What kind of staff work allows a presidential statement on the passing of the president to not even get the basic history right? GHWB enlisted in the Navy and then went to Yale after World War II. The statement has it backwards. Google works wonders, folks. https://t.co/UPBoFJU2cl— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) December 1, 2018
The White House has now corrected the misstatement in the third paragraph, second sentence, deleting the comma and changing "and then went on to serve" to "and served". The sentence is still backwards in terms of which event happened first, but now it's not technically incorrect:
President Bush always found a way to set the bar higher. As a young man, he captained the Yale baseball team and served as the youngest aviator in the United States Navy during the Second World War. Later in life, he rose to the pinnacle of American politics as a Congressman from Texas, envoy to China, Director of Central Intelligence, Vice President of eight years to President Ronald Reagan, and finally President of the United States.
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