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  George Bush - MSN Encarta
George Bush, born in 1946, 43rd president of the United States (2001- ), who took office after one of the closest and most disputed elections in U.S. history and launched a war against terrorism after a devastating terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush.
Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he eventually served as a congressman, head of the Republican National Committee, ambassador to the United Nations, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and vice president and president of the United States.
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 George H. W. Bush - MSN Encarta
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924), was the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993).
George Herbert Walker Bush, born in 1924, 41st president of the United States (1989-1993), president at the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Bush also organized an unprecedented global alliance against Iraq during the Persian Gulf War of 1991, but he was less successful in dealing with U.S. domestic problems and was defeated after one term by Bill Clinton in the 1992 election.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush - dKosopedia
George Herbert Walker Bush was the one term Republcian 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
George Bush was born on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1942, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team, and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A.U.V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas" – Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth".
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 Worldroots.com
George Herbert Walker Bush was the second of the five children of Prescott and Dorothy Bush.
As CIA chief, Bush's primary goal was restoring the reputation of the agency, which had been damaged by revelations of its illegal and unauthorized activities during the 1970s, including assassination plots against foreign officials and spying on members of the domestic antiwar movement.
Bush attacked his opponent for liberal policies that Bush said were out of touch with American sentiments, and he promised to continue Ronald Reagan's economic policies and diplomacy with the Soviet Union.
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 George Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts.
George Bush's Presidency was marked by activist President in foreign affairs while being a mostly passive President in the area of domestic policy.
Bush's greatest success was his stewardship in foreign affairs that helped the transition from a bipolar world, with the United States and the Soviet Union in confrontation, to one in which the Soviet Union had fallen apart and the United States was the only superpower.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts.
Bush, however, proved to be an able and popular diplomat, particularly in his handling of the difficult, if ultimately unsuccessful, task of ensuring the continued seating of the Taiwan delegation when the United Nations in a dramatic reversal voted to seat the Peoples Republic of China.
Bush served as a caretaker director, acting to restore morale within the agency and to deflect public and congressional criticisms of the agency's past role and authority.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bush benefited from the unraveling of Eastern European Communism, a rapid series of events that began with the collapse of East Germany late in 1989 and culminated in the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In 2005 Bush joined with his successor to helped raised funds for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, and was appointed UN special envoy for the South Asian earthquake disaster.
George W. Bush, left, is shown with Casey Stengall, and his great uncle George Herbert Walker in this undated handout photograph.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
George Herbert Walker Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States on Nov. 8, 1988, and was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1989.
Bush traveled more than a million and a half kilometers and visited some 75 nations as a special emissary for the president, and headed the National Security Council's "crisis management team." He also chaired presidential task forces on deregulation, on combating terrorism, and on coordinating government efforts to stop drug smuggling in southern Florida.
Bush appeared to move to the right in the campaign, focusing on so-called value issues, apologizing for breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, and allowing conservatives to dominate his party's convention.
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George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989 - 1993).
The elder Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, is former chief of the CIA.
George Herbert Walker Bush was raised in privilege in suburban Connecticut in a family that cared deeply about international issues.
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 USA-Presidents.Info - George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989 - 1993).
George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, served as a Senator from Connecticut and was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1942, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team, and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A.U.V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas," Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth".
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 Biography of George Herbert Walker Bush
George Bush brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States "a kinder and gentler nation." In his Inaugural Address he pledged in "a moment rich with promise" to use American strength as "a force for good."
In 1988 Bush won the Republican nomination for President and, with Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate, he defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the general election.
Bush faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended after 40 bitter years, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell.
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 BUSH, George Herbert Walker
Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., and grew up in Greenwich, Conn. A World War II carrier pilot in the Pacific, he was discharged in 1945 with a Distinguished Flying Cross.
Bush, the 43rd president of the U.S., and Jeb (John Ellis) Bush (1953–), a two-term governor of Florida (1999–2007); a sixth child died of leukemia before her fourth birthday.
