China News Service, December 1st. The 41st US President George Bush died on November 30th local time at the age of 94. "New York Times " published a long article recalling Bush's life. The article points out that Bush Sr. claims to be "a person who defines his life with mission", and after retirement, he also maintains his vitality in political life. He once led the United States through an era of international turmoil, witnessing the end of the "Cold War", but also bringing the United States into a new war and opening another era.
Data picture: Bush Old.
[Tenire vitality: "Put off" the harp of grief]
The news of Bush's death was announced by his office. Less than eight months ago, his wife, Barbara Bush, passed away at the age of 73.
reported that Bush suffered from Parkinson's disease, which forced him to travel in recent years with a wheelchair or an elderly electric vehicle. In April 2018, the day after attending Mrs. Bush's funeral, he was treated for a blood infection. In 2013, he was hospitalized for more than six weeks with bronchitis. At that time, he was so critical that his son, former President George W. Bush, had consulted for comments on the eulogy.
However, Bush, the old man, showed his tenacious vitality every time. In 2013, he asked an assistant to notify everyone who came to express his condolences, "Put the harp."
["I am a person who defines life with mission"]
As a Republican, Bush was a transitional figure in White House , and he was in office from 1989 to 1993. He has a career in public service for over 40 years. He was a naval meritorious pilot. In 1944, the fighter plane he flew was shot down in the Pacific Ocean. He was the last World War II generation to join the Oval Office.
Data picture: After retiring from the army, Bush went to Yale University to study economics and obtained a bachelor's degree in economics in 1948. The picture shows George Herbert Walker Bush speaking at the World Leaders Summit held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on November 21, 2006.
report pointed out that Bush had skillful officialdom and diplomatic skills, played a role in ending the 40-year Cold War, and responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in Eastern Europe in a subtle way.
If Bush's term helped end an era abroad, he also opened another era. In January 1991, he convened an international coalition and sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers to conduct a military operation against Iraqi . However, this led to the United States focusing on Iraq for many years afterwards, and reached its peak more than a decade later: his son decided to overthrow the then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and that war consumed a lot of American resources and patience.
Bush's resume when he entered the White House was the most considerable of all presidents at that time. He served as two-term Texas Representative, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee at the Watergate Incident, U.S. representative to China, director of the CIA, and vice president of Ronald Reagan.
He achieved an achievement that no one has achieved since 1836: He won a presidential campaign during his tenure as Vice President. Bush was born with a wealthy background and graduated from Phillips Academy and Yale in Andover, Massachusetts, which led foreign media to believe that he had a kind of elegant manner and civic responsibility of the privileged class in New England.
He likes to say that he is engaged in public office as a call to respond to responsibility. In his 20s, he responded to this call and was sent to the Pacific to exchange fire with the enemy. “The cockpit is full of smoke and I’m choking,” he said, writing to his parents after being rescued by a submarine at sea.
In 1988, Bush emphasized the theme of responsibility when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in New Orleans . “I am a person who uses mission to define life—determine and fulfill mission,” he won warm applause to Republican representatives at Superdome.He said he would "let America move forward" and work hard for "a better America." "That's my mission," he said at the end of his speech, "I will complete it."
Data Picture: From 1974 to 1975, Bush Sr. served as director of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing. After returning to China, his political career was smooth sailing, and he served as director and vice president of the Central Intelligence Agency. The picture shows George Herbert Walker Bush attending the swearing-in ceremony of the 44th U.S. President in Washington on January 20, 2009.
[Witness the transition period of the world order that began in the Reagan era]
Bush's presidency is a transition period of the world order that began in the Reagan era. His response to the turbulent situation in Eastern Europe was cautious, and he chose a way of cooperation, embracing the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War with then-Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The two leaders signed a treaty requiring cuts to their respective nuclear and chemical weapons reserves, which had a profound impact on history.
"George H.W. Bush is the best unreelected president in American history and one of the most underrated presidents," James A. Baker III, a former secretary of state and adviser to assist Bush for nearly 50 years, said in an interview in 2013. "I think history will give him a very good review."
In the first year of his entry into the White House, Bush sent troops to Panama and overthrew the iron-fisted ruler there, Manuel Antonio Noriega. The quick victory of the Gulf War in 1991 and relatively less bleeding made him get three minutes of standing ovation in a speech at a joint Congressional meeting in March that year, and people shouted "Bush! Bush!"
According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, the four-day Baghdad air strike pushed his voter satisfaction to nearly 85%.
File photo: Bush and his wife Barbara have been married for more than 70 years. They tied the knot in Lai, New York on January 6, 1945. Their marriage time is the best in the history of the US president. The picture shows George Herbert Walker Bush attending a campaign dinner in Miami on November 5, 2002 with his wife Barbara and son.
[The temperature difference between diplomacy and internal affairs: "I think I'm sure I'm sure I'll get re-election"]
That was the peak of the term of President Bush . It also made him think that his re-election was almost certain. Some Democrats who might pose a threat also thought so at the time.
Iraq is not a total victory. Bush was forced to defend his decision, and he stopped the offensive before overthrowing Hussein , and his previous financial aid and intelligence data to Hussein was also questioned by critics. However, foreign policy success remains an important sign of his presidency. It is incomparable to his actions in China.
