George+H.W.+Bush

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=(George H. W. Bush)=

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=__**Biographical Information:**__=

=__Biographical Sketch:__=

==George Herbert Walker Bush sits in the middle of three generations of politicians. His father Prescott was a senator from Connecticut, his son Jeb was the former governor of Florida, and his son George Walker was the 43rd President of the United States.==

=Political Experience=
 * He began his political career when he became the Republican Party chairman in Harris County, Texas.
 * In 1964, he ran for a U.S. Senate seat against Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough.
 * In 1966, he ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Houston's Seventh district.
 * After serving two terms in the House, Bush eyed another run for the Senate in 1970.
 * In December 1970, President Richard Nixon nominated Bush as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
 * President Nixon removed Bush from the United Nations in 1973 and asked him to serve instead as chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
 * Bush stepped down as head of the RNC after Gerald Ford became President.
 * The new President appointed Bush as the U.S. envoy to the People's Republic of China.
 * In 1975, President Ford asked Bush to serve as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
 * On May 1, 1979, Bush announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President.

=__Presidential Administration__=

Secretary of the Navy:
=__Domestic Affairs__= Bush was involved with the Federal Budget. Bush stressed "a limited agenda," that included volunteerism, education reform, and anti-drug efforts. He tried to balance the budget and reduce the deficit without imposing additional taxes on the American people. He was also involved with The Americans with Disabilities Act. He signed this piece of legislation that forbade discrimination based on disability in employment, public accommodations, and transportation. Bush was also involved with The Clean Air Act. It focused on reducing urban smog, curbing acid rain, and eliminating industrial emissions of toxic chemicals.

=__Foreign Affairs__= With Bush's approval, the U.S. military launched "Operation Just Cause" with about 10,000 forces landing in Panama and joining the 13,000 already there to quickly overtake the Panamanian military. Bush was also involved in the end of the Cold War and changing U.S.-Soviet relations.When the Berlin Wall was torn down, it symbolized the end of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. He was a key man in German Unification. The Bush administration helped come to a compromise that Germany would be part of NATO, but no NATO troops would be stationed in East Germany. He was president during the Persian Gulf War. The Bush administration had successfully committed to the largest military action since the Vietnam War without getting crushed or suffering high casualties. Also, President Bush's New World Order involved collective security with multinational cooperation. It broke down Cold War conceptions and created new allies.

=__Famous Quotes__= "America today is a proud, free nation, decent and civil, a place we cannot help but love. We know in our hearts, not loudly and proudly, but as a simple fact, that this country has meaning beyond what we see, and that our strength is a force for good."-George H. W. Bush

" I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."-George H. W. Bush

=__Interesting Facts__= He was captain of the Yale University baseball team. He was one of the "two" presidential father and son pairs. He had two spaniels, Millie and Ranger. He hated broccoli and banned it from all White House events.

=Presidential Timeline=
 * (January 20, 1989) Inagurated as 41st president
 * (June 5, 1989) In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacres, Bush announced a number of condemnatory actions, including the suspension of the sale of American weapons to China.
 * (November 9, 1989) The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the symbolic end of Communist rule in Eastern Europe
 * (July 3, 1992) Bush signs the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992

=__Images__= the fall of the berlin wall

collapse of the soviet union

=Links= http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Herbert_Walker_Bush http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ghwbush.html http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/gb41/about/bush.htm