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Molly Ivins had the good fortune of growing up in a wealthy oil family in Houston and attending elite schools, just like George W. Bush, to whom her legacy will be forever tied. She became a political journalist in an era in which there were three U.S. presidents from her native Texas. With a national appetite for her insight into Texas politicians like Lyndon Johnson and the two Bush presidents, she landed a job at the New York Times. But her irreverent style did not suit the Times, which banished her to a Western post in Denver.

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