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Through previous administrations, the elder Bush had ubiquitously been known as "George Bush" or "President Bush", but following his son's election, the need to distinguish between them has made retronymic forms such as "George H. W. Bush" and "George Bush Sr." and colloquialisms such as "Bush 41" and "Bush the Elder" more common. [294]
Before its current name, the CIA headquarters was formally unnamed. [3] On April 26, 1999, [4] the complex was officially named in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 for George H. W. Bush, [2] who had served as the Director of Central Intelligence for 357 days (between January 30, 1976, and January 20, 1977) and later as the 41st president of the United States.
The 16-foot (5 m) diameter granite CIA seal in the lobby of the original headquarters building. The entrance of the CIA headquarters. The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2004, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Security Council, as well as ...
Ford named Rumsfeld to succeed Schlesinger as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense and George H. W. Bush to become Director of Central Intelligence. According to Bob Woodward's 2002 book Bush at War, a rivalry developed between the two men and "Bush senior was convinced that Rumsfeld was pushing him out to the CIA to end his political career." [54]
Meanwhile, senior administration officials became increasingly convinced that Iraq did indeed possess WMDs and was likely to furnish those WMDs to al-Qaeda; CIA Director George Tenet assured Bush that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq possessed a stockpile of WMDs. [122]
The 41st president of the United States, former director of the CIA, and vice president for eight years under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush died in 2018 at the age of 94. ... George H.W. Bush ...
George H. W. Bush (1948), 41st President of the United States, 11th Director of Central Intelligence , son of Prescott Bush, father of George W. Bush. His Skull and Bones nickname was "Magog". [3]: 167–8 [113] William Sloane Coffin (1949), CIA agent (1950–1953), clergyman and peace activist [3]: 127, 196
The library also contains the vice presidential records of both George Bush (1981-1989) and Dan Quayle (1989-1993) as well as donated historical materials that document Bush’s private and public ...