George H.W. Bush: The Stunning Highs and Lows of America's Last Pre-Modern President
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Source/Further reading:
Miller Center, in-depth biography: millercenter.org/president/bu...
Biography from the George HW Bush library center: www.bush41.org/bush/biography
Britannica biography: www.britannica.com/biography/...
Guardian obituary: www.theguardian.com/global/20...
Bush as WWII pilot: www.history.com/news/george-h...
Newsweek, the air crash that nearly killed President Bush: www.newsweek.com/george-hw-bu...
NPR, Bush and Iran-Contra: www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674079...
Tiananmen Square: www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-c...
Invasion of Panama: www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
Gulf War: www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
Betrayal of the Kurds: www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-...
How Americans believe their most-recent presidents were illegitimate: www.washingtonpost.com/postev...
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A Turtle doesn't approve of this president
Hey Simon, could you make a video on John J Pershing's biography 'cause I'd love to see it.
Two things about Bush , he won in 88 because he said he would be the thrid term of Reagan. Two he was so pissed off at China he invaded Panama. He was a terrible president as was his son.
Ronald Reagan’s speeches scripts all came from famous movie clips and President Bush said READ MY LIPS 😂
Requests: Catherine Sforza, Anne of Great Britain, Joanna of Castile, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Douglas Mawson
Fun fact: No matter the outcome of the 1992 election, the US would have had a left-handed president.
Jason Statham is also left-handed.
@Gwyn and Gold abso-damn-lutely, and with the way things are going I’ll be able to legally send my vote from the U.K. with no ID.
Fun fact . Hold me closer tony danza
Alexis Rodriquez I sing that too, hold me closer, tiny cancers
Obama was a lefty too
Would like to see a video on Albert Henry Woolson. (1850-1956)
Civil war veteran that lived to see WWI, WWII, Korea
Trains, cars, airplanes, TV, the list goes on
Wouldn't he have been 11 when Civil War started?
@@swymaj02 he probably played the bugle for a regiment or something
@@swymaj02 he was a drummer boy.
He saw many things then us becoming no1 economy,us imperialism started in late 90s of 19th century, great depression under hoover, roaring twenties under calvin coldige.
Simon: "There were some goofs, like the time he passed out and vomited on the Japanese prime minister..."
Me: "Oh I'm gonna need the full story of that"
It was actually a big deal because at first everyone was freaking out thinking the POTUS had been poisoned. It turns out that he simply had the flu and had tried to muscle his way through the planned diplomatic event regardless, but ended up falling victim to the illness's symptoms part way through in the very unfortunate way described.
This biography is trash. Bush was a tyrant and killed jfk and tried to kill regean also ran drugs through Arkansas etc
@@7keith4 ^found a trumpie a very common troll species with low intelligence stats
@@7keith4 get your meds
Haha yup
1:25 - Chapter 1 - The edge of death
4:40 - Chapter 2 - The game of politics
7:50 - Mid roll ads
9:20 - Chapter 3 - The reagan years
13:05 - Chapter 4 - Changing time
17:05 - Chapter 5 - Once upon a time in the gulf
20:00 - Chapter 6 - The 1 term president
thank you since they don't do timestamps
Then in 2020 he voted for Hillary and is now burning in H_ _ L, rightly so!
Thanks for the timestamps
While Mr. Bush's politics differ from mine dramatically, and his foreign policies resemble Tom Clancy novels, I have always admired his devotion to getting the Americans with Disabilities Act. It was a crucial piece of legislation, and it reflects his decency and compassion.
I think it's more to do with who is more suited for the job than about politics. I'm a right wing Republican but I think Barack Obama was the best President since Reagan and Bush. I don't agree with most Obama's policies but he did bring a sense of unity that's be torn away since 1992.
The ADA has had an undeniably positive and transformational effect on my life. Would not be anywhere near as successful as I am today in it's absence.
Decency and compassion? You mean like the thousands he killed in Panama and Iraq
@@shanejones7906 Obama was by far the most dividing president ever.
First president to acknowledge climate change as well
“Any definition of a successful life must include service to others”
George H.W Bush
Success has a completely different meaning to someone like H.W. who was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth.
@@Nova_Needle That platinum spoon didn't stop the Japanese shooting him from the sky.
@rik michaels "jailed a third of black men"? Wtf are you smoking bro?
He did the opposite.
Service to others, is that what the head of the CIA does?
I met him in 90 or 91, very good man very tolerant of a rude 6 year old. I was that rude kid
What did you expect? A chastising from a total stranger?
Ge was responsible for killing jfk he lead the black ops operations that day in dallas
He was a very nice person. Like everyone's Grandpa... I was in middle school when he was President....
