U.S. Navy pilot George Bush sits in the cockpit of his torpedo bomber “Barbara III”, named after his girlfriend and future wife Barara Pierce. Ca. 1943-1945. | Location: outdoors. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Rest in peace, President George Herbert Walker Bush, 1924-2018, age 94, WWII Lieutenant (JG), Grumman TBM Avenger pilot shot down in 1944, rescued by USS Finback submarine, flew 58 combat missions, received the Distinguished Flying Cross, 3 Air Medals, Presidential Citation, Yale, US Congress, Senator, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Republican National Committee Chairman, US Envoy to China, CIA Director, Vice President and President of the United States.
Another American underachiever.
BZ
He will be missed. And he only had one term as President. He was a true gentleman.
I believe so. He could have been a two-termer if he’d not made a rather serious mistake.
Then: we wouldn’t have had Clinton.
BZ