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George H. Rieke

George H. Rieke (born January 5, 1943), a noted American infrared astronomer, is Deputy Director of the Steward Observatory and Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

He led the experiment design and development team for the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument on NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, and currently co-chairs the science team of the Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).


105th Airlift Wing

On 24 August the 137th Military Airlift Squadron was called to active duty by President George H. W. Bush to provide continued support for this operation.

511th Tactical Fighter Squadron

Aircraft contributed significantly to destruction of hundreds of enemy vehicles and many of their occupants on Highway 80, 26–27 February 1991, directly leading to President George H. W. Bush's decision to declare a cessation of hostilities on the next day.

A Tuna Christmas

Sears and Williams did command performances of both Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas at the White House for President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.

Abraham Shemtov

He regularly leads Chabad-Lubavitch delegations to the White House and played a pivotal role in the relationships formed between Schneerson and U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Akiko Nakagami

Once she has advised U.S. President George H. W. Bush at the Houston summit in 1990.
She also has held prominent positions such as counsellor for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Anne C. Conway

President George H. W. Bush appointed Conway to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 24, 1991, to the seat vacated by George C. Carr.

Artis Lane

She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger.

ASCI White

It was built as stage three of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.

C. J. Cregg

Kept out of the loop with regard to the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush, Myers assured the press that there would be no more news coming out of the White House hours before the United States bombed Baghdad.

Craig Hodges

When the Chicago Bulls visited the White House after winning the 1992 NBA Championship, Hodges dressed in a dashiki and delivered a hand-written letter addressed to then President George H. W. Bush, expressing his discontent at the administration's treatment of the poor and minorities.

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad

He was promoted to Chief of Staff for Senator Pressler in 1987, a position he held until 1991 when United States President George H. W. Bush appointed Schieffer to be US Attorney for South Dakota.

Dan Sandifer

He once played in a tennis exhibition match in Houston, Texas with future president, George H. W. Bush and professionals Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

David Gompert

Prior to leading the institute, Gompert was a special assistant to former President George H. W. Bush, as well as the senior director for Europe and Eurasia on the staff of the National Security Council from 1990 to 1993.

Edwin Bollier

As a discouragement to the prosecution, Bollier is alleged to have let it be known before the start of the trial that if he were to be charged for the PA 103 bombing he would call some high-ranking and controversial witnesses to appear, for example: former United States President George H. W. Bush, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Gerrit Pretorius, private secretary to South Africa's former foreign minister Pik Botha.

Fetal tissue implant

Federal funding for embryonic tissue research was restricted in the United States under Presidents Reagan and Bush before being lifted under the Clinton administration.

Fisher House Foundation

Separately, Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as Margaret Thatcher and the late Yitzak Rabin, recognized Mr. Fisher for his support of charitable organizations throughout the United States.

George Forster

George H. Forster (1838–1888), American lawyer and politician from New York

George H. Cannon

While at the University of Michigan he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

George H. Clark

George H. Clark (October 18, 1872 – July 11, 1943) was a Republican lawyer from Canton, Ohio in the United States who sat as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922.

Clark was born to James J. and Ada Schlabach Clark of Canton, Ohio.

George H. Cobb

He was a member of the Nw York State Commsission for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

George H. Gay, Jr.

In 1975, he served as a consultant on the set for the movie Midway, in which Kevin Dobson played Gay.

George H. Pepper

George Hubbard Pepper (February 2, 1873 – May 13, 1924) was an ethnologist and archaeologist, was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York.

George H. Utter

Utter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death from liver cancer in Westerly, Rhode Island, November 3, 1912.

George H. Walsh

He also served in the North Dakota House of Representatives and was speaker When the territorial legislature authorized a new county in 1881, they named it Walsh County in his honor.

George McLain

George H. McLain, United States Democratic politician from California

Gleaves Whitney

In his current position as director of the Hauenstein Center, he has cultivated many institutional partnerships—e.g., the National Park Service, Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum—and numerous ongoing professional partnerships—e.g., H. W. Brands, Richard Norton Smith, William Barker, and George Nash.

Goshen Scout Reservation

Named after General George H. Olmsted, Camp Olmsted is unique among the Boy Scout camps on the lake in that it is the only one with a dining hall where troops and the staff take their meals.

Hartley Peavey

1991: Honored by the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, for workplace training, education and achievements in the international marketplace

James V. Hansen

In 1990 Hansen was one of the two main House sponsors of a resolution calling on the George H. W. Bush administration to stop pressure on Thailand to allow the sale of U.S. cigarettes.

KVEN

One of his best episodes was the 5-way on-air round-table chat with Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George H. W. Bush on 11/04/1991, the opening day of the Reagan Library.

Laurence Lynn, Jr.

From 2002-2007, he was the George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

March 16–20, 1992

Farrar's "Criminals" paraphrases a George H. W. Bush campaign speech and was considered by music journalist Greg Kot to be one of the band's "angriest songs".

Mário Garnero

Throughout the years, Garnero became a personal friend of some of the most influential personalities in the world, including Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen, banker and statesman David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild, US Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, among others.

Martha Scanlan Klima

She was elected as a delegate to the Republican Party National Convention in 1984, which nominated Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Memories of the Ford Administration

He vaguely laments the loss, although now back with his wife in the era of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and comes across as a chastened man.

Milwaukee River

In the early 19th century, three towns were formed across the banks of the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic rivers: Juneautown by Solomon Juneau, Walker's Point by George H. Walker and Kilbourntown by Byron Kilbourn.

Munir Butt

He is regarded as a world expert on Indian and Pakistani affairs, and was a personal advisor in the region to Prime Ministers James Callahan, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, and advised U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Nacoochee Mound

The mound was formally excavated in 1915 by a team of archaeologists headed by Frederick Webb Hodge and George H. Pepper and sponsored by the Heye Foundation and the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Presidential Palace, Helsinki

A number of US Presidents have visited the palace, including Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1992

Incumbent President George H.W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1992 Republican National Convention held from August 17 to August 20, 1992 in Houston, Texas.

Sander Vanocur

In 1984, Vanocur moderated the Vice Presidential debate between incumbent George H. W. Bush and Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro.

Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle

The National Launch System was a study authorized in 1991 by President George H. W. Bush to outline alternatives to the Space Shuttle for access to Earth Orbit.

Stephen Schneider

Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

The Lame Duck Congress

The story line about the Ukrainian politician was suggested by Marlin Fitzwater, who had been hired as a consultant for the show, and was based on the events during the period Fitzwater was working for President George H. W. Bush.

United States Mission to the United Nations

Many prominent U.S. politicians and diplomats have held the post, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Adlai Stevenson, George H. W. Bush, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Holbrooke, Dr. Madeleine Albright, Bill Richardson, and John Danforth.

White House china

It was first used at a dinner function attended by Gerald Ford and Mrs. Ford, Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter, George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, and Lady Bird Johnson.


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