01-12-2018 20:26 via sltrib.com

George F. Will: Bush was summoned by events

Washington - At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics was always prosaic, acquired, by way of a grandfather, the name of a British poet and priest (George Herbert, 1593-1633). He acquired much else from family inheritance.The future 41st president was descended from a governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland -- from financier George Herbert Walker, whose name is on golf's Walker Cup -- and from a U.S. senator -- his father Prescott, o
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