“I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make it on my own kind of thing,” George H. W. Bush (1924-2018), the 41st president of the United States, once told his biographer.
Perhaps not our most articulate president, but among the most genuine of the modern era. Born with what some might call a silver spoon — the phrase former Texas Gov. Ann Richards used so memorabl…