George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States was born on this date in 1924.
Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts. His father was Prescott Bush, a U.S. Senator from Connecticut and a prominent businessman.
He attended Phillips Academy in Andover where, he was senior class president, student council secretary and captain of both the varsity Baseball and Soccer teams.
Bush left school at 18 and rather than go to college, he joined the US Navy on his 18th birthday and was the youngest pilot in the Navy in 1943. His service during WWII included 58 combat missions and he was shot down while on active duty in the Pacific in 1944. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross medal.
He left the Navy in 1945 and then went to university. He graduated from Yale in 1948 with a degree in economics.
While at Yale he was a member of the Yale cheerleading squad as his father had also been, and as his son, George W., would also be in due course. He was a captain of Yale’s baseball team during his senior year and in that capacity took part in a ceremony in which Babe Ruth presented him with a copy of his autobiography. Bush would later remember the event as a rather sombre one, as Ruth had looked so frail, and was to die just a few months later.
After graduating from Yale, Bush entered the oil business. He started his own firm in 1951 and did well in the business for 15 years.
He met Barbara Pierce at a Christmas dance in Greenwich in December 1941 when he was 21 and she was 16. They married in 1945 and stayed married until Barbara died, 73 years later. This makes them the longest married couple in presidential history.
In 1989, George H.W. Bush became the first sitting vice president to win a presidential election since Martin van Buren in 1836.
In 2000, his eldest son, George W, was elected US president. This was the second time in history that a father and son had both been president, John Adams and John Quincy Adams being the first father and son to achieve it.
George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94 on Nov. 30, 2018. After his death, it was revealed that he’d secretly financed the education and food expenses of a schoolboy from the Philippines under the assumed name "George Walker" through the charity Compassion International.
Beta
(Combat Team Series #2)
Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?
Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.
Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream.
Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.
Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.
Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.
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