I know this article is from the NY Times, and we hate them, and I know that some of you despise GHW Bush and that every single one of us disagrees with his politics, but this is a touching article showing the sweetness of this good man, and I thought it might be nice to bring this thread back to it's point and away from the sniping...
‘I Love You, Too’: George Bush’s Final DaysBy Peter Baker
Dec. 1, 2018
George Bush had been fading in the last few days. He had not gotten out of bed, he had stopped eating and he was mostly sleeping. For a man who had defied death multiple times over the years, it seemed that the moment might finally be arriving.
His longtime friend and former secretary of state, James A. Baker III, arrived at his Houston home on Friday morning to check on him.
Mr. Bush suddenly grew alert, his eyes wide open.
“Where are we going, Bake?†he asked.
“We’re going to heaven,†Mr. Baker answered.
“That’s where I want to go,†Mr. Bush said.
Barely 13 hours later, Mr. Bush was dead. The former president died in his home in a gated community in Houston, surrounded by several friends, members of his family, doctors and a minister. As the end neared on Friday night, his son George W. Bush, the former president, who was at his home in Dallas, was put on the speaker phone to say goodbye. He told him that he had been a “wonderful dad†and that he loved him.
“I love you, too,†Mr. Bush told his son.
Those were his last words.
Mr. Bush’s final days, as recounted on Saturday by Mr. Baker, who saw him repeatedly at the end and was in the room when he died, were remarkably peaceful after an eventful 94-year life that took him from the skies of the Pacific during World War II to the Oval Office at the end of the Cold War.
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