It is hardly too early to examine the nature of the Bush dynasty, and why-at the moment at least-it has largely escaped the antagonism that led the founders to fear any hereditary titles. Such sentiment prompted political foes to compare the Adamses to the Stuart kings of Britain and the Kennedys' adversaries to warn that eight years of Jack, eight years of Bobby and eight years of Ted would, after all, conclude in the Orwellian 1984. New York Times, 2002
Most dynasties are defined and circumscribed by region. The Roosevelts rode as high and far as the national fortunes of New York State.... The Kennedys acquire an outlier state or three, but Massachusetts remains their feudal domain. Not the Bushes. Their success is found in an essential rootlessness. Washington Post, 2001
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