many know him as the famous father of a
more recent POTUS while others only
remember him from that time he moved
either way we’re here to set the record
straight when it comes to the 41st
president of the United States welcome
to watchmojo.com ting down the top-5
surprisingly badass facts about George
HW Bush just cuz you’re an old guy you
don’t have to sit around drooling in the
corner
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five he played a role in Richard Nixon’s
resignation you’ve heard of a guy named
Vice President George Bush haven’t you
during his lengthy political career Bush
Senior wore many hats from his time as
the US ambassador to the United Nations
to his role as CIA director the man was
capable of occupying numerous positions
while functioning at an extremely high
level of efficiency and my job was to
keep the Republican Party viable while
defending the president as long as I
could however it was during his time as
chairman of the Republican National
Committee from 1973 to 74 that Bush was
faced with an unprecedented dilemma
President Nixon had gotten himself
tangled up in what’s now known as the
Watergate scandal as chairman it was
Bush’s responsibility to issue a formal
request that Nixon resigned the
presidency
two days after Bush sent that letter
Nixon officially stepped down on August
9th 1974 on our badass checklist helping
to kick an infamously corrupt president
out of office definitely earns a
checkmark number four he was a
cheerleader okay so maybe you don’t
consider this badass per se but it’s
still interesting today cheerleading is
primarily associated with women in
skimpy costumes waving pom-poms at
football games however in the early 20th
century to be a Yale cheerleader was to
be a shining example of masculinity and
success bitch as a cheerleader you had
the ability to rally a crowd at will
with the potential to raise the spirits
those in attendance this function cannot
be understated as the roaring of the
crowd could often influence the outcome
of a game as such cheerleaders were
respected members of the student body
the three greatest presidents of the
last 200 years all cheerleaders was
Ronald Reagan really one of the top
three top 40 and as a matter of fact HW
his father Prescott and his son George W
all occupied this prestigious position
while attending Yale three generations
of skills number three he was a star
athlete it may be hard to fathom but at
one point in his life
HW was a young man fact he was a young
man with energy despair after returning
from service in World War two Bush was
accepted to Yale University while
working towards a degree in economics
Bush managed to make the Yale baseball
team he excelled as a left-handed first
baseman and was eventually named team
captain it was the glint of Walker steel
his teammates talk they wanted their
team to be like that as if that weren’t
impressive enough Bush managed to lead
his squad to two consecutive College
World Series appearances it was during
this time that he got to meet an aging
and very sick Babe Ruth the two posed
for a photo together before a game with
Bush later remarking that
despite his cancer they was still there
and very much alive number two his plane
was shot down during World War two known
to some as the greatest generation the
men and women who fought in World War
two were some of the bravest individuals
to ever walk the earth
a shining member of their ranks was the
eventual US President George Herbert
Walker Bush an 18-year old Bush became a
pilot in 1942 and an ensign in the Naval
Reserve the following year a feat that
made him the youngest aviator in the
entire Navy at that point after being
deployed to the Pacific Theater Bush had
his plane shot down by Japanese soldiers
on September 2nd 1944 a badass through
and through however the young pilots
still managed to eliminate his target a
radio station
before parachuting from his plane sadly
however all of his fellow crew members
died in the action from aboard the
finback Bush wrote his girl back home
I hope my own children never have to
fight a war rescued soon after by an
American submarine Bush would go on to
receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
for his heroic actions ruin you like a
Japanese banquet number one he
celebrated his 80th 85th and 90th
birthday ‘he’s by skydiving if we’re
talking about feats of badassery then it
doesn’t get much better than jumping out
of an airplane especially when most
people your age are watching TV in a
nursing home yet that’s exactly what
Bush did eight times maybe it was the
leftover adrenaline from his time in the
military but the former POTUS just
couldn’t seem to hang up his parachute
in fact Bush used two skydiving exploits
as birthday celebrations and marked his
80th 85th and 90th birthday is by
jumping out of a plane if that’s not
cool enough he also tweeted about it
before making his final jump on June 12
2014
this time the White House may have been
over but he was still an inspiration to
thrill-seekers everywhere do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
more recent POTUS while others only
