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NDTV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Washington: Former US president George HW Bush, who helped steer America through the end of the Cold War, died Friday at age 94, his family announced.<\/p>\n \u201cJeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died,\u201d his son, former president George W. Bush, said in a statement released on Twitter by a family spokesman.<\/p>\n \u201cGeorge H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n Bush\u2019s passing comes just months after the death in April of his wife and revered first lady Barbara Bush \u2014 his \u201cmost beloved woman in the world\u201d \u2014 to whom he was married for 73 years.<\/p>\n He is survived by his five children and 17 grandchildren.<\/p>\n Funeral arrangements will be announced in due course, a family spokesman said.<\/p>\n The US leader was a foreign policy stalwart who declared a \u201cnew world order\u201d in 1990 and drove Iraq from Kuwait but saw his military intervention in the Middle East serve as a harbinger of chaos to come.<\/p>\n The decorated war pilot and former CIA chief suffered the ignominy of being a one-term president, denied a second term over a weak economy when he lost the 1992 election to upstart Democrat Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n The post EX-US President George Bush dies aged 94<\/a> appeared first on NewZimbabwe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n