Former President George H.W. Bush was taken to a Biddeford hospital Sunday after experiencing fatigue and low blood pressure, a family spokesman said. James McGrath said on Twitter that Bush probably will remain at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford for a few days for observation. “The president is awake and alert, and not in any […]
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Barbara Bush, wife and mother of presidents, champion of literacy, dies at 92
HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady and mother of a president whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92. Mrs. Bush brought a grandmotherly style to buttoned-down Washington, often appearing […]
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Former president on mend after taking fall at summer home
KENNEBUNKPORT (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush is healing well after taking a fall this summer, feeling good enough to go out on his speedboat and even visit a local biker bar with his wife. The nation’s oldest living president is “healing nicely” after he fractured his C2 vertebra, the second one below the […]
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Former President George H.W. Bush taken to hospital
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after experiencing a shortness of breath, a family spokesman said. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital as a “precaution,” according to spokesman Jim McGrath. He “will be held for observation, again as a precaution,” McGrath […]
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Bush family behind new reading program
KENNEBUNKPORT — The daughter of former first lady Barbara Bush is launching a reading mentoring program that’ll begin in 20 high schools and elementary schools this fall. Dorothy Bush Koch says the Teen Trendsetters aims to pair teenagers with elementary school students who need reading help. She joined her mom and Barbara Bush Foundation President […]
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The disaster that is HealthCare.gov
President Barack Obama is having a President George W. Bush moment. Or is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius having a FEMA Director Michael Brown moment? Actually, it’s both. Days after Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States in 2005, and well after the world was aware of the scope of the storm’s destruction […]
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George H.W. Bush witness at Maine same-sex wedding
KENNEBUNKPORT (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends, his spokesman said Wednesday. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, attended the ceremony joining Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen as private citizens and friends on Saturday, spokesman Jim McGrath said. Thorgalsen posted a photo on […]
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Austin Bay: Many options available for Syrian situation
Expanded intervention in Syria’s civil war? The promised “red line” punitive strike? An equivocal pause for congressional rumination? Ambiguous postponement? Or … a “Saturday Night Live” Emily Litella “never mind” skit on the world stage — farcical incompetence an obscene response to obscene tragedy? The five preceding sentence fragments framed as questions sketch five potential […]