Of the two Bushes, the elder George has a contrastingly higher approval rating than George W.'s presidency.
Among George Sr.'s noteworthy accomplishments: the ousting of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and political reunification of the now-former East and West Germany, the first Gulf War which was a response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the dissolution of the now-former Soviet Union's S.S.R.'s into individual independent countries.