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ttalion c AMPUS J^age^^Wcdnesda^A^riJ^KJ^Qy^ Bush unplugged v rtrier president gives glimpse ^rito personal life through old letters mcerti BY AMANDA SMITH The Battalion lormer U.S. President George Bush shared pieces his life through letters last night at the Bush Pres- •ntial Conference Center. Bush said his early experience in the oil business West Texas prepared him for his later service in b p|blic arena, from his leadership in the Central elligence Agency (CIA) to member of Congress to jsiient of the United States. ^Barbara and 11 have lived in 33 houses in 17 oncert wii Austrian coni Spanish a*' S Terry roberson/The Battalion Dbradors. >rmer President George Bush gives the formal pre- :es tom;:' antation of the Vietnam Wall Memorial in front of ; Foul® fe'Goerge Bush Presidential Library and Museum s Geo;, esday morning. cites in our 54 years of marriage,” Bush said, noting his years spent in New York, in the oil fields of West Texas, in Washington, D.C. and in his latest reloca tion to Houston. The 41st president of the United States, in his ad dress to family, colleagues and students, said he is incorporating the letters into the book he is writing. “This book will be about what I thought and said at the time I said it,” Bush said, noting that the first letters included in the book date back to 1942 when he was 18 years old. In one of the earliest letters included in his book. Bush writes to a friend in 1948 upon his graduation from Yale University, already married with 2-year- old son George W. Bush. “Right now, I am bewildered to say the least,” Bush said, reading his comments from the letter. “I have thought about teaching, but then that would require more school. Right now, I don’t know.” It was then. Bush said, he decided to move to Odessa and begin work for an oil subsidiary. In a letter written about his early experiences in West Texas, Bush said he felt intrigued by the new opportunity. “My job was selling oil field supplies,” Bush said. “I spent most of my time on supply trips. We learned to adjust to football fever, which overtakes [West Texas] from September to November. At Odessa, we became Texans and proud of it.” In her introduction of the president, Anne Arm strong, a member of the Texas A&M Board of Regents and former ambassador to Great Britain, said she values Bush’s contribution to A&M. “Texas A&M has made great strides,” Armstrong said. “It has done so while building character and intellect. When President Bush decided to put the li brary at A&M, it was because he said it made him feel at home. How lucky we are these values are in stilled here at Texas A&M.” Dr. Roman Popadiuk, executive director at the George Bush Library Foundation and a former am bassador to the Ukraine under the leadership of Bush, opened the speech, the second in the Twanna M. Powell Lecture Series. The series, endowed under the auspices of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, was established through an endowment of the Donald and Twanna Powell Family. Don Powell currently serves as chair of the Board of Regents. 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