
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, September 6, 1993                   TAG: 9309060056
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
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DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short

BUSH'S $100,000 SPEECH FOR AMWAY HALF-HOUR LONG

Former President Bush says he is giving more attention these days to things closer to home than he could in the White House, like listening to the scream of a 4-month-old grandson.

"Such lung power," he told a crowd of 75,000 Amway distributors. "I'm convinced he will be an American senator." Bush also spoke in his half-hour address Saturday of learning to play Nintendo, from an 8-year-old grandson.

He also said he could think of no better setting to make his "largest-audience speech since leaving public housing in January" than at the conference "surrounded by 75,000 pieces of the American dream."

Amway uses a worldwide network of 2 million distributors to sell thousands of products ranging from floor cleaner to hair mousse.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday that Bush was paid $100,000 for the appearance. He also got a six-minute standing ovation. - Associated Press

by CNB