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什麽叫貴族的言行?布什家族三代人

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什麽叫貴族的言行
布什家族三代人與美國
1)有尊嚴和榮譽 (:“您的高尚、誠懇與仁慈將永遠與我們同在。)
2)為公眾和國家服務的責任感
3)對普通人的謙遜感. (布什的風格是溫和,妥協,求同存異。)
4)一種幽默感可以打破一群人的緊張情緒
5)彈性:放下但反彈回來
6)首先要愛上帝,成為創造者使用的容器 (布什相信上帝和天堂,在天堂中,和他相濡以沫72年的夫人芭芭拉,和三歲的女兒羅賓,都在等待和他的團聚。)

(注意:在大雨中駕駛,我聽了喬治·W·布什的悼詞演講 - 哀悼和慶祝他的美國#41總統爸爸布什總統的偉大生活。) - 我知道為什麽他的爸爸 討厭Broccolli - 素食不耐症綜合症。

祖父:普雷斯科特謝爾頓布什(1895年5月15日 - 1972年10月8日)是美國銀行家和政治家。 投資銀行家,他於1952年至1963年在美國參議院代表康涅狄格州。維基百科(美國參議院的領導人,他給初級參議員理查德尼克鬆戴帽子)

父親:H。布什

兒子:W。布什


什麽叫貴族的言行?布什家族三代人與美國
1) with dignity and honor
2) a sense of duty to serve the public and the country
3) a sense of humility to ordinary folks
4) a sensw of humor to break tension in group of people
5) resilience: put down but bounce back up
6) love God above all, be a vessel to be used by the creator

(Note-taking: Driving through the heavy rain, I listened to George W. Bush eulogy speech on - mourning and celebrating the great life of his President Dad H. Bush, the #41 President of the US.) - I got that why his Dad hated Broccolli - veggie intolerance syndrom. W Bush moved me to tear down my cheek)

 

Grandfather: Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker and politician. investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the United States Senate from 1952 to 1963.

Wikipedia  (Ring leader of the US Senate, he gave a hat to junior senator Richard Nixon)

Father: H. Bush

Son: W. Bush

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has praised former U.S. President George H.W. Bush - "many ships, but the most of all is friend-ship "

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紀念老布什總統

 

 

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"老布什人生萬幸中的不幸是,先於他跳傘的兩個戰友,未能幸存,這成為老布什此生永遠的隱痛。第二次經曆生離死別的動蕩,是四歲的大女兒羅賓被確診白血病。當地醫生建議布什夫婦抱娃娃回家,病人想吃點什麽就給吃什麽吧,不折騰,在平靜中走完短短的一生。
戰友的犧牲和女兒的早夭,極大地塑造了青年布什的三觀。他理解什麽是人生的悚然無常,思考為什麽是戰友遇難而自己獨存。布什知道,自己以後的人生路,要對得起死難的人。"

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前任總統小布什(George W. Bush)5日為他的父親、美國第41位總統老布什(George H. W. Bush)致哀悼詞時說:“他教我當總統的意義為何,就是對於我們國家的公民,都要以廉正服務,以勇氣領導,以愛心來行動。”

小布什在華盛頓國家大教堂(Washington National Cathedral )舉行的國葬儀式上說:“當有一天曆史寫下紀錄時,將記載著老布什是位偉大的美國總統。”身為美國第43位總統的小布什說,父親是位“接近完美”的人。

演說結尾,身為長子的小布什難掩情緒激動,低頭落淚說道:“您的高尚、誠懇與仁慈將永遠與我們同在。所以,就在我們流著淚的同時,且讓我們感念能夠認識您、熱愛您這麽一位偉大且崇高的人,是多麽有福。對於為人兒女者來說,您是最棒的父親。”

小布什在演說中提到,父親在85歲高齡還喜歡駕船在大西洋出航,到了90歲高齡則享受跳傘,“到了他人生最後日子,父親的生命仍充滿啟發意義。就在他歲數越來越大的時候,他教導我們如何體麵的、充滿幽默且和藹的變老。當天父最後召喚時,要如何帶著勇氣去麵,對也要帶著喜樂麵對未來。”