@@arkady714 well that wasn’t uncommon in the early 90’s. Especially coming from someone’s who was raised in the 30’s
WOW what an honor
I remember Bush from my childhood from two memories. One, he came to visit the Korean American community after the 1992 LA riots and when he threw up on the Japanese Prime Minister.
Wow, Japan really can't catch a break from American attacks.
Japanese pm response must be fock you
Once a Pearl harbour veteran said :
There should be an atomic bomb on japan every Pearl harbour day !🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I was a kid when he was President too. He was a very nice man as was his son...
@@djzrobzombie2813 wtf
Native American chiefs deserve some videos. Amazing stories of their lives
@Gwyn and Gold As great as those chiefs were, we shouldn’t lose sight of the great Native Americans who have continued to do great work in the 20th and 21st centuries. A great example would be Wilma Mankiller; not only the first elected female chief of the Cherokee Nation, but a powerhouse leader and activist who enriched and revitalized her people with community projects, education, hospitals, and the development of relations between the Native and Federal governments. She paved the way for the self-determination of so many.
At least visit the page and look through past videos before you say that
Would be very interested in that. Here in Europe we now almost nothing about these cultures besides the tropes of 1960s western movies and 19th century adventure literature.
Nice comment 👌
I'd like to see some more Native American leaders as well. Maybe someone like Wampanog Sachem Metacomet AKA King Philip who engaged the English colonist in the first major war for the future United States.
Waiting for that episode Lenoid Brezhnev “The Man Who Signed the Soviet’s Death Warrant.”
Brezhnev ?!
I always thought that Gorbachev & perestroika were the death warrant.
Maybe I'm confused and they were the tombstone.
Educate me, please.
@@marinarosario8855 Gorbachev was the only legitimate soviet born in the union, he tried to liberalize it and save it from destruction. Brezhnev was part of the conservative block that was tone death and out of touch, he got into power by a coup n sent the USSR to Afghanistan which is why I believe we’re in the after effects today.
@@marinarosario8855 Technically the death of the USSR could date all the way back to Khrushchev. His brash decision making didn’t do the country any good.
Then there’s Brezhnev with his stagnant politics. Sure the USSR was no longer being erratic as it was under Khrushchev, but the stagnation took a toll on the Soviet economy.
The architect of the Holodomor would be interesting. Maybe a bit too hot for the mainstream though.
For now, let's watch this episode, "Bush, The Man Who Signed America's Death Warrant".....
Very well done Simon. As usual. As an outsider (non-US resident) you do an amazing job of covering US topics from all necessary angles with no obvious bias. Huge fan of your teams work.
He has a bias.
The epilogue on the polarization of American politics since the tenure of George H. W. Bush is incredibly insightful. One hopes the U.S. doesn't devolve into a civil war with no legitimate cause.
Sadly with all those american right-wingers getting more and more extreme, I am fearing that a new civil war will break out, once again started in the south
He was the speaker when my sister graduated from Texas Tech in 1999. Received a standing ovation.
“If you’ve never heard of Iran-Contra just know it was the Mueller Investigation of it’s day.”
Well that aged really well
Well, I mean, Simon released this about the same time as you commented, so it didn't age at all. The two scandals really _are_ very comparable.
In both cases, the core allegation was dubious. For Iran-Contra, there was no question that it happened, but Simon was incorrect to characterize it as illegal. At issue was the War Powers Act and the separation of powers between Congress and the President under the Constitution. Passed in the Watergate era, every President to this day has declared it unconstitutional, while Congress usually (every time? I haven't checked) treats the law as legitimate. Neither side has been willing to risk letting the Supreme Court rule on the question, so the Presidents have (usually) followed it while saying they don't have to, and Congress (usually) doesn't attempt to use the law as anything more than leverage. Legal scholars continue to debate which side is right. America's two major parties switch sides on this constitutional debate, depending on which one controls Congress and which controls the Presidency.
In the case of the Mueller/Russia investigation, there's a similar question. Despite heated claims about treason, the Mueller team struggled to find any legal theory under which the most plausible claims about the Trump campaign, if true, would have been illegal. The whole question became moot because, as the Mueller report states, it turned out that none of the allegations could be proven true, and many of the most important ones were proven false. Mueller's own staff were later discovered to have participated in serious misconduct aimed at preventing Trump from being elected, and then later undermining his Presidency, so if anybody could possibly have made the Russia allegations stick, it seems like it would have been them.
As with the War Powers Act, whether or not "foreign collusion" is considered illegal depends on whether your party has been accused of it. The most egregious example came out in the early 1990's, when the New York Times reported that Senator Ted Kennedy attempted to persuade the Soviet Union to help him with his 1984 presidential campaign, offering diplomatic concessions should Kennedy win. Not only was the offer not considered illegal, but the report didn't even result in a scandal. On the other hand, allegations floated around that, during the Iran hostage crisis, George HW Bush had made some kind of deal with Iran to not release the hostages until after Reagan had defeated Carter; most observers didn't believe the rumors but agreed that if true they would be very, very illegal.
