Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died at his home in Houston, Texas, seven months after the death of his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush. Bush was the first former president to die since Gerald Ford in 2006; at the age of 94 years and 171 days, Bush was the longest-lived U.S. president in history. His death resulted in Jimmy Carter becoming the oldest living former President of the United States; Carter is also 94, having been born four months after
Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration Bush noted this as the first instance of a US President interacting with a democratically-elected Russian President and the day marked an attempt to turn former adversaries into allies. On April 13, 1990, Bush met with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher for discussions on international issues afflicting the North Atlantic alliance such as German reunification, NATO, talks on the status of convention forces in Europe, the Lithuania situation, Iraq, and COCOM. The President George H.W. Bush Administration strenuously supported the territorial and political integrity of the former Yugoslavia and discouraged the secessionist movements in Croatia and Slovenia.