GHWB RIP by BruceM

Shortly after his 18th birthday, George Herbert Walker Bush enlisted in which branch of the U.S. armed forces? At one time he was the youngest aviator in that branch.

At Yale, Bush played in the first two College World Series (1947-48) at which position? When the Houston Astros won the 2017 MLB championship, this was Yuli Gurriel's primary position.

Bush co-founded a petroleum company named for what Mexican revolutionary? Marlon Brando played him in a 1952 biopic.

After being elected to Congress from Houston, Bush lost a 1970 Senate race to what Texas Democrat, who unsuccessfully ran for vice president 18 years later?

In March 1971, Bush became U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. What Career Ambassador held that position through most of Bush's own presidency? This New Jersey native was U.S. ambassador to six other countries, including Israel in the late 1980s and Russia in the mid 1990s.

Bush became Director of Central Intelligence in 1976, one year after the formation of a Senate committee to study intelligence activities, led by (and named for) what Idaho Democrat? (The House's counterpart to that committee was the Pike Committee.)

An April 1980 Philadelphia Inquirer article describes Bush using what dismissive two-word phrase to describe then-rival candidate Ronald Reagan's economic policies?

After eight years as Reagan's vice president, Bush won the 1988 presidential election. What Texas Democrat gave the keynote speech at the 1988 DNC? You may remember her line: "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." She became governor of Texas but lost her 1994 reelection bid to George W. Bush.

In December 1989, Bush deployed 24,000 troops to what nation as part of Operation Just Cause? U.S. forces took control of this country, overthrowing a despot and enabling its democratically elected president to take office.

Also in December 1989 (a few weeks after the Berlin Wall fell), Bush held talks with what Soviet General Secretary? In 1997 this man appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial.

What three-word phrase fills in this blank from a September 11, 1990, Bush speech to a joint session of Congress?

"The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a [BLANK] -- can emerge: a new era -- freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace."

Bush faced a 1992 primary challenge from what nativist pundit? This original co-host of CNN's Crossfire had, as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, coined the term "silent majority."

What was the only state carried by both George H.W. Bush in his 1992 reelection bid and Hillary Clinton in her 2016 election? This state was governed at the time by the first African-American ever to be elected governor of a U.S. state.

What word (same word both times) fills in the blanks in this excerpt from the letter Bush left for Bill Clinton in an Oval Office desk?

"You will be our president when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well."

"Your [BLANK] now is our country’s [BLANK]. I am rooting hard for you."

Because Bush died one day before World AIDS, reactions to his death included sharp criticism of the (lack of) AIDS-fighting policies on the part of Bush and Reagan before him. Bush did sign an August 1990 act for federal funding to improve the care of some AIDS/HIV patients. That laws was named for what Indiana hemophiliac, who had contracted AIDS from a tainted blood transfusion when he was 12?

Bush's "thousand points of light" reference (used in his 1988 acceptance speech and many subsequent times) gave rise to the Points of Light charitable non-profit. Michelle Nunn, who had been CEO of Points of Light from 2007 to 2013, resigned to run for Senate in 2014 in what U.S. state? Michelle's father, Sam, was one of this state's Senators from 1973 to 1997.