Judy Woodruff:
For George Herbert Walker Bush, born to privilege June 12, 1924, in Massachusetts, that everything else included the journey from prep school to heroic World War II service in the Pacific, where he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, a postwar education at Yale, where he became an accomplished first baseman, then to Texas as an oil man, and eventually into government as a Lone Star State member of Congress, ambassador to the United Nations under Richard Nixon, envoy to China, and director of central intelligence under Gerald Ford, vice president, and ultimately president.
He was the son of a U.S. senator, and patriarch of a family as successful in electoral politics as any in America, including the 43rd president, George W. Bush, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
The senior Bush and his wife, Barbara, a force in her own right, had four other children, sons Neil and Marvin, daughters Dorothy and Robin, who died in childhood.
Appearing on ""The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" in 1979, Mr. Bush defended his moderate credentials as a conservative wave cresting within the party was preparing to anoint his chief opponent at the time, Ronald Reagan.
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