Although Bush served as president three decades ago, his values and ethic seem centuries removed from today’s acrid political culture. “Who would have thought that I would be working with Bill Clinton, of all people?” Bush quipped in October 2005. He basked in the biggest outpouring of patriotism and pride in America’s military since the Second World War, and his approval ratings soared to nearly 90 per cent. After the war, Bush took just 2 1/2 years to graduate from Yale, then headed west in 1948 to the oil fields of West Texas. Bush made his first bid for president in 1980 and won the Iowa caucuses, but Reagan went on to win the nomination.

Source: National Post December 01, 2018 05:27 UTC