Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speak at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, Bush invited a couple of students into the presidential limousine; one of them sported a power yellow tie, reflecting Alan Greenspan more than Karl Marx. At the end of a run with dozens of youthful joggers, Bush jovially autographed a dirty sneaker that a child had thrust into his hand...
What propelled Bush was his belief that history is calling him and the leaders of Poland and Hungary to forge some kind of new partnership quickly. | But as he listened to the confessionals of Communists declaring their system a failure and searching for a peaceful way out, he realized that he had to move gingerly...
Before he left home, Bush wrote Mikhail Gorbachev that his trip was not designed to stir up trouble in the Soviets' backyard. "Winners, losers -- that's not what this is about," he insisted on Air Force One, as he sped toward Warsaw...
...delicate challenge was to encourage the faltering nations to embrace democratic reforms and move toward a free-market economy mostly on their own, without provoking another era of repression from nervous party bosses. Bush offered only $115 million to Poland, a pittance when measured against Poland's $39 billion international debt, and $25 million to Hungary. But part of the President's traveling plan was not to overpromise and energize the dissidents, who might then make more demands...
...Gdansk the next day, Bush was at the luncheon table again, this one in the 100-year-old home of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Women from the neighborhood had prepared an avalanche of Polish dishes, ranging from smoked eel to schnitzel. Bush looked at the groaning board and commented, "My mother taught me to eat what's before you. In this house I would weigh 300 lbs." Framed pictures of Christ were in almost every room; crucifixes hung over most of the doors. By Polish standards the house was a mansion; Walesa noted that his work with Solidarity had some...