Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George H. W.	Gender: M
Birthname	Bush, George Herbert Walker
born on	12 June 1924 at 11:45 (= 11:45 AM )
Place	Milton MA, USA, 42n15, 71w05
Timezone	EDT h4w (is daylight saving time)
News report	Rodden Rating A
Astrology data	21°22' 17°56 Asc. 11°09'

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Biography

American politician who served as the President of the United States from 1989-1993. A Yale graduate in 1948, he went on to become a business executive and owner of Zapata Petroleum. Bush first took public office as GOP Chairman in 1963. From there, he served as a Congressman in 1966 for two terms and spent a diplomatic year in China in 1974. He was director of the CIA from 1975-1977. Bush was elected Vice-President under Ronald Reagan in 1980, taking office in January 1981.

Young George was a student at Andover, where his grades were less impressive than his extracurricular records as senior class president, captain of the soccer and baseball teams and, maintaining his faith, chairman of the student deacons.

Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, George got his diploma. On his 18th birthday, against the wishes of his parents who wanted him to go on to college, he was sworn into the Navy. When he got his wings in August 1943, he was the Navy's youngest pilot. By the time he emerged from the service two years later, he was a war hero. On 9/02/1944, he nearly died when his torpedo bomber, nicknamed "Barbara" for his girl friend, took a hit over the Pacific island of Chichi Jima. With the plane on fire, he flew on to drop his bombs on target. He stayed at the controls, hoping his two crewmen could parachute to safety, but both died. Bailing out over the ocean, Bush was picked up within two hours by an American submarine. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three air medals.

Home on leave three months later, Bush married Barbara Pierce on 1/06/1945, a debutant whose dad was president of McCall's. They had met three years earlier at a Christmas party when they were 16 and 17, and had connected with a particular intensity from then.

Following his September 1945 discharge from the Navy, George entered Yale to study economics. He and his young bride moved into a basement apartment in New Haven.

Racking up the proper credentials, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in the fall of 1948. Although his dad's international banking firm offered him a job, Bush headed for Texas with Barbara and their baby, George Jr., and tapped into the oil boom. He took a job painting machinery for $375 a month and they lived in a shabby rented house next door to a mother-daughter team of prostitutes. By 1953, he sunk all of his savings into an investment with three partners in a wildcatting operation. The company, Zapata Petroleum, would eventually make him a millionaire when he sold out in 1966.

He and Barbara's lives were not without grief. One morning in 1953 their little girl Robin, a three-year old, woke listless and weak; she had leukemia and died six months later, on 10/11/1953. His dad died in 1972 and his mom 20 years later.

The family stayed in Texas for 11 more years before Bush made the plunge into politics. His dad, Prescott, had served ten years as a U.S. Senator, up to 1962, just two years before George tried to win a Senate seat. He lost the 1964 race, but three years later a Republican district in Houston sent him to Congress for two terms. In 1970, he had a deflating loss of the Senate position to Lloyd Bentsen.

In March 1971, Bush was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.; two years later he became chairman of the Watergate-plagued Republican National Committee. After Nixon's resignation, Gerald Ford named Bush U.S. envoy to China, where he and Barbara stayed for 14 months before returning home to head the C.I.A.

In 1980, he entered the presidential fray as Ronald Reagan's running mate.

In November 1988, he was elected to the Presidency and sworn in on 1/20/1989. The defining event of his Presidency was Desert Storm, the 1991 military operation in Kuwait. As a WW II vet, Bush was offended at the way we fought the Vietnam War, though he supported the president. So with Desert Storm, he was determined that we were going to do what was needed.

On 11/03/1992, he lost re-election to Bill Clinton. The pressure of public life was replaced by more time for family and private pursuits. They moved to a new home in Houston in October 1993. His idea of retirement is fishing for three hours, jogging for 30 minutes, playing tennis and golf and then maybe reading a book and watching a movie. In the four following years, he traveled widely throughout the U.S., giving speeches and meeting Americans from all walks of life. Troubled by the patterns of the late 20th century, domestic crime, violence, drugs, the economy and educational standards, he called for a return to the values of honesty, integrity, honor, duty, service as a way of life. He credits his values from having loving parents, and both he and Barbara have made an concentrated effort to pass those same values on to their kids. On 11/03/1998, his son George Jr. was elected Governor of Texas and his son Jeb, Governor of Florida.

