Richard Nixon grew up on a Yorba Linda citrus tree ranch . Ronald Reagan drop his nightfall years in Bel Air . And the two pubic hair ? Straight outta Compton , if you ’ll trust it .
really , the Bush family only called the Los Angeles County suburb home for six short month in 1949 and 1950 . George H. W. Bush , the next forty-first president of the United States , was on a irregular assignment to California forDresser Industries , selling oil drilling bits for a Dresser underling named Security Engineering Company . His Logos and the succeeding 43rd Chief Executive — envision above playing cowboy outside the President Bush ’ Compton home — was only three years honest-to-goodness at the time . They know ina now - destroy apartment complexat 624 S. Santa Fe Avenue .
Of course , the Bushes ’ Compton was not the city we get laid today . In the words of historian Josh Sides , Compton in the late forties and former 1950s was “ exclusively white with an sinful web of racially restrictive covenants with a very aggressive policing strategy about keep black-market people out . ” ( Today , incidentally , Latinos contain a majority ofCompton ’s population . )
The Bushes bounce around Southern California — with impermanent homes in Ventura , Huntington Park , Bakersfield , and Whittier , in addition to Compton — before move to Midland , Texas , in May 1950 .
Image : George W. Bush plays cowboy in Compton , California , in the fall of 1949 . Courtesy of theGeorge Bush Presidential Library and Museum .
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