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George W. Bush
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George 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, where President Bush grew up in
Midland. 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 Afghanistan and 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.

Learn more about George W. Bush 's spouse, Laura Welch Bush.

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