“Especially compared with current occupant of the Oval Office, George H. W. Bush was a dignified figure who served his country steadfastly in war and peace. He represented a center-right, internationalist strain of Republicanism that barely exists today. But it doesn’t make sense to canonize him.”
John Cassidy in THE NEW YORKER, on Bush 41–getting the National Day Of Mourning which, if I recall correctly, even the more sainted Ronald Reagan didn’t receive.
For a more realistic assessment of George H.W. Bush, look these up on your search engine: April Glaspie, Gulf War, Willie Horton, Roger Ailes, Lee Atwater, Dan Quayle, Highway of Death, Iraq, massacre of Kurds after Gulf War—and, to Bush’s credit, the Disability Rights Act, his break with the National Rifle Association, his rightful calling out of Reagan-embraced supply-side economy theory as “voodoo economics.”
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