However, both Iran Contra and the Mueller investigation, along with the Whitewater investigations that dogged Bill Clinton and the Valerie Plame scandal under George W Bush, were examples of the post-watergate era of the independent prosecutor. The investigations dragged on for years, serving as distractions and PR nightmares. They fed the appetites of political opponents, and the lawfare did result in some prosecutions and convictions, but nearly always for "process crimes" like obstruction of justice which stemmed from the investigations themselves. Convictions for process crimes are usually considered consolation prizes, under vague laws and which are hard to defend against, that are used by prosecutors when they are intent on having something to show for their efforts.
@@theprogram863 except Mueller in his report literally found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because it didn’t happen which is why the Democrats decided to impeach him over a phone call instead because they thought they would give them a better chance
@@johnbrown9542 I don't think you read my whole comment. I pointed out that Mueller found no evidence of collusion in the comment you replied to.
@@johnbrown9542 And yet, there was direct coordination during the campaign. It has been confirmed. The Investigation didn't throw dozens of people in prison over hearsay, like the GOP wanted over Biden's overwhelming victory despite how much they cried wolf or protested a legitimate election, there actually was Russian Intelligence working with the Trump campaign to sway voters and sow seeds of doubt through the use of social media platforms. People are stupid lemmings, and most will hop on board with whatever sensational headline they read the most, without actually reading the articles or cross referencing them.
The two are very similar (Iran Contra and Mueller Investigation), and you could even throw Nixon's Vietnam ceasefire stalling in the same circle of GOP world affairs meddling to sway the win for the White House, to form a trifecta.
@@enyotheios2613 the truth will come out, the Democrats worked with the CCP to ensure votes were manipulated. Trump is incredibly popular with the majority of Americans.
The last of the decent, old fashioned presidents. Since then it's been "Boxers or Briefs, Weapons of Mass Destruction, The Police Acted Stupidly, Bully Mouth, and Mr. Dementia."
I was thinking of Kennedy as being the first "modern" president (what with the role media played in getting him elected), but the points you made at the end about HW being essentially the last generally respected president does ring true.
I hope that one day you will cover Carter as well.
Operation cyclone
A good man, terrible president.
@@matthewdopler8997 that's the best way to put it
@@matthewdopler8997 Well I would like to him manage my country. But it is an outsider's view of him.
@@matthewdopler8997 The good man part is got people thinking he would be a great president.
Powerful summery at the end. Thanks for keeping things in perspective Simon
I love your non-biased approach to explaining history. Really a breath of fresh air. GHWB was the last USA president who wasn't a complete utter clown and show boat. He was also the last president who didn't avoid military service or was not a draft dodger.
Obama was not a draft dodger or avoided military service. Times had changed by the time he came of age.
LOL and you're not biased how?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do one for Haile Selassie the last emperor of Ethiopia.
Would love this
wasnt he also the first rastafarian?
@@nathanielleack4842 No he was a devout Christian who didn't like being treated as an idol. But his nation suffered greatly for many different reasons, needed all the international support he could get, and so Selassie mostly kept his feelings private.
If nothing else, read Selassie's speech to the League of Nations about the diplomatic mess that resulted in his country being handed to fascist Italy. It's a moving, haunting statement, and unimaginable suffering could have been averted if someone had taken his words to heart and not simply treated Ethiopia as an opportunity to pose as compassionate to the press. Half a century later, when it was communists rather than fascists who attacked, much the same happened. Just to hammer home the point that people hadn't learned a thing.
You have one of the best segues into adverts in entertainment. When it’s not seamless, it’s hilarious. Thank you for your work!
I remember this guy for two reasons: my elementary school teacher crying as he read the names of all his former students that were sent to war, and Dana Carvey.
"Not gonna do it"
BOY I SURE LOVE IT WHEN MY TEACHER CRIES TO GET ME TO HATE REPUBLICANS
...and every one of those former students volunteered their service. That's one more reason why we have a great country. Selfless men and women teaming up to face down a bloodthirsty dictator.
@@IMDunn-oy9cd
You mean the dictator that America supported through the 80s and who only became "bloodthirsty" when he was no longer useful to the agenda. You don't actually buy into the Iraq war propaganda do you?
@@acetate909 Sure the Gulf wars were useless and contributed some to the creation of terrorist groups, but Saddam was a dickhead.
I remember this guy for two reasons: Zapata Oil and that he was the only guy who didn't know where he was on the 22nd of November 1963.
