Here is a closer look at those and other elements of his life:George HW Bush has died aged 94 (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)NicknamesGeorge HW Bush was known to his family as “Poppy”. The nickname evolved into Poppy, which Bush “hated as he got older, but it was hard to break such a long-standing habit,” Barbara Bush wrote in her memoir. Mr Bush and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)The band was playing Glenn Miller tunes, but when he asked her to dance, the music changed to a waltz. Then-president-elect George HW Bush casts a line while fishing in Gulf Stream, Florida (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)Mr Bush wrote in a 1987 book that he loved “the physical sensation of steering a powerful machine, throttle open”. Mr Bush with son George W Bush at St Martin’s Episcopal Church for a funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)“The loveliest resting spot I have ever seen,” Barbara Bush once described it.

Source: Irish Independent December 01, 2018 06:45 UTC