ABSTRACT
Prescott’s world embodied “not the legacy of a class,” as Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. has put it, “but the legacy of particular families” dedicated to a “common sense of custom and obligation.” Surely, that colored Bush’s reaction to the denouement of Watergate. Journalist Theodore H. White once caught that mood when he quoted Bush as saying, “I’m really glad Dad’s not alive, it would have killed him to see this happen. He thought we were the party of virtue and all bosses were Democrats.” 1
