George Bush Sr. on Technology

President of the U.S., 1989-1993; Former Republican Rep. (TX)

1992: Understood grocery scanners, despite media frenzy

Dad went to the National Grocers Association convention, and was shown the latest scanner technology. Of course, Dad knew how a supermarket scanner worked; but in one demonstration, executives showed Dad how the scanner could still ring up a product even if the bar code was torn in 5 different places--not your typical technology.

Unfortunately, a NY Times reporter wrote a story under the headline "Bush Encounters the Supermarket, Amazed." He went after Dad for not understanding how a basic scanner worked. Dad's political opponents seized on the piece to support their own attacks against my father as being out of touch, and soon this nasty fairy tale was dominating the airwaves.

My father-in-law, George Koch, is a former president of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, and noted: "President Bush was one of the greatest listeners that we've ever had. He would never say, 'Look, I know all this.' The reporter mistook his polite and personal way of listening with not being knowledgeable."

Source: My Father, My President, by Doro Koch Bush, p.386-387 , Oct 6, 2006

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