George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, but in many ways, he was the last of his kind.
Bush, who died Friday at 94, was the last World War II veteran to serve in the Oval Office, and he presided over the end of the long Cold War with the Soviets. He was also the last person raised within the confines of the once politically dominant “Eastern Establishment” to attain the presidency.
“A real transition, one might say, came with the conclusion of Bush’s term,” says presidential historian Robert Dallek.
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