George H.W. Bush Audiobooks & Video

"I seek the presidency for a single purpose, a purpose that has motivated millions of Americans across the years and the ocean voyages."

"My fellow citizens, last night I ordered U.S. military forces to Panama."

"While the world waited, Saddam Hussein systematically raped, pillaged, and plundered a tiny nation, no threat to his own."

Former president George Bush has no plans to write his autobiography, so this collection of letters, diary entries, and...

Incumbent President George Bush lays out the Republican Party's agenda for the '90s, which would form...

"It will not take 100 years to thank God for Ronald Reagan. But why? Why was he so admired? Why was he so beloved?"

In his 1989 inaugural address, George H.W. Bush reiterated his "a thousand points of light" theme and spoke of "harnessing the unused talent of the elderly and the unfocused energy of the young".

Below are complete audio recordings of some of George Bush's more important speeches.

George H.W. Bush takes a special look back on the momentous global events of 1989-1992 - the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the liberation of Kuwait, to name a few - and reminisces about what it was like to be President through such unprecedented times.

In describing his interaction with other world leaders, Bush emerges as a skillful negotiator and statesman, fostering a personal, first-name-basis style of diplomacy that proved especially effective with Mikhail Gorbachev and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.