He got distracted by Gulf War I so I dont know what he'd have done if Saddam didn't decide the Kuwaiti Gulf ports were worth taking. Reagan desperately wanted to end the Department of Education. No recall on where Bush was on that before Saddam misbehaved.

Where Bush was with Bill Kristol focused on it, who absolutely wanted to end it. But Bush’s pro-government bonafides went way way beyond the military. He just wasn’t a Reagan-type guy. At all.