George W. Bush served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He previously worked in the oil industry and served as the 46th Governor of Texas. Bush attended Yale University where he studied various subjects before graduating with a degree in History. He then served in the Texas Air National Guard and later owned an oil company in Midland, Texas. Bush was elected President in 2000 and 2004, governing during a time that included the 9/11 terrorist attacks and resulting War on Terror.

1. By: Andrea Locke
3rd block
Ms. Bishop

3. George W. Bush was the governor of Texas. He is
married to Laura Bush and has two twin girls
Barbara and Jenna.
He went to Yale university. He studied Astronomy,
City Planning, Prehistoric Archaeology,
Masterpieces of Spanish Literature, Japanese
Haiku, Political Science, and Mass
Communication.
He majored in Social Studies (history), he took a
course called History of the Soviet Union, he said,
“The class was an introduction to the struggle
between tyranny and freedom, a battle that has
held my attention for the rest of my life.”

4. Senior year at Yale university, the war in Vietnam
was escalating, and President Johnson had
instituted a draft. And George W. Bush served in
the Air Force as a Pilot.
Jimmy Allison, a Midland politician told George W.
Bush about an opportunity on Red Blount’s
campaign for the U.S. Senate in Alabama.
George W. Bush went back to college, to Harvard
Business School. There he learned the mechanics
of finance, accounting, and economics.

5. In 1977, George and Laura had a small wedding
with family and close friends from Midland.
In 1979, George W. Bush had started his own
small energy exploration company in Midland.
Soon later, George deepen his faith with God and
read the bible more often.
He said, “ he had a calling, to further the country’s
future. Cut taxes, raise standards in public schools,
reform Social Security and Medicare, rally faith-based
charities, lift the sights of the American
people by encouraging a new era of personal
responsibility.”

7. At the age of 54,George W. Bush became our
43rd president in 2001-2009.
Bush was in the double-digit polls over his
opponent Vice President Al Gore Jr. But the
gap closed as the election approached and
though Gore finally won the popular vote by
543,895 votes, victory or loss of the presidency
hinged on Florida’s electoral votes. In the end
Bush won the electoral count 271 to 266.

8. He ran again in 2004 against Massachusetts
Democratic Senator John Kerry. And won 51 percent to
48 percent.
George W. Bush set the theme for his second term: “At
this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the
words I use, but by the history we have seen together.
For half a century, America defended our own freedom
by standing watch on distant borders. After the
shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet-and
then there came a day of fire. There is only one
force of history that can break the reign of hatred and
resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and
reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is
the force of human freedom – tested but not weary…
we are ready for the greatest achievements in the
history of freedom.”

9. September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 Americans were killed,
transformed George W. Bush into a wartime president. The attacks
put on hold many of Bush’s hopes and plans.
Bush was in Florida when he got the message that the second
twin tower was hit by a plane. He was in a classroom full of little
kids and press. He didn’t want the kids to get worry so after the
teacher stop talking he went into a room with parents and said,
“The Untied States is under attack.” He stated making phone calls
and watch footage from New York. He was hustled into a bunker
and made more calls and someone called him back to tell him the
pentagon just got hit. “When the first tower got hit, I thought it was
an accident, the second one was an attack and the third one was
a declaration of war. He went back to Washington D.C. and the
secret service wouldn’t let him go back to the capital. Again he
made more phone calls. He gave orders to shoot down any
airplane that does not respond to get out of the air. He made the
best kind of decisions in the fog of war. Bush said we will find
whoever was involved with the attacks.

11. President George W. Bush announces that American
troops are on the offensive in Afghanistan. The goal of
Operation Enduring Freedom, as the mission was
dubbed, was to stamp out Afghanistan's Islamic
fundamentalist Taliban regime, which had aided and
abetted al-Qaida and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
Bush informed the American public that "carefully
targeted actions" were being carried out to crush the
military capability of al-Qaida and the Taliban, with help
from British, Canadian, Australian, German and French
troops. By destroying camps and disrupting
communications, we will make it more difficult for the
terror network to train new recruits and coordinate their
evil plans

13. He was an alcoholic and how he got over the
cravings was with chocolate, run, and his faith
in God.
He was the first son of George and Barbara
Bush.
George W. Bush had a younger sister name
Robin Bush. She died at age 3 from leukemia.
Later on he had 3 younger brothers (Jeb, Neil,
and Marvin) and 1 younger sister (Doro).
He was in boy scouts, as a Cub scout.

14. George W. Bush’s mother had a miscarriage.
George’s grandfather Prescott Bush had ran
for senate for Connecticut and lost the first
time. Two years later, Connecticut republicans
persuaded him to try again and won.
When George’s grandfather died they buried
him next to Robin’s gravesite.
While George W. Bush was at Yale university,
he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

15. The year George W. Bush was graduating from
Yale university was the year that Martin Luther
King Jr. got assassinated (in April).
In the Air Force he got to learn how to fly the jet
called F-102 at Ellington Air Force Base.
It was only the second time in American history
that a president’s son went on to the White
House, John Quincy Adams, elected the sixth
president in 1824, which was the son of John
Adams, the second president.