The drug war offered up a new evil to combat and ... We should recognize the good intentions of George H.W. Bush — all too rare in today’s political climate — but we should also learn ...

John H. Sununu, the former Republican governor of New Hampshire who is perhaps best known for serving as President George H.W. Bush's chief ... involved with the war on drugs.

Last week, former President George H. W. Bush was laid to rest ... pointed out the harm President Bush caused by expanding America’s “War on Drugs.” The U.S. prison population almost tripled ...

Early in George H.W ... year. Bush’s most lasting legacy in race relations may stem from his nomination of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his role in escalating the war on drugs.

AMY GOODMAN: Let’s talk about that drug war and what George H.W. Bush did, especially around the issue of crack. This was—I mean, this is pure cynicism, Amy, to use this prop in this fake ...

And it was 1989 when George H.W. Bush announced a major policy shift around the war on drugs. You may remember he gave a famous speech in 1989 where he held up a little baggie of crack that agents ...

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When George H.W. Bush ... provisions Bush got in exchange for new taxes also paid off, in part by erecting a protective wall around defense appropriations. Having ended the Cold War successfully ...

As president, Bush proposed building a “kinder, gentler America”; helped oversee the peaceful conclusion to the Cold War and signed ... his own image. That George H.W. Bush should now be ...

Although he only served one term, Bush's presidency helped shape American foreign policy in the decades to come. Most notably, Bush oversaw the first Gulf War in ... with George H.W. Bush's ...

Hagiographies neglect to mention that Bush's presidency included a racist drug war, the Willie Horton ad ... who came after him — his son George W. and the current orange-faced incumbent ...