Bumiller says that Bush "first met Mexican immigrants at public school in Midland, Tex.," then employed some as field workers for the small oil company he owned. But never, it seems, did the president love his friends from south of the border as much as he did when some worked for him as ballplayers.
"When he was the managing partner of the Texas Rangers," Bumiller says, Bush "reveled in going into the dugout and joking with the players, many of them Hispanic, in fractured Spanglish."
Funny, that's not how Jose Canseco remembers it. In his New York Times bestseller, "Juiced," Canseco – who played for Bush's Rangers – said he "never had any sort of conversation" with the future president. "I shook his hand and met him once, but that was about it," Canseco writes. "Bush did gravitate toward Nolan Ryan a bit, probably because he was a legend, and also closer to his age. He didn't talk to us Latinos much."
...oy, my fault, quotation mark wasn't where I thought it was. That was Grieve's paraphrase, not something Bumiller actually wrote.