George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Their oldest daughter, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953.Following the end of World War II, Bush enrolled at Yale University, where he took part in an accelerated program that enabled him to graduate in two and a half years rather than the usual four. In 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed him as the Chief of the Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, and in 1976 Bush became the Director of Central Intelligence. Portions of his letters and his diary were later published as The China Diary of George H. W. Bush and All The Best, George Bush.During a 1993 visit to Kuwait, Bush was targeted in an assassination plot directed by the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
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