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1924. 41st president of the US 1989-93. A
Republican, he was director of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1976-81 and US vice
president 1981-89. In 1989, as president, he
visited Eastern European countries undergoing
reform, held a summit meeting at Malta with
Soviet president Gorbachev, and sent US
troops to Panama to oust that country's
drug-trafficking president, Manuel Noriega.
Bush led the UN coalition and sent US forces
to Saudi Arabia to prepare for a military
strike after Iraq annexed Kuwait 1990. In Jan
1991, he led the coalition war against Iraq
that forced Saddam Hussein to remove his
troops from Kuwait. He was instrumental in
convincing Israel and several of its
traditional Arab enemies to convene for a
historic face-to-face meeting in Spain in Nov
1991. Domestic economic problems in 1991-92
were followed by his defeat in the 1992
presidential elections by Democrat Bill
Clinton.
Born in Milton, Massachusetts, Bush grew up
in Connecticut, where his father, Prescott
Bush, was a US senator. He graduated from
Yale University 1948 and moved to Texas to
build up an oil-drilling company. A
congressman 1967-70, he was appointed US
ambassador to the United Nations 1971-73 and
Republican national chairman 1973-74 by
President Nixon. During the Ford
administration, Bush was a special envoy to
China 1974-75. As vice president during
Ronald Reagan's administration he traveled
widely and was responsible for overseeing
government reform and programs to combat drug
smuggling.