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George Herbert Walker Bush served as the 41st President of the United States. A veteran Republican politician, he had previously held office as a congressman, ambassador, CIA director and 43rd Vice President of the United States during the Reagan administration.
Born in Milton, Mass., Bush attended the prestigious...
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a presidential directive allowing African Americans to be recruited in the Marine Corps. African American recruits were not trained at Parris Island or San Diego, but were segregated and received basic training at Montford Point, a facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C. From 1942-1949, approximately 20,000 African American recruits received training...
