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43. GEORGE WALKER BUSH
2001-2009George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United
States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected
on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January
20, 2005. Before his Presidency, he served for 6 years as
Governor of the State of Texas.
President Bush was born July 6, 1946, in New Haven,
Connecticut, to Barbara and George H. W. Bush
– later the
41st President of the United States. In 1948, the family moved
to Texas where President Bush grew up in Midland and Houston. He
received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University in
1968 and then served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard.
President Bush received a Master of Business Administration from
Harvard Business School in 1975. Following graduation, he moved
back to Midland and began a career in the energy business. After
working on his father’s successful 1988 Presidential campaign,
President Bush assembled a group of partners that purchased the
Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989.
On November 8, 1994, George W. Bush was elected the 46th
Governor of Texas. He became the first Governor in Texas history
to be elected to consecutive 4-year terms when he was re-elected
on November 3, 1998. In Austin, he earned a reputation for his
bipartisan governing approach and his compassionate conservative
philosophy, which was based on limited government, personal
responsibility, strong families, and local control.
Since his election to the Presidency in 2000, President Bush
has worked to extend freedom, opportunity, and security at home
and abroad. His first initiative as President was the No Child
Left Behind Act, a bipartisan measure that raised standards in
schools, insisted on accountability in return for federal
dollars, and led to measurable gains in achievement
– especially
among minority students. Faced with a recession when he took
office, President Bush cut taxes for every federal income
taxpayer, which helped set off an unprecedented 52 straight
months of job creation. And President Bush modernized Medicare
by adding a prescription drug benefit, a reform that provided
access to needed medicine for 40 million seniors and other
beneficiaries.
President Bush also implemented free trade agreements with
more than a dozen nations; empowered America’s armies of
compassion by creating a new Faith-based and Community
Initiative; promoted a culture of life; improved air quality and
made America’s energy supply more secure; set aside more ocean
resources for environmental protection than any predecessor;
transformed the military and nearly doubled government support
for veterans; pioneered a new model of partnership in
development that tied American foreign aid to reform and good
governance; launched a global HIV/AIDS initiative that has
spared millions of lives; expanded the NATO alliance; forged a
historic new partnership with India; and appointed Chief Justice
John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The most significant event of President Bush’s tenure came on
September 11, 2001, when terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people
on American soil. President Bush responded with a comprehensive
strategy to protect the American people. He led the most
dramatic reorganization of the federal government since the
beginning of the Cold War, reforming the intelligence community
and establishing new institutions like the Department of
Homeland Security. He built global coalitions to remove violent
regimes in Afghanistanand Iraq that threatened America
– liberating
more than 50 million people from tyranny. He recognized that
freedom and hope are the best alternative to the extremist
ideology of the terrorists, so he provided unprecedented
American support for young democracies and dissidents in the
Middle East and beyond. In the more than seven years after
September 11, 2001, the United States was not attacked again.
President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former
teacher and librarian whom he met at a friend’s backyard
barbeque. The President and Mrs. Bush have twin daughters,
Barbara and Jenna, and a son-in-law, Henry Hager. The Bush
family also includes two dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley.
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