Jeb Bush Thanks NRA for Helping His Brother
From Times Wire Reports
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush thanked the National Rifle Assn. for helping elect his brother president. Bush was keynote speaker at the gun lobby’s convention in Orlando.
Earlier, in his final appearance as NRA president, Charlton Heston shuffled onto the stage but was too weak to give a farewell speech. The actor, diagnosed with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, was able to raise a Winchester rifle over his head and deliver a trademark line, “From my cold, dead hands.”
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