George H.W. Bush got to hear his own eulogy before he died. His reaction was priceless.
I thought, “it couldn’t have been that great.” I was wrong.
In George H.W. Bush’s final days, Jon Meacham — the Bush biographer, presidential historian and one of four people chosen to eulogize the 41st president — decided to share the words of his speech with its subject.
And the ailing Bush responded in characteristically self-deprecating fashion:
“That’s a lot about me, Jon.”
Of course no humans are perfect, but GHWB was a great family man, a war hero, and overall, in my opinion, a very good president.
