George H.W. Bush once shaved his head for a Secret Service agent's son with leukemia

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Link to tweet

Three years later, in November 2016, Mr. Bush's Twitter account shared an update with a photo of himself and the boy, identified only as Patrick. In the 2016 tweet, the former president attached the image from 2013, as well as a more recent photo of himself and the child with full heads of hair.

Link to tweet

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-h-w-bush-once-shaved-his-head-for-a-secret-service-agents-son-with-leukemia/

[mulsh]

1. I like both Bushes better now they're former Presidents.

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[milestogo]

2. He also supported Manuel Noriega and his eventual invasion of Panama, the pardoning of Iran-Contra

criminals, the dirty wars in Central America, the support for Saddam Hussein, and the launch of the Gulf War.

He was evil.

[Soxfan58]

3. And there are a lot more children

Helped by the Barbra Bush Children's hospital in Portland Maine.

[bpj62]

4. My Son is a cancer survivor

As a parent of a child who survived Non-hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 4 I have nothing but respect for what Bush did for that child. Until you have walked in his or my shoes you have no idea what it is like to be a parent of a child who has cancer. No Bush was not a perfect man and he did many things that I disapproved of, but when it comes to these situations I am going to believe that everything he did was genuine.