The Turn : TAU-R-US "Bulls in a China Shop"

ANDORRA'S (BASQUE-PYRENEES) CANDIDATE IN WASHINGTON
Governor Bill Richardson, the son of the son

William Blaine (WOOL) "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, and the current Governor of New Mexico. On March 28, 2007 during an episode of The Daily Show Richardson announced that he would be running for president in 2008, although technically his campaign is still in the exploratory phase. He has previously served as a U.S. Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the U.S. Secretary of Energy. He was chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention as well as Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association in 2005 and 2006, overseeing the Democrats' re-capturing of a majority of America's governorships.

Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California. His mother, Maria Luisa Lopez-Collada, is Mexican. His father is William Blaine Richardson Jr., the son of Boston-born naturalist William Blaney Richardson (whose middle name changed from Blaney to Blaine when they moved to Nicaragua) and his Mexican wife Rosaura Ojeda. The elder William and Rosaura moved to Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in the 1890s, where he did research for Smithsonian Institution as naturalist; some of his findings were published in the Boston Globe newspaper up to 1927. William Jr. was born in Nicaragua in 1891; his brothers and sisters, 10 in total, were also born in Nicaragua. After his mother´s death in 1907, William Jr. and his two younger sisters were taken by his grandmother, Vesta, from Nicaragua to Boston where they grew up and studied. William Jr. worked for Citibank as an executive in Mexico City where he met Maria Luisa Lopez-Collada. William took Maria Luisa to deliver her children Bill and Vesta to Pasadena (where his sister Rosa Natalie lived) in 1947. Earlier generations (prior to the first William Blaine) in the Richardson line were Massachusetts commercial merchants, such as a wharfinger.

Bill Richardson was raised in Mexico City, but his parents took him to Massachusetts at age 13 to attend a Boston-area preparatory school. Richardson played baseball in high school at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and was a pitcher. Richardson went on to play for Tufts University.

For much of Richardson's career, campaign material and supporters mentioned his baseball career and that he was scouted, recruited and drafted in the 1966 Major League Baseball amateur draft ; although this turned out to be a lie, it is true that he was heavily scouted, recruited and told that he would be drafted, which did not occur as he chose to attend college rather than play professionally. Arm trouble reportedly prevented him from further pursuing a professional career in baseball.

At Tufts, he majored in French language and political science and was a brother and president of Delta Tau Delta. He then earned a master's degree from Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. While still in high school, he met his wife, Barbara Flavin. They have been married for 33 years.

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