Why didn’t GHWB attend the funeral of Lee Atwater in 1991?
It appears that president Bush did attend the Atwater funeral —
“And, in fact, yesterday’s memorial service at the National Cathedral resembled a political convention itself, as President and Mrs. Bush joined about 2,000 government officials, former colleagues — some wearing their RNC pins — and even one-time political foes to mourn Mr. Atwater, who had been battling a brain tumor for a year.”