George Washington was promoted to this rank posthumously by Gerald R. Ford during his presidency. President Ford then proclaimed that no other US officer could rise to a higher rank than Washington. Dwight Eisenhower was also the only President to serve during both world wars and might have ...
From Gerald Ford's football days to Barack Obama's basketball game to George W. Bush's impressive marathon splits, many presidents have shown athletic prowess. 1960s How JFK, LBJ and Nixon All Put Their Stamp on the Apollo 11 Moon Landing ...
George W. Bush is the 43rd president of the United States (2001–09), who led his country’s response to the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003. He won the presidency in 2000 over Vice President Al Gore in one of th
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George H.W. Bush once shaved his head. Bush surprised his friends and family in 2013 when he decided to shave his head (for a very sweet reason). The son of one of his Secret Service guards was diagnosed with leukemia. Bush told TODAY, "A lot of the agents shaved their head...I...
Jr., and some historians believe this represented a change in Reagan’s direction as president,leading him to push for treaties with the Soviet Union. Reagan ran for re-election in 1984 and beat Walter Mondale. He left office in 1989, succeeded by his vice president, George H.W. Bush. ...
Cruz served as an adviser on the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush and became solicitor general of Texas in 2003. He won election to the U.S. Senate in 2012 with the support of the Tea Party and went on to orchestrate a governmental shutdown in opposition to Obamacare. After...
Previously, President George W. Bush put in a solar system to power part of the White House grounds, including providing heat to the presidential swimming pool. 356 votes Unexpected tidbit? Photo: Wikimedia Commons 6 Carter Helped Establish Atlanta As A Go-To For The Entertainment Indu...
Roosevelt – 76 Fewest: George W. Bush – 7 After FDR, Harry S. Truman comes in a respectable second place in this category, with 55 laws passed in the first 100 days after his 1949 inauguration. (Though Truman took office after Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, tallies of his first ...
Donald Trump criticized President George W. Bush and his Iraq War plan during an interview on “Larry King Live” in October 2007. 59) Endorsed John McCain Donald Trump announced his support for candidate John McCain for president an interview on “Larry King Live” in September 2008. ...