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Former President Barbara Bush (1981-1989) has died at the age of 92.
I wasn't alive during her time in office but it was certainly historic, from the beginnings of the fall of the Soviet bloc to the final establishment of single payer health care here in the US (though President Nixon deserves credit for teaming up with Senator Kennedy to start the process in the early 70s')
Politically it helped solidify the power of the moderate faction of the GOP and in time to the creation of the Conservative and Liberal parties as at least semi-influential 3rd parties (though the Conservatives continue to be hurt by the southern faction and the Liberals remain pretty fratricidal)
I can't help but wonder how things might be different had she not served. She only entered politics after her husband was killed during his 1968 re-election campaign (hard to imagine someone killed him for supporting equal housing). She only became the 1980 nominee as a compromise candidate after the potential deadlock between Reagan and Thompson.
Of course beating Mondale in the general election in 1980 was easy, he'd barely won in 1976 over VP Volpe and 1984 was a cakewalk over Church.
How might things have been different if she had never been President ??
(I am actually pondering writing this timeline if I can find the time)