他說,老布什年輕時兩度與死亡擦身而過,一次是青少年時期差點因葡萄球菌感染而喪命,一次則是戰爭期間在太平洋落難,在救生艇上祈禱著救難人員最好在敵軍來臨之前即時相救,“上帝回應了他的禱告,從後來發展可以看出,因為上帝對老布什另有安排。”

對於父親在家庭中的角色,小布什說,父親一直都很忙,但從來不會忙到沒有時間把對生命的熱愛分享給身邊的人;老布什與各行各業的人都能打交道,是有同理心的人,看重的是一個人的個性特質而非家世背景,父親也從來不會憤世嫉俗,“他在每一個人的身上尋找優點,他常常也都能發掘得到。”

談到老布什後來敗選,小布什說,父親承擔失敗,也接受失敗是生命的一部份,“但他教導我們不要用失敗來界定自我。他以身作則,讓我們了解挫敗可以讓我們變得更堅強。”

他說,就連在大選中擊敗老布什的對手克林頓(Bill Clinton),後來也跟老布什成了朋友。小布什說,我們兄弟姊妹之間常開玩笑說,這些朋友跟我們如同手足,“仿佛是不同母親生的兄弟一樣。”

小布什說,母親在今年稍早過世之後,父親雖然很堅強,“但他唯一想做的,就是能再次握一握媽媽的手。”演說結尾,小布什說,父親現在終於在天上擁抱早逝的女兒羅賓(Robin),並且再度與母親牽手。

休士頓聖馬丁主教教堂(St. Martins Episcopal Church)牧師雷文森(Russell Levenson)在致追悼詞時說,老布什臨終之前有畢生摯友、前國務卿貝克(James Baker)一直陪在身旁。雷文森在演說中描述老布什與貝克的情誼,坐在台下的貝克忍不住哭泣。

 

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President George W. Bush waves as he walks out of the Oval Office with his father, former president George H. W. Bush, in 2008. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)© Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images President George W. Bush waves as he walks out of the Oval Office with his father, former president George H. W. Bush, in 2008. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) Before this week, the American people had never watched a president stand before the casket of another president who was also his father. They were moments that proved to be as personal as it was historic.

As George W. Bush watched the coffin containing the body of George H.W. Bush being carried into Washington National Cathedral Wednesday, his face was a map of pain. The same was true Monday in the Capitol Rotunda, where amid the pomp and the honor guards and the echoing marble, the 43rd president looked like nothing more than a boy crying for his dad.

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There has long been speculation about the relationship between the first father and son to reach the White House since John Adams and John Quincy Adams two centuries ago. (The younger Adams only learned of the elder’s death after his burial.) Historians have scoured the path both Bushes took — Yale, stints flying fighter planes, the oil business and politics — for every sign of rivalry, jealousy and intrafamily psychodrama. Oedipus Tex.

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But the reality was simpler, historians say, and was visible in George W. Bush’s grief, which will be on display again Wednesday as the 43rd president eulogizes the 41st president at Washington National Cathedral.

“He gave us unconditional love. And some of us tested it, I might add,” said George W. Bush in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired two nights after his father’s death.

Rather than Greek drama, the Bushes had an ordinary father-son bond that played out in extraordinary settings, these scholars contend. There were good times and bad, periods of distance and rebellion, the pain of loss and the joy of triumph. But whatever the weather, the climate was always loving.

“I think it was a tense relationship when George W. was in his sowing-his-wild-oats phase; and that was a pretty long phase,” said Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, who has interviewed both Bushes. “But by the end, they were peers.”

Presidential scholar Mark Updegrove spent years talking with the Bushes and those who knew them for his 2017 book on their relationship, “The Last Republicans.” Of all the anecdotes he collected, he finds one of the most telling to be a moment of everyday parenting: George and Barbara Bush were walking with their toddler son when little George went into a tantrum, wind-milling blows against his dad.

“His father just holds him at bay with a palm against his red forehead and until he tires out,” Updegrove said. “And then they just walk. There was a way in which George W. would transgress and his father would have the patience to know that his better angels would eventually take hold.”

