What were some of George H.W. Bush's achievements?

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In November 1990 U.S. President George H.W. Bush met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Paris and signed a mutual nonaggression pact, a symbolic conclusion to the Cold War. They also signed treaties sharply reducing the number of weapons that the two superpowers had stockpiled over the decades of Cold War hostility. After Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, Bush led a worldwide UN-approved embargo to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.