
Reagan shot!
On March 30, 1981, only nine weeks after President Ronald Reagan took office, he was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. Vice President George Bush scribbled his feelings...

R&R on the Maine coast
President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush are shown here at their summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1991. The house, at Walker Point, has been in the Bush family for...

Thanksgiving in the sand
President George H. W. Bush shared 1990 Thanksgiving dinner while visiting U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during the first Persian Gulf War.

What will the New Year bring?
In late 1990, President George H. W. Bush wrote this letter to his children sharing some of his thoughts about the impending war in the Persian Gulf.