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George
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Born:
6 July 1946
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Birthplace:
New Haven, Connecticut
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Best Known As:
President of the United States, 2001-2009George W. Bush served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001-2009. Bushis the son of former U.S. presidentGeorge Bush, who served from 1989-93. (The termsof father and son were separated by the two terms of Bill Clinton.) George W. Bushgraduated from Yale in 1968. After serving as a pilot in the Texas National Guard, heattended Harvard Business School and then worked in the oil and gas industries until1986, when he got involved in his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign. Hereturned to Texas and was elected governor there in 1994 and again in 1998. Bush wonthe Republican nomination for president in August of 2000, choosing Dick Cheneyas his
 
running mate. In the November general election they ran against Democratic candidateAl Goreand Joseph Lieberman. The election is now remembered for the extremely close and controversial vote in Florida; after a post-election delay of a month while votes wererecounted and lawsuits were filed on both sides, Gore conceded the election to Bush on13 December 2000. Bush led in electoral votes 271 to 267, while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than Gore: the final official tally was 50,158,094 votes for Gore to49,820,518 votes for Bush. Bush and Cheney won re-election in 2004 against aDemocratic ticket of  John Kerry and John Edwards.Bush's public approval ratings  plummeted during his second term, thanks to the ongoing war in Iraq, his administration'ssluggish response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and an economic crash in 2008. Bushwas succeeded on 20 January 2009 by a Democratic president, Barack Obama. Bush married his wifeLaura Bush(formerly Laura Welch) in 1977; they have twindaughters,Jenna and Barbara,born in 1981... In the fall of 2000 Barbara entered Yale, Jenna the University of Texas at Austin; both graduated from their respective schools in2004... George W. Bush has an undergraduate degree from Yale (1968) and an MBA fromHarvard (1975)... In November 2000, days before the presidential election, Bush admittedthat in 1976 he was arrested for drunk driving in Maine, an arrest he had previouslyhidden... He has said that he stopped drinking alcohol entirely in 1986... Bush is thefourth man to win the presidency while losing the popular vote... Bush fainted briefly on13 January 2002 after a pretzel stuck in his throat while he was watching football on TV;Bush recovered moments later and the incident was not considered serious.Bush, George Walker (1946-) 43rd president of the United States, born in New Haven,Connecticut. During theVietnam War , Bush served two years in the Texas Air NationalGuard. He was governor of Texas from 1994 to 2001. Bush, son of the 41st president,defeated Vice President Al Gore (winner of the popular vote by over 500, 000 votes) inone of the closest elections in U.S. history. He won 271 electoral votes, just one morethan the minimum; five weeks after election day, Bush was awarded Florida's twenty-fiveelectoral votes by a (contested) margin of 537 out of 6 million cast.
hen George W. Bush (born 1946) won a disputed election to become president of theUnited States, it capped a meteoric rise to power in a relatively short political career that combined good timing, a powerful family, and uncanny campaigning skills. A latebloomer in terms of achievement, Bush's victory represented the second time in Americanhistory that the son of a former president took on the world's most powerful political job.
George Walker Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1946. His parentsmoved the family from New Haven, where they had lived next door to the president of Yale University, to Texas when George W. was two years old. His father, George HerbertWalker Bush, had just graduated from Yale and wanted to try his hand at the oil business.At first they lived in aramshackle duplex in theroughneck town of Odessa, with two
 
 prostitutes renting the other half of the house. Two years later, after a brief time followingthe elder Bush as a drill-bitsalesman in California, they moved to Midland, a more refined city that was better suited to raising a family.One of their neighbors, Charlie Younger, described Midland as "a real Ozzie-and-Harrietsort of town." It was also bursting with optimism during the boom times of the 1950s,when the elder Bush made his fortune in drilling. Young George W. was a strong-willedand wisecracking child who posed a challenge for his mother, Barbara. His father, whohad played baseball at Yale, coached his Little League baseball team, and the young boy became a baseballfanatic, memorizing statistics and trivia from his collection of baseballcards. The Bushes had five more children: a sonJeb; a daughter Robin, (who died of leukemia in childhood); then sons Neil and Marvin and daughter Dorothy. As the eldest,George W. was expected to shine. He was an all-around athlete, fair student, andoccasionaltroublemaker in school - he was once paddled for painting a mustache on hisface during a music class. In seventh grade, he ran for class president and won. The nextyear, his father, who had become amillionaire, moved the family to Houston.Two years later, George W. was sent back East to enroll at Phillips Academy, an elite private prep school inAndover ,Massachusetts. At Andover, he was awhirlwindof   physical activity, playing varsity baseball and basketball and junior varsity football. In basketball he often made self-deprecating jokes about riding the bench. Instead of tryingout for varsity football, he became the squad's headcheerleader . He also organized astickballleague and was nicknamed Tweeds Bush, after the political organizer  Boss Tweed. Against the school's intense competition Bush arrayed his sense of humor. "I wasable toinstilla sense of frivolity," Bush later said. "Andover was kind of a strange experience."His high school academic record was far from top-notch. However, drawing on his familyconnections, Bush landed a spot at Yale, where both his father and grandfather hadattended. Bush, extremelygregariousand a notoriously poor dresser ,made many friends, somehow bridging the growing divide between the public school graduates who wereentering Yale and the "preppies." Bush's interest in politics faded temporarily after hisfather lost a close election for a seat in the U.S. Senate, in which his grandfather hadserved. He remaineduninterestedin politics even after his father won the Senate seat on asecond try in 1966. Instead, he became president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternityand enjoyed parties, drinking, watching and playing football, and dating. Grades weren'ta high priority. "He was a serious student of people," recalled classmate RobertMcCallum. He was booked on a misdemeanor  charge for being part of a prank that involved stealing a Christmas wreath for the frat house, but the charges were dropped. Hewas also questioned by police for helping to tear down the goalposts at PrincetonUniversity after a football game. For a brief time, he was engaged to a Rice Universitystudent, Cathryn Wolfman. In his senior year, he joined the notorious secret society, Skulland Bones. Despite his background of privilege, Bush became more at ease with all kindsof people in college. "I was never one to feel guilty," he said about his wealth and familyconnections. "I feel lucky." Moving back to Houston after graduating from Yale, Bushtook up residence in atrendyapartment complex, the Chateaux Dijon - a hub for young
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