Bush always loved the competition, comparing the rush of politics to that of sports. Highly sociable, he has an active camaraderie with his circle of male friends and is known as a big flirt with the ladies. Family figures high on his list of priorities, with 13 grandkids keeping the household young. His golf game has always been an important part of his rest-and-recreation, along with social mixers. At 72, he made headlines with a parachute jump out of a plane 12,500 feet above the Arizona desert.

Bush has a pension of nearly $150,000 a year and commands more than $60,000 a speech.

He was hospitalized briefly, 2/24 to 2/26/2000 for suffering light-headedness during a political reception. It was determined to be related to his thyroid condition. The former US President was brought to a California hospital on March 11, 2007 after he collapsed on a golf course. He was released the next day after being treated for dehydration.

His brother Prescott died on June 23, 2010; he was 87.

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Relationships

spouse relationship with Bush, Barbara (born 8 June 1925). Notes: Happy very

child relationship with Bush, Jeb (born 11 February 1953)

opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Clinton, Bill (born 19 August 1946)

child relationship with Bush, George W. (born 6 July 1946)

child relationship with Bush, Robin (born 20 December 1949)

child relationship with Bush, Marvin Pierce (born 22 October 1956)

compare to chart of Military: Persian Gulf War (born 15 January 1991)

has played role of Rove, Karl (born 25 December 1950)

Events

Work : Gain social status 20 January 1989 at 12:00 noon in Washington, DC. (Sworn in as U.S. President)

Relationship : Meet a significant person 25 December 1942 (Met Barbara Pierce at a Christmas party)

Relationship : Marriage 6 January 1945 (Barbara Pierce Bush)

Work : New Job 1975 (Director of the CIA)

Work : New Job 1974 (Diplomat in China)

Social : Great Publicity November 1988 (Elected to the Presidency)

Work : Lose social status 3 November 1992 (Lost re-election to Clinton)

Social : End a program of study 1948 (Graduated from Yale)

Work : New Job 1963 (GOP Chairman)

Work : New Career 1966 (Congressman)

Social : Great Publicity November 1980 (Elected Vice-President of U.S.)

Work : Gain social status January 1981 (Sworn in as V-P)

Social : Joined group 12 June 1942 (Sworn into U.S. Navy)

Work : Gain social status August 1943 (Got his wings, youngest pilot)

Health : Accident (Non-fatal) 2 September 1944 (Plane hit, went down)

Social : Left group 1945 (Discharged from Service)

Death of Child 11 October 1953 (Daughter Robin died of leukemia)

Financial : Buy/Sell Property 1953 (Invested in Zapata Petroleum with three partners)

Financial : Buy/Sell Property 1966 (Sold Zapata, made millions)

Work : New Career 1967 (Entered public office)

Work : New Job March 1971 (Ambassador to U.N.)

Family : Change residence October 1993 (Move to new home in Houston, TX)

Social : Great Publicity 30 November 1993 (Honorary Knighted by Queen Elizabeth)

Death of Mother 19 November 1992 (Mom died after a stroke)

Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 24 February 2000 (Hospitalized with irregular heartbeat and tests)

Social : Great Publicity 21 January 2001 (Son George W. sworn in as president)

Health : Medical diagnosis 11 March 2007 (Dehydration; one night in hospital)

Death of Sibling 23 June 2010 (Brother Prescott)

Source Notes

Robert Cole quotes news clipping in Mercury Hour, 4/1989, "Prescott Bush's first son was born at a quarter of noon." Carol Griffin quotes him for 11:38 AM in 1980 at at lecture. Zip Dobyns quotes a friend of the family for 11:05 AM. Steinbrecher quotes his personal secretary, G. Hayward, letter on White House stationery, "born at home at 12:00 Noon" In June 2008, Wayne Turner wrote the following to Pat Taglilatelo that Bush was born between 10 and 11 AM giving as the source the following: "I received the following email in May 2008:Thank you for contacting the George Bush Presidential Library. The information we have on the time of the former president's birth comes

from the Bush Family Scrapbook, 4/1974-10/1974; Dorothy W. Bush

Collection, Reminiscences of Dorothy Walker Bush, which relays that George H. W. Bush was born at home at 173 Adams Street in Milton,Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, on June 12, 1924 between 10:00 a.m.

And 11:00 a.m. Dr. Thomas R. Goethals of 443 Beacon Street, Boston,

Massachusetts attended to Mrs. Bush along with an unidentified midwife during the delivery.Sincerely,

John Blair

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