什么叫贵族的言行?布什家族三代人与美国
1) with dignity and honor
2) a sense of duty to serve the public and the country
3) a sense of humility to ordinary folks
4) a sensw of humor to break tension in group of people
5) resilience: put down but bounce back up
6) love God above all, be a vessel to be used by the creator
(Note-taking: Driving through the heavy rain, I listened to George W. Bush eulogy speech on - mourning and celebrating the great life of his President Dad H. Bush, the #41 President of the US.) - I got that why his Dad hated Broccolli - veggie intolerance syndrom. W Bush moved me to tear down my cheek)
Grandfather: Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker and politician. investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the United States Senate from 1952 to 1963.
Wikipedia (Ring leader of the US Senate, he gave a hat to junior senator Richard Nixon)
Father: H. Bush
Son: W. Bush
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has praised former U.S. President George H.W. Bush - "many ships, but the most of all is friend-ship "
YPG mourns the loss of former President George H.W. Bush. President and Mrs. Bush visited the proving ground in March 1997, where he conducted his first parachute jump since bailing out of his Avenger torpedo bomber after being struck by enemy fire in World War II.pic.twitter.com/nQnyrLnlQM
In 1997, Bush made a parachute jump for the first time since World War II. He did it again in 2000 to mark his 75th birthday — and still again for his 80th, 85th and 90th ones. “Old guys can do neat things,” he said. https://wapo.st/2E4Bb2kpic.twitter.com/OCiIH9Lu1E
“I once heard it of said of man that the idea is to die young as late as possible,” George W. Bush said in the eulogy of his father, who went skydiving to celebrate his 85th (pictured here) and 90th birthdays. https://nbcnews.to/2U67ItVpic.twitter.com/7zehMQqRMb
Former President George H.W. Bush loved skydiving. The former Navy pilot jumped out of a helicopter to celebrate his 90th birthday back in 2014! Take a look.pic.twitter.com/plioLUhhYC
George H.W. Bush lived his life to the fullest and was known for a love of skydiving, taking jumps until he reached 90 years old. Our @RobinMeade recounts her memories skydiving with the former
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There has long been speculation about the relationship between the first father and son to reach the White House since John Adams and John Quincy Adams two centuries ago. (The younger Adams only learned of the elder’s death after his burial.) Historians have scoured the path both Bushes took — Yale, stints flying fighter planes, the oil business and politics — for every sign of rivalry, jealousy and intrafamily psychodrama. Oedipus Tex.
Slide 1 of 36: KENNEBUNKPORT, ME - JUNE 12: Film Subject President George H.W. Bush celebrates his 88th birthday following the HBO Documentary special screening of "41" on June 12, 2012 in Kennebunkport, Maine. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for HBO)
Republican senatorial candidate George Bush shows a victory sign as he and his wife Barbara stand in front of a vote machine Nov. 3, 1964 in Houston, Tex., just before casting their ballot. The candidate waited an hour and a half in a long line of voters that circled the Pilgrim Elementary School.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush raises his hand signaling a veto vote to block a call on Israel to stop reprisal raids in the Middle East following the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes, Sept. 10, 1972. It was only the second veto by the United States in UN history.
Republican National Committee chairman George Bush, left, sizes up his opponent, Democratic National Committee chairman Robert S. Strauss, during the Circus Saints and Sinners Club luncheon in Washington, March 7, 1974. "Killer" Bush and "Slugger" Strauss donned the gloves for what was billed as the "Battle of the Century."
George H.W. Bush is sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, left, as Barbara Bush and President Ford, right, look on at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., on Jan. 30, 1976.
With tears in her eyes Dorothy Bush of Greenwich, Conn., widow of former Senator Prescott Bush, applauds her son, George Bush, during a campaign luncheon on May 1, 1979 in Hartford. The former CIA chief announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in Washington earlier in the day.
(L-R) Barbara Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan at the 1980 Republican National Convention held in Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Mich., from July 14-27, 1980. While a number of Republicans sought the nomination, Reagan captured it on the first ballot.
Portrait of the Bush family in front of their Kennebunkport, Maine on Aug. 24, 1986. BACK ROW: Margaret holding daughter Marshall, Marvin Bush, Bill LeBlond. FRONT ROW: Neil Bush holding son Pierce, Sharon, George W. Bush holding daughter Barbara, Laura Bush holding daughter Jenna, Barbara Bush, George Bush, Sam LeBlond, Doro Bush Lebond, George P. (Jeb's son), Jeb Bush holding son Jebby, Columba Bush, and Noelle Bush.
