Former President Bush Plans A Trip To Maine

Maine Public | By Fred Bever

Published May 17, 2018 at 12:04 PM EDT

Former President H.W. Bush is headed back to Maine, says family spokesperson Jim McGrath.

McGrath says the 41st president is looking forward to getting to Maine next week, and having a great summer with family and friends. The elder Bush has visited Walker's Point, the family compound in Kennebunkport, every summer of his life – with one exception: 1944, the year he served as a Navy pilot and was shot down over the Pacific.

Bush's wife Barbaradied last month, and he was recently released from a Houston hospital. He turns 94 in less than one month.

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Fred Bever

A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.

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