Politics

How George H.W. Bush Rescued the CIA and Earned Its Respect

'EXTRAORDINARILY GRACIOUS'

The agency's reputation was at a low point when Bush was brought in to help repair it—an assignment he thought was President Ford's way of burying his political career.

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