Major Moments of President George Bush’s Funeral - The New York Times
Dec 10, 2018
CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York TimesBy The New York TimesDec. 5, 2018The United States’ five living presidents, family, friends and dignitaries from around the country and the world filled Washington National Cathedral for a service on Wednesday to honor the 41st president, George H.W. Bush.Here are the major moments from the day’s events. [Find full coverage of the funeral here.]Choked with emotion, a former president eulogized both his predecessor and his father.Former President George W. Bush held back tears a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/po...
POLITICO Playbook PM: George HW Bush's state funeral - POLITICO
Dec 10, 2018
Align-left{text-align:left;}.cms-textAlign-center{text-align:center;}.cms-textAlign-right{text-align:right;}.cms-magazineStyles-smallCaps{font-variant:small-caps;}.cms-playbookStyle-rubric{color:#b70000;font-weight:bold;font-family:sans-serif;} Former President George W. Bush eulogizes his father, former President George H.W. Bush, at the National Cathedral on Wednesday. Alex Brandon, Pool/AP Photo NOLAN MCCASKILL: “‘An imperfect man, he left us a more perfect union’: George H.W. Bush honored at state funeral”: “In his eulogy, presidential biographer Jon Meacham described Bush as a man who questioned his life’s purpose after he was spared death when his plane was shot down, but who ultimately became president and governed with the same virtues as George Washington, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. … “Wednesday’s ceremony is officially the first state funeral since former President Gerald Ford died in 2006. But it bears similarities to former Arizona Sen. John McCain’s funeral in September, albeit with one glaring difference: President Donald Trump is welcome. … Bush’s death has brought some civility to an often-divided Washington. Congressional leaders are finalizing a short-term deal to avoid a government shutdown Friday and delay a bitter fight over billions of dollars in funding for Trump’s border wall out of respect for Bush.” POLITICO … The full programMEMORABLE LINES … -- FORMER SEN. AL SIMPSON (R-WYO.): “Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington are not bothered by heavy traffic.” … “He never hated anyone. ... Hatred corrodes the container that it’s carried in.”-- GEORGE W. BUSH: “The idea is to die young as late as possible.”-- JON MEACHAM, via @CB...
Secret service agents tell of milk and cookie raids with George H. W. Bush - Daily Mail
Dec 10, 2018
W. Bush would raid the kitchen with them at 3 a.m. for milk and cookies and stay in DC Christmas Eve so they could spend it with their families - a far cry from haughty Hillary ClintonPresident Bush was so considerate of the agents who protected him that he would stay in town on Christmas Eve so agents could spend it with their familiesDespite warnings from his detail, Bush would insist on leaving the Oval Office through the door to the Rose Garden and greet tourists Agents spotted what agent Glenn Smith calls a 'textbook' possible assassin as Bush was greeting onlookers at the fence 'The man had on a coat in the summer, he looked disheveled, and his eyes were darting in all directions,' Smith recalls'We patted him down, and it turned out he had a nine-millimeter pistol on him and probably intended to use it on the president'From then on, 'Bush would give us time to set up a secure zone at the fence,' Smith saysHillary Clinton, who continues to be protected by the Secret Service, is so nasty, agents assigned to her detail consider it a form of punishmentAl Gore treated agents with disdain and told them he did not want to be bothered greeting them or seeing themByRonald Kessler For Dailymail.com Published: 18:12 GMT, 3 December 2018 Updated: 21:52 GMT, 3 December 2018Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, is the New York Times bestselling author of 'The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents' and 'The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game.'Secret Service agents breathed a collective sigh of relief when George H. W. Bush took office. Unlike previous presidents Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter, Bush treated agents with respect and consideration.Bush 'made it clear to all his staff that none of them was a security expert, and if the Secret Service made a decision, he was the one to sign off on it, and they were never to question our decisions or make life difficult,' for...
