“One of the best things we did,” he recalled during a 2000 interview with Time magazine. HORSESHOES: During his White House years, Bush annually held two horseshoe tournaments with teams made up of everyone who worked there, including groundskeepers, pilots, cooks and gardeners. Bush said his remark describing the device as “amazing” came at a convention showing off the new technology and was portrayed by “some lazy little reporter. “I was - I thought - smeared by an ugly story,” he said in a 1999 C-SPAN interview. LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bush said he wrote one letter-to-the-editor as president, and it went to The New York Times regarding a story about him being out of touch because he didn’t know about grocery store price-scanning devices. far more quickly, far less loss of our lives and Iraqi lives, than we worried about. “We feared it would go badly,” he told The Associated Press in 2011, on the 20th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm. troops to Kuwait, he acknowledged, he was prepared for the worst. GULF WAR: The signature event of Bush’s presidency was the 1991 Gulf War. A restored 1947 Studebaker identical to the one he owned is on display at his presidential museum at Texas A&M University. The deep-fried steak smothered in gravy became a Bush favorite. He drove from New England to Texas in a 1947 Studebaker and ordered his first chicken fried steak - a Texas staple - at a restaurant in Abilene, wondering if it was chicken or steak but trying to fit in.
OIL: Bush learned the oil industry in West Texas, starting in 1948 as an equipment clerk for an oilfield services company.
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Sparky Anderson, who would win the World Series as manager of the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers, was a batboy on the Southern Cal team. Yale again reached the College World Series finals in 1948 and this time lost to Southern California. His team lost to the University of California. He later marked his 75th, 80th, 85th and 90th birthdays with parachute jumps.īASEBALL: As a first baseman and captain of his baseball team at Yale University, Bush played in the first-ever College World Series in 1947. He fulfilled a wartime promise to himself to someday skydive just for fun in 1997, when at age 73 and over his family’s objections, he bailed out over a military base in Arizona, “to show that old guys can still do stuff,” he said. He parachuted into the Pacific Ocean and was rescued by an American submarine. THE AIR: During World War II, Bush was one of the Navy’s youngest pilots when he was shot down during a 1944 bombing mission.
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