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Article: Bush bids farewell to Texas hometown of Midland.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 17, 2001
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MIDLAND, Texas _ He came to town 25 years ago in an aging blue Cutlass, with a gold-plated family name, an abundance of restless energy and vague dreams of finding his fortune. On Wednesday, George W. Bush said goodbye to Midland as he set off on another adventure.
"This is my last stop on the way to Washington," Bush told a crowd of about 10,000 West Texans who braved freezing temperatures and strong prairie winds to cheer on a former neighbor who is about to become the nation's 43rd president. "I'm going to take a lot of Midland and a lot of Texas with me up there."
In the careful choreography of presidential politics, Bush's farewell Texas stop was ...