America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Bush to the presidency in 2000 Bush was commonly referred to simply as "George Bush"; since that time the forms "George H. In the wake of economic concerns he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton. Bush was born in Milton Massachusetts to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.