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==Challenging George W. Bush==

==Challenging George W. Bush==

After Mahon's retirement announcement, 31-year-old George Walker Bush quickly launched his own campaign for the seat. Bush's grandfather was the U.S. Senator [[Prescott Bush]] of [[Connecticut]].<ref>"Bush, Prescott Sheldon," ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present''</ref>  His father, President [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], was a former Houston-area congressman, a one-time United States Ambassador to the [[United Nations]], chairman of the [[Republican Party|Republican National Committee]], director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], and [[United States Ambassador to China]]. At the CIA, the senior Bush had worked with Mahon, his former congressional colleague, even though the retiring appropriations committee chairman had lost much of his oversight over intelligence matters through changes in the congressional committee process.<ref>Central Intelligence Agency, "George Bush: Calm Between Storm", posted 2007: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-of-central-intelligence-as-leaders-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_7.htm</ref>  

After Mahon's retirement announcement, 31-year-old George Walker Bush quickly launched his own campaign for the seat. Bush's grandfather was the U.S. Senator [[Prescott Bush]] of [[Connecticut]].<ref>"Bush, Prescott Sheldon," ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present''</ref>  His father, President [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], was a former Houston-area congressman, a one-time United States Ambassador to the [[United Nations]], chairman of the [[Republican Party|Republican National Committee]], director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], and United States Ambassador to [[China]]. At the CIA, the senior Bush had worked with Mahon, his former congressional colleague, even though the retiring appropriations committee chairman had lost much of his oversight over intelligence matters through changes in the congressional committee process.<ref>Central Intelligence Agency, "George Bush: Calm Between Storm", posted 2007: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-of-central-intelligence-as-leaders-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_7.htm</ref>  

Like his father, the younger Bush drew the support of the Republican "establishment," with Reese in the role of the "populist" dissenter, akin to Ronald Reagan's challenge of Gerald Ford two years earlier for the party's presidential nomination. Reese had supported Reagan in that exchange in which the Californian ultimately secured all one hundred Texas delegates at the party's national convention held in the Kemper Arena in Kansas City.<ref>Reese, p. 137.</ref>

Like his father, the younger Bush drew the support of the Republican "establishment," with Reese in the role of the "populist" dissenter, akin to Ronald Reagan's challenge of Gerald Ford two years earlier for the party's presidential nomination. Reese had supported Reagan in that exchange in which the Californian ultimately secured all one hundred Texas delegates at the party's national convention held in the Kemper Arena in Kansas City.<ref>Reese, p. 137.</ref>