From The Washington Post-
George H.W. Bush, who died Friday, was a lifetime
Episcopalian, part of the blue blood of America’s founding Christianity.
But as a presidential candidate, he was part of a Republican opening to
evangelicalism that changed the country’s landscape.
A
bombing mission that plunged him into the Pacific Ocean during World
War II and his younger daughter’s death from leukemia were among the
times when he said he looked to God and prayer.
Bush
attended Christ Episcopal Church in Greenwich, Conn., as a child. His
father, Prescott Bush, was a Republican senator from Connecticut. The
future president’s mother, Dorothy Walker, would read to her family from
the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.
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