Name: 10 times George H.W. Bush's humor brought laughter to his loved ones in mourning
Uploaded: 2018-12-10T04:01:00.000Z
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he loved a good joke, the richer the better,

and he'd throw his head back and give that great laugh,

but he never, ever could remember a punch line.

-On the primary campaign trail in New Hampshire once,

he grabbed the hand of a department-store

When he realized his mistake, he said, "Never know.

I see the media is shooting you pretty full of holes."

Actually, he said it a bit more pungently than that.

And he said, "Why don't we go up to Camp David?"

At that time, his popularity rating was 93%.

"Now wave to your pals over there in the media, Al."

-"Fluency in English," President Bush once remarked,

"is something that I'm often not accused of."

Looking ahead to the '88 election, he observed,

that the undecideds could go one way or the other."

Baker, smuggled a bottle of Grey Goose Vodka

Apparently, it paired well with the steak

for some extraordinarily petty bit of trivia,

The President wrote that he was finally losing his marbles.

-He loved to laugh, especially at himself.

He could tease and needle, but never out of malice.

-So, the punch line for George Herbert Walker Bush is this --

Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements

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