Former President George H.W. Bush laid to rest in Texas

Updated: 2018-12-07 10:55
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People pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes, Dec 6, 2018, along the route from Spring to College Station, Texas. [Photo/Agencies]

Bush was president from 1989 to 1993, navigating the collapse of the Soviet Union and expelling former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's forces from oil-rich Kuwait.

He supported the passage of the American with Disabilities Act, a major civil rights law protecting disabled people from discrimination.

A patrician figure who served as vice president to Ronald Reagan, Bush lost re-election to a second term in part for failing to connect with ordinary Americans during an economic recession.

He has also been criticized for supporting tough drug laws that led to the disproportionate incarceration of black people, as well as what activists call an insufficient response to the AIDS epidemic.

But tributes in recent days have focused on the former president as a man of integrity and kindness who represented an earlier era of civility in American politics.

Reuters

 

 

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