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When George H.W. Bush was vice president, he sat down one night for a quiet dinner in Boise,

Idaho. What he ordered that evening is less germane to this anecdote than the fish

bowl-like setting in which he ate, a restaurant whose entire front was made of glass. Suddenly,

Secret Service agents were alerted to a person with a sawed-off shotgun outside.

So very quickly, the agents took the Vice President and put him under the table,

the tablecloth coming down the side.

John McGaw, Bush's head of security then remembered in a Netflix documentary.

The agents piled on top of him,

a circumstance that unavoidably left the vice president of the United States

with an acceptable but somewhat undesirable source of oxygen,

the sweaty armpin of an agent squeezing Bush's face until the threat subsided.

Bush, who passed away last week, is being fondly remembered for his cool demeanor,

his careful steering of the country after the Cold War, and a boundless sense of humor

that was almost always in fine form,

even intense moments like the Boise restaurant incident.

The next day, Bush walked to the back of his plane, found the agent whose armpit nestled his

face and handed him a can of deodorant spray.

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