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This weekend brought news of the passing of George H.W. Bush and absent a complete look at the life of the former president,

I'll just provide some information that I think was one of his most

important days in public service. And it wasn't as president. It was as vice president.

March 30th, 1981, the day of the assassination attempt on President Reagan.

The interesting thing about that day, when you really examine it, is that it was a day where

both Bush or Reagan thought maybe something big could happen, but not what turned out to happen. So, the the This from the Dallas Morning News. The day of the shooting began in routine fashion.

Bush donned a simple gray suit in his second floor bedroom at the Vice President's residence.

As he went downstairs for his daily national security briefing, an early morning rain fell outside

the Victorian mansion off the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Two miles away in his second floor suite at the White House,

Reagan chose a brand new blue pinstrip that had been made by his Beverly Hills Taylor as a gift from Nancy Reagan.

He went down the elevator to the first floor to the blue room and received the exact same security

briefing that Bush was receiving.

And topic A was Poland. A labor dispute there had turned the situation into a potential Soviet invasion and in Poland the military

taking action and instituting martial law. Both Reagan and Bush's briefings were missing satellite images,

but they were told about movements of artillery and motorized units

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