George Walker Bush

George Walker Bush

George Walker Bush (/ dʒɔrdʒ bʊʃ wɔ kər ː born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001-2009. Before that, he was governor of Texas, 46th, serving from 1995 to 2000.

Bush is the eldest son of President George HW Bush, who served as the 41st President and Barbara Bush, making him one of only two U.S. presidents to be the son of a former president, after John Quincy Adams. It is also the brother Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida.

After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked on the oil companies. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully in the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. Later, co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards of Texas in the 1994 election for governor. In a close election and controversial, Bush was elected president in 2000 as the Republican candidate, defeating Vice President Al Gore in the electoral College.He was once named in 2000 and 2004.

From the beginning, the Bush administration has withdrawn a series of processes of international treaties like the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. A series of terrorist attacks, eight months after Bush's first term as president September 11, 2001. In response, Bush announced a war against terrorism, ordered the invasion of Afghanistan the same year and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In addition to issues of national security, Bush has promoted policies on the reform of economic security, health, education and social development. He signed wide cuts in the tax law, the No Child Left Behind Act, the law banning partial-birth abortion, and prescription drug benefits to Medicare for the elderly. Its mandate has been national debates on immigration, social security, electronic surveillance, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Bush successfully ran for re-election against Democratic Senator John Kerry in 2004, another relatively close to the elections. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the political spectrum. In 2005, the Bush administration is facing widespread criticism on the handling of Hurricane Katrina. This and other conflicts, as well as dissatisfaction with the direction of the war in Iraq and the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 elections.As United States has become the longest recession in its post-war II in December 2007, the Bush administration took more direct control of the economy by adjusting the number of economic programs aimed at maintaining the country's financial system. While Bush was popular in the United States most of his first term, his popularity fell sharply in its second term.He was a very controversial figure at the international level, where public protests are also held during the visits of close allies such as United Kingdom.

After leaving office, Bush returned to Texas and bought a house in a suburb of Dallas. He is currently a lecturer and wrote a book about his life called decision points.