Reporter's notebook - A president perpetually in motion


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  • Saturday, 01 Dec 2018

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, stand during the national anthem prior to the University of Connecticut versus Butler University men's final NCAA Final Four college basketball championship game in Houston, Texas, April 4, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House reporters saw in George H.W. Bush a U.S. president who was a perpetual motion machine and a frequent flyer to far-flung places who took all kinds of questions, loved sports and said some of the darndest things.

"Don't cry for me, Argentina" was one of his most bewildering lines from a long list of head-scratching comments.

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