Talk:George H. W. Bush

Ambiguous pronoun
Ambiguous pronoun:
 * Bush also generally enjoyed a good relationship with Reagan staffers, including his close friend Jim Baker, who served as Reagan's initial chief of staff

79.176.173.15 (talk) 07:40, 6 March 2022 (UTC)


 * What? It is clearly referring to Bush, there's no other possibility. ValarianB (talk) 17:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Except Reagan -- Charlesreid1 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 03:53, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

While I agree it obviously means Bush, one could misinterpret to be Reagan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazy Jay Fox (talk • contribs) 03:34, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Not to mention, which Jim (James) Baker are we talking about?? The James Baker (disambiguation) page lists 3 lawyers, 14 public officials, and 12 'other people'. While only some of them could have been alive and adults during either Bush's or Reagan's lifetime, this Jim Baker should be a wikilink. That would make it easier to follow up to see whether Baker was a friend of Reagan's, Bush's, or both.
 * On further follow up it's James Baker who "Jim Baker" refers to. I updated the name to be a wikilink, and updated the ambiguous pronoun from "his friend" to "Bush's friend" as per James Baker article.
 * -- Charlesreid1 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history
Why does B1 fail? Adamdaley (talk) 06:27, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 September 2022
Paragraph three should say FOUR (rather than three) pieces of bipartisan legislation and include the Civil Rights Act of 1991

That is a major bipartisan piece of legislation that should certainly be mentioned at the head of the article 66.117.143.199 (talk) 09:07, 29 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. The wording in the lede says "championed and signed". While he certainly signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991, he vetoed the similar Civil Rights Act of 1990, so I don't think I would describe him as "championing" the 1991 version he signed. If we were to remove "championed" from the lede, then I think listing the Act of 1991 with the other 3 make sense. However, not sure if doing so would be an improvement as seeing which pieces he did champion is interesting information as well Cannolis (talk) 17:54, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 May 2023
In this edit, the nonsensical "|last2=Writer|first2=Staff" was added to a reference -- please remove it. Also, the template should really be "cite news" with periodical= instead of website=. 66.44.21.145 (talk) 14:52, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ ARandomName123 (talk) 15:23, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! 66.44.21.145 (talk) 15:27, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . For anyone watching, this is part of a big checking and cleanup job, for which more volunteers would always be appreciated. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 23:20, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

there is no mention of ghwb groping women and apologising for it
https://time.com/5019182/george-hw-bush-groping-allegation/

ghwb had been accused of groping women in public. granted, i believe dementia was largely to blame but this is still too important to exclude from the article NotQualified (talk) 22:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 July 2024
put the fact that he was the head of the secret service in the first line as was done with Putin. False flag 911 (talk) 13:25, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

❌ Putin was a long time career KGB agent, While Bush was head of CIA as a political appointee for but a small part of his broader political career. Drdpw (talk) 15:38, 15 July 2024 (UTC)