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  George Herbert Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Herbert "Bert" Walker (June 11, 1875 - June 24, 1953) was a wealthy American banker and businessman.
Louis, Missouri, Walker was the youngest son of David Davis Walker, a dry goods merchant from Bloomington, Illinois, and Martha Adela Beaky.
Walker was the father of Dorothy Wear Walker, New York Mets cofounder George Herbert Walker, Jr.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
George Bush was born to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1942, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team, and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A.U.V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas" – Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth".
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 George Herbert Walker - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Herbert Walker (June 11, 1875 in St. Louis, Missouri - June 24, 1953 in New York City, New York) was a wealthy American businessman.
George Herbert Walker III is a grandchild of George Herbert Walker.
George Herbert Walker was one of Harriman’s principal partners.
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 Presidential Profile: George W. Bush
Walker rose to prominence as president and CEO of Stifel Financial Corp. and Stifel, Nicolaus and Co., a regional brokerage and investment firm.
Walker gave $3,950 to Republicans for the 2002 election and another $6,000 to Republicans for 2004, including $4,000 to the Bush campaign.
Walker’s son, Goldman Sachs executive George Herbert Walker IV, was listed as a Bush Pioneer in 2004, having raised more than $100,000 for the campaign.
www.opensecrets.org /bush/ambassadors/walker.asp   (238 words)

  
 George Herbert Walker III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Herbert Walker III commonly known as Bert Walker is a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary and the first cousin of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
Walker's grandfather, George Herbert Walker I, was the founder of G. Walker and Co., which is now part of the Merrill Lynch conglomerate.
Walker's son, George Herbert Walker IV is a "Pioneer," the name given to large financial contributors to the United States Republican Party.
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 George H. W. Bush - MSN Encarta
George Herbert Walker Bush, born in 1924, 41st president of the United States (1989-1993), president at the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Bush also organized an unprecedented global alliance against Iraq during the Persian Gulf War of 1991, but he was less successful in dealing with U.S. domestic problems and was defeated after one term by Bill Clinton in the 1992 election.
Bush's mother, Dorothy Walker, the daughter of a Missouri industrialist, encouraged her children to play sports and learn humility and manners.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush: Protector Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Bush was fortunate in another regard as well: his early life seems to have been pleasant, his parents supportive, his family happy and stable.
Young George attended Andover, a private school with predominantly wealthy students from the east coast, and proved to be an industrious student, a fine athlete, and a cheerful and friendly youth whom both students and teachers liked.
George Bush showed that he had the toughness and the determination to make it through the eight-month pilot training program, though he was said not to be a natural pilot.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts.
His mother, Dorothy Walker Bush, was the daughter of another prominent Wall Street investment banker, George Herbert Walker (George Bush's namesake), and the founder of the Walker Cup for international golfing competition.
George Bush grew up in the affluent New York City suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, vacationing in the summers in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he later maintained a home.
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 USA-Presidents.Info - George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989 - 1993).
George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, served as a Senator from Connecticut and was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1942, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team, and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A.U.V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas," Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth".
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 George Herbert Walker Bush — Infoplease.com
George Herbert Walker Bush became president on Jan. 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years.
George Herbert Walker Bush - Bush, George Herbert Walker, 1924–, 41st President of the United States (1989–93), b.
George Herbert Walker Bush: Presidency - Presidency Bush was unsuccessful in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, but...
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 Walker, George Herbert, III
George Herbert Walker III was sworn in as Ambassador to Hungary on September 30, 2003.
Walker is a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ladue and serves on the Vestry.
Walker is a graduate of Yale University (B.A., 1953) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1956).
www.state.gov /outofdate/bios/w/24686.htm   (458 words)

  
 Part 1 : George Herbert Walker Bush
George Bush, known to family and friends as "Poppy," sat smiling behind a huge executive desk on which there was not a scrap of paper - not a note, a letter, or even a message slip.
George Herbert Walker Bush based his presidential campaigns on his extensive résumé as a leader of experience and character.
George Bush, the public man, was preeminently the product of family, friendship, his sense of loyalty, his capacity for service - and the patronage of three presidents.
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 Biography of George Herbert Walker Bush
George Bush brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States "a kinder and gentler nation." In his Inaugural Address he pledged in "a moment rich with promise" to use American strength as "a force for good."
Coming from a family with a tradition of public service, George Herbert Walker Bush felt the responsibility to make his contribution both in time of war and in peace.
They had six children-- George, Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/gb41.html   (643 words)

  
 George Herbert Walker Bush Biography (Reference) - TeacherVision.com
George Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush.
George Herbert Walker Bush became president on January 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years.
Bush was often matriarch of a family of four boys (George, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin) and a girl (Dorothy).
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 George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential Papers
George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush.
George Bush lost a second campaign for the Senate in 1970.In 1971, he was named U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Photographs of George Bush in the cockpit of his TBM Avenger during World War II, George Bush being rescued by the submarine, the U.S.S. Finback, after being shot down while on a bombing run of the Island of Chi Chi Jima.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts.
He was a student leader at Phillips Academy in Andover and, on his 18th birthday, he enlisted in Navy to become an aviator.
In January 1945, Bush married Barbara Pierce (Barbara Bush) with whom he had six children: George Walker Bush, Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb Bush), Neil Mallon Bush, Marvin Bush, and Dorothy.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=George_Herbert_Walker_Bush   (1386 words)

