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The 1980 presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush began when he announced he was running for the Republican Party 's nomination in the 1980 United States presidential election, on May 1, 1979, [1] [4] after over 16 months of speculation as to when or whether he would run. At the outset of the primaries in 1980, Bush won the Iowa caucuses, but ...
The presidential transition of George H. W. Bush began when then- Vice President Bush won the United States 1988 United States presidential election, becoming the president-elect, and ended when Bush was inaugurated at noon EST on January 20, 1989. The transition was a "friendly takeover", in which the outgoing president and the president-elect ...
May 3 – President Bush delivers an address at Cochran Gardens Community Center in St. Louis, Missouri during the afternoon. [125] May 4 – President Bush delivers an address at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the morning. [126] President Bush suffers irregular heartbeat during a jog.
Peace dividend was a political slogan popularized by US President George H. W. Bush [1] and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the light of the 1988–1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, that described the economic benefit of a decrease in defense spending. The term was frequently used at the end of the Cold War, when many Western nations ...
23. 12690. Providing for the Restoration of Law and Order in the Virgin Islands. September 20, 1989. 24. 12691. President's Advisory Committee on the Points of Light Initiative Foundation. September 23, 1989. 25.
PBS. Release. May 5, 2008. ( 2008-05-05) George H.W. Bush is a 2008 two-part biographical television film about former United States President George H. W. Bush. Produced by PBS for the American Experience documentary program, it recounts Bush's life from his childhood and experience in World War II up to the end of his presidency in 1993 ...
Barbara Bush (née Pierce; June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. She was previously the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy .
