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'''George H. W. (Herbert Walker) Bush''', [[Republican]], was the 41st [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1989 to 1993.  

Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924-      ), 41st president of the United States, serving January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993.  During most of his public career, George Bush served other presidents loyally in a number of important positions. Not until 1988, after eight years as vice president under [[Ronald Reagan]], did Bush, a self-effacing man, step into the limelight as the Republican nominee for president. For the first time he had an opportunity to articulate his vision for America's future.

 

Few presidential candidates had entered a campaign so ill defined in the eyes of the American voters. Bush's two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, the only office to which he had been elected on his own, were almost two decades in the past by 1988. His service in appointive positions—as U.S. delegate to the [[United Nations]], chairman of the [[Republican National Committee]], envoy to [[China]], and director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]—had provided only an occasional hint of his political philosophy. He had sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 as a moderate, but after becoming Reagan's running mate he had taken conservative positions identical to those of Reagan.

 

 

Perhaps more importantly than his tenure as president, Bush served in World War II as a naval fighter pilot (the youngest Navy fighter in WWII), where he earned three Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Immediately after the end of the war, General [[Dwight Eisenhower]] delivered a famous speech in which he mentioned Bush by name and called him "unquestionably the finest example of a young man that America has today."

Perhaps more importantly than his tenure as president, Bush served in World War II as a naval fighter pilot (the youngest Navy fighter in WWII), where he earned three Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Immediately after the end of the war, General [[Dwight Eisenhower]] delivered a famous speech in which he mentioned Bush by name and called him "unquestionably the finest example of a young man that America has today."

His presidency was defined primarily by the 1990 [[Gulf War]] He faced a strong challenge from [[Pat Robertson]] in 1988 primary due to charges that he was too liberal, and some claim that he lost the presidency in 1992 due to many Republicans defecting to the [[Ross Perot]] camp.  

 

 

 

His presidency was defined primarily by the 1990 [[Gulf War]] He faced a strong challenge from [[Pat Robertson]] in 1988 primary due to charges that he was too liberal, and some claim that he lost the presidency in 1992 due to many Republicans defecting to the third party candidacy of[[Ross Perot]].  

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