AND THE FACT THAT HINKLEY WAS THE SON OF ONE OF ZAPATA OILS TOP EO`S AND HINKLEYS BROTHER WAS DUE TO HOLD A FUNDRAISER WITH NIALL BUSH THE DAY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT! SUDDENLY HWB SAYING WE DON`T NEED TO INVESTIGATE THIS HINKLEY WAS A LONE NUT LIKE LH OSWALD! LOL
"A decent person". For some reason that hit me pretty hard. Been awhile since we've seen any of those in world history. Hopefully that changes for the better
seems quite unlikely unfortunately
@@DonLicuala yep, probably was involved with the Kennedy assassination - was in Dallas that day but has no idea what he was doing there! also probably took down Nixon by having the CIA do watergate for being snubbed by Nixon on the VP position!
@@NewScottishGentry But... Wasn't the major reason Watergate was even an issue to Nixon because of his attempts to bribe others into silence about it? As far as I'm aware, he didn't actually have anything (or anything overt, at least) to do with CREEP.
Hahaha..... Great joke mate
@@NewScottishGentry no, idiot. Even if he was deep state CIA, he became CIA director during the Nixon administration, years after Kennedy died.
Can you do one on Joe Medicine Crow. He was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Nation and the last Plains Indian war chief, which he managed to achieve while serving in WWII completing all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him (counting coup), taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse and this is only part of this True Native American Badass.
He definitely deserves a video
It's been done and is on youtube.
HW was absolutely humble. And yes he was without a doubt the most qualified president in the past century.
By no means perfect, hell as a kid I even liked him.
He was a war criminal
President Biden has served 51 years between Hall of Senate and White House.
And George Sr really abused power ALOT. He was not humble at all. Everything from not going through the proper chain of command to give orders with CIA, FBI, he and Reagan actually were the first Admin of Republicans who actually broke their oath to office quite a few times while they served in my life. They violated the Constitution more than Nixon did, no doubt.
He was good but FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and LBJ (5-in-a-row) all matched or exceeded him.
@@toastedsandwichman5111 FDR 👍
Truman experienced some problems after the war. There were some civil rights issues and economical setbacks.
Eisenhower👍
Kennedy 👍(although he didnt serve long enough)
LBJ 👍 His Domestic policies were good. He had the right idea...His involvement in Vietnam, lack of interest in our service men and women and their best interest once there, would not rank him very popular.
Nixon was not a horrible President, but this is where the Republican Party started pushing towards more corrupt ways. Thats apparent in Watergate.
I would love to see a biographics with Elenore of Aquitaine and Isabella of France!
Or you could buy a book, there are many volumes written on both these significant rulers.
In which part of the video does Simon talk about the feud with Homer Simpson?
...I seriously stopped to think "Who the devil is Homer Simps-oooooooohh."
Certainly the best one term President that America has ever had. A peaceful end to the Cold War, built a coalition and successfully removed Saddam from Iraq and despite breaking his campaign promise to reach a agreement with the democrats and managed to balance the budget which ultimately lost him the 92 election but he did it as he put the country first. He was also a gentleman who left a lovely letter for Bill Clinton which ended with the sentence “your success is the countries success and I will be rooting for you”.
This is the best channel on YT for listening/ learning while working out. Couple of these a day in the earbuds, and not only am I smart, I'm yoked!
💪🏼🤪
The last minute of this video is the best, so true.
As a non-American I don't understand how they don't see the damage, very possibly unrepairable damage, that has been done to their country. They need to come together or it's all going to fall apart, and fall apart badly. It's like being the next door neighbor to a marriage that's gone bad. So much yelling. And I can't stress this enough, but the shit that the people that were born at the beginning of the 20th century went though makes all the whining and moaning that the current generation is putting up frankly embarrassing.
Sadly
@@shaggycan Most americans I talk to agree completely... and then go right back to tearing the other side apart, because they see their concerns as different. The problem of course is that people read something like what you wrote, and think, "Absolutely right. If only those other guys could abandon their unhinged hostility, come together in true national unity, and pass my side's wise and just agenda in its entirety."
I read a political commentator who points out that the political wings on left and right _both_ portray themselves as embattled minorities facing overwhelming odds from a political system out to destroy and enslave them. Both sides tend to cast issues in terms of the looming menace of a dictatorial takeover by their opponents, and portray their political opponents as liars whose arguments, policies, and statements can't be accepted at face value. Look at the differences between how people perceive the protests over the summer of 2020, vs the protests at the capitol in January. There's also a tendency to cast their opponents as not just disagreeing about particular policies and issues, but being fundamentally bad human beings.
