George  Walker  Bush    By  Jalia  Birdsong    

Childhood    

•  George  was  born  July  6,  1946  in  New  Haven,  Connec=cut.  

•  He  went  to  San  Janinto  Junior  High,  Phillips  Academy  High  School,  and  for  college  he  went  to  Yale  University.  

Before  Marriage    

•  He  was  accepted  into  the  Texas  Air  Na=onal  Guard.  

•  He  trained  to  become  a  pilot  and  he  completed  his  ac=ve  duty  service  in  1970.  

•  He  entered  Harvard  Business  School  and  received  a  MBA  in  1975.    

•  He  was  involved  in  oil  and  gas  industries  and  started  his  own  explora=on  company.    

Marriage  

•  He  married  Laura  Welch  on  November  5,  1977  in  the  Glass  Chapel  of  the  First  United  Methodist  Church  in  Midland,  Texas.    

•  Laura  was  a  former  public  school  teacher  and  librarian.  •  She  championed  the  causes  of  educa=on  and  literacy  before  and  during  her  =me  in  the  White  House.    

•  As  first  lady,  she  helped  create  the  Na=onal  Book  Fes=val  and  later  founded  the  Laura  Bush  Founda=on  to  provide  funding  for  America’s  libraries.    

AUer  Marriage    •  George  ran  for  the  U.S.  House  of  Representa=ves  from  Texas  but  lost  to  his  democra=c  appoint.  

•  Then  he  moved  to  Washington  DC  to  work  on  his  fathers  1988  presiden=al  campaign.    

•  The  following  year  he  became  an  investor  in  the  Texas  rangers  baseball  tree  team  

•  In  1994  he  defeated  democra=c  incumbent  Ann  Richards  to  become  governor  of  Texas.  He  was  re-­‐elected  four  years  later.    

•  In  the  summer  of  1999,  Bush  announced  his  candidacy  for  president  and  campaigned  as  “compassionate  conserva=ve.”    

President  |  2001-­‐2005    •  Bush’s  first  term  in  the  white  house  was  dominated  by  the  

9\11  terrorist  a`ack  •  AUer  that  he  signed  the  patriot  act  into  law  created  the  

cabinet  level  department  of  homeland  security.    •  He  won  congressional  approval  if  widespread  tax-­‐cut  bills  

and  the  Medicare  prescrip=on  drug  coverage  program  for  seniors;  allocated  billons  of  dollars  to  fight  HIV/Aids  around  the  world.  

•  Then  he  created  the  white  house  office  of  Faith  Based  and  community  ini=a=ves  and  the  withdrew  America’s  support  of  the  1997  Kyoto  Protocol  which  was  signed  by  president  Bill  Clinton  and  was  intended  to  combat  worldwide  global  warming.  

President  |  2005-­‐2009  •  During  Bush’s  second  term  cri=cs  said  he  had  used  misleading  claims  

about  Iraq’s  WHDs  as  a  jus=fica=on  for  the  invasion  of  the  Middle  Eastern  Na=on.  

•   Addi=onally  aUer  hurricane  Katrina  deviated  Americas  gulf  coast  region  in  August  2005  resul=ng  in  1800  deaths  and  billons  of  dollars  in  damages,  the  Bush  Administra=on  was  widely  cri=cized  for  its  slow  response  to  the  disaster.    

•  He  began  his  presidency  with  a  federal  budget  surplus;  however,  factors  such  as  the  enormous  cost  of  figh=ng  two  wars  and  the  broad  tax  cuts  led  to  annual  budget  defects  star=ng  in  2002  then  in  2008  with  America  experiencing  its  worst  finical  crisis  since  the  great  depression,  Congress  passed  a  series  of  controversial  Bush  administra=on-­‐sponsored  plans  to  bail  out  the  financial  industry  worth  hundreds  of  billions  in  federal  fund.    

•  Bush  also  lobbied  unsuccessfully  for  a  plan  to  replace  social  security  with  private  re=rement  savings  accounts.    

Children/Siblings  

•  George  and  Laura  had  twins  on  November  25,1981,  which  were  named  Barbara  Peirce  Bush  and  Jenna  Welsh  Bush  (Hager).  

•  His  siblings  were  Pauline  Robinson  Bush  who  died  of  leukemia,  John  Ellis  Bush,  Neil  Mallon  Bush,  Marvin  Peirce  Bush,  and  Dorothy  Walker  Bush.      

       

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