Bush Is Responsible for Focus on His Daughters

I agree with Steven M. Gorelick (Commentary, June 3) that the Bush girls should be generally out of bounds when it comes to “youthful indiscretions.� Yet they can largely thank their father for the attention they are receiving. It was Bush who hid behind their skirts when giving the reason for concealing his own drunk-driving arrest.

Using his kids as an excuse for that bit of public dishonesty was a shoddy performance and, as it turns out, incredibly unfair to them. Pointing that up should be the duty of the press, not staking out a couple of kids from Texas.

Tom Hammond

San Juan Capistrano

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Quoting a June 3 letter: “I don’t recall the Clintons having such trouble. Our children should have respectful, intelligent role models, not juvenile delinquents.� Was President Clinton such a moral role model? Good grief!

Jean Barraclough

Costa Mesa