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>>> FINALLY THIS EVENING,
THE STYLE.
EVERY CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION
BRINGS NEW STYLE TO WASHINGTON.
THINK OF PRESIDENTS KENNEDY
AND REAGAN AND JOHNSON, TO NAME
BUT THREE.
MR. BUSH'S FATHER WAS OFTEN
DESCRIBED AS PATRIOTIC, THOUGH
HE DID HAVE A PUBLIC PASSION
FOR PORK GRINDS.
BUT IT IS THE WORK ETHIC THAT'S
MOST IMPORTANT.
DOES A PRESIDENT GET
INTO EVERYTHING, AS JIMMY CARTER
DID, TO HIS PERIL?
IS HE LAID BACK, AS WAS
PRESIDENT REAGAN?
THE SECOND REPORT TONIGHT
FROM DEAN REYNOLDS,
ON THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
FROM TEXAS.
>> Reporter: TEXANS KNOW HIM
BETTER THAN OTHER AMERICANS,
AND THEY HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA
WHAT WE CAN EXPECT WHEN MR. BUSH
GOES TO WASHINGTON.
>> HE IS FOCUSED, AND HE IS
DISCIPLIND, BUT HE IS NOT
AN AROUND-THE-CLOCK KIND
OF WORKER.
>> Reporter: A TYPICAL BUSH WORK
DAY BEGINS EARLY AND ENDS EARLY,
WITH A LONG BREAK IN THE MIDDLE
FOR EXERCISE.
INDEED, AN ENDURING IMAGE
OF THE POST-ELECTION PERIOD HAS
BEEN BUSH AT EASE --
ON HIS RANCH OR AT THE GYM.
>> HE'LL HAVE TO CHANGE HIS WORK
HABITS, AND HE WON'T
PARTICULARLY ENJOY IT.
>> Reporter: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
PROFESSOR BRUCE BUCHANAN SAYS
BUSH WILL GOVERN MORE LIKE
RONALD REAGAN THAN HIS FATHER.
>> HE THINKS OF HIMSELF
AS A BIG-PICTURE GUY, WHOSE
RESPONSIBILITY IS TO SET GOALS,
THEN DELEGATE AND THEN HOLD
PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE.
>> Reporter: OVERCOMING
PARTISANSHIP HAS BEEN A BUSH
HALLMARK HERE.
COZYING UP TO POLITICAL
MODERATES OF BOTH PARTIES,
ESPECIALLY DEMOCRATS.
AUSTIN JOURNALIST HARVEY
KRONBERG SAYS BUSH WILL DO IT
IN WASHINGTON, TOO.
>> IF I HAD TO GUESS, I WOULD
SAY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
A STEADY STREAM OF PEOPLE COMING
TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO FEEL
THE BUSH MAGIC.
TIP O'NEILL SAID ALL POLITICS
ARE LOCAL.
THE BUSH MAXIM IS, ALL POLITICS
ARE PERSONAL.
>> Reporter: EXTREMISTS OUT
FOR POLITICAL BLOOD
IN WASHINGTON MAY BE SURPRISED
TO LEARN HOW BUSH DEALT
WITH THOSE TYPES IN AUSTIN.
>> HERE IN TEXAS, HE ESSENTIALLY
STIFFED THEM, BECAUSE THEY HAD
NOWHERE ELSE TO GO,
AND HE DIDN'T NEED THEM.
>> Reporter: BESIDES, STANDING
UP TO EXTREME PARTISANS COULD
HELP BUSH.
>> THAT SHOULD STRENGTHEN
HIS HAND IN THE CENTER, WHICH IS
WHERE HE INTENDS TO OPERATE.
>> Reporter: IN TEXAS, BUSH
RELIED HEAVILY FOR GUIDANCE
ON HIS POLITICAL SENIORS,
THE LATE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BOB
BULLOCK WAS A MENTOR, MUCH
AS *** CHENEY IS EXPECTED TO B@
FOR BUSH IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
BUT DOES THAT RELIANCE, WHICH
EXTEND TO HIS CADRE OF EXTREMELY
LOYAL AIDES, MASKS AS WHAT SOME
SEES AS A PROBLEM?
>> HE COMBINES IGNORANCE
OF THE POLICY BACKGROUND
IN WASHINGTON, WITH A DISTASTE
FOR STUDY.
>> Reporter: AND THAT MAY BE
A VULNERABILITY, BUT GOVERNOR
BUSH WAS ELECTED AND THEN
RE-ELECTED BY AN OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY OF TEXANS, THE PEOPLE
WHO KNOW HIM BEST.
DEAN REYNOLDS, ABC NEWS, AUSTIN.
>>> THAT'S OUR REPORT ON "WORLD
NEWS TONIGHT" -- ON "PRIME TIME
THURSDAY," THE BUSH BROTHERS.
>>> DON'T FORGET "NIGHTLINE"
AND ABCNEWS.COM ALL THE TIME.
I'M PETER JENNINGS.
GOOD NIGHT.
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