But the more I read and tried to understand the world chaos I realised he was certainly a great man compared with some who have come later ... like son George W Bush ... (less said the better).
Suffice to say George the son could never emulate the huge strength his father had always displayed on the world's stage of unrest.
So when you see all the news footage from 1990 to 1992 replayed again and how George H W handled madman President Saddam Hussein over the Persian Gulf, not to mention, the bringing down of the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact and President Gorbachev - well you had to feel proud of him.
Proud of how he was a leader for the whole world not just the United States.
It was clearly illustrated in this series what a remarkable man he was and I found this a marvellous remembrance.
But when news footage from the 1992 United States election replayed and Bill Clinton went in with a landslide victory it made me sad all over again at the naked stress in the eyes of the senior George H W Bush.
He really didn't understand that it was what the American people wanted.
How quickly they had forgotten what he'd done for the world.
He was never a people person but his knowledge of the world political stage, his innate understanding of battle strategies were all highlighted again in this series.
And really in comparison to the lunkhead who is head of the United States today (D Trump), Bush (H W) was absolutely an officer and a gentleman.
Today seems to be culture of absolute political spinners in some quarters.
Our world today has much changed due to those earlier major political events, like the Warsaw Pact, Nelson Mandela's release from prison, and the Persian Gulf War.
The 90s are rapidly becoming ancient history but the fascination of those events from that decade make for great viewing.