(L-R) First Lady Nancy Reagan, President-Elect George H.W. Bush, President Ronald Reagan, Mrs. Barbara Bush, Vice President-Elect Dan Quayle, and Mrs. Marilyn Quayle at a welcoming ceremony at the Rose Garden on Nov. 9, 1988 in Washington, DC. Bush had won the presidential election the day before.
In this Jan. 20, 1989, file photo, George H.W. Bush raises his right hand as he is sworn into office as the 41st president of the United States by Chief Justice William Rehnquist outside the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 1989. First lady Barbara Bush holds the bible for her husband.
Bush (R) listens to Mother Teresa (L) during a meeting in the White House Oval Office on Dec. 9, 1991 in Washington, DC. Mother Teresa is in Washington to attend the initiation ceremony of new nuns into her order.
The former president walks through a sweet potato field with the unidentified chief (L) of the search team looking for US soldiers missing in action (MIA) during his visit Sept. 7, 1995 at a MIA search site at Dien Hoa, Dien Ban district, Quang Nam-Da Nang province in central Vietnam. Some 50 Vietnamese and a 13-member US team worked on the site looking for the remains of US serviceman killed during the Vietnam War. Bush was on a four-day private visit to Vietnam.
(L-R) Lady Bird Johnson, President George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, President Gerald R. Ford, Betty Ford, President Jimmy Carter, and Rosalyn Carter pose for a formal group portrait at the Gerald R. Ford Library re-dedication on April 16, 1997 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
George Bush parachutes onto the grounds of his presidential library at the campus of Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas on June 9, 1999. Bush made the jump in celebration of his 75th birthday.
Former president George Bush, Sr., and his son George W. Bush speak to the press in Kennebunkport, Maine. This June 13, 1999, press conference is early in George W. Bush's campaign for the 2000 United States presidential election.
The Bush family, --(L-R) Texas governor and presidential candidate George W., Florida Gov. Jeb, former U.S. president George and his wife Barbara -- watch play during the Foursomes matches on Sept. 25,1999 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the site of the 33rd Ryder Cup Matches.
Former President George Bush, left, chats with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, right, as Barbara Bush looks on before Bush was awarded honorary citizenship of Berlin on Nov. 8, 1999. The city of Berlin is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, where Bush and Gorbachev played major roles.
Former president George H. W. Bush addresses a crowd of hundreds at the Keel Laying ceremony in his honor on Sept. 6, 2003 in Newport News, Virginia. Bush laid the keel to the aircraft carrier which is named after him.
Chris Evert lifts former President George H.W. Bush's arm after a match during the annual Chris Evert celebrity event at the Delray Beach Tennis Center Dec. 6, 2003 in Delray Beach, Florida.
From left: first lady Laura Bush, President Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, former first lady Barbara Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, and Prince Philip pose for photographs before the start of a dinner on May 8, 2007 in Washington.
President Barack Obama awards former President George H.W. Bush the 2010 Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (L) meets with Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush at Bush's office on March 29, 2012 in Houston, Texas. Mitt Romney received an endorsement from Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush during the meeting.
Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg looks on as President George H.W. Bush receives an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree at the Harvard University 363rd Commencement Exercises Ceremony on May 29, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Houston Astros star George Springer holds the 2017 World Series Championship trophy as he takes a photograph with former President George H.W. Bush on Nov. 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas.
Former President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush hold hands and talk before the dedication of the Mathew J. Lanigan bridge that connects Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine on May 19, 2017.
(L-R) Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and U.S. first lady Melania Trump pose with former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush in Houston on April 21, 2018.
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But the reality was simpler, historians say, and was visible in George W. Bush’s grief, which will be on display again Wednesday as the 43rd president eulogizes the 41st president at Washington National Cathedral.
“He gave us unconditional love. And some of us tested it, I might add,” said George W. Bush in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired two nights after his father’s death.
Rather than Greek drama, the Bushes had an ordinary father-son bond that played out in extraordinary settings, these scholars contend. There were good times and bad, periods of distance and rebellion, the pain of loss and the joy of triumph. But whatever the weather, the climate was always loving.
