The 41st president’s rise and fall.
When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1993, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite soaring approval ratings following military victory in the Persian Gulf, his years as president after the war were marked by almost unrelieved decline. A sluggish economy and an earlier decision to raise taxes, despite an explicit campaign oath, led to his defeat. By the end of his term many observers dismissed him as an artifact of an irrelevant Cold War past.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH reveals the 41st president as a pivotal player during a critical moment in U.S. and world history and in a powerful political dynasty, drawing upon unparalleled access to figures in George H.W. Bush’s private and public life, his personal letters, and interviews with his advisors and critics, including First Lady Barbara Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, and more.
PART TWO explores George Bush’s one term as president, from the highest approval rating ever recorded at the time to the most dramatic rejection of a sitting President in more than eighty years.
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00:00 Introduction: The Last “Wise Man”
2:48 Crisis in the Gulf: Operation Desert Shield
13:02 Life at Kennebunkport
16:56 George H.W. Bush vs. Saddam Hussein
21:20 Conservative Backlash to Bush’s Budget
30:56 Operation Desert Storm and Bush’s Record-Breaking Approval Rating
40:05 After the Gulf War
45:31 The Steady Decline of George H.W. Bush’s Presidency
53:04 Bush, Gorbachev, and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
55:56 Bush’s Brutal 1992 Re-Election Campaign
01:08:56 How Bill Clinton Won the White House
01:13:25 Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited: George H. W. Bush Post-Presidency
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