When the four-year term was halfway through, Republican and Democratic leaders expressed dissatisfaction, believing that Bush did not have a domestic agenda in the face of the most severe economic situation since World War II. Many people questioned that he turned a deaf ear to the sufferings of the American people. Despite being stinged by criticism, his performance in the re-election campaign in New Hampshire New Hampshire did not dispel that impression, he declared in January, "The message to be conveyed: I care."
The mark of his domestic decision is almost certainly the 1990 budget agreement intended to deal with the deteriorating deficit problem by taxing the rich. It regained the national finances, but it betrayed the clearest campaign promise ever made by a presidential candidate of a major party in history: "Look at my lips: I won't raise taxes."
This promise was made in a speech nominated for the Republican National Convention in New Orleans in 1988, which aroused a lot of praise at the time, and his rebellion was scolded by everyone. Conservative Republicans began to turn against each other. Democrats saw a chance to hit him badly. This incident also created an unexpectedly strong momentum for the third party challenger and Texas fellow Ross Perot."I was indeed ruined by this," he talked to his biographer Micham about betraying his 1988 campaign promises, and this is how it was said.
The cheers brought to him by his victory in Iraq just one year later, Bush found himself nearly losing to conservative political commentator Patrick J. Buchanan in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. He eventually won the nomination, but Buchanan's challenge and a change in stance from the right side weakened his momentum. He then lost to Clinton. Perro received 19% of the popular vote, leaving neither Bush nor Clinton to get a majority.
Data picture: The couple has a total of 6 children, including former US President Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The picture shows George Herbert Walker Bush (left) and George Walker Bush shook hands on April 25, 2013.
[Life Anecdotes: Gentlemanly demeanor, love to jump, like homophone jokes]
After losing to Clinton in the re-election campaign - In that campaign, independent candidate Ross Perot won nearly one-fifth of the vote, and according to Bush himself, the defeat left him disheartened and ashamed - he and his wife Barbara were healing at their Houston home in Kennebunkport, Maine. But he did not retire.
He celebrated several of his important birthdays with skydiving, including his 90th birthday. He traveled around the world with the White House mission, and worked with Clinton to raise funds for refugees, including the tsunami that caused great damage to Asia in 2004 and the following year's " Katrina " Hurricane (Hurricane Katrina).
Bush is tall, 6 feet 2 inches, about 1.88 meters, with the elegant gait of an athlete, and is described as having a gentlemanly demeanor. He is used to writing notes and always avoids first-person singular pronouns. He represents the “friender” and “moderer” type of Republicans—in his inaugural speech, he used these two words to describe his views on the country and the world, which has been frequently cited since.
When he was a presidential candidate, he asked his Secret Service convoy to drive at traffic lights, which is widely known. He has written many thank you notes, etiquette cards and condolences—Bush seems to know people in every town in the United States—to the point of assembling books.
The title of the book is his usual signature, "I wish you all the best, George Bush". The book, published in 1999, replaced the traditional presidential memoir, whose mother Dorothy W. Bush taught him the importance of humility and that it was inappropriate to publish it.
Data picture: Barbara Bush (center) is the second woman in American history to be both the wife of the US president and the mother of the president. Her husband, George H.W. Bush (left), is the forty-first president of the United States, and her son, George W. Bush (right), is the forty-third president of the United States.
Bush, who knew that he had an image of aristocratic school students, liked to direct people's attention to a relatively ordinary period of his life: his work in the Texas oil industry, and his wartime military life. He reminded listeners that he did not wear formal shirts or striped tie with button-necks, and he loved country music, horseshoes and pigskin.
The way he plays golf, in the words of the White House doctor, is not ordinary golf, but "aueretic golf". He hurriedly finished a hole and immediately ran to the next hole.
Bush likes homophone jokes, which seems to be inherited by his son George. His words were chaotic, especially when he was nervous. He has continuously added new words to the American political dictionary. He used "Big Mo" to describe the great benefits brought to the election by the victory of the Iowa caucus; the difficult time is called "tension city"; while asking voters not to pity him, he quoted a line from the musical "Evita": "Don't cry for me, Argentina .”
[Talking about merit and demerit: What if there is only a stack of blank cards?]
Bush is left behind his sons George, Jeb, Neil and Marvin; his daughter Dorothy Bush Koch; two brothers, Jonathan and William; sister Nancy Walker Bush Ellis; 20 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. He also has a daughter, Robin, who died of leukemia at the age of three in 1953. His brother, Prescott S. Bush Jr. ) died in 2010.
Bush, who entered his later years, has maintained a strong body and mind, and has devoted himself to his retirement life as much as his political career. In Kennebunkport, he sometimes plays golf, sometimes drives his own speedboat among the waves, and has a smile on his face, but it frightens the guests who dare to go with him.
The day before his 80th birthday in 2004, he went to California to deliver a speech at Reagan's funeral. After returning to Texas, he held a banquet at the Houston Baseball Stadium and invited 5,000 guests to celebrate his birthday. One of the guests was Gorbachev. The next day, under the 3,000 people on the ground, he jumped from the plane on a parachute.
Bush has never liked to make self-evaluation, but in an interview with biographer Micham, he seemed to have little confidence in his historical status. "I was lost in the glory of Reagan - his monuments everywhere, praise, great heroes - and my sons' struggles," Bush said.
Another time, he talked about those who would judge his merits and demerits, "What if they could only find a stack of blank cards? "
However, in the last day of 1989, the 41st US president may have best described his talents and ambitions, which was the end of his first year of his presidency.
"I certainly would not be considered a visionary," Bush wrote. "But I wish I was steady, cautious and capable." ”(End)
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