Who is president in 1988

Bush run for the presidency in In , he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Below is an abbreviated outline of Bush's academic, professional, and political career: [2] [3]. Every year in office, the president of the United States addresses Congress on the present state of affairs as well as the administration's goals for the coming year.

Other candidates that appeared on the ballot received less than 0. Smith and Gloria Estella La Riva. Those candidates included: Lyndon LaRouche Jr. Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. Bush was married to his wife Barbara until her death on April 17, , with whom he had six children, including former President George W.

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Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Bush William J. Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald J. Trump Joseph R. Biden Jr. That analysis would prove enduringly prescient. His position in the Senate offered him a chance to show his skill. In particular, as Biden chaired the Judiciary Committee, he hoped to gained more national attention during the uproar over polarizing conservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.

A few days before they began, video surfaced that spliced together footage of U. More examples of misattribution came to light, and the plagiarism scandal became more memorable than his leadership during the Bork confirmation hearing. His mouth — or rather, what he failed to say — got him in trouble again. He was on autopilot.

Once textual fidelity became an issue, reporters found earlier cases in which Biden had failed to give proper citation to Humphrey and Robert Kennedy. By themselves these transgressions would not have been worth noting. During his first months at Syracuse University Law School, in , Biden failed a course because he wrote a paper that used five pages from a published law-review article without quotation marks or a proper footnote.

Since Biden was allowed to make up the course, the revelation was front-page news only because it kept the copycat contretemps alive. Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on Sept. About twenty years later, in his memoir Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics , he wrote that the plagiarism scandal was his own fault. Paul Tully, a top aide to Dukakis, denied, on the record, that the video had come from the campaign, and Barrett says Tully expressed disbelief that the story would run anyway when they saw each other in Iowa.

Letters to the editor published in TIME offer a glimpse at the public reaction, finding neither Biden nor Dukakis to be honest or trustworthy. When the election rolled around, Republican George H. Bush won. And for Biden, there was a silver lining to being driven out of the race: It saved his life. In February of , he had a headache that turned out to be a brain aneurysm.