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George W. Bush with his parents, Barbara and George H. W. Bush, c. 1947. George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, at Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce. He was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas, with four siblings: Jeb, Neil, Marvin and Dorothy.
George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009. Bush, a Republican from Texas, took office following his narrow Electoral College victory over Democratic incumbent vice president Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, in which he lost the popular vote to Gore by 543,895 votes.
The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened on April 25, 2013, [1] is a complex that includes former United States President George W. Bush 's presidential library and museum, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. It is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in ...
Motive. Casualties of the Iraq War. On 14 December 2008, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi removed his shoes and threw them at United States president George W. Bush during a joint press conference with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. Bush quickly ducked, avoiding being hit by either of the shoes.
Country image. Raised in West Texas, Bush's accent, vacations on his Texas ranch, and penchant for country metaphors contribute to his folksy, American cowboy image. [11] [12] "I think people look at him and think John Wayne ", says Piers Morgan, editor of the British Daily Mirror. [13]
On May 1, 2003, United States President George W. Bush gave a televised speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Bush, who had launched the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq six weeks earlier, mounted a podium before a White House -produced banner that read " Mission Accomplished ". Reading from a prepared text, he said, "Major combat ...
Anti-terrorism and domestic surveillance. Bush is a supporter of anti-terrorist surveillance and information-gathering methods. [29] In 2001, he signed into law the Patriot Act, a piece of anti-terrorism regulation that remained in place until its expiration in March of 2020. [29]
The 2004 United States presidential election was the 55th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.The Republican ticket of incumbent President George W. Bush and his running mate incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney were elected to a second term, defeating the Democratic ticket of John Kerry, a United States senator from Massachusetts and his running mate John ...