"He said, 'Hey, Bake, where are we going today?' And I said, 'Well, Jefe. ... We're going to heaven.' He said, 'Good, that's where I want to go.'" Former Secretary of State James Baker recounts some of his last moments with President George H.W. Bush. cnn.it/2RubRpH
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地獄へ行くことになる自覚があるのでこういう会話になったのだろう。
Washington to pay respects, bid farewell to George H.W. Bush
BY JUAN LOZANO AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE
7 mins ago
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush is set to embark on his final tour of Washington, the capital city that is remembering the 41st president’s lifetime of public service that began in the Navy during World War II, ended with one term as president and was characterized throughout by what admirers say was his innate decency, generosity and kindness.
In Texas, students, staff and visitors have been flocking to Bush’s presidential library on the campus of Texas A&M University, with thousands of mourners paying their respects at a weekend candlelight vigil at a nearby pond and others contributing to growing flower memorials at Bush statues at both the library and a park in downtown Houston.
“I think he was one of the kindest, most generous men,” said Marge Frazier, who visited the downtown statue on Sunday while showing friends from California around.
A similar outpouring is anticipated in Washington this week during the state funeral for Bush, who died late Friday at his home in Houston. He was 94.
Bush, who was president from 1989 to 1993, will lie in state beneath the soaring U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony and public visitation from Monday through Wednesday. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to attend. Bush’s family has not said who will speak at the service.
Afterward, Bush will be returned to Houston to lie in repose at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church before burial Thursday at his family plot on the library grounds. His final resting place will be alongside Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years who died in April, and Robin Bush, the daughter they lost to leukemia in 1953 at age 3.
Bush’s casket is set to arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon aboard the U.S. military airplane that’s more commonly recognized as Air Force One. The crew has been tasked by President Trump with carrying out “Special Air Mission 41.” The number is a reference to Bush’s place in the roster of America’s presidents.
Former President George W. Bush, the eldest of the four Bush sons, and his wife, Laura, along with brother Neil Bush and his family, will accompany their father’s body to Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, said family spokesman Jim McGrath. Other Bush family members are expected to be at the Maryland military base for the arrival.
Retired Gen. Colin Powell, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was Bush’s top military adviser, said Bush was the “perfect American” for serving his country in so many different capacities and should be remembered for “a life of quality, a life of honor, a life of honesty, a life of total concern for the American people.”
“He was a patriot. He demonstrated that in war, he demonstrated that in peace. He was able to demonstrate that in his four years of service,” Powell said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Trump has ordered the federal government closed Wednesday for a national day of mourning. Flags on public buildings are flying at half-staff for 30 days out of respect for Bush.
Trump, who has not always uttered kind words about the Bush family, offered nothing but praise in the hours after the former president’s death was announced.
“He was just a high-quality man who truly loved his family,” Bush said Saturday while in Argentina. “One thing that came through loud and clear, he was very proud of his family and very much loved his family. So he was a terrific guy and he’ll be missed.”
Bush’s passing puts him back in the Washington spotlight after more than two decades living the relatively low-key life of a former president. His death also reduces membership in the exclusive ex-presidents’ club to four: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
One of Bush’s major achievements was assembling the international military coalition that liberated the tiny, oil-rich nation of Kuwait from invading neighbor Iraq in 1991. The war lasted just 100 hours. He also presided over the end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
A humble hero of World War II, Bush was just 20 when he survived being shot down during a bombing run over Japan. He joined the Navy when he turned 18.
Shortly before leaving the service, he married his 19-year-old sweetheart, Barbara Pierce, and forged a 73-year union that was the longest presidential marriage in U.S. history until her death. Bush enrolled at Yale University after military service, becoming a scholar-athlete and captaining the baseball team to two College World Series before graduating Phi Beta Kappa after just 2½ years.
After moving to Texas to work in the oil business, Bush turned his attention to politics in the 1960s. He was elected to the first of two terms in Congress in 1967. He would go on to serve as ambassador to the United Nations and China, head of the CIA and chairman of the Republican National Committee before being elected to two terms as Ronald Reagan’s vice president.
