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In his presidential memoirs, ''Decision Points'' (2010), George W. Bush refers to Reese as a "smooth-talking former sportscaster and mayor of Odessa ... who felt entitled to the nomination in 1978. He was very unhappy that I had outpolled him in the first round of the primary. Reese had a hard edge, and so did some of his supporters. Their strategy was to paint me as a liberal, out-of-touch [[carpetbagger]]. They threw out all kinds of conspiracy theories. Dad was part of a trilateral commission campaign to establish a one-world government. I had been sent by the Rockefeller family to buy up farmland... Despite all of the innuendos, I was optimistic about my chances. My strategy was to build up a bulkhead in my home county of Midland. I lost every county in the district but took Midland by such a huge margin that I won the nomination."<ref>[[George W. Bush]], ''Decision Points'' (New York: Crown Publishers, 2010), p. 39.</ref>

In his presidential memoirs, ''Decision Points'' (2010), George W. Bush refers to Reese as a "smooth-talking former sportscaster and mayor of Odessa ... who felt entitled to the nomination in 1978. He was very unhappy that I had outpolled him in the first round of the primary. Reese had a hard edge, and so did some of his supporters. Their strategy was to paint me as a liberal, out-of-touch [[carpetbagger]]. They threw out all kinds of conspiracy theories. Dad was part of a trilateral commission campaign to establish a one-world government. I had been sent by the Rockefeller family to buy up farmland... Despite all of the innuendos, I was optimistic about my chances. My strategy was to build up a bulkhead in my home county of Midland. I lost every county in the district but took Midland by such a huge margin that I won the nomination."<ref>[[George W. Bush]], ''Decision Points'' (New York: Crown Publishers, 2010), p. 39.</ref>

Among the donors to Bush in the primary against Reese were the widow of [[General]]  [[Douglas MacArthur]], former CBS television president Frank Shakespeare, former Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Armstrong,<ref>Anne L. Armstrong (1927-2008), a long-term Texas Republican figure from tiny Kenedy County  near Corpus Christi, was the first woman to keynote a national party convention, the 1972 GOP conclave in Miami Beach,  [[Florida]].</ref> and former and future Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]] as well as automobile executives from [[Detroit]] and oil tycoons from across Texas.<ref>Reese, p. 138.</ref> It was in this campaign too that Bush first met his political operative and long-term advisor, [[Karl Rove]].<ref>John Gizzi, ''Human Events'', January 4, 2005.</ref>

Among the donors to Bush in the primary against Reese were the widow of [[General]]  [[Douglas MacArthur]], former CBS television president Frank Shakespeare, former Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Armstrong,<ref>Anne L. Armstrong (1927-2008), a long-term Texas Republican figure from tiny Kenedy County  near Corpus Christi, was the first woman to keynote a national party convention, the 1972 GOP conclave in Miami Beach,  [[Florida]].</ref> and former and future Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]] as well as automobile executives from [[Detroit]] and oil tycoons from across Texas.<ref>Reese, p. 138.</ref> It was in this campaign too that Bush first met his political operative and long-term advisor, [[Karl Rove]].<ref>[[John Gizzi]], ''Human Events'', January 4, 2005.</ref>

Reagan political advisor Franklyn Curran "Lyn" Nofziger (1924-2006) urged the former governor to support Reese because of Reese's political experience and past loyalty to Reagan. Nofziger dispatched Reese a $1,000 check from Reagan's political action committee, Citizens for the Republic.<ref>Reese, p. 139.</ref>  After Reagan donated to the Reese campaign, Texas gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements and his wife, the former Rita Crocker, visited Reagan at the former governor's home in Pacific Palisades, [[California]]. Clements was a Bush family friend who had served as assistant defense secretary under Rumsfeld in the Ford administration and had been the finance chairman of the elder Bush's unsuccessful 1964 U.S. Senate race against the Democrat Ralph William Yarborough. Clements urged Reagan to match the $1,000 contribution that Reagan had rendered to Reese by giving equally to the second Bush. Nofziger claimed to have told Clements:  "'Mr. Clements, we don't do business that way.' Nothing more was said about it."<ref>Reese, p. 139.</ref>

Reagan political advisor Franklyn Curran "Lyn" Nofziger (1924-2006) urged the former governor to support Reese because of Reese's political experience and past loyalty to Reagan. Nofziger dispatched Reese a $1,000 check from Reagan's political action committee, Citizens for the Republic.<ref>Reese, p. 139.</ref>  After Reagan donated to the Reese campaign, Texas gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements and his wife, the former Rita Crocker, visited Reagan at the former governor's home in Pacific Palisades, [[California]]. Clements was a Bush family friend who had served as assistant defense secretary under Rumsfeld in the Ford administration and had been the finance chairman of the elder Bush's unsuccessful 1964 U.S. Senate race against the Democrat Ralph William Yarborough. Clements urged Reagan to match the $1,000 contribution that Reagan had rendered to Reese by giving equally to the second Bush. Nofziger claimed to have told Clements:  "'Mr. Clements, we don't do business that way.' Nothing more was said about it."<ref>Reese, p. 139.</ref>