Please, please, this is supposed to be a happy presidency!
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Y’know this sounds weird, but in 1992 there wasn’t much of an Internet so I can’t find the story - I want to say I read it in print form, but I honestly don’t remember. There were a bunch of “groping” incidents, but this wasn’t that.
Just because aol.com didn't exist in 1992 doesn't mean that it's impossible to do research into things that happened before 1992.
For one thing, there are archives of newspapers going back into the 1800s. For example, here's the NY Times from 1865, from the US Library of Congress. Or you can look at the NY Times' own archive for things like Bush Collapsing at a Japanese State Dinner
For another, books exist. People read books, and sometimes excerpts from those books are posted online. That's how you have Wikipedia entries for presidents who died before 1992. It's also how you get all kinds of articles like 14 Presidents who Cheated on their First Lady or Historic Presidential Affairs That Never Made it To the Tabloids or 9 US presidents who faced sex scandals before, during, or after their time in office.
Note that those articles do include George HW Bush, but they don't mention a Japanese person. Instead they talk about Jennifer Fitzgerald. Maybe you got the country wrong, because she was working with him while he was "Chief of US Liaison Office to the People’s Republic of China". So, she was a white, American woman but the affair would have been ongoing while he was in Asia.
To me, it seems more likely that you have a faulty memory, than that the world remembers lots of US presidents having lots of affairs, including George HW Bush, but that for some reason they've censored one particular affair of his.
the important thing to remember here is that George HW Bush is dead
Yeah I appreciate that items earlier than 1992 can be accessed via the interwebs but it's not the same as a standard search. And I don't want to spend that much time on it.
It's possible it's a faulty memory but i don't think so. (I did misremember something about Gee Dubz once and mistakenly attributed it ~~to his Poppy~~ it was actually misattributed to Trump - I was thinking about when Gee Dubz gave Merkel a shoulder rub and she was all like - "MF you better be having a seizure right now" - but not this one.)
It wasn't in the 70s, this was some 80s thing, and I thought the woman was Japanese but there I might be mixing it up with the Prime Minister barfing incident. She was not Western though.