CHIEF OF STAFF TO GOVERNOR? FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF ERSKINE BOWLES HAS HEADED HOME TO CONSIDER HIS OPTIONS.(GENERAL NEWS)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: November 22, 1998| Author: Schlosser, Jim | Copyright information

Byline: JIM SCHLOSSER Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- Political parables about log cabins won't work with Erskine Bowles. The White House may be slightly smaller than the house he grew up in during the 1950s and early 1960s in Greensboro's Irving Park neighborhood.

"I told him he has come a long way from a mansion on the golf course," quips Jim Compton, a Greensboro stockbroker and Bowles' childhood friend, who often visited the Bowles' home across from the second...

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