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Bush is one of us, say French
By Henry Samuel in Paris
(Filed: 30/10/2004)
Knocking John Kerry's Gallic roots could be a thing of the past for George W
Bush's camp after a claim that the president, too, is descended from the
people his supporters call "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".
French historians believe that Bush is a corruption of the name Boucher
(butcher).
The apparent connection was uncovered by a reporter on Le Figaro in a book
on French America, Histoire de l'Amerique Française.
The paper suggested that was why the president's official biographers never
traced the family tree beyond 1850....
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