Soon after he reached the height of his political popularity following the liberation of Kuwait, with public approval ratings that are the envy of today’s politicians, the U.S. economy began to sour and voters began to believe that Bush, never a great communicator – something even he acknowledged – was out of touch with ordinary people.
He was denied a second term by then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who would later become a close friend. The pair worked together to raise tens of millions of dollars for victims of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, which swamped New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005.
“Who would have thought that I would be working with Bill Clinton of all people?” he joked in 2005.
In a recent essay, Clinton declared of Bush: “I just loved him.”
This week, Jews around the world will celebrate the miracles of Hanukkah. @FLOTUS Melania and I send our very best wishes for a blessed and Happy Hanukkah! whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
ジェイムズ・アディソン・ベイカー（James Addison Baker, 1930年4月28日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の政治家。第一次ロナルド・レーガン政権で大統領の首席補佐官を務め、第二次ロナルド・レーガン政権では財務長官を務めた。さらにジョージ・H・W・ブッシュ政権では国務長官を務めた。ベイカーはジェイムズ・ベイカー3世公共政策研究所の設立者でもある。隠れ民主党員。
当初、ベイカーは民主党の党員であったが、後に共和党に移った。1970年の上院議員選挙ではジョージ・H・W・ブッシュを支持し民主党のロイド・ベンツェンと戦ったが、ブッシュを当選させるには至らなかった。1975年、ベイカーはジェラルド・フォード大統領の下で商務次官として登用され、1976年の大統領選挙ではフォードに全面的な協力を行ったが、民主党のジミー・カーターに敗北した。1978年、ベイカーはテキサス州司法長官に立候補したが、苦杯を喫した。
その後、1980年の大統領選挙の共和党予備選挙ではブッシュ陣営で選挙運動本部長として戦ったが、ロナルド・レーガンの前に敗退した。しかしながら同年の大統領選挙でレーガンが勝利するとベイカーは大統領首席補佐官に任ぜられ、1985年までその任を務めた。レーガン大統領は受動的な政策方針を敷いたため、ベイカーは第一次レーガン政権の成否に大きな影響を及ぼしたと考えられている。後に敵対するサッダーム・フセイン大統領のイラクとの関係強化の決定もブッシュとキャスパー・ワインバーガーとともに主導している[1]。
1984年の大統領選挙でレーガンが民主党の対立候補ウォルター・モンデールに選挙人投票で525対13という圧倒的大差で地滑り的勝利を収めると、ベイカーは財務長官に任命された。ベイカーは前任のドナルド・リーガンを大統領首席補佐官に据えた上で、経済政策の大規模な転換を試みた。1985年にはインフレーションの抑制とドル相場の安定を図るため、プラザ合意を成立させた。
またベイカーは、レーガン政権において経済政策閣僚会議および国家安全保障会議の委員も務めた。
1988年、ジョージ・H・W・ブッシュが大統領選挙に立候補すると、ベイカーはブッシュの選挙事務長を務めた。そしてブッシュが大統領に当選すると、ベイカーは国務長官に任命された。在任中の1991年に起きた湾岸戦争では、30ヶ国余からなる多国籍軍の結成に尽力した。1992年に国務長官を退任した後、1993年まで大統領首席補佐官を務めた。
2015年11月、旭日大綬章受章。
The politics of diplomacy : revolution, war, and peace, 1989-1992,with Thomas M. DeFrank,(G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995).(仙名紀訳『シャトル外交激動の四年（上・下）』新潮社[新潮文庫], 1997年)
誕生日が同じジェイムズ・アディソン・ベイカー。88歳か。隠れ民主党員であろう。著作の邦題は全く原題と異なる。訳は仙名紀（せんな おさむ、1936年1月8日 ‐ ）は、日本の翻訳家。東京市（現東京都渋谷区）生まれ。上智大学文学部新聞学科卒。朝日新聞社出版局で雑誌編集などをし、1996年定年退職。新聞社在職中から、上智大学で非常勤講師を務め、翻訳多数。
CNN
地獄へ行くことになる自覚があるのでこういう会話になったのだろう。
Washington to pay respects, bid farewell to George H.W. Bush
BY JUAN LOZANO AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE
7 mins ago
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush is set to embark on his final tour of Washington, the capital city that is remembering the 41st president’s lifetime of public service that began in the Navy during World War II, ended with one term as president and was characterized throughout by what admirers say was his innate decency, generosity and kindness.
