George Pyle: Bush 41 and the best headline ever

FILE - In this March 13, 1990 file photo, President George H.W. Bush speaks during a news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)I never worked for him, nor met him nor, certainly, voted for or endorsed him. But the 41st president of the United States was the subject of what is unquestionably the best newspaper headline of all time.

In the spring of 1990, the eyes of the world were riveted on Eastern Europe and what was soon to stop being the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Berlin Wall had come down, the nations of the Warsaw Pact were slipping through the fingers of the Soviet empire and the whole thing was a little more than a year…