Quayling Bush

According to (London) Timesman Jack Malvern, liberal politician Shirley Williams -- also known as the Baroness Williams of Crosby -- recently recounted to an audience in Brighton that "my good friend Tony Blair" told her the following anecdote: "Blair, Bush and [French President] Jacques Chirac were discussing economics and, in particular, the decline of the French economy. 

'The problem with the French,' Bush confided to Blair, 'is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.' "

Oregon Magazine's email to Mr. Grove:

Subject: Quayling Bush
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:10:26 -0700
From: Larry Leonard 
To: grovel@washpost.com

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that Bush did tell that joke.
The humor in it is sophisticated, as one would expect from a man who has
an MBA from Harvard.  So sophisticated, apparently, that the rubes at
the Times and the Washington Post missed the point.

Here, I like to help rubes get the good ones.  Imagine that George knows
the origin of the term.  Now, read the line, again.  Good old Winnie,
who we know just loved the French, couldn't have topped it.

No wonder George keeps winning.  The opposition press rode into town on
a truckload of pumpkins.

Larry Leonard
Editorial Director
Oregon Magazine.

© 2002 Oregon Magazine