HAPPY TRAILS
was frequently kidded — and often joined in the joshing — about the bona fides of his Texas ties. Indeed, even though he moved to the Lone Star State with his wife, Barbara, and their young children way back in 1948 and helped revitalize the state’s Republican Party during a lengthy career of public service that culminated in his being elected vice president of the United States in 1980 and president in 1988, he continued to be viewed by some skeptics as something not unlike a carpetbagger. “Maybe Bush became a target,” writer Mimi Swartz wrote in a respectful yet amusing cover story essay for the magazine, “because he came from a world most Texans have historically held in contempt: Yankeeland, specifically the Richie Rich environs of
