GEORGE H.W. BUSH

Political Career:

• George Herbert Walker Bush (1924 – 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party.
  
  
• From 1976-77, he served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  
  
• He served as the 43^rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
  
  
• Subsequently, he served as the 41^st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
  
  
• Post-presidency, he was active in humanitarian activities.
  
  
• Later on, his son, George W. Bush served as the 43^rd President of the United States. With this, they became the second father–son pair to serve as U.S. president, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
  
  

Foreign Policy President:

• According to political commentators, he is remembered as a Foreign Policy President, as foreign policy drove the Bush presidency.
  
  
• His tenure saw the –
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and unification of Germany,
    
    
  • Collapse of the USSR, post-Cold War relations with Russia, and for signing the START 1 treaty on nuclear weaponry,
    
    
  • Military operations were conducted in in Panama which saw arrest and deposing of Panama Dictator Manuel Noriega,
    
    
  • Victory over Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait and
    
    
  • Signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which created a trade bloc consisting of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Although the agreement was not ratified until after he left office.