Crawford, Texas After President Bush Visits Rarely
He still comes to his 1,400-acre ranch on holidays and on some weekends, but he does not arrive with the thwap-thwap-thwap of helicopters anymore. He slips quietly through town in a black sport utility vehicle and leaves just as quietly, townspeople say.
“Ever since he got that new place in Dallas, he hasn’t been around much,” said Carter Blenden, the waiter at the Coffee Station who served Mr. Bush a cheeseburger with jalapeño fries on July 28 last year, his last trip to the local restaurant. (The ticket is preserved on the wall of the kitchen.)
In general, the former president has kept a relatively low profile since leaving office.
He has stayed out of local politics, too, refraining from entering the intramural fight for the Republican nomination for governor between Gov. Rick Perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. He stayed on the sidelines even after his father, former President George Bush, endorsed Ms. Hutchison.
In Dallas, Mr. Bush bought a $3 million house in the upscale Preston Hollow neighborhood, next to his old friend and business partner, Thomas O. Hicks, the owner of the Texas Rangers. Most of the former president’s energy has gone into starting up a conservative research and policy center, the George W. Bush Institute, and planning his presidential library at Southern Methodist University.
George Bush has nothing to offer being uneducated and only able to trip over his own tongue on the way to finishing a sentence.
President Clinton has the world community as his backdrop to undertake missions designed to improve the lives of others.
See the difference?
in other words he is not like bill Clinton who needs the spotlight in order to survive.