Posted on 11/18/2021 6:26:40 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President George H-W Bush's longtime chief of staff has now documented Bush's life after his term in the White House. She'll be in Tallahassee to discuss the process Tuesday, Nov. 16.
Jean Becker's personal relationship with George Herbert Walker Bush spanned more than a quarter of a century. Her first encounter was with the then vice-president-running-for-president Bush in 1987. Seven years later, she would become President Bush's chief of staff. She would keep that title until his death in late 2018. It was the post-presidency years, following Bush's loss to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election, that Becker writes about in her book, "The Man I Knew." It was a very busy time, as she recounts.
"He was exhausting, quite frankly. I loved it because it was a lot of fun and very gratifying to be part of his big life and all his projects and passions. But sometimes I just wanted to say, 'Oh, good gosh! I don't think we need to get involved in that.' And he would say, 'Of course we do. Of course, we need to do something!'"
That devotion to giving back should come as no surprise, said Becker, to anyone who remembers it was President George H.W. Bush who began the "Thousand Points of Light" initiative to promote volunteerism and public service.
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“Don’t care.”
Ditto that! Just another wealthy family with too much power and influence fighting for the wrong side.
I wonder if it talks about him going senile and grabbing butt 🤪
He’s dead, Jim.
Never, ever accept political advice from people who promoted endless war and Free Trade.
You make a good point. But here on Free Republic, we are supposed to say that just about everyone besides Trump is too liberal, and thus negate anything favorable said .
GHWB did pretty well in oil, as I recall.
Frankly I am bored to death by the Bushes. I don’t care what he did in retirement.
W tried to foist Harriet Myers onto the USSC but Americans turned her away.
Dubya also. At one point he was calling Bill Clinton his “brother by another mother.” Clever those Bush’s.
Not to mention when GHWB was head of the CIA.
Yes, he presided over the triumph of the policies of Ronald Reagan. Big whoop.
His political failures are fair game but still we should respect him the same way we did Ford who took over a divided nation. Souter and ‘No New taxes’ was on him but he really took it to Dukakis. I was proud of him. You all(few)should not go the naysayer MSM route. Like another distinguished POTUS “this is not who we are”.
and blew chunks at fancy dinners
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