George H. W. Bush

America has had many individuals of considerable talent and skill occupy the chief executive’s office at 1600 Pennsylvania.  President George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, was certainly one of them.  After graduating from high school in 1942, he signed on with the navy and became one of the youngest American pilots to fly in World War II.  Later he attended Yale where he played baseball and participated in the very first (as well as the second) College World Series. George H. W. Bush began his career in the oil business and then entered politics in the mid-1960s.  First a ... Read Full Story

Former President George H.W. Bush marked his 85th birthday on Friday the same way he did his 75th and 80th birthdays: He leaped from a plane and zoomed downward at more than 100 m.p.h. in free fall before parachuting safely to a spot near his oceanfront home. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram wishing former U.S. President George H.W. Bush a happy 85th birthday, saying he deserves to be considered among the "most authoritative" world leaders. Putin recalled his visit to the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 2007, when he and George W. Bush were still sitting presidents. In ... Read Full Story

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(Getty Images | Inset from CNN) In celebration of his 85th birthday, George H.W. Bush went skydiving Friday in Kennebunkport, Maine, where the former president owns a summer home. This isn't the first time the octogenarian thrill seeker has jumped out of a plane. Bush, Sr. went skydiving for his 75th and 80th birthdays, and says he hopes to jump again at 90. "Just because you're an old guy, you don't have to sit around drooling in the corner," he explained. "Get out and do something. Get out and enjoy life." Bush, Jr. has said he thinks it's "cool" that his dad is out ... Read Full Story

(Getty Images) Say what you will about aging Republican patriarch George H.W. Bush , but this guy knows how to celebrate a birthday. Bush's playful pose echoes this Gary Hart photo from 1987. Not only is Bush Sr. planning yet another skydiving mission for his 85th birthday on Friday . Over the weekend, he celebrated wife Barbara's 84th birthday with the help of some girls from A Chorus Line at their Kennebunkport, Maine, residence. TMZ ran the photo (seen above at lower right) of actress Katie Cameron sitting on the former president's lap in a way that looks eerily similar to the photo that ... Read Full Story