George H W Bush/presidency 1989%e2%80%931993

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    Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
    17th century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men’s room whenever an important illegal decision was made.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    I want a kinder, gentler nation.
    —George Bush (b. 1924)

    Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.
    Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)