Shrub Summary
In Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose’s commentary, Shrub, the author outlines George W. Bush’s political life from his days as an oil entrepreneur in Midland, working for corporations, and becoming the governor of Texas. The overall purpose of Molly Ivins is to give the future president a background of what he has done in Texas that would make it scary to the next leader of the free world. In the introduction, Ivins suggests, “The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record.” One of the first accountable and mysterious records was when Bush was able to fly F-102s in the Texas Air National Guard. He was assigned to one of the safest plane missions to deter himself from going to Vietnam. Unlike some of the poor children and with the development of Project 100,000 to accept Southern black children to participate in the war, the powerful and wealthy people in the state of Texas prevented the rich young males from going to Vietnam. Despite Bush’s lowest score on the pilots test, he was selected from 150 out of a waiting list of 100,000 people applying for the position. However, despite the minimum scores, junior used the name “Bush” effectively” because his father was a Congressman for
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Approximate Word count = 1712
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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