In Texas, students, staff and visitors have been flocking to Bush’s presidential library on the campus of Texas A&M University, with thousands of mourners paying their respects at a weekend candlelight vigil at a nearby pond and others contributing to growing flower memorials at Bush statues at both the library and a park in downtown Houston.
“I think he was one of the kindest, most generous men,” said Marge Frazier, who visited the downtown statue on Sunday while showing friends from California around.
A similar outpouring is anticipated in Washington this week during the state funeral for Bush, who died late Friday at his home in Houston. He was 94.
Bush, who was president from 1989 to 1993, will lie in state beneath the soaring U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony and public visitation from Monday through Wednesday. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to attend. Bush’s family has not said who will speak at the service.
Afterward, Bush will be returned to Houston to lie in repose at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church before burial Thursday at his family plot on the library grounds. His final resting place will be alongside Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years who died in April, and Robin Bush, the daughter they lost to leukemia in 1953 at age 3.
Bush’s casket is set to arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon aboard the U.S. military airplane that’s more commonly recognized as Air Force One. The crew has been tasked by President Trump with carrying out “Special Air Mission 41.” The number is a reference to Bush’s place in the roster of America’s presidents.
Former President George W. Bush, the eldest of the four Bush sons, and his wife, Laura, along with brother Neil Bush and his family, will accompany their father’s body to Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, said family spokesman Jim McGrath. Other Bush family members are expected to be at the Maryland military base for the arrival.
Retired Gen. Colin Powell, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was Bush’s top military adviser, said Bush was the “perfect American” for serving his country in so many different capacities and should be remembered for “a life of quality, a life of honor, a life of honesty, a life of total concern for the American people.”
“He was a patriot. He demonstrated that in war, he demonstrated that in peace. He was able to demonstrate that in his four years of service,” Powell said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Trump has ordered the federal government closed Wednesday for a national day of mourning. Flags on public buildings are flying at half-staff for 30 days out of respect for Bush.
Trump, who has not always uttered kind words about the Bush family, offered nothing but praise in the hours after the former president’s death was announced.
“He was just a high-quality man who truly loved his family,” Bush said Saturday while in Argentina. “One thing that came through loud and clear, he was very proud of his family and very much loved his family. So he was a terrific guy and he’ll be missed.”
Bush’s passing puts him back in the Washington spotlight after more than two decades living the relatively low-key life of a former president. His death also reduces membership in the exclusive ex-presidents’ club to four: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
One of Bush’s major achievements was assembling the international military coalition that liberated the tiny, oil-rich nation of Kuwait from invading neighbor Iraq in 1991. The war lasted just 100 hours. He also presided over the end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
A humble hero of World War II, Bush was just 20 when he survived being shot down during a bombing run over Japan. He joined the Navy when he turned 18.
Shortly before leaving the service, he married his 19-year-old sweetheart, Barbara Pierce, and forged a 73-year union that was the longest presidential marriage in U.S. history until her death. Bush enrolled at Yale University after military service, becoming a scholar-athlete and captaining the baseball team to two College World Series before graduating Phi Beta Kappa after just 2½ years.
After moving to Texas to work in the oil business, Bush turned his attention to politics in the 1960s. He was elected to the first of two terms in Congress in 1967. He would go on to serve as ambassador to the United Nations and China, head of the CIA and chairman of the Republican National Committee before being elected to two terms as Ronald Reagan’s vice president.
