![]() ![]() Then the president signed the letter similar to the Cuz signature but beside it more carefully wrote out his name George. That was a sweet column about my old pal. Thus, on the attached picture Cuz reads George. Inside the envelope is another photograph of Bush and this hand-written letter:Īn update - prompted by your column about my pal Buddy.įirst, “Cuz’’ resulted from your inability to de-cypher my horrible handwriting. Someone from the office dutifully brings it to him at the hospital. Then arrives a large brown envelope with a return address from The White House. My dad is in the hospital, preparing to undergo the second of three operations in his battle with cancer. “But understand, I’m still editorially objective.’’įast forward about two months later to April 1, 1989. “Buddy’s pretty convincing but I guess I took to 'Cuz' Bush when I found out he likes country music, vodka martinis, quail hunting and fishing the flats off the Florida Keys,’’ my dad wrote. But once Bush was elected president he plastered it on the front window of his office in the newsroom. My dad never displayed the photo during Bush’s vice presidency. “Bobby Enns - Good luck and best wishes, Cuz Bush,’’ my dad interpreted the signed photograph as saying. Prescott Bush died in 1972 but George Bush made several visits to the island during his presidency to visit his mother - whom Hopkins referred to as Granny - after his presidency until her death in 1992. Prescott Bush, who had a winter home on Jupiter Island from the 1960s. Hopkins, a Fort Pierce native, had been the masseur at the Jupiter Island Club since 1948 and had become personal masseur to George Bush and before that his dad, U.S. “Buddy’’ Hopkins, who had been my dad’s junior high football coach in the late 1930s. When Bush was vice president under Ronald Reagan, my dad received a photograph through a mutual friend, W.R. That’s because for a few months back in 1989 my father, Bob Enns, the late Fort Pierce News-Tribune (Fla.) editor, had a correspondence with Bush that resulted in my dad referring to the newly minted president as Cuz Bush - a reference that prompted a personal hand-written letter from the president. 30 of former President George Herbert Walker Bush. I guess you could say I felt a familial sense of loss with the death Nov. ![]()
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