George Bush colorless president despite success in Gulf War

washington - George Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was known as pragmatic, calm and diplomatic. However, he does not go down in history as a great head of state. Critics have often portrayed him as colorless and indecisive: strong abroad, weak in his domestic politics. Bush senior died Friday. He was 94 years old.

George Herbert Walker Bush was the son of a wealthy banker and senator. After the Second World War (where he was the youngest pilot in the navy) he married his childhood love Barbara Pierce. With their six children they lived in Texas, where he became rich in the oil industry and entered politics.