George H.W. Bush Is With Barbara!

George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush both passed away in 2018.

The passing of an American president.

George H.W. Bush has passed away yesterday at the age of 94. He was suffering from Parkinson's disease. He was the 41st President of the United States who was then a notable voice within the Republican Party. He died peacefully at his home in Houston, only six months after the loss of his wife Barbara.

He served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Ambassador, director of the Central Intelligence.

He was the 43rd Vice President of the United States during the Ronald Reagan years. He became one of the few vice presidents to become U.S. president.

Born in Milton, Massachusetts, Bush was part of a political dynasty which bore a son who later would become the 43rd President of the United States.

He was considered the oldest living former president. Now the title goes to Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States. The current title holder of President of the United States is former reality television star and business developer Donald J. Trump.

Current former living presidents.

Jimmy Carter
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama

Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush bore their son in June 12, 1924. He was a good child who had a mischievous side. He was known as a practical joker when he was young. He wanted to attend college at an early age.

An attack on Pearl Harbor managed to change Bush's mind on college. He enlisted in the United States Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time.

Shortly after leaving the Navy, Bush married Barbara Pierce, who he met at a country club dance when he was 17 and she was 16. They would eventually have six children, one of whom died of leukemia before her fourth birthday.

He served until September 1945. He would start attending Yale University. After graduating in 1948, he move to West Texas. He joined the lobbying firm for an oil company and became a millionaire by the age of 40. Soon after he founded his own oil company, Bush became involved in politics.

Bush would lose his first race in the U.S. Senate. However, he would ended up winning the U.S. Congressional race for Texas 7th District.

After he was defeated from his second attempt at the U.S. Senate, he had to resign from his House seat.

Richard Nixon like his chops. So he appointed Bush to the Ambassador of the United Nations.

Bush would later join the Republican National Committee for a handful of years. Then he would be appointed by Gerald Ford as the Chief Liaison of Office in China. Ford would reassign him to be the Director of Central Intelligence when he thought the big time was coming.

In 1980, Bush decided to run for president. He was a formidable opponent and moderate in most Republican circles. He would be defeated by former California governor and actor Ronald Reagan.

Reagan decided that Bush could win over Democrats in the Rust Belt, because he appealed to some who were upset over Jimmy Carter's handling of the economy.

Reagan would sweep most of the states and force Jimmy Carter out of the White House.

Reagan and Bush were like a team of rivals. During the campaign, Bush called Reagan's campaign on the economy, "voodoo economics." They clashed at times but came to respect one another during the eight years of Reagan's presidency. The two shared a moment during the 1981 assassination attempt.

Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump at the funeral of Barbara Bush.

Bush was a successful vice president and used his support of Reagan to help him beat Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentson.

In 1988, Bush was considered the moderate within a string of conservatives. Bob Dole, Pat Robertson, Jack Kemp and Pete Du Pont were formiable opponents. They couldn't withstand the juggernaut of Bush, Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater. The infamous Willie Horton ad doomed Dukakis and helped sweep most of the states leaving the Democrats in the dust. Also the poking

During the Bush years, it was marked with a stable economy, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the Los Angeles riots, Hurricane Andrew and the pledge.

Privately, the former presidents had strong dislike towards Donald J. Trump.

Bush's tenure in the White House was limited to four years. He was defeated for re-election by Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992. A weakened economy, a limited domestic agenda and a broken promise against raising taxes contributed to Bush's defeat.

George W. Bush, who served as the country's 43rd president, released a statement of his own from the family.

"Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died," George W. Bush said. "George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41’s life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens."

Bush began experiencing health problems during his presidency. In 1991, he was treated at a hospital for an irregular heartbeat. Doctors diagnosed him as having Graves disease, a thyroid condition that, by coincidence, his wife also had.

Bush experienced a recurrence of the irregular heartbeat in February 2000, when he was attending a reception in Naples, Florida. He spent a night in the hospital, but smiled and joked with reporters the next day.

In November 2012, he was admitted to a Houston hospital for bronchitis and a chronic cough. He was expected to return home well before Christmas but remained hospitalized after the holiday. Officials said he had a high fever and had been placed on a liquids-only diet.

In 2017, the former president was admitted to the intensive care unit at Houston Methodist Hospital to "address an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia," according to his office.

His family has said publicly that the former president was no longer able to walk unassisted, a frustration for a man who enjoyed an active lifestyle of golf, fishing, jogging and power walks on the beach near his summer home in Maine.

Bush lived his life to the fullest. He was a man who devoted his life to public service. He always had a great smile and good sense of humor. He often knew how make people laugh.

One of the most funniest things I've heard was whenever Bush heard Trump speak, he would want to throw the shoe at the television.

It's going to be awkward. Trump will appear along with George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama at the state funeral of Bush,Sr.

Trump will once again face Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden and Jeb Bush, all the people who he constantly attacked on the campaign trail and during his tenure.