George H. W. Bush: Difference between revisions

In 2018, ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'' highlighted Bush for his "pragmatism" as a moderate Republican president by working across the aisle.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TImO_RquoW8|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201102004813/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TImO_RquoW8|archive-date= November 2, 2020|title= The George H.W. Bush promise that changed the Republican Party|website= Vox |via=YouTube |date=May 4, 2018 |access-date= October 29, 2020|url-status= live }}</ref> They specifically noted Bush's accomplishments within the domestic policy by making [[Bipartisanship|bipartisan]] deals, including raising the tax budget among the wealthy with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Bush also helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 which ''The New York Times'' described as "the most sweeping anti-discrimination law since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/27/opinion/a-law-for-every-american.html |url-access=subscription |title= A Law for Every American|website= The New York Times|date= July 27, 1990|access-date= October 30, 2020}}</ref> In response to the ''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill, Bush built another bipartisan coalition to strengthen the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-can-breathe-easier--literally--thanks-to-george-hw-bush/2018/12/02/e7a2acbe-f66a-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html |url-access=subscription |first1=Monica |last1=Medina |date=December 2, 2018 |title= We can breathe easier - literally - thanks to George H.W. Bush|newspaper= The Washington Post|access-date= October 29, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://environmentamerica.org/blogs/environment-america-blog/ame/lessons-bipartisanship-1990-clean-air-act-amendments|title= Lessons in Bipartisanship: The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments|website= Environmental America|date=November 15, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220815231021/https://environmentamerica.org/blogs/environment-america-blog/ame/lessons-bipartisanship-1990-clean-air-act-amendments |archive-date= Aug 15, 2022 }}</ref> Bush also championed and signed into a law the Immigration Act of 1990, a sweeping bipartisan immigration reform act that made it easier for immigrants to legally enter the county, while also granting immigrants fleeing violence the temporary protected status visa, as well as lifted the pre-naturalization English testing process, and finally "eliminated the exclusion of homosexuals under what Congress now deemed the medically unsound classification of 'sexual deviant' that was included in the [[Immigration Act of 1965|1965 act]]."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Glass |first=Andrew |date=2018-11-29 |title=Bush signs immigration reform statute into law, Nov. 29, 1990 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/bush-immigration-reform-1990-1014141 |access-date=October 29, 2020 |website=Politico|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Bush-41-s-immigration-plan-actually-worked-13443111.php |first1=Bruce |last1=Morrison |title= Bush 41's immigration plan actually worked|website= Houston Chronicle|date= December 4, 2018|access-date= October 30, 2020}}</ref> Bush stated, "Immigration is not just a link to our past but it's also a bridge to America's future".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4737330/user-clip-george-hw-bush-immigration|title= George H.W. Bush on Immigration |date=November 30, 1990 |work=Immmigration Act Signing Ceremony |publisher= C-SPAN|access-date= October 30, 2002}}</ref>

{{blockquote|In the recent history of U.S. foreign policy, there has been no president, nor any president's team, who, when confronted with profound international change and challenges, responded with such a thoughtful and well-managed foreign policy...[the Bush administration was] a bridge over one of the great fault lines of history [that] ushered in a "new world order" it described with great skill and professionalism.<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Rothkopf|title=Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1N1DleUGufwC&pg=PA261|year=2009|publisher=PublicAffairs|page=261|isbn=9780786736003}}</ref>}}However, [[Time (magazine)|''TIME'']] has criticized Bush's [[domestic policies]] involving "drugs, homelessness, racial hostility, education gaps, [and] issues with the environment", and it argues that these issues in the United States became worse in the 21st century primarily due to Bush setting a poor example and his handling of these concepts during his presidency.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2023 |editor-last=Jacobs |editor-first=Sam |editor-link=Samuel Jacobs (journalist) |editor2-last=Rothman |editor2-first=Lily |editor3-last=Benedict |editor3-first=Julie Blume |editor4-last=Cassidy |editor4-first=Catherine |editor4-link=Catherine Cassidy |title=George H.W. Bush |magazine=TIME Person of the Year: 95 Years of the World's Most Influential People |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |page=63}}</ref>