As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, Sheehy has written character studies of dozens of national and world figures, including George Bush, Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein, Anwar Sadat, Newt Gingrich, and Gary Hart.

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Date: September 12, 2000

Show: MSNBC News with Brian Williams

Q: You spend a lot of time following George W. Bush and one of the more interesting notes is the notion that he wants to be President to pad his resume. Explain that.

GS: This is amazing to me. With all of his colleagues, business associates and friends they came to the same conclusion that the only passion that George Bush has ever had was to be baseball commissioner. When he was a boy he wanted to be KL, the first baseball commission. When he was approached by Republican party leaders in 1992 to run for Governor against Ann Richards he resisted, he stalled for a year until Faye Vincent - the recently ousted baseball commissioner - the reason was, he waiting to be named baseball commissioner and he said,"I'd rather be commissioner than governor." And when he finally realized that Bud Selig, then the Milwaukee Brewers owner was going to keep the job, he said, "Okay, I guess I'll run for governor." His friend from childhood said, "I still think he dreams of being commissioner and this running for president is just a resume enhancer for getting that job."

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