President George H. W. Bush dies at age 94 | New

Few American presidents said this sentence: "The war is over".

George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first American president, had the program's desire to do. Faithful, full of energy, aggregator and especially very experienced.

He was born in 1924 in Milton, Mbadachusetts. She was a teenager when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during the Second World War. Son of a senator, George Bush entered the army against the will of his father.

At 18, he was the youngest pilot in the navy. In September 1944, his plane was hit during a mission in the Pacific. Bush said that he had cried a lot and that he needed to swim a lot to save himself.

Ambitious and impatient, he marries Barbara, his girlfriend, shortly after returning home in 1945. A graduate of Yale University in just three years, he settles in Texas where he has six children and founds oil company

It is there that Bush entered politics by the Republican party. In 1966, he was elected deputy. During the following years, he held important positions as United States Ambbadador to the United Nations, sent to China, a post that made him the proudest: Director of the CIA, the United States Intelligence Agency.

In 1980, George Bush tried to become a presidential candidate, but lost the precedents to the charismatic Ronald Reagan. He turned out to be the member for Reagan for eight years. Until 1989, he won the elections and, the following year, finally took control of the White House.

It was a turbulent time. He commanded the United States at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and helped end the Cold War. He led a military intervention in Panama for the removal of dictator Manuel Noriega from power and led action against the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who invaded Kuwait during the Gulf War. After five weeks of highly technological bombing, the war ended.

Bush was criticized for not overthrowing the Iraqi dictator, but his approval at the end of the war was 89%. The president's political career, however, did not survive the economy, which deteriorated over the following months and overthrew him.

Even with the famous campaign call "Read on my lips – Enough taxes!", He lost the election of Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992. But he lives his eldest son, George W. Bush He was elected president in 2000 and re-elected four years later. The other son, Jeb Bush, led Florida for eight years.

Bush's father received the Medal of Freedom, the highest honor bestowed on a civilian, by former President Barack Obama. And the parachute jumped alongside the veterans to celebrate the 80's, 85's and 90's.

George and Barbara Bush had been married for 73 years. Bush died at home in Texas on Friday night (30), seven months after the death of his mate.

The son of the former president said in a statement that his father was a man of "higher level" and that his son or daughter could be the best father possible.

Barack Obama said that "America has lost a patriot and a humble servant".

Former President Bill Clinton said he was grateful for every minute spent with George Bush.

Donald Trump also lamented the death and stressed the long and beautiful life of the former president.

German Prime Minister Angela Merkel said her country will never forget Bush's role in reunifying Germany.

The honors of the world are not lacking for a discreet American with a long public life.