George W. Bush was the 43rd President and served two terms in office. He was the second president to be a son of a former president, the first being John Quincy Adams. He was born on July 6, 1946, to George H. W. and Barbara Bush. He went to Yale and Harvard Business School. In 1968 he was commissioned to the Air National Guard in Texas. He was honorably discharged in November of 1974.
Bush was Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was elected President and served from 2001 to 2008. 8 months into his first term, on September 11, 2001, Terrorists took over four planes, 2 crashed into the World Trade Center, 1 hit the Pentagon, and the other one, flight 93, was taken over by passengers, and it crashed in the middle of no where.
After this event, Bush set up some Foreign Policies.
He started the "Global War on Terror" to remove Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, and the Taliban from governments in the middle east and to stop terrorism. He did a lot in Defense and under his administration the International Criminal Court was set up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewbush
http://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/en/The-President-and-Family/George-W-Bush.aspx
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