That said, this has _always_ been a feature of American democracy. In the mid 20th century, you had the McCarthy era, but just a few years before, FDR's party had used the exact same tactics to destroy their political opponents with allegations that they were a secret nazi fifth column (as with the rumors that were used to justify the Japanese-American internment camps, these were later proven to be entirely false). Woodrow Wilson's evil deeds could be a video in themselves, and only now are finally getting some publicity. His era came right after a period of very serious political violence related to labor union organizing and working conditions during the industrial revolution (violence, riots, terrorism, and even the assassination of a US president). Before that was the Civil War and a nasty, vicious partisan atmosphere leading up to it that had been going on for decades. That flowed right out of the nastiness of the Andrew Jackson era. Even George Washington's administration saw vicious rhetoric, violence, and even open armed rebellion.
We didn't start the fire. :)
@Daytona 6263 I can see why you'd see those statements as contradictory: you think I see stability as normal. It isn't. These periods of toxic partisanship have been around since the beginning, and they ARE a threat the overall system.
Even the framers of the US Constitution acknowledged that it was an experiment.
I would love it if the US system or some other form of democracy was fundamentally stable, but I don't see any evidence for that being necessarily so. In fact, I can't see evidence for _any_ system of government having long-term stability. I suppose Iceland's Althing, but even that has had long periods of major upheaval.
So Jim's right that the system is in danger, but the problem is that people only see the danger coming from their political enemies, not their allies. This particular kind of danger is nothing new.
Lol at Jeb Bush's face at HW's funeral when he read........ "The Note". xD
There's an interesting connection between Bush and the railroads that I'm surprised wasn't mentioned.
He received a special funeral train pulled by Union Pacific Railroad No. 4141, an SD70ACe diesel locomotive in a special Air Force One style livery. And his 1992 campaign train was hauled by CSX No. 7812, a C40-8W locomotive.
Do you have any idea what the deal is with that? Did Bush have some kind of special appreciation for or relationship with the railroad industry relative to other presidents? Also--any chance you've got pics of the AF1-liveried locomotive? That sounds awesome
I have been waiting for this episode for so long.
I learned about Iran Contra from an American Dad episode lmao
It's called history. Try exploring some.
@@liammurphy2725well seeing as that episode came out 13 years ago when I was 12 years old, it's safe to say I've learned some things since then. Try not being a condescending jerk in YT comments lol
I think his links to the Carlyle group and subsequent relationship with the Bin Laden family should merit at least a mention on here.
Wow, what an outro. I remember seeing Pres. Bush when I was younger. It was at an Easter event at the White House, I saw he and Barbara waving from a balcony. I had this wooden painted egg with the Bushes' signatures for many years.
You have a vary professional channel u will compliment you on the sound so many channels neglect good sound but you have nailed it.
Great video love presidential and political biographics keep it up
He visited the middle east while I was there ~15 years ago. I volunteered for color guard ceremonies and while we were lined up holding our rifles at 'present arms' (vertical in front of us) he was smiling and grabbed my elbow in a sort of handshake-like way (since my hands were on my rifle and I couldn't move a muscle) and remarked to the lot of us that we looked great and were doing a really good job.
Well done Simon. I present Greg Palast's documentary "Bush Family Fortunes" to show what a great job you and your team did on this one.
H.W. was the commencement speaker at my cousin's 2006 graduation from Texas AMU. I'd read some of his writing before and found it amusing. Of the six total commencement speakers I've heard, his was the best. I can't remember what he said, but I recall enjoying it. He was also a phone guest of the Don Imus radio show at least once and invited Dana Carvey to the White House. The man had an excellent sense of humor and liked jumping out of a plane every year on his birthday for years after he left office.
Whatever he might have done, I felt awful for him after Barbara died. It reminded me of the look on Nixon's face when his wife died. I was not surprised that either did not long survive the loss.
Great videos I always learn something whenever I watch!
I live less than 10 min from his library and watched the motorcade transport him to his final resting place on the grounds. He did so much for Texas A&M and is a truly beloved figure here.
I enjoyed that museum too. I like how it covered his whole career rather than mostly focus on his presidency like some of the other presidential libraries.
We (sadly) have no equivalent tradition here in the UK. Which is probably just as well as library funding has traditionally been almost negligible and always the first to be cut when we go through yet another recession.
He killed jfk in dallas he led the back ops operations that day
@@murtred1863 Man I knew it! He was the one on the grassy knoll! You solved the mystery! Get outta here space cadet. JFK was obviously an inside job but you show me 1 shred of provable evidence and we can discuss...otherwise take this BS elsewhere
@@GringoLawnmower1 there is actually picture evidence of him in dallas that day as well as fbi records.. He is the only person in dallas that day the didnt know what he was doing when jfk was murdered... Everything your looking for is in a documentary called....Jfk to 911 Everything is a rich man's trick....
Him acknowledging fauci when he was asked about important americans during a time where scientists were just seen as "weird guys with excentric hairstyles" says a lot about his character
He knew he would be needed for the one world order stuff. Kinda obvious😷
His name is Dr. Flip Flop
@@williamsnike452 Exactly!!
@@williamsnike452 amen.
