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...Having testified in front of several US congressional committees when serving under two US presidents (Reagan and Bush Sr), I have witnessed a lot of political theatre, but never such wilful...
...Having lived in both the US and the UK for 30-plus years each, and served under two US presidents (Reagan and Bush Sr), I believe the answer may be more nuanced and be a reflection of the fact that the average...
...He also attacked Bush Sr’s threat to withdraw US loan guarantees if Israel went ahead with settlements in the occupied territories....
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...Other Israeli leaders have clashed with the White House before: Ronald Reagan accused Menachem Begin of a “holocaust” after Israel bombed Beirut in August 1982; George Bush Sr had to withhold $10bn in loan...
...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...RFK Sr might have gone on to win the White House. The most his son could probably expect is to become an icon of the delusions of his time....
...And they ended President Bush Sr.'s career. Few things terrify an elected official of either party more than spiking retail pump prices. A president doesn't have really good options....
...Rus in urbe perfectly described SRs in London, with their green Barbours and Puffa jackets....
...Beyond a montage of Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Bush Sr and Clinton, dates and details are fairly scant in this riotous Storyville documentary, in which horror and humour share top billing....
...Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr were the same height — towering over tiny Ross Perot, the feisty independent challenger they beat into third place. Bush Sr was taller than Dukakis....
...But Bush Sr’s most important quality was one that distinguished him from every other president seated there — experience....
...Mr Barr later recalled how Bush Sr had used an answer he had whispered to him as a suggestion during a meeting. “I thought, ‘Who is this guy?...
...Bush Sr understood the importance of restraint. His decision not to topple Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf war looks even wiser given the debacle after the second Gulf war....
...In July 1989, George Bush Sr promised: “For the new century, back to the Moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay!”...
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...Nancy Bush, analyst at Georgia-based NAB Research, draws a parallel between Mr Buffett and John Pierpont Morgan Sr, the financier who assembled a room full of bankers in 1907 to head off a market crisis....
...When George Bush Sr left office in January 1993, there were 163,357,000. Those additional 19m people made it possible to have a jobs miracle for the people, since there were more of them....
...Like George Bush Sr, I would draw the line at plain old broccoli....
...“Read my lips: no new taxes,” said George Bush Sr in 1988. He raised taxes, and lost the 1992 presidential election....
...-Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Bush family friend, former Democratic lieutenant governor of Maryland and daughter of Robert F Kennedy, on the elder Bush’s presidential preference....
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...In a dispute with Thatcher and Mr Bush Sr in 1989 over the modernisation of short-range US nuclear missiles in central Europe, Genscher emerged as the clear victor, persuading Nato to drop the plans....
...In July 1990, President George HW Bush proclaimed the 1990s as the “Decade of the Brain”, with a major new initiative. Alex May Manchester, UK...
...Because Bush Sr has been so self-deprecating about his public-service achievements, his son decided to jump-start the inevitable upward historical revisionism....
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