Mosbacher’s Inaugural Deja Vu
Houston oilman Robert Mosbacher isn’t surprised to be attending his second Bush inauguration. Only he thought it would be for the elder George Bush. “He strongly deserved a second term,” said the first President Bush’s former commerce secretary, campaign fundraiser and all-around good buddy after sharing breakfast with The Post’s Annie Groer. “If you’d asked me if I’d be coming to an inaugural now, I’d have said, ‘I don’t think so — there’s not a third term.’ ”
Well. Here Mosbacher is — tan, fit and 73 — celebrating the ascension of his close friend’s son. “I’m thrilled for Dubya,” he told us yesterday. “This time I’m here as an observer and to see old friends. Last time I was excited and probably nervous, trying not to do anything that might fall under the expression ‘screwing up.’ ”
Another big difference from last time around: Instead of making the scene with redhead Republican fundraiser Georgette Mosbacher, his attention-getting third wife, he’s in town with his fourth, Houston writer Mica McCutchen Mosbacher, whom he wed last July on her 47th birthday.
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“She’s obviously beautiful, but she’s also bright and fun and interested in living life at my pace,” Mosbacher told Groer. Mica reciprocated: “He’s fit, he’s fun, he’s spontaneous, he’s kind, and he cares a whole lot about his family.” Widowed once and divorced twice, he has four grown children; she’s the mother of a 14-year-old boy from her first marriage.
The lovebirds were introduced two years ago at a party for yachtsman Buddy Melges at Houston’s Bayou Club. She accepted his dinner invitation. When he arrived to pick her up, she’d just finished jogging and was still in running gear. His opening line: “That’s an ugly brown jacket.” He proposed last April en route to an Astros game but warned her to “tell no one. I’m too old to be engaged.”
As for Georgette, whom he pays $32,000 a month in alimony, Mosbacher said he’s not worried about the prospect of crossing paths with her in this week’s swirl of parties: “It doesn’t matter. I wish her all the best.”
Mica and Robert Mosbacher.
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