  
 George Herbert Walker Bush
George H. Bush accepts this plan in a public speech, with slight modifications, on August 2, 1990, the same day Iraq invades Kuwait.
President George H. Bush signs a covert “lethal finding” authorizing the CIA to spend a hundred million dollars to “create the conditions for removal of Saddam Hussein from power.” [New Yorker, 6/7/2004] The CIA forms the Iraqi Opposition Group within its Directorate of Operations to implement this policy.
President George H. Bush, with current President George W. Bush in the room with him, calls Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and assures him that his son’s “heart is in the right place” on the Palestinian question and other issues of concern to the Saudis.
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 American President
George Herbert Walker Bush was raised in privilege in suburban Connecticut in a family that cared deeply about international issues.
His mother, Dorothy Walker Bush, had a lifelong influence on him; he said she was still instructing him even when he was in the White House.
When he ran for the presidency in 1988, George Bush promised to turn the country into a "kinder and gentler" nation.
www.americanpresident.org /history/georgehwbush   (610 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Penguin Lives George Herbert Walker Bush: Books: Tom Wicker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Designed to be summary overviews, writers are forced to choose key elements and facts from their subject's lives and (ideally) extrapolate them into a portrait that, while not exhaustive in the details, at least gives the reader an idea of who he was, why he did what he did, and how it matters to history.
George H.W. Bush strikes me as an interesting historical figure whose legacy (like J.Q. Adams' or William Howard Taft's) will be seen as coming from someplace other than his years in the White House.
While George H.W. Bush's presidency was uninspring and thus not a great idea for a biography, it is Tom Wicker's sloppy fact-checking and unsupported editorializing that make this book truly stink.
www.amazon.ca /Penguin-Lives-George-Herbert-Walker/dp/0670033030   (2368 words)

  
 Nazis in the Attic
"George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal grandfather, George Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking and investment firm of G. Walker and Company in 1900.
A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker's 'Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and the United States.' Walker did not know it, but one of his American employees, Dan Harkins, had blown the whistle on the spy apparatus to Congress.
George Bush described Nixon as his 'mentor.' Nixon was a Bush supporter in his very first tilt at politics, during his unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1964, and turned out again when he entered the House two years later.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Herbert Walker Bush ("Father Bush"); and it is impossible to understand Father
Their first child, a son named George Walker Bush, was born in New Haven on July 6, 1946, and while Father Bush he did better at academics (Phi Beta Kappa) at Yale than at Andover, he also graduated with numerous distinctions including captain of the baseball team.
Interestingly, while Son George knew his sister was sick, he didn’t know how sick until he saw his parents drive back home after being gone for months with Robin in New York and when he looked in the back seat to see his sister, she wasn’t there.
www.electhobie.com /BushGHWB.html   (2795 words)

  
 USA: biography of George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-)
America's 41st President, George Bush, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, into a wealthy family as George Herbert Walker Bush.
After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, MA in 1942 he served as the youngest U.S. naval carrier pilot in the Pacific till 1945, winning the 'Distinguished Flying Cross', and three Air Medals.
On January 6, 1945 George married Barbara Pierce, of Rye, New York.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/P/gb41/about/bush.htm   (647 words)

  
 41st President, George Herbert Walker Bush
Coming from a family with a tradition of public service, Bush felt the responsibility to make his contribution both in time of war and in peace.
They had six children, George (who became the 43rd President), Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.
Always animal lovers, their springer spaniel Millie became very popular and produced a litter of pups in the White House, one of whom became President George W. Bush's dog Spot.
www.presidentialmuseums.com /Presidents/41.htm   (593 words)

  
 George Herbert Walker Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" on the reaction of Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination.
Edgar Hoover interviews a "George Bush of the CIA" regarding "anti-Castro exile reaction" to the murder.
Here we have the name of George Bush mentioned as a CIA official in direct connection to the Kennedy assassination.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George Bush was the 41st President of the United States.
He was born in Massachusetts; attended Yale University and served in World War II as a pilot earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Links to his ancestry are contained in the table below, just click on a name and it will take you on your journey.
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 HRES 86 IH Impeaching George Herbert Walker Bush
Under the Constitution, all classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection, and calling on the poor and minorities to fight a war for oil to preserve the lifestyles of the wealthy is a denial of the rights of these soldiers.
Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
In all of this George Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
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 Amazon.com: "George Herbert Walker Bush": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And the father of George Herbert Walker Bush was a U.S. senator and millionaire businessman.
party's 1988 nominating convention, she attacked the Republican candidate, George Herbert Walker Bush, as a child of privilege who was "born on third base and thought he hit a triple.
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 Amazon.com: "George Herbert Walker": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Founding Father: George Herbert Walker There is more of George Herbert Walker than of anyone else in the names of both George Herbert Walker Bush,...
Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924-) Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1976-1977; vicepresident of the United States, 1981-1988; president of the United States,...
Cuz I'm a compaysionate conservative and George Herbert Walker's wimpiness.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush witnessed many great changes, including the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile chronicles Bush's life and career, beginning with his childhood, military service, marriage, and early postings in government service.
As vice president, Bush traveled to Poland to meet a shipyard worker who predicted Poland would be free and George Bush would be president.
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