Both presidents resisted any effort to “put them on the couch,” but the senior Bush left a rich emotional record in thousands of letters he wrote to family and friends through his life. In them, he makes clear the full play of fatherly emotion toward his often-rambunctious oldest child.

“Georgie has grown to be a near-man, talks dirty once in a while and occasionally swears, aged 4 1/2,” he wrote to his friend Gerry Bemiss soon after taking his family from Connecticut to Midland, Tex. “He lives in his cowboy clothes.”

And then when his son was 9 years old: “Georgie aggravates the hell out of me at times (I am sure I do the same to him), but then at times I am so proud of him I could die,” he wrote to his father-in-law. “He is out for Little League — so eager. He tries so very hard. It makes me think back to all the times I tried out.”

George H.W. Bush with his wife, Barbara, and son, George W., in Rye, N.Y., during the summer of 1955. (AP)© Unknown/ George H.W. Bush with his wife, Barbara, and son, George W., in Rye, N.Y., during the summer of 1955. (AP)

In 1953, the boy was old enough to understand that tragedy had come to the family. His younger sister Robin had been sick. The Bushes had taken her to New York for treatment and one day months later, he was thrilled when they returned.

“I remember seeing them pull up and thinking I saw my little sister in the back of the car. I remember that as sure as I’m sitting here,” he told The Washington Post in a 1999 interview. “I run over to the car, and there’s no Robin.”

She had died of leukemia, a crushing loss that by all accounts brought the Bushes closer together as a couple and a family.

Soon after, George H.W. Bush began his political rise that took him from local party boss to Congress, national Republican chairman, U.N. ambassador and head of the C.I.A. His son, meanwhile, fell in line on the father’s path to the Ivy League and then back to Texas to look for oil.

It was a well-documented stretch of both work and partying for the younger Bush. His drinking produced some public embarrassments — including one 1985 episode in which he shouted profanity at Wall Street Journal reporter Al Hunt in a Dallas restaurant over a political story that he felt slighted his father, who was then in his second term as vice president.

The boozing was worrying his wife, Laura, and, Bush would say later, alcohol “was beginning to crowd out my energies.” But Bush Senior’s lofty roles also loomed large. “He looked in the mirror and said ‘Someday I might embarrass my father,’” his friend Joe O’Neil recounted in Updegrove’s book.

George W. would quit cold turkey in July 1986. That same month, his father asked him to be a senior adviser in his presidential campaign.

“There is not one scintilla of evidence that he ever thought his son was badly wayward,” Updegrove said. “The narrative that George W. Bush was the family ne’er-do-well is vastly overblown.

Texas Gov. George W. Bush, then a presidential hopeful, with his father, former president George H.W. Bush, between takes of a family portrait in Houston in 1999. (Paul Buck/AFP)© Paul Buck/AFP/Getty Images Texas Gov. George W. Bush, then a presidential hopeful, with his father, former president George H.W. Bush, between takes of a family portrait in Houston in 1999. (Paul Buck/AFP)

”The younger Bush quickly became a full participant in the Bush apparatus, serving as pugnacious gatekeeper during the campaign and an enforcer of sorts in the White House.

“If he needed someone fired, it was often W. who did it,” said Engel.

Father and son had become political partners, even if there was a vast gulf between president and adviser. Remarkably, even that gap would close. Employing all the family assets — from fundraising to friendships — George W. began his own rapid political rise, from the governorship of Texas to, finally, the same Oval Office his dad had occupied.

If there was any rivalry in having to share the country’s highest title with his son, it didn’t show in the giddy, exuberant, detailed letter about George W.’s inauguration that the elder Bush wrote to his friend Hugh Sidey, a Time magazine writer. Friends were suddenly calling him “41.”

“It’s funny after all these years to get a new name; but, hey, what does it matter if your boy is the president of the United States of America so help me God,” he wrote.

They frequently called each other “Mr. President” when together, according to Engel, a respectful joke open to no father and son but them.

History may have gotten its best insight into this remarkable relationship at the very end of it. In his final minutes, George H.W. Bush was on the phone with George W. The last words the 41st president ever spoke were to the 43rd, a four-word epitaph of everything they meant to each other:

“I love you, too.”

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