“I think it was a tense relationship when George W. was in his sowing-his-wild-oats phase; and that was a pretty long phase,” said Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, who has interviewed both Bushes. “But by the end, they were peers.”
Presidential scholar Mark Updegrove spent years talking with the Bushes and those who knew them for his 2017 book on their relationship, “The Last Republicans.” Of all the anecdotes he collected, he finds one of the most telling to be a moment of everyday parenting: George and Barbara Bush were walking with their toddler son when little George went into a tantrum, wind-milling blows against his dad.
“His father just holds him at bay with a palm against his red forehead and until he tires out,” Updegrove said. “And then they just walk. There was a way in which George W. would transgress and his father would have the patience to know that his better angels would eventually take hold.”
Both presidents resisted any effort to “put them on the couch,” but the senior Bush left a rich emotional record in thousands of letters he wrote to family and friends through his life. In them, he makes clear the full play of fatherly emotion toward his often-rambunctious oldest child.
“Georgie has grown to be a near-man, talks dirty once in a while and occasionally swears, aged 4 1/2,” he wrote to his friend Gerry Bemiss soon after taking his family from Connecticut to Midland, Tex. “He lives in his cowboy clothes.”
And then when his son was 9 years old: “Georgie aggravates the hell out of me at times (I am sure I do the same to him), but then at times I am so proud of him I could die,” he wrote to his father-in-law. “He is out for Little League — so eager. He tries so very hard. It makes me think back to all the times I tried out.”
In 1953, the boy was old enough to understand that tragedy had come to the family. His younger sister Robin had been sick. The Bushes had taken her to New York for treatment and one day months later, he was thrilled when they returned.
“I remember seeing them pull up and thinking I saw my little sister in the back of the car. I remember that as sure as I’m sitting here,” he told The Washington Post in a 1999 interview. “I run over to the car, and there’s no Robin.”
She had died of leukemia, a crushing loss that by all accounts brought the Bushes closer together as a couple and a family.
Soon after, George H.W. Bush began his political rise that took him from local party boss to Congress, national Republican chairman, U.N. ambassador and head of the C.I.A. His son, meanwhile, fell in line on the father’s path to the Ivy League and then back to Texas to look for oil.
It was a well-documented stretch of both work and partying for the younger Bush. His drinking produced some public embarrassments — including one 1985 episode in which he shouted profanity at Wall Street Journal reporter Al Hunt in a Dallas restaurant over a political story that he felt slighted his father, who was then in his second term as vice president.
The boozing was worrying his wife, Laura, and, Bush would say later, alcohol “was beginning to crowd out my energies.” But Bush Senior’s lofty roles also loomed large. “He looked in the mirror and said ‘Someday I might embarrass my father,’” his friend Joe O’Neil recounted in Updegrove’s book.
George W. would quit cold turkey in July 1986. That same month, his father asked him to be a senior adviser in his presidential campaign.
“There is not one scintilla of evidence that he ever thought his son was badly wayward,” Updegrove said. “The narrative that George W. Bush was the family ne’er-do-well is vastly overblown.
”The younger Bush quickly became a full participant in the Bush apparatus, serving as pugnacious gatekeeper during the campaign and an enforcer of sorts in the White House.
“If he needed someone fired, it was often W. who did it,” said Engel.
Father and son had become political partners, even if there was a vast gulf between president and adviser. Remarkably, even that gap would close. Employing all the family assets — from fundraising to friendships — George W. began his own rapid political rise, from the governorship of Texas to, finally, the same Oval Office his dad had occupied.
If there was any rivalry in having to share the country’s highest title with his son, it didn’t show in the giddy, exuberant, detailed letter about George W.’s inauguration that the elder Bush wrote to his friend Hugh Sidey, a Time magazine writer. Friends were suddenly calling him “41.”
“It’s funny after all these years to get a new name; but, hey, what does it matter if your boy is the president of the United States of America so help me God,” he wrote.
They frequently called each other “Mr. President” when together, according to Engel, a respectful joke open to no father and son but them.
History may have gotten its best insight into this remarkable relationship at the very end of it. In his final minutes, George H.W. Bush was on the phone with George W. The last words the 41st president ever spoke were to the 43rd, a four-word epitaph of everything they meant to each other: