Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

General Discussion

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Sat Dec 1, 2018, 02:51 PM Dec 2018

I never knew this

“Leave the kid alone,” George Herbert Walker Bush said, when, as a teen-age boy at Andover, he spotted a fellow-student being bullied. As if he were Zorro, performing a casual rescue and then vanishing, Bush left Bruce Gelb, the undersized Jewish kid he’d aided, to ask a witness, “Who was that?” Gelb learned that it was Poppy Bush, “the greatest kid in the school.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/george-h-w-bush-the-forty-first-president-of-the-united-states-dies-at-ninety-four

2 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

I never knew this (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2018 OP

How did someone who disliked bullies go on to back the Iran Contra deals? uppityperson Dec 2018 #1

Did you know he tried to institute a shadow government? WhiteTara Dec 2018 #2

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

1. How did someone who disliked bullies go on to back the Iran Contra deals?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Dec 1, 2018, 02:54 PM

Dec 2018

People are usually not all evil or all good.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)

2. Did you know he tried to institute a shadow government?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Dec 1, 2018, 02:56 PM

Dec 2018

He too was busy subverting the Constitution. Bill Moyers produced an entire documentary on it.

But for Ross Perot, we would be where we are today some 40 years ago.

Reply to this discussion