Via USA Today:

Former president George H.W. Bush turns 90 years young Thursday, and plans to celebrate the only way he knows how: by skydiving.

Just as he did for birthdays 80 and 85, Bush plans to celebrate the end of his ninth decade with one last parachute jump, granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager reported on NBC’s Today show.

The elder Bush himself tweeted: “It’s a wonderful day in Maine — in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump.”

Hager Bush reported the news as part of a Father’s Day package that included an interview with President Obama, who praised his predecessor.

Bush’s office says it will be his eighth parachute jump — starting with the one he made after the Japanese shot down his fighter plane over the Pacific during World War II on Sept. 2, 1944.

H.W. Bush “is as fine a man as I know, and whenever I see him with you guys, you can tell how beloved he is by his kids and his grandkids,” Obama told Hager Bush. “And I just want him to know that from the whole Obama family, we wish him all the best.”

Bush is also the subject of a new CNN documentary — “41 on 41” — that debuts Sunday at 9 p.m., eastern time.

From NBC’s Today show:

“Two years ago, George Bush Sr. made a promise that he aimed to keep when he turned 90 years old on Thursday. …

“When the elder Bush turned 88, he told Bush Hager that he had ‘one more left in me.'”

Bush skydiving in 2007:
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