George H. W. Bush Accomplishments

Timothy Naftali, George H. W. Bush, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2007.202 Some people want to be pilots or the director of the CIA. Some students want to graduate from Yale. Some businessmen want to be successful in the oil business, or some may even dream of becoming President of the United States. This man, George H. W. Bush, achieved all of these. From an honorable young pilot who risked his life during WWII to the U.S. President. George H. W. Bush had many burdens that he had to solve in a short period of time. How can a president who had an 89 percent approval rating at the end of the Gulf War in March of 1991 fail to get reelected the next year? June 12th, 1924, Prescott Bush's second son was born. George Herbert Walker Bush received

Continuing his chosen career, Bush was offered an ambassadorship to China by President Ford and later returned to Washington to become the Director of the Central Intelligence (CIA). Bush and his wife Barbara thought this might end his political career since a CIA position should be void from any political influences. However, his ability to carry out the CIA administration was praised until newly-elected Democrat Jimmy Carter removed him. In 1981, Bush finally became the Vice President with President Reagan. After serving as Vice President for eight years, Bush was inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States. He won 53 percent of the popular vote and 40 states. To show that his administration would be different from Reagan's, Bush called for a “kinder” nation in his inaugural

Saddam Hussein was expressing his expansionist intentions, and it was not acceptable in the Bush administration’s perspective. Again, Bush and his advisers knew the political risk that he was taking, and again Bush said “But we’re doing what’s right; we’re doing what is clearly in the national interest of the United States. Whatever else happens, so be it” (p.107). The land war was successful, but it was brutal and overkill for Iraq. The leader, Hussein, was leaving Kuwait with destroyed forces, and the U.S. military believed that nuclear facilities had been broken down. Therefore, four days into the war, Bush did not want to continue the massacring at the Gulf War and decided to end it. The coalition achieved the liberation of Kuwait, and the U.S. military won its first major victory after World War