“I love you, too,” was late US President’s George Bush’s last words. This was to his son George Bush junior who called him on the phone to check on him when he heard that the ex-President was giving up.
Mr. Bush has died just a few months after losing his “beloved” wife of 73 years, Barbara.
George Snr was an upper-crust war hero-turned-oilman and diplomat who steered America through the end of the Cold War as the 41st president of the US and led a political dynasty that saw his eldest son win the White House. During his time as leader of the free world, the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed.
He was a foreign policy realist who also navigated the turbulent but largely peaceful fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and assembled an unprecedented coalition to defeat Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein two years later.
