Fmr. Canadian PM: ‘No Occupant of the Oval Office Was ‘More Principled and More Honorable than’ George H.W. Bush

‘George Bush was a man of high accomplishment, but he also had a delightful sense of humor and was a lot of fun’

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MULRONEY: "Do you remember where you were the summer you left your teenage years behind and turned 20? Well I was working as a laborer in my hometown in Northern Quebec trying to make enough money to get back into law school. It was a tough job, but I was safe and secure and had the added benefit of my mother’s home cooking every night. On September 2, 1944 as we have just heard so eloquently from Jon, 20-year-old Lieutenant George Bush was preparing to attack Japanese war installations in the Pacific. He was part of the courageous generation of young Americans who led the charge against overwhelming odds in the historic and bloody battle for supremacy in the Pacific against the colossal military might of imperial Japan. That’s what George Bush did the summer he turned 20. Many men of differing talents and skills have served as president, and many more will do so as the decades unfold, bringing new strength and glory to these United States of America. And 50 or 100 years from now, as historians review the accomplishments and the context of all who have served as president, I believe it will be said that in the life of this country, the United States, which is in my judgment the greatest Democratic Republic that God has ever placed on the face of this Earth, I believe it will be said that no occupant of the Oval Office was more courageous, more principled and more honorable than George Herbert Walker Bush. George Bush was a man of high accomplishment, but he also had a delightful sense of humor, and was a lot of fun.”

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