Published: December 05, 2018
The 41st president’s ability to befriend his opponents can be set against his ease with racially charged swinging below the belt
In 1953, George HW Bush lost his daughter Robin to leukemia when she was just three years old. An intimately familiar and heartwarming exchange between father and daughter, some of Robin’s final words to her dad were, “I love you more than tongue can tell,” to which he replied, as ever, “I love you more.”
Sixty years later, Patrick, the two-year-old son of Jon, a member of Bush Sr’s Secret Service detail, had lost all of his hair due to leukemia. In an act of solidarity, more than 20 members of the Secret Service unit, dubbed Bush Protective Division, shaved their heads.
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