BUSH A HOT PROPERTY ON G.O.P. DINNER CIRCUIT

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Ronald
Gov.
chairman as Watergate tumbled dawn not grasp Ford,
obse on the party had already earned him the frnal battles. In aithful are still disput ng o rv , .: of California, and a fellow Texan, John
an honored life membership.. . -? ~.
After the introductions, his Republi `Eisenhower-Taft conflict of no.l Na- B~For nthe ally being, "keeping my op-
can audience, has s= like him` even ider he says, the over' the can Reagan tions open," he said. involves a speak-
when ,he has told them.-that President nt e e3 afford to worry at times
Carter 4acl his staff are incompetent,' Ford fight of 1976. (With the enforced asg he had whennhe was national chair
._ s, u +n tndav for exam-
p
a
nonpartisan to s
onserve
the c
dues." Some might think his deter- might be in tune with _e He did not - a not won n but that of America it could mined service as Republican national five heartbeat"
it continually'fought old'. "g oup includes former Pres dent Gerald
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Bush is one of the hottest properties important not only
on the Republican dinner circuit, and also to someone who acknowledges If he were-to run, he said, a major
introductions. like Mr. dinner circa McClure's are that he would be "interested" in a _ obstacle would be that lie last won
frequent: Mr. Bush makes rro effort to -Presidential bid, one with a basic ap- - - _ an election in 1968, to the House, and. rac
lost
Texas in hee cont in s terestatinbasicallythe isereact shaarpt edges that could compelurejece. I 0. But he observed that 9a andone
h
quainting himself with politics after tion by the -Eastern Republicans he .would. have to win primaries in 1980
fins had
party to succeed an
d that other enera election in some
aying my Mr. Bush said that while the
and "
party faithful as a man who very well States is firm an can a "It
might be a candidate for the Presiden-.: on,, and that the treaties convey a -='heard -therm .explained, he said,
cy on the Republican ticket.." perception of United:. States ; impo _ wouldn't be easy efor in a m but ote.I would
probably be opposd
per yesterday came in Mr. McClure s his Panama Cilnal. argu ?. examp
introduction of him to more than 300 that the Chinese wonder if the United tents of the leadership amendments to
.1 d be depended --th Panama Canal treaties. Having
The point of his journey was not he knows that in the Cent rat Int -- . He as a it
to eat Idaho russet potatoes or to listen Bence Agency and the Federal Bureau cerns; the mast time-consuming posl-
to a 36-minute paean to Lincoln from of investigation there were "a handful tion is that of chairman of the exedu-
a Congressman's formidable office of abuses, most of them two decades ? tive committee of the First Internation-
manager. It was not even just to help ago that they have been cleaned up, al Bank of Houston.
an old friend,.. Senator James A. and that continued criticism is unfair. The 53-year-old Massachusetts native
McClure, in an apparently easy race to. the "most unselfish and dedicated maintained in an interview that not
for re-election. public servants in America today.' " holding. public office meant that he was
The message of George Bush's visit He cites his time as chief of the Unit- not obliged to have a detailed position
to the eastern Idaho Lincoln Day Din--. ed States -Liaison -Office in China . in-?. ? -'.on - every public . issue. He said, for
-ant saying le that he did not know the con-
re
Dayton, Ohio, to this city of about speeches, which are well-spoken, with local press
40,000. effectively timed punch lines. He says ances.
-11. A, ectar of six business con-
s 9 (6 B
that the Adniinistr atio umlecti rights neutra f wounded noon nd
By ADAM CLYMER shows hypocritical
he is traveling heavily a
S, d... Yort zam.. policy t
s +s to
IDAHO FALIS, Idaho, Feb. 17 The in choosing the countries to criticize, Although
that the Panama Canal treaties carry working as chairman of the epublis
millionaire company director and Hous- a message of weakness to the world - can's April 6 fund-raisifD Bush
help for his little
h ton banker with Yale and Peking in and that it is time to stop attacks on maround ore than secretarial Mr.
nine drove and flew and the C.I.A. and the F.R.I. waited for nine hours just to get from per-
waited background
He draws his experience into his sonal political efforts. There are o.-uay
leases for his appear-
ppe
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mot 1 -o eat on G.O.P :.D 7hcr Circuit.
t ple; - he has appeared at party events
in Sarr Antonio, ? Tulsa, Okla.; Chicago-'
Rockford, Ill.; Akron, Ohio; Conroe,
lk? Dn-
-Tex.; Dayton,- Ohio; Idaho F
h
a
e
u m?
---- ,de[rtia .
hether he will become a-Pres'
r
candidate,' Mr.. Bush says he p paw, o
them- a' close
-!cans m ?this._-'ya r~, -.a mong
as
h
.
o w
,friend. -James _ A. Baker Jr.f w
t --41- 1976 bman`-:
d
en
presi
ager and who` has a difficult - race in
iieY aenesata! Texas .._.. .
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