Posted on 12/01/2018 5:09:41 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: ‘I love you, too’: George H.W. Bush's final words to his son just before the 41st president peacefully passed away aged 94 surrounded by family in Houston
A longtime friend of George Herbert Walker Bush has painted a peaceful picture of the 41st president's final days on earth before he passed away aged 94 surrounded by family at his home in Houston, Texas.
James A Baker III, both Bush's friend and former secretary of state, told the New York Times that the 94-year-old had been fading over the last week - spending most of his time sleeping, not eating and never getting out of bed.
Baker said that although the former president had defied death multiple times over the years - struggling with a form of Parkinson's and being hospitalized with pneumonia several times in recent months - this time felt different.
Baker stopped by the Bush home on Friday to check on his old friend - or perhaps to say goodbye.
He said as soon as he entered the room, Bush perked up, asking: 'Where are we going, Bake?'
Baker answered: 'We’re going to heaven.'
'That’s where I want to go,' Bush replied.
Within 13 hours, the 94-year-old was on his way.
Friends and family flocked to Bush's bedside on Friday evening as it became clear that the end was near.
His final conversation was a speaker phone call with his son, George W. Bush, who praised him as a 'wonderful dad' and told him that he loved him.
'I love you, too,' the father said - his last words on earth.
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The two events in most people’s lives fraught with the most Hypocrisy and Mendacity are weddings and funerals.
See if you can figure out why.
It’s my business honestly but I bet average poster is at their folks deathbed if at all possible in person
+1
Ted Cruz’s Dad is still alive.
I agree.
When did we feepers get so all black or white?
Whether or not you liked him, it is a sad time. I was younger and less wiser when he was president. America was more innocent back then, too.
I’m feeling old and feeling my mortality right now and sad at how far this country has come with all of the anger and hate. I pray for America.
Next question. Will GWB be able to contain himself and not allude to Trump and bash him at the funeral?
I agree. The man flew 58 combat missions. Most of these whiny assholes haven't even served.
Thanks! High school French was a long, long time ago.
So even though George H. W. Bush’s health had been failing for several days, his son couldn’t even be bothered to make the trip to see him? How touching. :P
Why wasn’t W there with him? As someone said he knew his father was in failing health for a week and he could not clear his schedule to go from Dallas to Houston? I have no other words.
Do your homework on his war activities and then take a deep breath and remember his father Prescott Bush was funding the Nazis at the same time Bush was doing all that heroism.
Then his father funded Planned Parenthood with Margaret Sanger.
Then his son funded Planned Parenthood for the full eight years he was in the White House.
Evilmuch?
Note Comey tw..t
concerning Benji the dog.
when? again WHEN?
May the new World order be buried with this devil and all the sic spawn since!
A man has died and yes my condolences to his family.
That said, our country is dying and George H. W. Bush has been part of a parade of presidents who have presided over our country's destruction.
And now we all have to watch the hype over the death of one of those presidents.
Are Freepers "petty" because they criticize GHW Bush at this point in time. No, of course they aren't?
Are Freepers "bitter"? You bet they are, as they should be.
This anger and hate is growing exponentially. I can’t see a way around it. Please advise.
Too bad JFK couldn’t die in his bed surrounded by family.
That is all.
Bitter? For what? You live in the greatest country in the world, with an economy that is the envy of the world. You have running water, indoor plumbing, heat, a car, or 2 or more, and every convenience that man could ever imagine almost literally at your fingertips.
You live in the best time in human history to be alive, in the greatest country in the world.
Yet you grumble behind the anonymity of your computer monitor how “bitter” you are. Conservatism is about optimism and action, not whiny complaining. Why don’t we leave that to the snowflakes and SJWs.
sox... it’s not so much that somebody sells them or even that people by them, it’s who in the hell thought of making them???
and yes, i agree
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