I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

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.