Bush, George W.

Cultural  

1. The son of former president George H. W. Bush, he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. In 2000, he secured the Republican nomination for the presidency and narrowly defeated Al Gore, the Democratic party nominee, in an election marred by charges of irregularities in the counting of votes, especially in Florida. Although Gore won more popular votes, Bush prevailed in the Electoral College after a Supreme Court decision resolved the Florida controversy in his favor. In the wake of the September 11 attacks (2001), the Bush administration identified Osama bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terror. With support from U.S. allies, Bush ordered a deployment of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf and in nations adjoining Afghanistan, where bin Laden apparently ran training camps for terrorists with the backing of the Taliban. Air strikes led to the rout of the Taliban in November, though operations continued and bin Laden appeared to have evaded capture. On the domestic front, Bush oversaw successive reduction of interest rates to stimulate the sluggish U.S. economy.

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Bush, George W. Bush did for Clinton and Obama did for the younger Bush.

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He devotes seven pages to 9/11 and its aftermath, and a dozen to the messy divorce between Sharon and Neil Bush, George W.’s younger brother.

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In 2000 and 2004, George Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s nephew, whose mother Columba is Mexican-American, gave speeches dotted with sentences spoken in Spanish, stressing his uncle’s interest in education.

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Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- offered a stark contrast to President Trump's take on the issue, which has come to the forefront in the wake of protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

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