Presidential historian eulogising George HW Bush sums up his creed as "tell the truth, don’t blame people, be strong, do your best, try hard, forgive, stay the course".
"He made our lives and the lives of nations freer, better, warmer and nobler.
"That was his mission, that was his heartbeat, and if we listen closely enough we can hear that heartbeat even now. For it’s the heartbeat of a lion, a lion who not only led us but loved us."
"That was his mission, that was his heartbeat, and if we listen closely enough we can hear that heartbeat even now. For it’s the heartbeat of a lion, a lion who not only led us but loved us."
On how Bush thought almost daily about why he survived a plane crash in WW2 in which others died..
“In a sense, the rest of his life was a perennial effort to prove himself worthy of his salvation on that distant morning. To him, his life was no longer his own."
“In a sense, the rest of his life was a perennial effort to prove himself worthy of his salvation on that distant morning. To him, his life was no longer his own."
(Bush is the last US president to have fought in World War Two)
