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Former President George H.W. Bush

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He was born June 12, 1924 in Milton Massachusetts

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He graduated from Phillips Academy in

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Andover, Massachusetts on his 18th birthday

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in 1942 and immediately joined the Navy

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Bush earned his wings in June 1943 with

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World War II raging.  He was the youngest

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pilot in the navy at the time

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The future president flew torpedo bombers off the

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USS San Jacinto in the Pacific.  He was

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awarded the distinguished Flying Cross

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for a mission over Chichijima in 1944

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Even though his plane was hit by anti-

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aircraft fire, he completed his bombing

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run before turning to the sea

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Bush managed to bail out of the burning

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aircraft but both his crewmen died

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The submarine USS Finback (SS-230) rescued him

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On January 6, 1945

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Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York

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They had six children

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George, Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin and Dorothy

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After the war Bush attended Yale and

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graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1948

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He and his wife moved to Texas where he

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entered the oil business

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Bush served in the US House of

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Representatives from 1966 to 1970

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In 1971, then President Richard Nixon named Bush as

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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

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where he served until becoming chairman of the

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Republican National Committee in 1973

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In October 1974, President Gerald R. Ford

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named Bush Chief of the U.S. Liaison

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office in Beijing, and in 1976

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Ford appointed him to be the director

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of Central Intelligence.  In 1980 Bush ran

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for the Republican Presidential

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nomination.  Ronald Reagan won the

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primaries and secured the nomination

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and he selected Bush as his running mate

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On January 20th, 1981, Bush was

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sworn in for the first of two terms as

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Vice-President.  The Republicans selected

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Bush as Presidential nominee in

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1988.  Bush became the 41st President of

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the United States and presided over the

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victory of the West.  During his tenure

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the Berlin Wall a symbol of communist

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depression since 1961 fell

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before the appeal of freedom.  The nations

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of Eastern Europe withdrew from the

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warsaw pact and freely elected

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democracies began taking hold.  In 1989

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Bush ordered the US military into Panama

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to overthrow the government of General

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Manuel Noriega.  Noriega had allowed

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Panama to become a haven for narco

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terrorists and he subsequently was

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convicted of drug offenses.  Bush is best

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remembered for his swift and decisive

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efforts following Saddam Hussein's

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invasion of Kuwait on August 2nd, 1990

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Bush drew a line in the sand and

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promised to protect Saudi Arabia and

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liberate Kuwait.  He put together a 30

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nation coalition that liberated Kuwait

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in February 1991.  Operation Desert Storm

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showed Americans and the world the

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devastating power of the US military

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Bush lived to see his son George W. Bush

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elected President, and he worked with the

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man who defeated him in 1992 to raise

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money for millions of people affected by

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an indian ocean tsunami.  In his inaugural

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address the elder Bush spoke about

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America having a meaning

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"beyond what we see"

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He also said that the idea of America

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and what it stands for is important in

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the world

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Former President George H.W. Bush

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is dead