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- HE SERVED AS THE 46TH GOVERNOR OF TEXAS. George W. Bush attended Yale University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1968. After graduating, he worked in the oil industry.
- HE MADE TEXAS THE LEADING PRODUCER OF WIND-POWERED ELECTRICITY IN U.S. As governor of Texas, Bush was successful in bringing forth new legislative measures to reform the criminal justice system and was instrumental in increasing funding for elementary and secondary education.
- HE SERVED AS 43RD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. In June 1999, Bush announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. He was already known at the national level after his successful stint as the Governor of Texas.
- HE STRENGTHENED NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH THE PATRIOTIC ACT. On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners and flew two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center while another one crashed into Pentagon.
Nov 30, 2018 · In 2011, President Barack Obama recognized George Herbert Walker Bush’s lifetime of service, awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a ceremony at the White House. At the time of his death at age 94, he was the oldest ex-president in American history.
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He championed and signed three pieces of bipartisan legislation in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Immigration Act and the Clean Air Act Amendments. He also appointed David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
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Bush’s domestic agenda, at least by today’s standards, would be called ambitious: a quiet remaking of one sector of the country’s financial industry, a new civil-rights law, a bipartisan overhaul of clean-air rules, new investments in technology, and a dramatic rewrite of spending and taxing rules that would help to lay the groundwork for an econom...
Bush acknowledged early in his presidency that he vastly preferred foreign policy to domestic affairs. It was his specialty, having cut his teeth in the 1970s as U.N. ambassador, envoy to China and CIA director and amassed a global Rolodex of kings, princes, emirs, premiers and ambassadors. More than that, it was overseas, he felt, that a commander...
For Bush, the aftermath of what came to be known as the Gulf War was a case of almost textbook complacency. His poll numbers, hitting an unimaginable 90 percent in some quarters, were thought by White House officials to be signs of a secure future. One by one, Democrats who might have challenged him for the presidency in 1992 dropped out of content...
Read about the life of 41st President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush, a man born to both economic and political privilege, and tutored in modesty.
Dec 1, 2018 · In 1988, he was elected president and served for a single term. Bush was perhaps best known for his achievements in foreign policy. His presidency saw tectonic shifts in global politics, from...
Jan 16, 1991 · George Bush >A successful businessman, George Bush (born 1924) emerged as a national >political leader during the 1970s. After holding several important foreign >policy and administrative assignments in Republican politics, he served two >terms as vice president (1980, 1984) under Ronald Reagan.
