__________________________________, a scion of the New England "WASP Aristocracy", The grandson of an Ohio Senator and son of a prominent Connecticut businessman, was the one of the youngest Commissioned Naval aviators in history and served as a TBF "Avenger" torpedo bomber pilot in World War II, surviving being shot down in the Pacific. Following the war, he became an oil company president and rumored clandestine CIA agent. Entering politics in the 1960's, he was President Ronald Wilson Reagan's Vice-President from 1981 - 1989. Elected to the Presidency in 1988, he presided over the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the end of 75% of the Marxist/communist governments worldwide by the conclusion of his term.

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