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George W. Bush is born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Served for the Texas Air National Guard as a F-102 fighter pilot.
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Graduated from Yale University with a Bachelors degree in in History.
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Graduted from Harvard Business School with a Masters degree in Business Administration.
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Bush fallowed his father in the oil industry of Texas.
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He represented the state of Texas.
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Some other intereting facts about George W. bush are that he was the first president to run a marathon, first to have t-ball games on the White House lawn, he really enjoyed clearing brush at his home in Crawford, Texas, and he took over 900 vacation days while in office.
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Bush served as governor of Texas from January 17,1995 until resigning as governor in on December 21, 2000 to take his spot as president. Bush was elected 2 terms as governor. He had the nicknames Dubya, 43, and Junior as well.
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Bush gives his inaugural address. He is apart of the Republican party. Bush's vice president was Dick Cheney. Some people that he took with him to the White House was his wife Laura, His daughters Barbra, and Jenna Bush. Some of the pets that he had while in office was Spot a Springer Spaniel, Miss Beazley a Scottish Terrior, Barney a Scottish Terrior, and Bob the cat.
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There were four airplanes hijacked by Al-Qaeda on suicide attacks to cause mass destruction to the U.S.. Three of the four hijacks were completed with major damage caused to the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. the fourth airplane crashed into a field in Pennensylvania.
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More major world events that happened while Bush was in office was that there was a major H1N1 virus outbreak thatg occured all around, in 2004 the Indian Ocean earthquake that killed over 500,000 people occured, and Bejing, China hosted the summer olympic games in 2008.
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Other events that occured in the U.S. while bush was in office were in 2008 when Michael Phelps a mens swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland won 8 gold medals for the U.S., also in 2007 the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California is sworn into office.
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Some of his most notable achievements while in office were lowering taxes, signed the no child left behind act, implemented many free trade agreements, sent FEMA to the south to help with the hurricane Katrina disaster, and ordered invasion on the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks.
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Bush and Clinton lead a major fundraising act for relief help to those affected by the Haitian Earthquake.
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