Before spending his last night in the Governor's Mansion, Gov. Jeb Bush confided Thursday what he really likes about the place -- including unlimited fresh towels.

After a ceremony opening a new library at the mansion and accepting his official portrait, which will hang on the Capitol's first floor, the governor ran into probably his final gaggle with Capitol reporters as he returned to work. Among other things, he was asked what he will miss most when Gov.-elect Charlie Crist moves in.

"What am I going to miss about the mansion? It's beauty, its tradition, the food," said Bush. "The hot water -- the water pressure in the hot water is unbelievable. I told Charlie to be careful; I don't know how it is in St. Pete but in Miami, the water doesn't come on that fast and doesn't come on immediately hot."

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"I don't know how it is in your life but it's -- most of the time, you know, most people take showers and you use towels six or seven times," he said, "but here, although I've been trained to do otherwise, any time I want, I can have a new towel."

Three words in Spanish appear to have signalled a recognition by the Bush family that their dynastic reign in American politics is drawing to a close.

"No tengo futuro" — "I have no future" — Governor Jeb Bush told Spanish-speaking reporters in Florida as he prepared to leave office and was asked whether he still had political ambitions.

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But with the ratings of his brother President George W Bush's languishing at 36 per cent as he struggles to formulate a new Iraq policy after his "thumping" at the polls last month, the Bush name is a low-priced commodity.