For my assigned blog #7 Mr. Bruns assigned everyone in the class a president to do some reaserch to be furthermore presented in clase wednesday. I was given George Herbert Walker Bush. The father of the well known president, George W. Bush. George Herbert Walker bush was the 41st president of the United States. I was given the responsibility to look up assassination attempts and accomplishments of George H.W Bush.
Some of the accomplishments President George H.W bush had were:
>Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990- It was passed and put into act July 26, 1990. This is civil rights law that enacts that there will be no discrimination on people that have a disability.
>Bush reauthorized the Clean Air Act- this required everyone to use cleaner burning Fuels.
>He also signed a Bill helping unemployed people get benefits.
>He tried to persuade the democratic controlled congress to go on a budget.
> Bush ordered in military to Panama and Persian Gulf- Soviet Union was no longer together and one year later the Berlin Wall fell.
>Bush's Administration, along with the Progressive Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
George Herbert Walker Bush has had one assination attempt on him. The plot took place on April 13, 1993. There were fourteen men working for the fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. He was believed to have these fourteen men smuggle in bombs to Kuwait (Is an Arab country in western Asia). Several months after President George Herbert Walker Bush left office, He left in January of 1993. That is four months without presidency. These fourteen men were going to use a car bomb to assassinate George H.W Bush. He was visiting the Kuwait University when this all went down. This plotted assassination fell through when the Kuwait police officials found the bomb in the car and arrested all the suspects. Wali Abdelhadi Ghazali and Raad Abdel-Amir al-Assadi were two suspects of the plotted assasination and when they were taken into court on trial they denied everything and never admitted to anything. Then they said that they were threatened to assassinate George H.W Bush. Then the Iraq Intelligence Service, Directorate 14, was proven to be behind the plot.
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