There are experts that think the opposite of Fauci so hard to say it is backed by “science” as it isn’t or there wouldn’t be experts on both sides of the coin.
Great upload. So well researched as always. Thanks for sharing.
"[No new taxes...] That statement would come back to haunt Bush like a badly costumed Scooby-Doo villain haunting an abandoned arcade."
So you voted for Clinton, who also raised taxes and more. Good job America
Fun fact: The gulf war *is the war that changed China's entire military strategy.* You'll notice a huge shift in focus from mass infantry and tank forces to specially designed weapon systems that directly counter US strengths. Such as carriers and satellites.
Exactly. Now China is making bases in other countries too
Young W. Bush looked like Ryan Reynolds.
I think he still does
Very interesting and helpful, thank you for the video.
Thank you so much, I’ve been waiting for this ever since the end of 2018!
Bush 41 was the most qualified man in modern times to be elected President. He was a WW2 veteran who saw combat, a Ivy league collage graduate, a successful business man working outside of government, a successful politician working within government getting elected to the US Congress. The head of the Republican part, the ambassador to China, the US ambassador to the UN, the director of the CIA and Vice President all before becoming President himself. I can't think of a single US President in modern times who did more then Bush 41 did. If we count all Presidents the only other President I can think of who may have done more then Bush 41 before becoming President is Teddy Roosevelt. And even with Teddy I'm not sure he can claim to have done as much in total as Bush 41 did. Teddy had the better military carrier but many Presidents had better military carriers then both men.
On the topic of the Gulf war, those helicopters Simon brings up that attacked civilians happened because surprise, surprise, Saddam and his government lied to the UN. The UN had agreed to a US enforced no-fly zone over Iraq to stop Saddam from bombing and gassing his own people rising up against him. Saddam's government told the UN though that they needed to be allowed to fly something such as helicopters to transport the wounded to hospitals. So the UN allowed Saddam to use helicopters to transport wounded people and rather then do that Saddam used the helicopters to hold onto power and kill the people rising up against him and any other civilians who got in the way. Saddam was by far the most evil world leader of the last 30-50 years. The only people who can really top him are Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Hitler (Stalin and Hitler were people who Saddam openly said he looked up. Think how crazy evil that guy must be). So people should really try to remember who Saddam was and what he did when they criticize Bush 43 for wanting to get him out of power. In the end getting Saddam out of power for Iraq will be a good thing overall. It can all ready start to be looked at as a good thing as Iraq does actually have a working democracy in the country over the last few years that gets more and more stable each year.
Successful and qualified with every possible advantage money could buy and privilege could advance.
He was a congressman, a poor diplomat and a placeholder VP. He'd never run anything, his predecessor and successor were state governors and could at least point to running a state.
He's the quintessential definition of "good on paper but not on grass" in the world of presidential politics. However, he was right on supply-side economics, one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated on the world.
A Crooked man. Anyone around his administration went on to sell us out time and time again.
@@michaelfarrow5817 George HW Bush was far from a placeholder VP. It can be argued he was the most influential VP in US history prior to Dick Cheney. As many people know now later in Ronald Reagan's presidency he was suffering from Alzheimer's. And George Bush was actually doing much of the leading of the US during those later years which included the start of the collapse of the USSR which he then saw through to it's completion as the President when the USSR lost the Cold War and broke-up into many small nations that the nationalists in Russia still cry about today.
And as far as leading goes, you don't need to be a state governor to be considered a leader qualified to be President. You can show your leadership in many ways, In H.W.'s case he showed he had the ability to lead by being the VP who held down the fort while Regan couldn't go during some of the most important moments in world history. And prior to being the VP he showed leadership in collage, during WW2, as the leader of the Republican party, as the US ambassador to China and the UN and as the leader of the CIA.
I mean come on..... You are going to say George H.W. Bush did not show the qualities of a leader prior to being President?
And who cares if he had ever advantage possible. Throughout 99% of human history those are the people who have become the leaders of nations. People like the guy from Germany with the little mustache are the exception. You want the best people to be the leaders of your nations. And until very recently the people who got those great educations sand leadership qualities and experiences were from the upper class. That is just the way the world was again until very recently and I'm not going to fault someone for having every opportunity and taking those opportunities and using them to the betterment of his nation.
He acted as the founding fathers of the United States (his ancestors) did. All the men who founded the United States were men of means who had everything to lose. They all could have sat back and relaxed and lived their lives in luxury but they chose to act in the best way they knew possible for their fellow countryman to help in any way they could just as the Bush family and many other great American families done have as well. Such as the Roosevelts, Clintons, Kennedys, Huntingtons, Longs, Harrisons, Lees, Muhlenberg, Tafts, Rockefeller and many more who descend directly from the founding fathers of the United States but now have different last names through marriages or just immigrated here at a later date and took it upon themselves to serve their country through public service.
