George H. W. Bush
Summary
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981-1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was born in Massachusetts to Senator and New York Banker Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest aviator in the US Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions.
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The dangerous delusions of the White House press corps and the president
The White House press corps became a story this week, which is almost always bad news.
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Richard Ben Cramer, Wrote of Presidential Politics, Dies at 62
Mr. Cramer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of “What it Takes,” an account of the 1988 election that was considered among the finest books ever written about American politics.
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Journalist who interviewed Che and taught Fidel to make Irish coffee
On the evening of March 13 1965, a man whose face was soon to become one of most famous in the world walked unrecognised into Hanratty's Hotel in Limerick.
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Ebony Looks to Its Past as It Modernizes
Ebony magazine has served as a repository for major events that have happened to African-Americans.
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Presidential Debate Commission co-chair blames TV networks for lack of diversity among moderators
During Wednesday’s presidential debate, moderator Jim Lehrer will have the same freedoms male moderators have enjoyed since the modern day presidential debates began more than two decades ago – asking their own questions – while Candy Crowley, the second… Read more.
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Monday Q&A: Bill Wheatley on presidential debates, how they’ve changed, and how they should
For a certain breed of political junkie, the Twitter back channel has become as much a part of the election as what the candidates are actually doing and saying.
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Ashbel Green, editor of Cronkite memoir, dies
Ashbel Green, a versatile and respected editor at Alfred A. Knopf who persuaded Gabriel Garcia Marquez to switch publishers, worked on Walter Cronkite's memoir and a foreign policy book by President George H. W. Bush and helped discover the crime classic The Friends of Eddie Coyle, has died. He was 84.
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Two Presidents, Many CEOs: Leaders Speak Out at GBTA
Staff Report The Global Business Travel Association’s 2012 annual meeting was one for the history books: President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush both spoke at the annual conclave, this year held at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center, July 22–25. It was the first time two U.
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Esther Kartiganer, ‘60 Minutes’ Producer, Dies at 74
Her 40-year career at CBS was overshadowed at the end by her role in a controversial “60 Minutes II” segment questioning President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service.
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Romney campaign reverses position, allows press to cover fundraiser in Israel
CNN | The Wall Street Journal | NBC News | Newsweek The campaign of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney let reporters cover a fundraiser in Israel on Monday morning after first saying they wouldn’t be allowed… Read more.
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