Former US Governor of Florida Jeb Bush speaks to journalists during his visit in Tallinn, Estonia, Saturday, June 13, 2015, the once-bleak Soviet state of Estonia, that is now a growing free-market economy. Jeb Bush will be spending a week traveling through three nations, as
he considers his widely anticipated announcement of his candidacy for the Republican candidate to run for president.
eb Bush strolled the halls of the Polish parliament,
praised Germany's economic boom since the fall of the Berlin Wall and
visited Estonia, a once-bleak Soviet state that now has a growing,
free-market high-tech economy.
The former Florida governor, who's set to enter the 2016 presidential
race Monday, never mentioned his brother. In the U.S., Jeb Bush
routinely expresses his love and respect for his brother, former
President George W. Bush, who left office largely unpopular with many
Europeans, mostly due to his decision in 2003 to invade Iraq.
In Europe, Jeb Bush tried to walk a path that recalled his father, former President George H.W. Bush, vice president under Ronald Reagan and commander in chief when communism receded. "Think about how much change has taken place in these years," Jeb Bush said. "It's a good reminder that we're a lot freer than we were, and we need to protect that freedom. And that's why the United States needs to be engaged."
A statue of Reagan adorns the tree-lined grounds near the Polish parliament building, which Bush visited on Thursday for meetings with government leaders. Bush said people told him during the trip that in 1987, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush gave a nationwide speech in Poland from Krakow that was uncensored, unheard of at the time in a nation still governed by a communist government.
In a 1989 visit to Poland, the elder Bush said it was the West's goal to "forge closer and enduring ties between Poland and the rest of Europe." He returned in 1992, not long after the country's first free presidential election in six decades, received a hero's welcome and promised that the U.S. would help the young democracy "to succeed and to prosper."
If the goal was to stoke memories of his presidential father and avoid those of his presidential brother, it seems to have largely succeeded. "If you think about, in terms of history, my dad's managing — in cooperation with great leaders of his time ... the fall of the Soviet Union. It's been talked about at every stop we've made," Jeb Bush said Friday.
In Europe, Jeb Bush tried to walk a path that recalled his father, former President George H.W. Bush, vice president under Ronald Reagan and commander in chief when communism receded. "Think about how much change has taken place in these years," Jeb Bush said. "It's a good reminder that we're a lot freer than we were, and we need to protect that freedom. And that's why the United States needs to be engaged."
A statue of Reagan adorns the tree-lined grounds near the Polish parliament building, which Bush visited on Thursday for meetings with government leaders. Bush said people told him during the trip that in 1987, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush gave a nationwide speech in Poland from Krakow that was uncensored, unheard of at the time in a nation still governed by a communist government.
In a 1989 visit to Poland, the elder Bush said it was the West's goal to "forge closer and enduring ties between Poland and the rest of Europe." He returned in 1992, not long after the country's first free presidential election in six decades, received a hero's welcome and promised that the U.S. would help the young democracy "to succeed and to prosper."
If the goal was to stoke memories of his presidential father and avoid those of his presidential brother, it seems to have largely succeeded. "If you think about, in terms of history, my dad's managing — in cooperation with great leaders of his time ... the fall of the Soviet Union. It's been talked about at every stop we've made," Jeb Bush said Friday.
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