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Based on candid interviews and intimate letters and diaries, it provides a deep insight into the character of george h. Bush, with dick cheney at his side, pushed the historical limits of white house authority. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Historian dusts off the short but successful presidency of george h. Nov 29, 2015 destiny and power, jon meachams biography of george h. For better or for worse, george herbert walker bush has been enshrined in collective memory as a series of. Meacham is a top rate historian and destiny and power. Bush and drug trafficking many researchers contend that george bush has been with the cia since the early 1950s and that one of his jobs was to consolidate and coordinate the worldwide narcotics industry, the largest industry on earth. Destiny and power in some respects, however, jon meacham wrote one for him, a book.
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