it depends on the neighborhood...

George Bush purchased his ranch in Crawford, TX just before he began running for his first term as President. Now, upon his exit of this office he will be moving into a swanky suburban neighborhood of Preston Hollow, in Dallas, TX.

Perhaps he needs a new image in order for his upcoming Library at Southern Methodist University. More of an intellectual city dweller, than that of a cowboy?

A bit of news about this new neighborhood he is moving into. Until 2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants. Enacted in 1956, part of the original document reads: "Said property shall be used and occupied by white persons except those shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of different race or nationality in the employ of a tenant."

In one of the richest neighborhoods in the United States, he will be residing near T.Boone Pickens-the billionare oilman behind the Swift Boat advertisements that ruined the presidential bid of John Kerry in 2004, Ross Perot-the billionare who once ran for the office Bush stole, and Tom Hicks-the man who gave Bush a $25,000 campaign contribution after his 1994 gubernatorial election and his purchase of the Texas Rangers baseball franchise from the man who was then the Texas Governor in 1998. Mr Bush’s 2,400 per cent return on his initial $600,000 investment in the Rangers is the main source of his personal wealth...Besides what he may be skimming from the top of this $trillion dollar bailout package.




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