Soon after he reached the height of his political popularity following the liberation of Kuwait, with public approval ratings that are the envy of today’s politicians, the U.S. economy began to sour and voters began to believe that Bush, never a great communicator – something even he acknowledged – was out of touch with ordinary people.
He was denied a second term by then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who would later become a close friend. The pair worked together to raise tens of millions of dollars for victims of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, which swamped New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005.
“Who would have thought that I would be working with Bill Clinton of all people?” he joked in 2005.
In a recent essay, Clinton declared of Bush: “I just loved him.”
This week, Jews around the world will celebrate the miracles of Hanukkah. @FLOTUS Melania and I send our very best wishes for a blessed and Happy Hanukkah! whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
ジェイムズ・アディソン・ベイカー（James Addison Baker, 1930年4月28日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の政治家。第一次ロナルド・レーガン政権で大統領の首席補佐官を務め、第二次ロナルド・レーガン政権では財務長官を務めた。さらにジョージ・H・W・ブッシュ政権では国務長官を務めた。ベイカーはジェイムズ・ベイカー3世公共政策研究所の設立者でもある。隠れ民主党員。
当初、ベイカーは民主党の党員であったが、後に共和党に移った。1970年の上院議員選挙ではジョージ・H・W・ブッシュを支持し民主党のロイド・ベンツェンと戦ったが、ブッシュを当選させるには至らなかった。1975年、ベイカーはジェラルド・フォード大統領の下で商務次官として登用され、1976年の大統領選挙ではフォードに全面的な協力を行ったが、民主党のジミー・カーターに敗北した。1978年、ベイカーはテキサス州司法長官に立候補したが、苦杯を喫した。
その後、1980年の大統領選挙の共和党予備選挙ではブッシュ陣営で選挙運動本部長として戦ったが、ロナルド・レーガンの前に敗退した。しかしながら同年の大統領選挙でレーガンが勝利するとベイカーは大統領首席補佐官に任ぜられ、1985年までその任を務めた。レーガン大統領は受動的な政策方針を敷いたため、ベイカーは第一次レーガン政権の成否に大きな影響を及ぼしたと考えられている。後に敵対するサッダーム・フセイン大統領のイラクとの関係強化の決定もブッシュとキャスパー・ワインバーガーとともに主導している[1]。
1984年の大統領選挙でレーガンが民主党の対立候補ウォルター・モンデールに選挙人投票で525対13という圧倒的大差で地滑り的勝利を収めると、ベイカーは財務長官に任命された。ベイカーは前任のドナルド・リーガンを大統領首席補佐官に据えた上で、経済政策の大規模な転換を試みた。1985年にはインフレーションの抑制とドル相場の安定を図るため、プラザ合意を成立させた。
またベイカーは、レーガン政権において経済政策閣僚会議および国家安全保障会議の委員も務めた。
1988年、ジョージ・H・W・ブッシュが大統領選挙に立候補すると、ベイカーはブッシュの選挙事務長を務めた。そしてブッシュが大統領に当選すると、ベイカーは国務長官に任命された。在任中の1991年に起きた湾岸戦争では、30ヶ国余からなる多国籍軍の結成に尽力した。1992年に国務長官を退任した後、1993年まで大統領首席補佐官を務めた。
2015年11月、旭日大綬章受章。
The politics of diplomacy : revolution, war, and peace, 1989-1992,with Thomas M. DeFrank,(G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995).(仙名紀訳『シャトル外交激動の四年（上・下）』新潮社[新潮文庫], 1997年)
誕生日が同じジェイムズ・アディソン・ベイカー。88歳か。隠れ民主党員であろう。著作の邦題は全く原題と異なる。訳は仙名紀（せんな おさむ、1936年1月8日 ‐ ）は、日本の翻訳家。東京市（現東京都渋谷区）生まれ。上智大学文学部新聞学科卒。朝日新聞社出版局で雑誌編集などをし、1996年定年退職。新聞社在職中から、上智大学で非常勤講師を務め、翻訳多数。
