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R.I.P. George H.W. Bush, America’s 41st President And Father of 43rd, Dies

TedTed
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FYI: George Herbert Walker Bush led the U.S. to a swift and decisive victory in the first Persian Gulf War and presided over the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany, before a painful recession cost him a second term as president.

He died on Friday at age 94. His wife of more than 70 years, Barbara, died at the age of 92 earlier this year.

Mr. Bush was the last American president to serve in World War II, a fight that helped shape his life and the lives of many in his generation. He went on to build a sterling resume—businessman, member of Congress, envoy to the United Nations and China, head of the Central Intelligence Agency—before becoming Republican Ronald Reagan’s vice president in 1980 and then succeeding him in the White House in 1988.
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Ted
https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-h-w-bush-americas-41st-president-and-father-of-43rd-dies-1543641078?mod=hp_lead_pos1

Comments

  • johnNjohnN
    Rip
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    A decent man. I'm sorry that he had to see what's happened to his country as he reached he end of his time here.
  • Sven
    Agree. He was a good man who placed the country first before partisanship. The note he left for the incoming president, Bill Clinton was touching and classy - certainly unheard of at that time. Since then this becomes a tradition during the change of administration.
  • davidrmorandavidrmoran
    edited December 2018
    Well, NYT Maureen Dowd in a love note today also lists just some of the serious shortcomings:

    ... he beat Michael Dukakis with the race-baiting Willie Horton campaign designed by Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes. ... sent his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, to Beijing for a secret midnight champagne toast with the leaders who perpetrated the Tiananmen Square massacre. ... didn't do nearly enough to combat the AIDS epidemic. ... his White House directed the defense of his Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas, that tried to discredit Anita Hill.

    Otoh he did vote for HRC, so there is that, saying publicly he did not like the "blowhard Trump."

    Yet too late:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-hw-bush-was-the-accidental-catalyst-that-built-the-new-republican-party/2018/12/02/2a4adaf8-f659-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html
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