak out behind the bar for a joint.
Alabama writer Wayne Greenhaw said biographer Kitty Kelly knew about Warren Moseley, who served for some time as proctor of the state bar exam. He says Moseley had "talked." Cloverdale regulars recall Moseley from decades of late nights, including a few when the president-to-be made something of an impression not only for his jeans and cowboy boots. They remember Bush's stories about how the New Haven, Connecticut police always let him go, when they stopped him "all the time" for driving drunk as a student at Yale - after he told them his name, of course
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Bush told that story to others working in the campaign "what seemed like a hundred times," said Winton Blount's nephew C. Murphy Archibald, who worked in the campaign and says he has "vivid memories" of that time.
"He would laugh uproariously as though there was something funny about this. To me, that was pretty memorable, because here he is, a number of years out of college, talking about this to people he doesn't know," he said. "He just struck me as a guy who really had an idea of himself as very much a child of privilege, that he wasn't operating by the same rules."
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"He was an attractive person, kind of a 'frat boy,'" Blount said. "I didn't like him."
He remembers thinking to himself, "This guy thinks he is God's gift to women," he said. "He was all duded up in his cowboy boots. It was sort of annoying seeing all these people who thought they were hot shit just because they were from Texas."
Bush also made an impression on the self-described "Blue-Haired Platoon," a group of older Republican Women working for Blount. Behind his back they called him "the Texas souffle," Archibald said, because he was "all puffed up and full of hot air."
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