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4 days ago · George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States (2001–09), who led his country’s response to the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003. He won the presidency in 2000 over Vice President Al Gore in one of the closest and most-controversial elections in American history.
President George H. W. Bush embraced the geopolitical upheaval cautiously, and he was criticized for failing to give the moment adequate meaning and communicating its import to the American public. However, the President responded cautiously to try to avoid a backlash by hard-liners in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, a stance that well ...
George H. W. Bush, as the 41st President (1989-1993), brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States “a kinder and gentler nation” in the face of a dramatically changing world.
One example of Bush's conservative and pragmatic approach to foreign affairs occurred early in his administration. In June 1989, the Chinese military suppressed a pro-democracy movement demonstrating in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Using tanks and armored cars, the military crushed the demonstrations and fired into the crowd, killing hundreds of ...
The George & Barbara Bush Foundation and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum are excited to announce the Marine One/4141 Locomotive Pavilion on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. The new 29,000 square foot building features a retired Marine One helicopter, the Union Pacific 4141 Locomotive, and an onsite cafe.
Dec 1, 2018 · George H.W. Bush was born on June 12, 1924, to an affluent family in Milton, Massachusetts. He attended the Phillips Academy, a prep school in Andover, Massachusetts, before enlisting in the armed ...
Dec 1, 2018 · President Gerald R. Ford and Barbara Bush watch as Justice Potter Stewart swears in George H.W. Bush as the new Director of the CIA, at CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia on Jan. 26, 1976.
