Biography on george bush jr
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George W. Bush became the second presidential son (after John Quincy Adams) to assume office. Although initially focused on tax cuts and education reform, Bush's two terms became defined by the September 11, terrorist attacks.
Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 6, where his father was attending Yale. When George H.W. Bush entered the oil business, the family moved to Midland, Texas. George followed in his father's footsteps, attending prep school at the Phillips Academy and graduating from Yale in He served in the Texas Air National Guard, went to Harvard Business School, and then returned to Midland, where he entered the oil industry. In he married Laura Welch, a teacher and librarian, who, in , gave birth to twins Jenna and Barbara. In , Bush was defeated in a campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives.
In the s, Bush worked to gain a foothold in a flagging Texas oil economy while serving as adviser during his father’s vice presidency and presidential campaig
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George W. Bush: Life Before the Presidency
George W. Bush was the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and the former Barbara Pierce. George H. W. Bush enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday and became notable as the youngest pilot to earn his wings in World War II. Prior to enlistment, George H. W. Bush fell in love with Barbara Pierce, after meeting her at a country club dance in They were engagerad in , and Bush was deployed shortly afterward as a Navy pilot in the Pacific; he chose to paint his beloved Barbara’s name on the side of his plane. The two married shortly after Bush returned from the war, and George Walker Bush was born on July 6, , in New Haven, Connecticut. The elder Bush attended Yale and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in just two-and-a-half years.
After graduation, the Bushes moved to Odessa, Texas, in , and George H.W. Bush worked as an equipment clerk for an oil company. The ung family rented a tiny apartment, which was so small that they had to shar
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George W. Bush
The biography for President Bush and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.
George W. Bush, America’s 43rd President (), was transformed into a wartime President in the aftermath of the airborne terrorist attacks on September 11, , facing the “greatest challenge of any President since Abraham Lincoln.”
The airborne terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted flight against the White House or Capitol on September 11, , in which nearly 3, Americans were killed, transformed George W. Bush into a wartime president. The attacks put on hold many of Bush’s hopes and plans, and Bush’s father, George Bush, the 41st president, declared that his son “faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham Lincoln.”
In response, Bush formed a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, sent American forces into Afghanistan to break up the Taliban, a movement under Osama bin Laden that tr