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As our nation continues the process of mourning President George H.W. Bush, I wanted to share a story with you that was shared with me this past weekend.

The 41st president, who couldn’t always get his sentences straight, wasn’t foreordained for history’s hall of fame. Amid rising deficits and unemployment, Bush lost the 1992 election to a little-known Democrat by the name of Bill Clinton. Yet as his secretary of state, James Baker, put it in 2013, Bush “was the best one-term president the country has ever had, and one of the most underrated presidents of all time.”

For nearly four years, I covered the George H.W. Bush administration as a White House correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. Watching as the former president’s flag-draped coffin was flown back to Washington for a final time Monday, I reflected again on what a kind, decent and generous man he was – and with an irreverent sense of humor to boot.

Jerome Corsi though has not backed down.

George H. W. Bush never forgot the brave men who and women in this country that protect us every single day.

At a time like this when a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather and a former president has died, we should be bigger than the petty politics of the moment.

Christmas inspires these moments to cherish, a time to create memories that last. And new Christmases always bring these wonderful memories back.

It would be a Christmas miracle if Melania Trump’s critics would offer some goodwill to men this season and take a time out from ridiculing our first lady.

The death of former President George H.W. Bush at age 94 Friday closes out the remarkable life of a public servant who over a 50-year-span did everything from bravely tangling with Japanese planes in World War II to successfully managing the end of the Cold War.

I first met the man who would become America’s 41st president in 1968. He was a Houston congressman and I was a young reporter for a local TV and radio station. My first impression was how kind he was to this “kid,” who had just moved to Texas from the Washington, D.C., area and was just starting to learn the “language,” like “fixing to go” and “y’all.”

It has been incredibly moving these past months to meet so many people who felt their lives were touched by my father.

Charles Krauthammer was my father. Writing that sentence in the past tense is still a shock to me, and it evokes a sadness far too deep to express in words. My father and I were very close. I feel the pain of his absence every day, as does every son who loved his father. There were a thousand secret private things between us that I alone know and that I alone will miss.

Amid the media hysteria over Michael Cohen’s guilty plea and discussions between the lawyers representing Paul Manafort and Donald Trump, it’s important to understand from a legal standpoint what this means – and what it does not.

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life. The death of a president causes such a pause in the life of a nation.

Outrage has become the signature emotion of American public life.

In 1979, when I was the head writer on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” an extraordinarily modest man named George Herbert Walker Bush told me he planned to run for president and asked me to write humor for him.

The Trump Administration is winning against an entrenched VA bureaucracy that has habitually failed to properly serve its customers – our veterans.

Former President George H.W. Bush is getting a well-deserved period of tribute from a country grateful for all he did in its service.

He came, he saw, and he took yet another step towards Making America Great Again.

What parent hopes their child will grow up to be a career criminal? What child dreams of one day living behind the bars of one of America’s 102 federal prisons?