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George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. A Republican Party member, he was also the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, as well as holding a number of other federal positions.
George Bush evinced a lifelong respect for traditional American values and a determination to harness them to his goal of building "a kinder and gentler nation." In his inaugural address he stated that America's strength must be used as a "force for good."
George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924. In the Bush family there is a tradition of public service, and young George was quick to follow it. At 18, soon after he graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the armed forces and became the youngest pilot in the Navy at that time to receive his wings. During World War II he flew 58 combat missions for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action. One of those missions ended when Bush's torpedo bomber was shot down by Japanese antiaircraft fire over the Pacific Ocean. After parachuting from the burning plane, he spent hours floating alone in an inflated life jacket, until he was rescued by a U.S. submarine.
Returning from the war, Bush married Barbara Pierce. They would have six children: George, Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.
Completing his education at Yale University, where he ran track and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Bush started a career in the West Texas oil industry and moved on into politics and public service. In 1966 he was elected a Republican representative to Congress from Texas, and he ran twice for the Senate.
In the first Bush-Quayle ticket defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis and Massachusetts Senator Lloyd Bentsen. On January 20, 1989, George Bush took the oath to become the forty-first President of the United States.
During Bush's term of office, he faced a dizzy array of world-changing events as the Cold War ended, the Communist empire crumbled, and the Berlin Wall fell; the Soviet Union ceased to exist; and reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Bush had encouraged, resigned. While Bush supported democracy's march around the world, he restrained U.S. attempts to capitalize on an unexpected and not fully understood upheaval.
In Panama, where General Manuel Noriega was threatening the lives of U.S. citizens and the operations of the Panama Canal, President Bush authorized the U.S. military to replace the murderous Noriega with a democratically oriented regime. Noriega was captured, turned over to U.S. custody, and charged with multiple drug trafficking offenses.
The event for which President Bush will be best remembered occurred at the end of 1990. An Iraqi army led by dictator Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia. When Saddam Hussein ignored United Nations efforts to resolve the crisis, and after leading a strong United Nations coalition, gaining the support of Congress and the American people, Bush sent U.S. troops to liberate Kuwait. They were joined by another 118,000 troops from 33 allied nations. Air and missile bombardment preceded the 100-hour ground conflict known as Operation Desert Storm, ending in a decisive victory. It was a dramatic moment in American history, exemplifying the new world order of which Bush spoke with some frequency.
George H. W. Bush died on November 30, 2018 at the age of ninety-four.
George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. A Republican Party member, he was also the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, as well as holding a number of other federal positions.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963.Kennedy oversaw the beginning of the USA's involvement in the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Space Race by assigning the federal government to meet the goal of landing a man on the moon, the building of the Berlin Wall, the creation of the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress in Latin America.
Harry S. Truman (born May 8, 1884, Lamar, Missouri, U.S.—died December 26, 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), who led his nation through the last turbulent years of World War II and through the first turbulent years of the Cold War, breaking with the traditional bipartisan foreign policy of the past and instituting a forceful program to confront the Soviet Union everywhere it was thought to be challenging American interests. He oversaw the initiation of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, the Point Four Program, the establishment of NATO, and the commitment of U.S. troops to South Korea. Within the United States his support of labour and civil rights Legislation aroused strong opposition, and he was unable to pass his Fair Deal domestic program. He was forced to endure public condemnation for his handling of the Korean War and for the cloak-and-dagger scandals of his subordinates. During the last 18 months of his second term, his popularity reached a new low. Although he had regained some favour before his retirement from office, at the end of his second term he registered the lowest approval rating of any president.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was serving his second term as governor of New York when he was elected to the nation's 32nd president in 1932. With the country deep in the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately sought to restore public confidence, proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the American people in a series of radio broadcasts or “fireside chats.” His ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the everyday lives of Americans.
William Jefferson Clinton(Bill Clinton) the 42th President of the United States of America, was elected in 1993 and his service ended in 2001. Before his presidency, he was governor of Arkansas. Born in Arkansas, Clinton is a member of the Democratic Party. The Americans enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity during Clinton’s presidency, characterized by low unemployment, lower crime rates and a federal budget surplus.
Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., grew up as a goat herder in rural Kenya, then won a scholarship that enabled him to attend school in the United States and eventually became a senior economist in the Kenyan government. Barack’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and moved with her family to Texas and Washington, where her father worked as a government auditor. Ann and Barack Sr. met at the University of Hawaii when she enrolled as a student and he as an exchange student. They met in a Russian language class and married just under a
George Washington, (born February 22, 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.), American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States (1789–97).
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States, in office since 2017. He is the winner of the 2024 US presidential election, in which he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris. In so doing, he became the first president since Grover Cleveland to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms.Trump is the first president convicted of a felony to become president-elect, and also the oldest person elected to the office in US history, at the age of 78.
Joe Biden (born November 20, 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania), 46th president of the United States (2021–25), and the 47th vice president of the United States (2009–17) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama. He has represented Delaware in the Senate continuously since 1973.
