The veteran CNN journalist gave a nuanced and respectful farewell to the 41st President of the United States Although he only had one term and\u2026<\/b>
\nThe veteran CNN journalist gave a nuanced and respectful farewell to the 41st President of the United States
Although he only had one term and was infamous for breaking his \u201cread my lips: no new taxes\u201d promise, President Bush also earned a lot of praise from both sides of the aisle. As the New York Times reported, many have referred to Bush as the nation\u2019s most successful single-term president.
The Bush family has spent decades in public service, beginning with H. W.\u2019s father, Prescott Bush. Prescott became a United States Senator in 1952, and he remained in office for 11 years before retiring from the Senate. Interestingly, H. W. began his political career in 1963, the same year that his father stepped out of the public limelight.
Decades later, H. W.\u2019s son, George W. Bush, joined the family business. In 1991, the younger Bush became president only one term after his father left office. This made the father-son duo the first since John Adams and John Quincy Adams to serve as the President of the United States.
Bush was confined to a wheelchair during the last few years of his life due to vascular parkinsonism. The official cause of death has not yet been released, but it\u2019s likely that the mini-strokes associated with his medical condition played a role.
George H. W. Bush is survived by five of his six children and, as Anderson Cooper pointed out, his philanthropic, optimistic view of the world: \u201cKeep America moving forward, always forward \u2013 for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of light.\u201d \u2013 George H. W. Bush.<\/p>\n