Remembering George H.W. Bush
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Joanne Drake runs the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in Simi Valley and worked with Vice President Bush during the Reagan administration. While Bush's ties to New England and Texas are well known, the 41st president connections to Southern California are plenty. In early 1949 he wife, Barbara and a young George W. Called Compton home. For several months, they lived in a now demolished apartment complex near Santa Fe Avenue and Cyprus Street that was almost named a city landmark. In the early nineties, Bush's work selling oil drilling equipment took them from Compton to Bakersfield to what neighbors who never knew them still called the Bush house. Today, it's boarded up, but there are plans to turn it into a museum, cementing the Bush legacy in California for years to come. In a statement, L. A Mayor Eric Garcetti called the late president a statesman and a leader who understood that Americans should aspire to uplift our common humanity. Even in the midst of honest disagreement over ideas