Farewell, President Bush
The 41st President’s life is a display of service, diplomatic wit, and congeniality mired by terrible social policies in the midst and aftermath of a changing Republican Party.
Nearly nine months after his wife Barbara’s passing, George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died at the age of 94. Commemorations and sharp tongues have come out, as they did when Senator John McCain passed a short time ago. Perhaps more so than McCain, and certainly a plausible conclusion given Bush was a President, his legacy remains deeply complex and consequential.
Bush Sr. grew up privileged and aristocratic, in a political family on the centre or centre-right, which of course would be centre to centre-left in America today. His father was Prescott Bush, a Republican U.S. Senator representing Connecticut, who got involved with the predecessor organization to Planned Parenthood, the American Birth Control League, which later merged with PP (strangely ironic, given grandson Jeb opposition to Planned Parenthood and being pro-choice) and the United Negro College Fund. Progressive Icon John Lindsay met his wife at George’s sister Nancy’s wedding where they were both involved with the ceremony. Safe to say that the Republicans were made of something a little…