remember him from that time he moved
either way we’re here to set the record
straight when it comes to the 41st
president of the United States welcome
to watchmojo.com ting down the top-5
surprisingly badass facts about George
HW Bush just cuz you’re an old guy you
don’t have to sit around drooling in the
corner
before we begin we published new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos number
five he played a role in Richard Nixon’s
resignation you’ve heard of a guy named
Vice President George Bush haven’t you
during his lengthy political career Bush
Senior wore many hats from his time as
the US ambassador to the United Nations
to his role as CIA director the man was
capable of occupying numerous positions
while functioning at an extremely high
level of efficiency and my job was to
keep the Republican Party viable while
defending the president as long as I
could however it was during his time as
chairman of the Republican National
Committee from 1973 to 74 that Bush was
faced with an unprecedented dilemma
President Nixon had gotten himself
tangled up in what’s now known as the
Watergate scandal as chairman it was
Bush’s responsibility to issue a formal
request that Nixon resigned the
presidency
two days after Bush sent that letter
Nixon officially stepped down on August
9th 1974 on our badass checklist helping
to kick an infamously corrupt president
out of office definitely earns a
checkmark number four he was a
cheerleader okay so maybe you don’t
consider this badass per se but it’s
still interesting today cheerleading is
primarily associated with women in
skimpy costumes waving pom-poms at
football games however in the early 20th
century to be a Yale cheerleader was to
be a shining example of masculinity and
success bitch as a cheerleader you had
the ability to rally a crowd at will
with the potential to raise the spirits
those in attendance this function cannot
be understated as the roaring of the
crowd could often influence the outcome
of a game as such cheerleaders were
respected members of the student body
the three greatest presidents of the
last 200 years all cheerleaders was
Ronald Reagan really one of the top
three top 40 and as a matter of fact HW
his father Prescott and his son George W
all occupied this prestigious position
while attending Yale three generations
of skills number three he was a star
athlete it may be hard to fathom but at
one point in his life
HW was a young man fact he was a young
man with energy despair after returning
from service in World War two Bush was
accepted to Yale University while
working towards a degree in economics
Bush managed to make the Yale baseball
team he excelled as a left-handed first
baseman and was eventually named team
captain it was the glint of Walker steel
his teammates talk they wanted their
team to be like that as if that weren’t
impressive enough Bush managed to lead
his squad to two consecutive College
World Series appearances it was during
this time that he got to meet an aging
and very sick Babe Ruth the two posed
for a photo together before a game with
Bush later remarking that
despite his cancer they was still there
and very much alive number two his plane
was shot down during World War two known
to some as the greatest generation the
men and women who fought in World War
two were some of the bravest individuals
to ever walk the earth
a shining member of their ranks was the
eventual US President George Herbert
Walker Bush an 18-year old Bush became a
pilot in 1942 and an ensign in the Naval
Reserve the following year a feat that
made him the youngest aviator in the
entire Navy at that point after being
deployed to the Pacific Theater Bush had
his plane shot down by Japanese soldiers
on September 2nd 1944 a badass through
and through however the young pilots
still managed to eliminate his target a
radio station
before parachuting from his plane sadly
however all of his fellow crew members
died in the action from aboard the
finback Bush wrote his girl back home
I hope my own children never have to
fight a war rescued soon after by an
American submarine Bush would go on to
receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
for his heroic actions ruin you like a
Japanese banquet number one he
celebrated his 80th 85th and 90th
birthday ‘he’s by skydiving if we’re
talking about feats of badassery then it
doesn’t get much better than jumping out
of an airplane especially when most
people your age are watching TV in a
nursing home yet that’s exactly what
Bush did eight times maybe it was the
leftover adrenaline from his time in the
military but the former POTUS just
couldn’t seem to hang up his parachute
in fact Bush used two skydiving exploits
as birthday celebrations and marked his
80th 85th and 90th birthday is by
jumping out of a plane if that’s not
cool enough he also tweeted about it
before making his final jump on June 12
2014
this time the White House may have been
over but he was still an inspiration to
thrill-seekers everywhere do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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