@@bls454 What did George HW Bush do that was crooked? Not his administration. There is literally a whole massive team attached to every US President and they are not responsible for every action someone in their administration makes unless it is a specific order from the President and even then we would be here forever if we were talking about each Presidents cabinets actions.
His sons were just as bad. Great example he set. Ghengis Kahn WAS THE WORST. His armies LITTERALLY raped multiple nations. When you see the slanted eyes of slavs... that's the Mongol touch.
Good video, Simon. I have always liked HW, but I liked Carter, too. Both were very decent men who are largely underappreciated today. I agree with the idea that Bush was the placeholder during the death of the old America prior to "the Idiocracy" took us all prisoner.
Awesome video Simon. Thanks!
Simon, your transitions to ads are immaculate.
“Now you may not be poised to run the country, but you can run your own website,,,” 😂
Dwight E Eisenhower next please
Awesome video. Would like to see one on Jim Thorpe.
this was beautifully and fairly done simon!
Banging video Simon
I find it so weird how people call Perot a spoiler. He was a legit candidate who was even the front runner before randomly dropping out. Not really a spoiler if they had a genuine chance of winning.
They threatened to kill his daughter so he dropped out.
He dropped out but it wasn't random at all. He stepped aside because of death threats against his child.
He DID split the conservative vote.
@@tykemorris Didn't know that.
I'm happy to be educated, and it's an add-on to previous knowledge that an unbiased American like me can truly appreciate.
"Read my lips no new taxes"
I absolutely love you and all your channels Simon
This man sent me to war and then pulled us out before the job was finished. I'm still not sure which was the right or wrong decision. I disagreed with almost every policy he had and action he took as President, but I always respected the man himself and I do to this day.
Are you crazy? That's the same as respecting Hitler
@@KaasIsLekker Not hardly. And stop making those comparisons. They're inaccurate, they dishonor Hitlers victims, and they make you look like a hyperbolic ass.
@@taylorlibby7642 If you have the chance to get out of a war, it's often best to take it. Pride is never the answer
@@elliotkamperNice strawmanning. Pride had nothing to do with it.
Considering the result of "finishing the job" it was probably better to let Sadam stay. Wouldn't want to get an ISIS analogue a few decades early after all
So crazy to relive my childhood memories through a video.
Rumour has it that there is a UA-cam information channel that doesn’t have Simons dulcet tones on, I wouldn’t know myself lol
I do love that despite all the negatives of the CIA, Simon/writer accepts that’s being CIA director makes someone more ready for president than likely any other office
Please make a video about the former dictator of Romania,Nicolae Ceaușescu,from 1965-1989.It's a very interesting chapter in romanian and human history,the man which was called,at a moment,"The Prince of Communism".
Sure,I am all for teaching non Romanians about our history. He was a strange dictator but after he visited North Korea and China all he did went down the crapper
Yeah, I really want to hear this as well.
Man. You brought up a good point, Americans just don’t seem willing to accept their candidate lost anymore and cry rigged. This newest situation might be the worst case of this yet.
I voted for Trump and I got to say your right everyone needs to chill out its not the end of the world when you lose an election this partisan bullshit needs to fucking stop its so stupid jan 6 is an embarrassing day for my party if I can admit that so can anyone else
Might? What is going on the country regarding democracy should terrify all who wish to maintain American democracy.
@@devanburkhart7337 sad part is everyone been doing since 2000 there are people who claimed bush jr somehow rigged the election like its not that simple
If you think the last time was bad, just wait for the next one. Or the next. Or the next.
Just ignore any signs, whatsoever of shenanigans.
Ok got it.
Good close, Simon!
Thanks
Amazing bio
You should do one on Douglas Munro, Medal of Honor recipient who died saving 300 marines.
12:11 that transition made me laugh so hard 😂
Do one about the portuguese dictator Salazar
Watched the entire Gulf War from a fancy hotel room in Toronto. My parents were at some conference or something, and it was cold out so just room service and AA fire over Bagdad for 3 days.
I was wondering if you could do a biography on Orrin Porter Rockwell? I grew up on the mormon myths and legends and it's hard to separate fact from fiction. And I want it from a source I know is reliable. Anyways, I love your videos, they get better all the time.
I love that last line. I miss the days when we respected each other just a little more and we weren’t being pitted against each other so dramatically. I hope we can head more in that direction some day.
One of the last very rich person's sons to go to any war on behalf of the US.
Please make a videos about Dwight Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter
Eisenhower would make for an interesting bio, I agree.
Video ideas
Galba:successor of nero
Otho:Party buddy of nero
Vitellius:the incompetent emperor.
