GEORGE BUSH: Portrait of power, wealth, class

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•What his demise means

BY Charles Kumolu,
Deputy Features Editor

Grandson of a wealthy oil merchant, son of a senator, father of an ex-President, father of a former governor and the 41st President of United States of America, George Walker Hubert Bush, wasn’t just an ex-American leader but one of the defining figures of the 20th century.

 

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His demise, yesterday,   at 94 symbolises not only the exit of a global statesman but the death of the patriarch of world’s most powerful political dynasty.

Literally, it may not upend political configurations neither will it affect the balance of power on the global stage, but Sunday Vanguard believes its symbolism is reverberating across the world.

From Baghdad to Beijing, Abuja to Havana, Rome to Ramallah, that is the mood and pulse.

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