Despite his defeat, Bush climbed back from low election day approval ratings to leave office in 1993 with a 56% job approval rating. Bush's oldest son, George W. Bush, served as the country's 43rd president from 2001 to 2009. The Bushes were the second father and son pair to serve as president, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. By December 2008, 60% of Americans gave George H. W. Bush's presidency a positive rating. In the 2010s, Bush was fondly remembered for his willingness to compromise, which contrasted with the intensely partisan era that followed his presidency. Polls of historians and political scientists have generally ranked Bush as an average president. A 2018 poll of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section ranked Bush as the 17th best president. A 2017 C-Span poll of historians ranked Bush as the 20th best president.
56%|60% Despite his defeat, Bush climbed back from low election day approval ratings to leave office in 1993 with a 56% job approval rating. 56%
56%|60% Despite his defeat, Bush climbed back from low election day approval ratings to leave office in 1993 with a 56% job approval rating. 56%