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MARLIN (AP) — George W. Bush gazes out
his airplane window at a patchwork of farms
spread out like a Texas-size quilt. He shakes his
head and grins his father’s crooked grin at a
questioner. “It’s impossible not to think about
2000,” Bush says. “It’s all I ever hear.”
“Do I want to be presi
dent? Am I going to run?”
the Texas governor says, re
peating questions posed to
him throughout this day
long campaign swing. “But
Tm not going to fall into
that trap.”
Yet for all his coy denials,
this is a velvet trap. Bush’s
blue eyes sparkle as he says,
“I could win, you know.”
Bush has not decided Bush
whether to seek the presidency, but many Re
publicans consider him the early favorite. He is
flattered by the attention. And this son of a
president is intrigued by the notion of expand
ing his family’s legacy.
“I think I’ve assumed the mantle,” said
Bush, discussing his rapid rise from a father’s
campaign lieutenant to a national political fig
ure in his own right.
For now, Bush, 51, is focused on winning a
second term. Though the state has a long histo
ry of deposing incumbent state executives,
Bush will easily win Tuesday’s GOP primary
and leads his Democratic opponent by as
much as 50 percentage points in the polls. He’s
raised $13 million.
He won’t take re-election for granted, not af
ter watching his father’s popularity plunge
from Gulf War highs in 1991 to an Election Day
loss in 1992.
“Anybody named George Bush knows there’s
no sure thing in politics,” said state Sen. David
Sibley ofWaco, Texas, a longtime friend.
The loss left the younger Bush embittered,
especially at the media’s treatment of his father
and brothers. Yet he says the prospect of in
tense scrutiny won’t be what keeps him out of a
presidential race.
He has dealt with his demons.
He drank his last drop of alcohol during his
40th birthday binge. “I was drinking too much
alcohol and it was consuming my time and en
ergy,” he said. About this time, Billy Graham
“rekindled religion” in his life.
“I think all of us have a little sin in our sys
tem,” Bush said. He talked about the advan
tages he had in life — a solid family, a good ed
ucation, a ton of money.
His interviewer wondered if Bush could sur
vive the inevitable search for skeletons. “Yup,”
Bush says with no hesitation. An awkward
mention of President Clinton’s tiot:
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never run from his wilder days. “I
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Ft. Worth organ bank may not have followed 1;
procedures in screening potentially donors:
FORT WORTH (AP) — Some
corneas supplied to people in need
of a transplant may have come from
high-risk donors, according to feder
al regulators who are investigating
the Lions’ Organ and Eye Bank.
The Food and Drug Administra
tion told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram in Monday's editions that
safeguards preventing contaminat
ed tissue from reaching transplant
patients were not followed.
Inspectors at the eye bank near
downtown this year found “signifi
cant deviations” from what the gov
ernment says must be done, said
Elaine Crosby, chief compliance of
ficer for the FDA’s regional head
quarters in Dallas.
She said there was no evidence
an infectious disease had been
transmitted by tissue provided by
the eye bank.
An official at the bank, which
serves a 12-county area in and
around Fort Worth, blamed what
the FDA found on “documentation
errors.”
The FDA’s written report found,
“Tissue from several donors with
questionable medical and social
histories were deemed suitable and
distributed for transplantation.”
One patient, according to the
FDA’s inspection report, received a
cornea from a Fort Worth donor
who was in a “high-risk category for
HIV” at the time of her death.
However, eye bank officials dis
agreed with that finding, contend
ing that the FDA based its decision
only on the fact that the donor had
been “sexually active.”
The agency conducted inspec
tions from Jan. 7 through Feb. 13. TWo
months earlier, eye bank Executive
Director Jodie Bomar was fired after
a separate investigation conducted
by the Internal Revenue Service.
Bomar told the newspaper in an
interview she was falsely accused of
misusing more than $136,000 of the
organization’s money she had
placed in a bank near her Johnson
County home.
The money was used for eye
bank business and to reimburse her
and her family for money they in
vested in the eye bank to keep it
afloat, Bomar said.
“As far as the FDA goes, they're not
going to find anything because we
did everything by the book," she said.
The Fort Worth investigation was
part of a nationwide move by feder
al officials to ensure that harvested
corneas are properly monitored for
infectious diseases, including AIDS
and hepatitis, said Crosby.
“This is clearly an area where the
agency has a concern,” she said.
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