The Legacy of George Bush
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:25.6 | From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. |
| 0:32.6 | This is The Daily. |
| 0:39.6 | Today, the legacy of George Herbert Walker Bush. |
| 0:44.0 | He rode the Reagan Revolution to the White House, where he had one of the highest approvals |
| 0:49.6 | of any president, and where he successfully oversaw the end of the Cold War. |
| 0:56.0 | So why was he denied a second term? |
| 1:00.0 | It's Monday, December 3rd. |
| 1:05.0 | And I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless |
| 1:12.6 | enduring dream and a thousand points of life. |
| 1:16.5 | This is my mission, and I will complete it. |
| 1:23.5 | Well, George Bush came from a family in New England, son of a senator who had been part |
| 1:30.8 | of the investment bank, Brown Brothers, Haramon, went to the best schools of the East Coast, |
| 1:36.6 | Spanish country day school, Phillips, and over, eventually Yale. |
| 1:41.0 | But like a lot of the bushes, he felt a need to prove himself as more than just a product |
| 1:46.0 | of his family. |
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