Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration The foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1989 to 1993 while George H. W. Bush was president. Bush's main foreign policy advisors were Secretaries of State James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger, and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Substantial geopolitical developments that occurred during Bush's presidency include: On September 13, 1988, Bush announced the appointment of a national security task force, noted for including former Jimmy Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who compared Bush's foreign policy views to
George H. W. Bush stemming from pneumonia. Three months later, he experienced a recurrence of pneumonia and was hospitalized. On November 25, 2017, Bush became the longest-lived U.S. president when he surpassed the 93 years and 165 days lifespan of Gerald Ford, who died in December 2006. Upon Ford's death Bush had become both the nation's oldest living president as well as the oldest living vice president; on June 12, 2018 he became the first U.S. president to reach the age of 94. On April 22, 2018, the day after his wife's funeral Bush was hospitalized with a blood infection. The infection led to