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Revealing Memories of George H. W. Bush — Including How Secret Service Carried Him to Say Goodbye to Barbara
People ^ | 06/01/2021 | Rachel Burchfield

Posted on 06/08/2021 6:21:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Much has been written about the presidency of the late George H. W. Bush. But in her new memoir, The Man I Knew, Jean Becker — Bush's chief of staff for a quarter-century — zooms in on the 25 years that came after his time in office.

"One of the reasons why I wrote the book is I really felt the American people, when he left the White House, still didn't really understand who this man was," Becker, 65, tells PEOPLE. "He was a bigger-than-life person, smart, funny and had a heart as big as Texas. Until the day he died, he never stopped thinking of ways to try to make a difference."

In the days immediately after Bush's presidency ended in January 1993 — with the sting of his loss to Bill Clinton still fresh — "Mrs. Bush worried about him," Becker says.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: barbara; bush; memories; secrectservice
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The sting of his loss to Clinton? Your fault Mr Read My Lips.
1 posted on 06/08/2021 6:21:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I know exactly who he was.

He was the epitome of TransRepublican, Assistant Democrat wearing an R jersey to further the progressive agenda.

He was the author of the Bush Plan for North Mexico.
Flood the country with foreigners in order to steal it from the citizens so it can be subsumed to the UN in a New World Order.

He knew we would not vote to give up our country, so he set about to import a new Democrat majority that would.


2 posted on 06/08/2021 6:25:27 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BUCK FUSH!


3 posted on 06/08/2021 6:26:23 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Having the MSM speak highly of a politician now says it all.


4 posted on 06/08/2021 6:27:19 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: CatOwner

Does help in finding those desiring the death of America


5 posted on 06/08/2021 6:31:45 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: CatOwner

Exactly. Why push now to make him likeable?

Something is afoot.


6 posted on 06/08/2021 6:33:19 AM PDT by Tailback
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People criticize Putin because he was KGB.

Bush was CIA.

The CIA is a globalist front and it is unAmerican. At least Putin’s KGB seems like a patriotic bunch.


7 posted on 06/08/2021 6:33:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Tailback

Odd, but I never liked or trusted him. I still don’t, no matter how many stories of endearment may be thrown out there.


8 posted on 06/08/2021 6:37:49 AM PDT by laconic
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We all know what Bush was.
A Northeastern Liberal RINO.


9 posted on 06/08/2021 6:37:52 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Bush was CIA...

Here is a nice snap of GHWB in front of a book depository in Dallas.

Here is a document that places GHWB in Dallas a few years ago , at the time of the previous photo


10 posted on 06/08/2021 6:38:27 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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I don't argue on whether or not he was a good man. Because of his rino politics we got Bill Clinton. All geo. Bush had to do is govern like Ronald Reagan instead he got us into the Mideast disaster. Very stupid administration. His son was no better!!!
11 posted on 06/08/2021 6:38:40 AM PDT by ontap
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sum bucket, just like the rest of his family and inner circle.


12 posted on 06/08/2021 6:40:25 AM PDT by LIConFem (Don't drain the swamp. Just fill it with hungry gat)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He threw that election.


13 posted on 06/08/2021 6:40:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Meh, the family is trash. Nazi collaborators who narrowly avoided prosecution in WWII. And GHW Bush was another of those Skull and Bones perverts. “Can’t remember” where he was when he heard JFK was assassinated (that’s because it was planned in his living room and Babs served them coffee. They didn’t need to stop talking when she came in the room). Open borders fiend, and was the author of this New World Order crap.
Enough of the romanticization of these clowns who have trashed America all they could.


14 posted on 06/08/2021 6:41:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: C210N

Where is your tag line from?


15 posted on 06/08/2021 6:42:17 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: CatOwner

Especially People magazine, which has gone far-left.


16 posted on 06/08/2021 6:42:25 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ontap

The Soviet nuclear arsenal needed to be taken down in a professional manner to not end up with rogue terrorists. He was there. You preferred Dukakis?


17 posted on 06/08/2021 6:42:28 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What was preventing Barbara from coming to him?


18 posted on 06/08/2021 6:48:03 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m not interested in the mainstream media pushing a narrative that the Bushes were the “good” republicans. They led a pretend party that existed to make the lurch to leftism appear to be gradual and with resistance from one party so the people would take the gradual doses. They are dead to me, every single one of them.


19 posted on 06/08/2021 6:51:22 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bushes=P.O.S.


20 posted on 06/08/2021 6:53:16 AM PDT by ohiobushman
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