--- title: See President George H.W. Bush on the Cover of TIME Magazine description: The 41st President appeared on the magazine's cover in 1970, and throughout the nearly half a century that followed. See those issues here. canonical: https://time.com/4749106/george-hw-bush-time-magazine-covers/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-01T05:39:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:02:57.000Z article:section: History og:title: A Half-Century of George H.W. Bush on the Cover of TIME og:description: Going all the way back to 1970 og:url: https://time.com/4749106/george-hw-bush-time-magazine-covers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a3f375bd970fb52/6988c3c9cf40a80662c4756e/george-hw-bush-time-cover-1991-01-07.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1905 og:image:height: 1072 og:image:alt: George H.W. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:02 PM UTCPublished: Dec 1, 2018 5:39 AM UTC  George H.W. Bush, Men of the Year, on the Jan. 7, 1991, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Gregory Heisler. George H.W. Bush, Men of the Year, on the Jan. 7, 1991, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Gregory Heisler. TIME Magazine by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:02 PM UTCPublished: Dec 1, 2018 5:39 AM UTC When President George H.W. Bush, who died on Nov. 30 at the age of 94, eight months after his wife Barbara, first appeared on the cover of TIME in 1970, it was as a knight battling for a Senate seat in Texas. Bush was part of a wave of Republicans seeking office in that chamber at the time — one whose sense of humor made an [impression](http://time.com/vault/issue/1970-10-26/page/17/) on the magazine: --- > “” --- Bush [lost](http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=6529) that race, but over the nearly 50 years that followed he would prove that his political skills were anything but amateur. From Senate candidate to President of the United States to political patriarch, Bush appeared on the cover of TIME in all those guises, nearly two dozen times during his life. With his death, that list gained an entry. Here’s a look back at that evolution.  George H.W. Bush, pictured during his run for a Texas Senate seat, on the Oct. 26, 1970, cover of TIME. Illustration by Mort Drucker. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, pictured as part of Gerald Ford's team, on the Nov. 17, 1975, cover of TIME. TIME Magazine  Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush on the Jul. 28, 1980, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Neil Leifer. TIME Magazine  Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush on the Aug. 27, 1984, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Dirck Halstead. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, top left, with Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan, on the Oct. 22, 1984, cover of TIME. Illustration by Edward Sorel. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, pictured among other presidential contenders, on the Feb. 29, 1988, cover of TIME. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush on the Mar. 21, 1988, cover of TIME. Illustration by Daniel Schwartz. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush on the Aug. 22, 1988, cover of TIME. Cover photo by William Coupon. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle on the Aug. 29, 1988, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Dennis Brack. TIME Magazine  October 24, 1988 cover of TIME magazine. Cover photos: 1960 debate by Paul Schutzer, 1988 debate by Steve Liss. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush on the Nov. 21, 1988, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Cynthia Johnson. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, on the Dec. 19, 1988, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Dirck Halstead. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush on the Jan. 30, 1989, cover of TIME. Photo credit by Dirck Halstead. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush on the Aug. 21, 1989, cover of TIME. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev on the Dec. 11, 1989, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Diana Walker. TIME Magazine  Saddam Hussein and George H.W. Bush on the Aug. 20, 1990, cover of TIME. Cover photo credits: Dirck Halstead (Bush); Thomas Hartwell (Saddam). TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, Men of the Year, on the Jan. 7, 1991, cover of TIME. Cover photo by Gregory Heisler. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, with possible vice-presidential candidates, on the May 20, 1991, cover of TIME. Computer-altered State of the Union photo by Diana Walker. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush on the Aug. 24, 1992, cover of TIME. Photo credit by William Coupon. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot on the Oct. 12, 1992, cover of TIME Cover photos: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot; Bush by Diana Walker, Clinton by Steve Liss, Perot by Shelly Katz-Black Star. TIME Magazine  Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush on the Oct. 19, 1992, cover of TIME. Photo by Cynthia Johnson. TIME Magazine  The 'Bush Dynasty' on the Aug. 7, 2000, cover of TIME. TIME Magazine  George H.W. Bush, Jeb Bush and George W. Bush on the Mar. 16, 2015, cover of TIME. Cover photo: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/Corbis. TIME Magazine  Photograph by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4749106/george-hw-bush-time-magazine-covers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4749106/george-hw-bush-time-magazine-covers/"},"headline":"A Half-Century of George H.W. 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