The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

Bush to the presidency in 2000 Bush was commonly referred to simply as "George Bush"; since that time the forms "George H. In the wake of economic concerns he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton. Bush was born in Milton Massachusetts to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.