All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings
by George H.W. Bush

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Book Review: Suprisingly moving look at the first President Bush
Summary: 5 Stars

There were many memorable passages; among them:
* [when the NATIONAL EXAMINER came out with the shocking
news that Saddam Husssein, Queen Elizabeth and Bush were all
blood relatives, he moved quickly to reassure his team]
10-25-90

FROM THE PRESIDENT

TO: The Vice President
Sec State
Sec Def
NSC Adviser
Chief of Staff
Director of Central Intelligence

Disclaimer--
No decisions I make will be affected by relationship with Saddam
Hussein. The Queen and I would have it no other way.

George Bush

8 [to his wife on their anniversary]
January 6, 1994

For: Barbara Pierce

From: GHWB

Will you marry me? Oops, I forgot, you did that 49 years ago
today! I was very happy on that day in 1945, but I am even
happier today. You have given me joy that few men know. You
have made our boys into men by bawling them out and then,
right away, by loving them. You have helped Doro be the
sweetest greatest daughter in the whole wide world. I have
climbed perhaps the highest mountain in the world, but even
that cannot hold a candle to being Barbara's husband. Mum
used to tell me: "Now, George, don't walk ahead." Little did
she know I was only trying to keep up--keep up with Barbara
Pierce from Onondago Street in Rye New York. I love you!

* [on aging from a letter he wrote to his children on 9.23.98]
Then there's memory. I'm still pretty good at faking it. "Well,
I'll be darn, how in the heck are you?" or "long time, no see!"
or "What you been up to?" or if I want to gamble, "How's your
better half?" Careful of this last one at both 73 and 74 though.
The better half crop is getting a little thinner. Death has
claimed some "better halfs" and over the years some have
been dumped.

Summary of All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings

Organized chronologically, the volume begins with eighteen-year-old George's letters to his parents during World War II, when, at the time he was commissioned, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy. Readers will gain insights into Bush's career highlights -- the oil business, his two terms in Congress, his ambassadorship to the U.N., his service as an envoy to China, his tenure with the Central Intelligence Agency, and of course, the vice presidency, the presidency, and the postpresidency. They will also observe a devoted husband, father, and American. Ranging from a love letter to Barbara and a letter to his mother about missing his daughter, Robin, after her death from leukemia to a letter to his children two weeks before Nixon's resignation to one written to them just before the beginning of Desert Storm, the writings are remarkable for their candor, humor, and poignancy.

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