George Walker Bush, 1946-, 43d president of the United States., Born in New Haven, Connecticut.
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 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum :: Biography of George Herbert Walker Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (Republican Senator Connecticut 1952-1962).
Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1966 from Texas' 7th District.
Bush traveled to Peking, where he served as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office during the critical period when the United States was renewing ties with the People's Republic of China.
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 George Walker Bush — Infoplease.com
Bush officially became the president-elect on Dec. 13, after the Supreme Court reversed a decision by the Florida Supreme Court to allow manual recounts of ballots in some Florida counties, contending that such a partial recount violated the Constitution's equal protection and due process guarantees.
Bush's early foreign policy was defined by the rejection of a number of international treaties that the White House felt were detrimental to American interests, including the Kyoto treaty on global warming, the biological weapons convention banning germ warfare, and a treaty to establish an international war-crimes court.
George Walker Bush: Governor of Texas and Presidential Candidate - Governor of Texas and Presidential Candidate In 1994, Bush was elected governor of Texas, defeating...
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 Part 1 : George Herbert Walker Bush
George Bush, known to family and friends as "Poppy," sat smiling behind a huge executive desk on which there was not a scrap of paper - not a note, a letter, or even a message slip.
George Bush, the public man, was preeminently the product of family, friendship, his sense of loyalty, his capacity for service - and the patronage of three presidents.
Prescott Bush, she became the mother of five children, the second and favorite of whom, born January 12, 1924, was George Herbert Walker Bush (named for "Dottie's" hard-charging father).
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 American Experience | The Presidents | George H. W. Bush | PBS
Prior to winning the presidency, George Bush served as a U.S. congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to China, director of the C.I.A, and vice president under Ronald Reagan.
Bush did enjoy some successes on the domestic front, particularly in his appointing of two justices to the Supreme Court, something the far more popular Reagan had been unable to do.
Indeed, as early as 1990, Bush's chief-of-staff John Sununu declared, "...there's not a single piece of legislation that needs to be passed in the next two years." With the economy growing at a meager 1% annually, and unemployment steadily rising, the public wanted to see more assertive action from the White House.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush: Protector Guardian
George Bush was fortunate in another regard as well: his early life seems to have been pleasant, his parents supportive, his family happy and stable.
Young George attended Andover, a private school with predominantly wealthy students from the east coast, and proved to be an industrious student, a fine athlete, and a cheerful and friendly youth whom both students and teachers liked.
George Bush showed that he had the toughness and the determination to make it through the eight-month pilot training program, though he was said not to be a natural pilot.
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 George H.W. Bush Biography -- Academy of Achievement
George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City.
In the early primaries in 1980, George Bush made a strong showing, but by the time the Republicans met for their convention in Detroit, it was clear that Ronald Reagan would be the nominee, and George Bush had dropped out of the race.
George W. Bush was elected Governor of Texas in 1994, and and Jeb Bush won election as Governor of Florida in 1998.
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 President Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was one of four Presidents to be born in Massachusetts.
George Herbert Walker Bush resigned from the CIA after Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976.
George Herbert Walker Bush became the youngest pilot in the U.S. Navy, surviving some dangerous missions in the South Pacific.
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 Bush book: Introduction
The authors observed George Bush very carefully as the Gulf crisis and the war unfolded, and had no doubt that his enraged public outbursts constituted real psychotic episodes, indicative of a deranged mental state that was full of ominous portent for humanity.
If Bush were re-elected, he would view himself as beyond the reach of the voters and the popular will; with the federal deficit rising beyond a billion dollars a day, a second Bush administration would dictate such crushing austerity as to bring the country to the brink of civil war.
Part of the free ride enjoyed by George Bush during the 1988 elections is reflected in the fact that at no point in the campaign was there any serious effort by any of the so-called news organizations to provide the public with something approaching an accurate and complete account of his political career.
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