On his side, fans often cite his team of advisers, many of them veterans of Reagan or Bush Sr.

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He is best known for successfully urging Bush Sr. to accept the speedy reunification of Germany despite apprehension from some European leaders.

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Although Farouk Hijazi may have a lot to tell his captors right now, he was suspected in '93 of having been behind the plots to assassinate President George Bush Sr.

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W. Bush in College Station, Texas, five bronze horses stampede across a replica in bronze of the Berlin Wall, while inside a Studebaker from an early cross-country campaign mythologizes the long journey of Bush Sr.

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This time, the outcome appears less certain, primarily because of the new Administration in the White House and because many of the judges on the panel were appointed to the court by Presidents Bush Sr. and Reagan .

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Former President George Bush Sr.

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George W. may nonetheless fall for it -- as his father did before him in 1992 when Bill Clinton and his Rasputin, James Carville, pronounced that it was "the economy, stupid, " and Bush Sr. effectively allowed the campaign to be fought on territory and terms of his opponent's choosing.

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Reagan went on to choose such nominees for the Supreme Court as Bork and Thomas, and Bush, Sr.

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The medium has been similarly merciless in bringing us other modern presidents, such as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George Bush, Sr.

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Across the years from Bush, Sr.

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