George P. Bush starts small amid high expectations

Sunday, July 21, 2013

FRISCO, Texas -- On a recent evening, George P. Bush was telling a packed room of wealthy North Texans how he got his start in politics. It was May 1979, and the then 3-year-old was in a Houston park, clutching a balloon and watching his grandfather, George H.W. Bush, announce his first campaign for president.

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