Titus:son of vespian and brother to domintian
Domintian:last flavian emperor
Nerva:first of five great emperors
Caracalla and Geta:joint rulers and brothers
Maximus thrax:started 50yrs of chaos
Thomas jefferson:writer of the declaration of independence
Macrinus:between Caracalla and elagabalus.
Elagabalus: controversial emperor
Severus Alexander:death starts chaos
Gordian I&II Pupienus and Balbinius and Gordian III:year of the 6 emperors
*Macrinus
James Baker III would be an excellent choice to cover. One of the most influential people ton serve in Washington for many years.
I think a Dan Quayle video would be amazing LOL
You can tell Simon is proud of this ad segway
As ever, great video Simon and team. Here's one that would be great if you guys were interested .... Suppiluliumas 1 king of the Hittites
I’m loving these president videos
When are we as an American society gonna sit down, and open ourselves up about 9/11?
As a Millennial, my entire existence has been shadowed by that one event. I am not alone, our fears and more importantly, our doubt of our modern government was due to this one event.
@Biographics it would be truly amazing if you could do a video about 9/11, it’s something we need to talk about, if anything for my generation
When it comes to presidents, we tend to need about 20 years of separation from them before we can even remotely give them an unbiased reading on them or the events of their presidency. While 9/11's 20th anniversary is coming up, it's still hard to give Bush Jr. a fair reading for many people out there, so 9/11 might also need some time as it is so intrinsically linked to Bush Jr.
a very logic and relatable wish. But, if you can get, i would invite you to read a good book of its legal and political impacts. On the results it had on public perceptions of so and so. But maybe you would have to go beyond public libraries for such things.
@@marcusmanchester7095 Near the end of the Trump presidency, I heard a lot support for Bush Jr. from moderate conservatives and even several liberals in hopes for a reevaluation of his legacy. I would certainly not consider W. Bush to be a good president, but I feel that he deserves to be remembered more than a clumsy guy who began the War on Terror.
@@marcusmanchester7095yeah i do think thats fair that there does need to be some time before we can really evaluate what happened. My Generation was totally overshadowed by the September 11 attacks, it still looms in my generation's mind as something that is a clear indicator as to how the "greatest nation" isnt really worth much. such advanced systems put in place, and it couldnt see it coming and had no way of stopping it.
I feel like it would be nice if (for once) we heard about my generation's story. About what we had to go through, and are still going through. When it comes to society and the general public, no one cares about my generation. My generation has some truly haunting stories, but we are the generation society decided to leave behind and forget about.
Its arguably the one real event that forced America into "The Modern Era". Im not on a soapbox, but i also haven't heard any one else talk about doing something like this, and ik Im rambling at this point but...
Thank you for reading my comment and replying to it, I truly appreciate your time and patience.
@@knightshade2654 i agree. I don’t think he was good, but at the end of the day he wasn’t any better or worse than Obama or Clinton, just in a time which was less simple than both of them.
next do Woodrow Wilson or Herbert Hoover
fun fact: martin Van Buren was also a one-termer
You should do a biographic on Ed and Lorraine Warren!
That closing speech was well said. It’s sad. Hopefully we can all come to our senses and realize we are all on this tiny little spec hurtling through the vacuum of space.
Wow, I think we are going though all the US Presidents, maybe we can have some more UK Prime Ministers.
I agree. Simon a few more British Prime Ministers or just ministers. We have our share of scandles here
As an American, that would be really interesting. I particularly am interested in learning about tony Blair (I know brits dont like him, but I find it amazing that he took the country by a storm in 1997 and by 2007 the entire country wanted him deported
American here that would be awesome
Thank you so much for your suggestion. As a UK citizen I have absolutely no wish to relive the incompetent ego driven charades that have passed for leadership here in the last six decades of my life.
@@liammurphy2725 if we don't remember and inform the younger generations then we are doomed to repeat these historical charades
Simon is like the British version of Michael from Vsauce
Great final words!
Great video man you should do John major or tony Blair
You missed/skipped him sending troops to Somalia to do "God's work" in his words...
pretty one sided... GHWBush had his sticky fingers in a lot of honey pots
Those were part of the UN Mission UNOSOM II. I don’t know how people always forgets that one was a UN operation.
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko Yes, a UN mission, so was Desert Storm....
Yes, what used to be true conspiracy is merely the word now meaning to disagree even with evidence. Didnt he hang out at the Bohemian Grove? Only a fool who didnt hear his speeches could not think him a globalist. "A new world order..."
Another slam dunk Biographics team - thank you for all you guys do!
You need to make a biogrpahics video on President Grover Cleveland, his life was pretty wild lol
Hmm, I didn't know Clinton's middle name was Jefferson, makes it all the more apt to call him BJ Clinton now... :P
Not a new idea, but appropriate whenever it comes up.
Howdy neighbours I’m George Bush...former president George Bush.
@fa q 😂😂😂 Disco Stu likes disco music