Throughout George Bush’s presidency, the federal government has refused to support any regulation of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Whenever the subject comes up, officials tend to mumble(咕哝)about uncertainties. But on April 2nd, the Supreme Court at last settled one of the ...
George Bush Wins 43rd US Presidency; Gore Concedes
George H.W. Bush was the vice president of the United States (1981–89), 41st U.S. president (1989–93), and father of the 43rd U.S. president, George W. Bush. As president, the elder Bush assembled a multinational force to compel the withdrawal of Iraq
George W. Bush - Presidency: Bush was the first Republican president to enjoy a majority in both houses of Congress since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. Taking advantage of his party’s strength, Bush proposed a $1.6 trillion tax-cut bill in February
In 2000, Bush’s son George, a two-term Texas governor, was elected president and served two terms. The Bushes were the second father and son to ascend to the presidency. (The first wereJohn Adams, the second U.S. president, andJohn Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president). Another ...
Five and a half years into his presidency, George Bush finally vetoed a bill this week. Oddly enough, it was one that most Americans support: it would have expanded foderal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. The House and Senate had both passed the bill by wide, but not veto-proof...
41: Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush . By Michael Nelson and Barbara A. Perry, eds. History will likely be very kind to George H. W. Bush. His one-term presidency (1989-1993) came as two disruptive events, the end of the Cold War and the Reagan Revolution, were rewritin...
Bush got his discharge as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the fall of 1945 and immediately entered Yale. The couple’s first child, George Walker Bush, was born the following summer. The proud father’s college classmates nicknamed him Poppy, which had been his maternal grandfather’s nickname...
Bush with President Ronald Reagan Vice presidency As Vice President, Bush had influence on Reagan's staffing and was given many foreign affairs responsibilities. Bush was kept busy on overseas diplomatic trips; he attended so many state funerals that he famously quipped, "I'm George Bush. You ...
The presidency of George W. Bush began on January 20, 2001, when he was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States of America. The oldest son of former president George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush was elected president in the 2000 general election, and became the second US...