But we're seeking them. (Cheers) TAYLOR: Nearly 20 years earlier George Bush senior was Vice President.
Gerald Ford, George Bush senior, and even Ronald Reagan clearly understood and honoured this fact.
George Bush senior proved his manhood by making a fortune in the hard-scrabble world of west Texas.
George Bush senior, who suffers from exactly the same tongue-twisting problem as his son, grows in stature.
Granted, George Bush senior did not know David Souter personally, whereas Mr Obama knows Ms Kagan very well.
His speech attacking George Bush senior in 1988, for example, would have been deadlier delivered by someone else.
George Bush senior won them in 1988, but lost them to Bill Clinton and Ross Perot in 1992.
Both appealed to the Republican National Committee, chaired at the time by George Bush senior, for a decision.
Yet no American administration, bar briefly that of George Bush senior, has ever penalised Israel for its settlement-building.
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George Schultz for Ronald Reagan and James Baker for George Bush senior did some hard deal-making in their day.
Even the hapless Dan Quayle, George Bush senior's sidekick, had served in the House and Senate for 12 years.
George Bush senior was there to introduce Mr Romney to a sympathetic audience.
American voters blamed Mr Bush senior for poor economic performance on his watch.
The Bushes believe that Mr Perot deliberately destroyed Bush senior's chances in 1992.
Mr Bush decided from the first to model himself on the Gipper rather than on his father, George Bush senior.
George Bush senior was highly popular through his first year and became more so after the Gulf war of 1991.
George Bush senior squashed Michael Dukakis by accusing him of caring more about criminals and freeloaders than about hard-working families.
Critics of the president, both at home and abroad, see the shadow of Mr Bush senior on American foreign policy as well.
After all, Ronald Reagan, George Bush senior and Bob Dole each struggled to win the nomination in, respectively, 1980, 1988 and 1996.
The last Republican presidential candidate to take California was George Bush senior.
George Bush senior didn't so much snub his party as ignore it.
Rather, it makes more sense to see the new Bush administration as trying to rebuild the Gulf war coalition of George Bush senior.
It is not just spin when insiders say that the relationship is as close as that between George Bush senior and Helmut Kohl.
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The only president to have threatened to do so was George Bush senior, in 1991, when he said he would withhold guarantees on loans.
George Bush senior mocked Michael Dukakis for his Harvard Yard liberalism.
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And in the final days of her own rule, she was still as firm as ever, giving advice to Mr Reagan's successor, President George Bush Senior.
We should recall that it was a near-run thing when George Bush senior decided to ask Congress for permission to repel Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Mr Kerry cannot win the presidency as a second edition of Michael Dukakis, the famously liberal Massachusetts governor who was trounced by George Bush senior in 1988.
In the early 1990s George Bush senior supported national standards.
It was President Bush senior who infuriated Pakistan when he cut off all economic and military assistance to the country in 1990 for continuing with its nuclear programme.
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