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George and Laura Bush poked around the George W. Bush Childhood Home, going room to room through the carefully restored bungalow on West Ohio Avenue in Midland, Tex. The 41st president bought this three-bedroom house in 1951 for $9,000. The 43rd president, a rambunctious boy — a catcher on the Midland Cubs Little League team — grew up in a small bedroom with walls of knotty pine.
...U.N. climate officials need to read Amity Shlaes’ fine history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man. The book details how the expansive federal controls of the New Deal were what made the depression “Great” — i.e. long and deep. As Paul Johnson astutely noted, The Forgotten Man “shows how inept government intervention turned a necessary market correction into an economic catastrophe and prolonged it into a decade a misery.”
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