George H.W. Bush

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/14/2022
  

  Republicans are Reviving the 1980s Crack Panic; People will Die as a Result

  Harm reduction policies are evidence-based and proven to reduce the negative impacts of drug abuse, which makes the effort to turn them into a culture war particularly discouraging. 

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• 4/25/2021
  

  "The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III" by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

  by James Thornton Harris

  Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's biography of the influential Republican political dealmaker at the heart of the Reagan-Bush era offers a compelling account of James A. Baker's career, but shows him to have been more motivated by power than by a vision of its uses. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/28/2020
  

  It Shouldn’t Surprise Us To See A President Down In The Polls Lash Out

  by Robert Fleegler

  George H.W. Bush was no Donald Trump as his behavior was practically polite by comparison. But facing the loss of the world’s most powerful office can lead one to engage in more extreme rhetoric and behavior. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/22/2020
  

  A Glimmer of Hope for Trump? How Bush Mounted a Comeback in 1988

  It will surprise no one if Trump pursues the sort of negative race-baiting campaign that George H.W. Bush used to rally after trailing Michael Dukakis in the summer. What remains to be seen will be if Trump can convincingly portray Biden as a greater danger to the public. 

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• 1/22/19
  

  What Does William Barr Have to Do With Iran Contra?

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  And what it means for George H.W. Bush's legacy. 

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• 1/20/19
  

  Will Beto O'Rourke Follow the Path of Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush to the Presidency?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How previous longshot presidents defeated the odds. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9-30-16
  

  Unilateral U.S. nuclear pullback in 1991 matched by rapid Soviet cuts

  Declassified documents tell inside story of “most spontaneous and dramatic reversal” of the arms race.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  12-3-13
  

  George H.W. Bush Given Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Award

  Johnson's two daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb, attended the presentation of the award.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-18-13
  

  Lesson Is Seen in Failure of Law on Medicare in 1989

  The year was 1989, and angry Americans were outraged at being asked to pay more for health care.

• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-16-13
  

  John Avlon: George H.W. Bush, Our Preppiest Ex-President

  John Avlon is political director for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. A CNN contributor, he won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column in 2012.It’s been a quarter-century since George H.W. Bush was elected president, but the wheels of history are finally turning his way. In a triumph of civility and character over hyperbolic hyper-partisanship, Bush 41 was honored Monday by President Obama at the White House for the success of his Point of Light award for civic volunteerism.We begin to see clearly in the rearview mirror of history, and George H.W. Bush has lived long enough to be appreciated as the Lone Star Yankee, perhaps the last unapologetically centrist Republican to enter the White House, winning California on the way to an electoral landslide.

• SOURCE: Slate
  6-20-13
  

  Slate: George W. Bush's ancestor a notorious slave trader

  BUNCE ISLAND, Sierra Leone—Twelve American presidents owned slaves, eight while serving in office, and at least 25 presidents count slave owners among their ancestors. But new historical evidence shows that a direct ancestor of George W. and George H.W. Bush was part of a much more appalling group: Thomas Walker was a notorious slave trader active in the late 18th century along the coast of West Africa.Walker, George H.W. Bush's great-great-great grandfather, was the captain of, master of, or investor in at least 11 slaving voyages to West Africa between 1784 and 1792....

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• In Defense of Transactional Presidents

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Five presidents: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter. Taken in 1991.Many people assume that leaders with transformational objectives and an inspirational style are better or more ethical than leaders with more modest objectives and a transactional style. We tend to think of Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan as more impressive than Dwight Eisenhower or George H. W. Bush. Leadership theorists often dismiss transactional leaders as mere “managers.” But that is a mistake.

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• Whatever Happened to George W. Bush?

  by Burton Kaufman

  George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. Credit: Flickr/Cal Almonds.

• SOURCE: Politico
  1-15-13
  

  Obama's sad press conference record

  President Obama had fewer press conferences during his first term than any other president since Ronald Reagan, Politico reports.With Monday's event, Obama has done a total of 79 over four years. That's 10 fewer than George W. Bush, 54 fewer than Bill Clinton and 63 fewer than George H.W. Bush.Reagan had only 27 press conferences during his first term.