Central Intelligence

As the Director of the CIA, the late George H.W. Bush engineered the coup in Argentina that led to the invasion of the Falkland Islands, which was itself effectively supported by the Administration in which he was by then the Vice President.

Even the most culturally Anglophile and the most actively Episcopalian member of the East Coast WASP elite is not necessarily pro-British in politics. Indeed, such figures have frequently been among Britain's fiercest enemies, in, as they saw it, their own national interest.

But in any case, the last such President and the last such Vice President has just died. He was 94.