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 | | BUSH, George Herbert Walker (1924–), 41st president of the U.S. Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., and grew up in Greenwich, Conn. A World War II carrier pilot in the Pacific, he was discharged in 1945 with a Distinguished Flying Cross. |
 | | He met with Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the USSR, in December 1989 at Malta, where they agreed to negotiate an end to production of chemical weapons, cut long-range missiles by up to 50 percent, and reduce conventional forces in Europe. |
 | | Their eldest son, George W. Bush, was elected governor of Texas in 1994; reelected in 1998, he narrowly defeated Vice-President Al Gore to win the U.S. presidency in 2000. |
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