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Friendship kept Bush coming to Kentucky

Former President George H.W. Bush attended Derby, drove a tank, got a dog.

By Tom Eblen, Lexington Herald-Leader

Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, were no strangers to Kentucky, thanks to their nearly six-decade friendship with William Stamps Farish III and his wife, Sarah, of Versailles.

Bush, whose funeral was Wednesday in Washington, visited Lane's End Farm in Woodford County many times. The Bushes attended several Kentucky Derbies and races at Keeneland with the Farishes. They dedicated three Lexington buildings and headlined several Republican fundraisers and rallies in the state.

The Farishes gave the Bushes their famous White House dog, Millie, and their springer spaniel sired her litter of puppies. That was big news in what the former president would have called a "kinder and gentler" era of presidential politics.

Read the full article at kentucky.com.




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