George H. W. Bush: Read My Lips | Tevi Troy

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

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After winning the Gulf War, ending the Cold War, and earning an 89% approval rating, President George H. W. Bush seemed destined for re-election. But he lost. Why? In this PragerU 5-Minute Video, presidential historian Tevi Troy unpacks the surprising fall of Bush 41, examining how economic issues, political missteps, and a changing Republican base reshaped the 1992 election. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you
0:01.6	My name is Cadence Sinclair
0:03.8	Some people call us American royalty
0:06.4	We were liars
0:07.5	A new series on Prime Video
0:09.4	We were happy
0:10.5	We wanted for nothing
0:11.8	Based on the best-selling novel
0:14.3	Something terrible happened last summer
0:17.3	And I have no memory of what
0:19.0	Or who hurt me
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. In 1991, George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States had a record-breaking
0:37.0	approval rating of
0:37.9	89 percent. Less than two years later, he lost his reelection. To understand how it happened,
0:44.1	we have to understand the man, both his strengths and his weaknesses.
0:48.0	George H.W. Bush was born on June 12, 1924, to a storied New England family. His ancestor, Dr. Samuel Prescott, rode with Paul Revere in 1775 to warn his fellow American
1:00.8	patriots of the British invasion.
1:03.4	Bush's grandfather made a small fortune in the burgeoning steel business of the 1910s.
1:08.7	His father, Prescott Bush, enlarged that fortune as a banker and later became a
1:13.2	U.S. senator. Young George could have had a cushy life, but he didn't want it. After Pearl Harbor,
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